It doesn't matter, they didn't even stand firm and exploit the Obama administration's infantile closings of federal parks and monuments. I think if they had stood by Ted Cruz some of those dems whose re-election is on the line might've come over to dropping the Obamacare mandate. It's the dissension from the likes of McConnell, McCain, Ayotte, Flake, Murkowski and Graham that took that possibility off the table. They disgust me. We'll never be a majority again if we put up with those who backstab constitutional conservatives.
“It doesn’t matter, they didn’t even stand firm and exploit the Obama administration’s infantile closings of federal parks and monuments. I think if they had stood by Ted Cruz some of those dems whose re-election is on the line might’ve come over to dropping the Obamacare mandate. It’s the dissension from the likes of McConnell, McCain, Ayotte, Flake, Murkowski and Graham that took that possibility off the table. They disgust me. We’ll never be a majority again if we put up with those who backstab constitutional conservatives.”
Might’ve come over? That is nothing more than wishful thinking.
There are 21 Democrats with expiring terms in 2014. Five are retiring so they are beyond worrying about re-election. That leaves sixteen. You can only lose one of those to be able to over ride the President’s veto. Do you really think you could get 15 of the 16 to vote to kill the mandate and to over ride the veto? Such a vote would be suicide for many of them in deep blue states.
Oh, I know, you don’t know until you try. Custer probably said the same thing at the Little Big Horn. Any one with any modicum of political sense could see that pushing the point would turn out to be another Little Big Horn. That’s why the issue was dropped.