[SeekAndFind]

It isn’t hopeless. Once the Conservatives are energized we can vote them out, take back congress next year and REPEAL all these laws that will damage our culture and economy.

That’s what I’m hoping will happen.

[freekitty]

I don’t think you can repeal it.

[fwdude]

Repealing (undoing) laws is extremely difficult because they carry what can be described as legal "momentum." It is bad legislative etiquette to undo a prior Congress' laws since the same can be done to a successor Congress of the opposite political philosophy. Besides, the repealers are easily made to look like "usurpers" and bad losers despite the nature of the legislation being repealed. This is why the "Bush" Tax Cuts which were passed in 2000 were not repealed, even though the left has so ardently screamed for repeal of "tax cuts for the 'rich'" when their own lackeys were installed in 2006.

It is a much more viable strategy to keep inimical legislation from passing in the first place. If fact, it's imperative. Any benefits obtained from such legislation, even though repealed, will have to remain "grandfathered" in place, providing a staging area from which the leftists can work to more effectively re-institute their egregious law.

[Don Corleone]

It isn’t hopeless. Once the Conservatives are energized we can vote them out, take back congress next year and REPEAL all these laws that will damage our culture and economy.

That’s what I’m hoping will happen.

And why are you so certain that there will be a 2010 election? And who will count the votes if there is one?

[Hostage]

To my present understanding it may be politically easy to repeal because the so-called health benefits do not kick in until 2013(?) yet the taxes begin immediately.

This is really about taxation and funding the bankrupt entitlements.

So let’s hope you and I are right, that Americans will see heavy taxation before they see benefits, and that combination will bring forth a rallying cry to REPEAL.

And let’s not stop there.

http://www.fairtax.org

[mrsmel]

Not if Hussein has his army of fraudsters already entrenched by then. ACORN re-funded, the stimulus money he's held back (for the union leaders and others?), black panthers assured that they won't be prosecuted for breaking the law by intimidating people exercising their fundamental right to vote, the backing of the AARP and insurance companies (just think, who stands to gain from the healthscam bill in its present form? He didn't put up much of a fight for the public option-he can always add things through tweaking once the framework of a bill, any bill, is in place- but the mandates have been kept), and, as mentioned, illegals voting. They don't even have to wait until amnesty passes, without required voter identification, they can already sneak through the cracks and vote, at least enough of them can.

[bcsco]

It isn’t hopeless.

Nothing's 'hopeless' before the event. But there is already a House bill on amnesty. That's next on the table after the first of the year. And although there will be a fight, amnesty will have even a better chance at passage than ObamaCare because there are any number of Republicans on board.

Once the Conservatives are energized we can vote them out, take back congress next year and REPEAL all these laws that will damage our culture and economy.

You're deluding yourself. First, if amnesty happens, that will insure a Democrat victory due to all the suppliant new Americans. Second, even should we achieve some kind of victory, it would require a veto-proof Congress to repeal these laws; something that is very unlikely.

That’s what I’m hoping will happen.

Hope springs eternal. But don't hold your breath.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I haven't heard even ONE Republican congressman mention the option of repeal as part of a Contract for America 2010.

Everyone running for office in 2010 should make repeal the centerpiece of their election effort.

[DennisR]

Are you running for an elected office? Or are you leaving it to others? Just a friendly, challenging question. I, for one, am running: http://richter2010.com. Because I cannot leave it to others anymore to protect my country. Because they are destroying it.