Posted on 10/19/2009 8:38:01 AM PDT by markomalley
House Republicans are planning an interest-group strategy to try to stop a health care bill and will spend the next three weeks arguing that the Democrats' measure will be a bad deal for small businesses, senior citizens, and women and children.
With Republican lawmakers vastly outnumbered in the chamber, party leaders say their best strategy is to sway the public against Democrats' health care plans. The best way to do that, they say, is to synchronize their messaging to focus on specific groups that could suffer from effects of the bill.
"What we want to do in the coming weeks is have all 178 members redouble their efforts to take the case against a government takeover of health care to the four corners of this country," House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence said in an interview. "When we speak more in concert, our message tends to break through more effectively."
Time is running out for Republicans to derail the legislation as Democratic leaders in both chambers work to merge the three House bills and two Senate bills. While Republicans in the Senate hope to slow the debate and use amendments to alter the final bill, procedural rules in the House make Republicans there virtually irrelevant.
"What we have here is a desire to recognize that we are approaching some kind of a culmination point in this debate," said Mr. Pence, of Indiana. "They've gone from regular order to smoke-filled rooms so there's no real way of knowing when [the final bills] are going to emerge."
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We need to make sure that these traitors (those who vote for this abortion from either party) are made to pay in 2010.
Given how "good" the GOP is at doing anything, I predict that the result of this will be that the absolute worst health plan passes.
Well at least they figured out what the tea parties are all about. So when do we see some real deep thoughts from these wizards of smart?
2010 will be too late. Even if the GOP makes significant gains in 2010, Obama will veto any repeal of the health care monstrosity in 2011. And we won’t have the votes to override.
The gubernatorial races in NJ and VA in 15 days are the ball game, folks. We’re way ahead in VA, but it’s gonna be a nail-biter in NJ. If you know ANYONE in NJ, tell them to vote for the GOP candidate Chris Christie.
Anyone that signs the AuschwitzCare bill must NEVER be voted into any office; not even dog catcher.
Convincing those who have made their deals with Rahm (Doctors groups, Insurers, Big Pharma, etc.) that Obama cannot deliver and at the end of the day they can’t be trusted to live up to any deals....THAT’S the way to kill this thing.
GOP strategy = OxyMoron
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