Posted on 01/20/2011 3:46:54 PM PST by Libloather
Eric Cantor dares Harry Reid to hold repeal vote
By JAKE SHERMAN & JENNIFER HABERKORN
Updated: 1/18/11 4:30 PM EST
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn’t one to hold his feelings back — especially when it comes to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
On Tuesday, the Virginia Republican threw a little more fuel on the fire, suggesting Reid (D-Nev.) was afraid to actually bring up the health care repeal vote in the Senate.
“If Harry Reid is so confident that the repeal vote should die in the Senate then he should bring it up for a vote if he’s so confident he’s got the votes,” Cantor said.
Reid’s office rejected the idea.
“Not only would repeal not pass, but according to a poll by AP over the weekend, three out of four people don’t want it to,” Reid spokesman Jon Summers said. “Why? Because full repeal means raising taxes on small businesses, reopening the Medicare donut hole, and putting insurance companies back in charge of your health care.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
RUSH: Another thing about Dingy Harry: Dingy Harry is scared to death to allow this vote on the repeal of Obamacare in the Senate. 'Cause if they do vote against it, there will be a record to defeat their rear ends in the next election. So he can't win. This ought to show you the real strength of the whole repeal movement. The vast majority of people don't want it. Dingy Harry doesn't want a vote in a Senate. He's worried about two things: Losing some Democrats who would vote for the repeal, and the Democrats who are opposed to repeal going on the record, because that would make themselves targets in their reelection bids in 2012: Voted against repeal of Obamacare. So he's opposed to bipartisanship. He doesn't want the Republicans and Democrats "working together." He is opposed to "civility." He's out there calling Hu Jintao a "dictator." Do not think for a moment that there is anywhere near a majority sentiment in love with Obamacare. There isn't. The vast majority of people even, in the House and the Senate, know in their hearts it's rotten and ought to be done away with.
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RUSH: I can't tell you enough: Obamacare just got a shellacking, folks. The vote in the House was 245 to 189. That's a larger margin than the vote for Obamacare got. Dingy Harry will not allow a vote in the Senate (though Mitch McConnell says there will be one) because he looks at it as a no-win. If he loses some Democrats voting for repeal, that's not good; and other Democrats going on record opposing appeal is not good for their own reelection efforts.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012011/content/01125106.guest.html
PUT THE PRESSURE ON HARRY - LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK!
“... putting insurance companies back in charge of your health care.”
Harry, I know this will be a shock, but we’d actually rather have the insurance companies in charge of our healthcare than the ... GOVERNMENT!!
You won’t be the senate lead forever Reid, I doubt you will be after 2012.
Sarah should twitter or post on facebook for Harry to put on his big boy pants and have a vote. LOL
Nevada deserves what they get but the rest of us don’t.
bwahahaha...talk about a flimsy excuse. A poll from the AP drives Harry's decisions huh? Some leadership ya got there Dem's..
So, Harry is now admitting that the Government is now controlling health care rather than the insurance companies.
Kind of proves the guy calling us Nazi's yesterday was the one who was repeating "the" lie.
That caught my eye too. If insurance companies are no longer in charge of our health care, who is?
They keep saying Deathcare is not a government takeover. Reid’s statement indicates otherwise.
Call it a kind of Freudian slip - or perhaps a Dirty Harry gaffe. Actually, it was Reid's spokesperson, Jon Summers, who delivered that message. Apparently, it's the "insurance companies" are the villains du jour in the current 'Rat approved talking points. Any entity in the private sector would do, but as far as they are concerned, government can do no wrong - except for the military
Summers also mentioned the "Medicare donut hole" that's supposed to be motivating "3 out of 4 Americans" to oppose repeal, according to the contrived "results" of an AP-GfK poll (BTW, what does GfK stand for?) I'd be surprised if more than 10% of the American population could even tell you what the "Medicare donut hole" is.
And what's up with Summers' claim that full repeal means "raising taxes on small business"? Is there some kind of small business tax cut in ObamaCare?
Once again I would like to take this opportunity to thank the sapsuckers in Nevada who voted for Harry Reid.
Who the hell knows. We had to pass the 2700 page monstrosity so we could know what's in it, remember.
But, for the moment, let's stipulate that there is a "tax cut". It can also be demonstrated that there are roughly 689 tax increases on small (and all) businesses.
And we all know who's going to come out ahead on that exchange...
New TV ad for REPEAL of Obama Care. I sent it to my address list and my Congressman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHJWPOdtr0&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for the ping!
It’s a good one.
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