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Mitch McConnell willing to kill Obamacare with just 51 votes
washingtonexaminer ^ | Oct. 30, 2014 | Philip Klein

Posted on 10/30/2014 2:44:06 PM PDT by PROCON

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says he would be willing to repeal Obamacare with a simple majority if he takes over as majority leader in January, his spokesman told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.

The announcement comes just days before Tuesday's midterm congressional election, in which Republicans have a strong chance of seizing the upper chamber from the Democrats and putting the Kentucky senator in charge.

"Leader McConnell is and has always been committed to the full repeal of Obamacare, and he'll continue to lead efforts to repeal and replace it with patient-centered reforms that enable greater choice at lower costs. He knows it won't be easy, but he also believes that if Republicans are fortunate enough to take back the majority we’ll owe it to the American people to try through votes on full repeal, the bill’s most onerous provisions, and reconciliation,” McConnell spokesman Brian McGuire wrote in an emailed statement.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; 2014election; abolishobamacare; mcconnell; obamacare; repealobamacare; senile
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To: PROCON

Verify first, then trust.


101 posted on 10/30/2014 4:03:58 PM PDT by CDB
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To: DoughtyOne
Wow, Mitch must have bought a clue

No. He had one delivered to him clue by four style.


102 posted on 10/30/2014 4:05:44 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Paine in the Neck

LOL


103 posted on 10/30/2014 4:06:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: wita

Somebody tell me how we get rid of this turncoat.
there must be some way to remove the majority leader.


104 posted on 10/30/2014 4:08:21 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: PROCON

Isn’t it a hollow promise if Obama is not going to sign the repeal?

More importantly, the GOP should pass the “nuclear option” on Day One of the new Senate and explain that it is “only fair” for the GOP to have benefit of the same rules the Democrats voted for themselves when they had power.


105 posted on 10/30/2014 4:11:36 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: PROCON

It would be vetoed.
And then the Democrats, with the help of the Media, would then campaign on “Republicans want to take away your healthcare.”
We can’t win for losin’.

Maybe if we had a ‘Pubbie president?


106 posted on 10/30/2014 4:22:23 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Fledermaus; Sybeck1
Mitch is a lying POS. But we “have to give them the senate”?

What good is a majority that doesn't represent you?

107 posted on 10/30/2014 4:22:32 PM PDT by wmfights
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To: SoConPubbie

Another episode of Lucy and Charlie Brown and the Football.”

You bet. There are already at least five with (R)’s behind their name that don’t want it repealed plus as far as I know Cornyn has only stated, as far as I know, that he would support some changes, not its repeal. Unless McConnell gets some Dems to vote with him, he’ll never pull it off.


108 posted on 10/30/2014 4:23:23 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: wmfights
What good is a majority that doesn't represent you?

It empowers conservatives from other states that do represent you.

109 posted on 10/30/2014 4:23:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Pollster1

bump


110 posted on 10/30/2014 4:25:43 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: PROCON

While it may be possible to pass the legislation with 51 votes, it is highly unlikely that there will be enough votes to over turn the veto.

However, this is usable as a tool. Put the legislation before Obama as part of the spending bill. Let him shut down the government.


111 posted on 10/30/2014 4:25:50 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Grams A
There are already at least five with (R)’s behind their name that don’t want it repealed plus as far as I know

Names please.

112 posted on 10/30/2014 4:26:17 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: SoConPubbie

More like: “this will only hurt for a little bit,” and “of course I’ll respect you in the morning.”


113 posted on 10/30/2014 4:29:27 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Jim Noble; Poison Pill
Repeal of Obamacare requires 67 Senate votes, and 291 in the House.

But making this the first action of a Pub Congress would serve notice that they understand what the American people want. Also, they could then begin passing bills that would eliminate parts of the bill, such as the medical device tax and insurance company subsidies.

114 posted on 10/30/2014 4:35:42 PM PDT by wmfights
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To: PROCON

Repeal Obamacare and Obama.


115 posted on 10/30/2014 4:35:46 PM PDT by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Because Obama would veto it. It makes absolutely no sense to try to repeal Obamacare while Obama is in office. 

It makes perfect sense.

Republicans have to show that they are for something. They can't just talk about doing something.

Make Democrats vote against it; make Obama veto it.

Do it enough times and first, people will start believing Republicans again, and second, people will start blaming Democrats. Some Democrats might even side with Republicans.

But we won't know if they never try.

-PJ

116 posted on 10/30/2014 4:35:49 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

ditto that

let the dem votes be an issue again in 2016


117 posted on 10/30/2014 4:36:48 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Monorprise; stephenjohnbanker
There is no room in a free market for companies that uses Government to strip us of that same basic freedom.

SPOT ON!

Do you see the Pubs separating themselves from the Chamber of Commerce? I don't.

118 posted on 10/30/2014 4:40:29 PM PDT by wmfights
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To: WVNan

If he survives election, the Republican’s in the senate do NOT vote for him to be majority leader.

If he isn’t reelected case closed, unless the Republican’s don’t win the senate.

...and there are a number of choices that aren’t palatable for a lot of folks. What are your choices as a voter? That is what matters.


119 posted on 10/30/2014 4:41:10 PM PDT by wita
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To: PROCON
This was prompted by the fact that Mark Levin was raking McConnell over the coals last night on this very issue.

Levin was railing on McConnell, who in some recent statements appeared to be back-tracking on his earlier commitment to seek repeal of 0bamacare on a simple majority vote basis - since the Supremes had ruled that 0bamacare was a tax measure and thus required no more than a simple majority vote to repeal, rather than a 60 vote super majority.

120 posted on 10/30/2014 4:45:16 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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