Posted on 12/07/2014 8:03:22 PM PST by PROCON
Republicans are ramping up for a fresh fight against Obamacare in the new year, banking on Democratic support to repeal a key component of the law.
Republicans have slowed their anti-Obamacare drumbeat in recent months, with their success in the midterm elections, President Obama’s executive action on immigration, government funding and end-of-year business dominating the GOP agenda.
But come early 2015, Republicans will restart their push to repeal the 2.3 percent tax on medical devices that kicked in last year as part of the Affordable Care Act. And with the GOP controlling both chambers of Congress in January — and with several Democrats also calling for an end to the tax — Republicans believe such a move can be a meaningful first step in dismantling Obamacare.
The [Republican] agenda for next year will likely have low-hanging fruit — the low-hanging bipartisan issues that Republicans can begin to rack up successes in both House and Senate. And one of the first pieces will be the Medical Device Repeal Act,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist.
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It's not the House shutting down the government.
/johnny
Well, the rest of this forum is talking tomorrow. Make up my mind.
Which one?
I don’t think it’s will, more lie desire to do it
They don't have the will.
/johnny
Why?
Worried?
/johnny
What would that accomplish in the next 60 days or so?
Waiting is an excuse.
/johnny
/johnny
You told me there was no EO signed on Amnesty.
Is this true?
There was no immigration EO. That was BS.
Amnesty doesn't equal EO.
/johnny
A lack of a CR isn’t stopping anything.
The SCOTUS will rule on Obamacare.
The Just-Us department will continue to stop enforcing law.
“So instead of legislation aimed at undoing Obamacare in one big swoop, a GOP-led repeal of the tax is aimed at starving the healthcare law of $30 billion over 10 years.”
THERE AIN’T NO BETTER GOP PLAN THAN A COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE, UTTERLY USELESS BULL SH!T THE PEOPLE WHO JUST ELECTED YOU PLAN, BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT NO FUTURE CONGRESS IS BOUND BY ANY ACTION OF THE CURRENT CONGRESS.
THEY AIN’T GOING TO STARVE DIDDLY SQUAT!
BUNCH OF LIARS.
Worried?
YES JRF, I ONLY WANT LIBERAL, RINO REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS, IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GO, WE NEED MORE JOHN MCLAMES AND LINDSEY GRAHMNESTYS, WE NEED TO SUPPORT OBAMA SO THE MSM WILL LOVE US, I ONLY WANT TO BE LOVED, LOVED, I TELL YOU; PLEASE DON'T HATE ME, WE CAN WORK ACROSS THE AISLE, YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET.
Sheesh dude, you don't know who your real friends are...
it’s crazy, they seem intent on denying themselves any political gain.
So easy to pass a short CR and then come back in January and send Obama the appropriation bills they’ve already written- with a few riders. Obama couldn’t win that ‘shutdown game’ no matter how hard the media tried to help.
/johnny
I'm not here to make friends or be nice.
I'm here to politically destroy liberal republicans.
/johnny
I read your pain but the GOP is not in power until January.
Even then the Executive is controlled by the wildest megalomaniac the US has ever witnessed.
Even then it is up to the majority to send bill after bill after bill to make this nut veto them and expose him to the less stupid half of his base.
/johnny
They do not define political gain in the way they have led their voters to believe.
These people are completely false.
Political gain to the GOP is making their voters think they did something, when they did nothing other than advance big government.
These are bad people.
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