McConnell Concedes GOP Senate Will Not Mean Obamacare Repeal

NPR ^ | October 29, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Election Day isn't until next week, but Senate Majority Leader-in-Waiting Mitch McConnell is already warning Republicans who would like to repeal Obamacare and roll back environmental regulations about two key numbers: 60 and 2.

"It would take 60 votes in the Senate. No one thinks we're going to have 60 Republicans. And it would take a presidential signature. No one thinks we're going to get that," McConnell said during a campaign-stop interview with Fox News.

"This is why nobody believes Mitch McConnell anymore," said Mary Vought, spokeswoman for the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group that has pushed Tea Party candidates in GOP primaries against establishment incumbents. "He says he wants to rip Obamacare out 'root and branch,' but then flips days before his election and says he plans to surrender."

Dan Holler, a spokesman for the political wing of the Heritage Foundation, Heritage Action, said Republicans have to explain to America what they're for. "That is not going to happen if they sit there and make excuses about Harry Reid or Barack Obama. They need to be proactive about putting out an agenda," he said.

McConnell said that with a full Obamacare repeal impossible, he would instead push to repeal the law's tax on medical devices — which a number of Democratic senators already support — and to narrow its mandate on which workers must be covered.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Mitch is Barry’s bottom b*tch. What a disgusting sight that must be.

[Diogenesis]

The party of Romney, Rove, Boehner and McConnell
are nothing but enablers of Obola and Reid
who pull defeat from the jaws of success every two years.

[petro45acp]

Still gotta try mitchey!

KYPD

[Jacquerie]

<>Er, then why should we give control of the Senate to the Republicans?<>

To give 2016 to Jeb.

No thanks.

[Jarhead9297]

A plan I agree needs to be fully forged however what he stated was 100% factual and a reality for those lacking constitutional knowledge. He can gut it which he put on the table but constitutionally do absolutely do nothing to it with respect to repealing it without the numbers..that’s reality ..the dog already hunted through the courts

[cripplecreek]

I actually saw what he said and he was absolutely correct in stating that Obama wasn’t going to sign a full repeal but they could get some pretty big concessions from the democrats on parts of it.

I don’t love it but Obama will still be president next week and that’s the way it is.

[centurion316]

Mitch is pathetic.

Could be, but what he said should be common knowledge to anyone with a sixth grade education, at least a circa 1955 sixth grade education.

Repeal requires 60 votes, neither side will have that. Repeal requires the President's signature, not going to happen. I don't know where these pipe dreams come from that demand that politicians do something that can't be done. We should insist on actions that can be passed by a Republican Congress that the President will be forced to sign. Those are called Appropriation bills and they should be crafted so that the Democrats can't claim that those evil Republicans shut down the government, took away the National Parks, and starved the poor and the children. That's a tall order to be sure, but a Republican controlled Congress, both in the House and Senate can do much more than the current state of affairs.

[duffee]

I got an e-mail from a friend today warning me that if cochran doesn’t get elected we won’t be able to stop obama’s judical nominees. If memory serves as I recall there are many Republicans lined up to break ranks at the last moment to let obama have his judges approved. Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, they always eem to find however many they need. I do believe cochran will get re-elected but not with my vote and if he doesn’t “what difference does it make”.

[OneWingedShark]

MrB:
So THEY can control an ever increasingly invasive government. Didn’t you know that?

Oh, yes, yes I did:

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Fledermaus:
What? You just want Harry Reid to stay in power! /double sarc
That’s the crap you get from “R at all cost” FReepers.

Oh, I dish it right back, pointing out their irrational oblation:

Master Republican guide us. Master Republican teach us. Master Republican protect us. In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled. We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.

[Fungi]

You would think with all those years there would be some wisdom in what to say and when to say it. Mitch truly is the head of the stupid party.

[hsmomx3]

I would really like to see him lose.

[peyton randolph]

Rather than repeal, simply defund. A mandate without appropriations is toothless.

[skinkinthegrass]

"Mitch is pathetic."Turtle/"the *itch" McConnell (himself-GOP/E), shoulda retired
12 years ago..now he's a Pathetic/Senile/Elderly Clinger.

and we'll rem: MS.

[the anti-mahdi]

I commiserate with you 100%. Would you rahter elect a thieving corrupt rodent?

I admit the choices are bleak but the only thing we can do is turn the rodents out. The RINOS will see and if they backstab us they do so at their own risk. Two years is time enough to launch an alternative—a national TEA party and vote them in and the RINS out.

Or not.

It is like skydiving, vote Republican and you have a chute on that may or may not open. Vote rodent and you are jumping with no chute on at all.

[Covenantor]

Ahh geeze! The fix is in. Mitch won’t fight for ACA repeal but will fight the medical equipment tax provisions so House pet Boehner can keep enjoying cheap tanning beds.

[Maceman]

The Republicans have made it very clear that they are only too happy to pass the Obama agenda if they win the Senate. So that will just give the Obama administration BI-PARTISAN COVER for the next two years leading up to the 2016 presidential elections.

Moreover, a Republican Senate victory will prove to the big goverment loving RINOcrats that they don't need the conservative base, on whom they have declared outright WAR, so you can forget about them becoming more conservative anytime soon -- not that we have any more time to wait.

You think it's crazy to say that Republicans intend to pass the Democrat agenda? Consider that:

The Republican leadership is lowering expectations about what they'll do if they take the Senate in 2014.

John McCain is already promising to restore the filibuster and promising to expedite approval of Obama's nominees “I will work very hard to go back to 60 votes,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who boldly predicts a Republican Senate would process Obama’s nominees “more rapidly than [Democrats] do today.”

And as for the House: John Boehner: ‘Very Few’ Republicans Will Oppose Me

Oh, and best of all, now Republicans are promising that a Senate takeover will increase the odds of passing immigration reform. Republicans: Immigration reform is more likely to happen if we take the Senate

Well at least the Republicans will repeal Obamacare. Oh wait, they won't.

The only SLIM chance we have to save our country at this point is to demonstrate beyond a doubt that the GOPs "moderate" agenda is doomed to fail at the polls.

Only then will we have a chance of having a true conservative Presidential nominee in 2016, and the utter collapse of Democrat credibility after two more years of their control of the Senate.

It is terrible to consider two more years of Democrat Senate Control, but no less terrible to consider the result of GOPe control.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Mitch: See this!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221015/posts

Try harder, or step down.

[SoFloFreeper]

It cannot mean repeal unless and until:

There is a veto proof majority.

The Republicans control all the Senate, House, and White House (the ONLY REASON IT PASSED was because Demon Rats held those institutions).

The will of the American people forces Obamugabe’s hand.

The Supreme Court re-visits the subject and changes the game.

People refuse to comply and it dies on its own.

Those are the cold hard facts.

[Kenny Bunk]

Mitch ought STFU and win his election.

Talk to me Wednesday morning. you hopeless RINO SOB. Is it possible, Please God, that this fat assklown is the Lesser of Two Evils?

[kaehurowing]

They don’t need 60 votes, they only need 51, if they repeal if by the same “reconciliation” gambit that was used to pass it in the first place. If someone objects, the response is that if the objection is correct, it was never legally passed in the first place.