Posted on 10/29/2014 2:07:38 PM PDT by 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.
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Exactly. All this moaning and screaming about the facts on the ground change nothing.
We have to work to repeal, but it ain’t gonna happen unless we get a veto proof majority and/or the presidency with a Republican congress.
It’s not necessarily that problematic:
“You veto, we impeach.”
That’s only in the case of overriding a veto. McConnell isn’t even trying to get Senate Democrats on board with a repeal.
McConnell is already starting to sound like Trent Lott and Bill Frist.
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McConnell as majority leader is already looking like a short term prospect.
In 2016, Pubbies will be defending about 24 Senate seats and Dems will be defending about 10.
If the 2014 ‘win’ is marginal (1 or 2), the Senate could likely slide back to the Dems, especially if the Republicans seem to be coasting rather than restoring the nation from the fundamental changes from the progressives.
With all due respect, what is YOUR plan to get Obama to sign a new law that repeals Obama-care?
Oh, what’s that?
You DON’T actually have such a plan?
Then what makes you “think” you are “better” than Mitch McConnell?
If I’m wrong, please share with us FReepers any practical and LEGAL plan that you think would “force” Obama to sign such a law.
Remember those words: “practical” and “legal”
I’d bet Mitch McConnell would rush to thank you for your creativity. So would I!
Nor anything else we want.
The Republican Party was formed to replace the Whigs because the Whigs refused to take a stand on the key issues of the day. They did such a good job of replacing the Whigs that they have become the Whigs.
Their only principle is to have no principles.
Their only strategy is preemptive surrender.
Their only strategy for victory is to tick off their base as much as possible.
And they have a virtually infinite capacity for learning the wrong lesson from any situation.
When Democrats are in charge, it’s as if the country is a car going off a cliff at 100 miles per hour. At least Republicans drive the speed limit — but you’re still going off the cliff. What we need to do is turn the car around.
Am I missing something here, or is there some magical way to get a bill through the Senate without 60 votes, and then get it past Obama without a veto?
I’m all ears once people are done with their meltdown.
You are right and McConnell is full of crap. The Republicans could pass a bill repealing 0bamacare and send the bill to the White House with 51 votes. 0bama would veto the repeal. Maybe some Democrats would not want to vote for 0bamacare a second time and vote to override the veto. McConnell is worthless. Pass the repeal and put the Democrat senators in an uncomfortable position.
Exactly!
McConnell knows exactly what he is doing. He may be trying to tamp down a Republican victory. If the Republicans win big and retain Boehner and McConnell, that will be an indication that the whole system is rigged.
How is that even remotely analogous to today?
At least we have good conservative scholars, who will stop Obamacare, and amnesty......
” McCain graduates from Annapolis, 894th out of a class of 898.”
What a tosser...
But he WILL push amnesty.”
And if McConnell loses and Cornyn becomes majority leader, you can take it to the bank that full sale amnesty will result and those coming across the border through Texas will continue to increase.
That’s a very good question.
Under current GOP leadership I agree with you.
But. Education, communication, and unity. The GOP was united in the 80’s and 90’s and moved the country in a decidedly conservative direction on taxes, welfare, and other the role of government. Today the GOP is fragmented, liberal, and pathetic. Prior efforts prove that with a dedicated team the GOP can move opinion, force Dems on board, and establish a veto-proof super majority. It’s hard work and takes time. But it can be done.
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