I’m no Cantor fan. I’m in his district and he disappoints on a regular basis.
But I’m not sure he should be faulted for this. Health care reform has to happen and there are ~some~ elements of Obamacare that are reasonable. The ones listed may be debatable.
It’s actually a good strategy to simultaneously work to reform and repeal Obamacare.
Is there anyone to run against him in 2012? I am ready to send money today.
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I'd rather see the GOP repeal Obamacare, and put forth any "reasonable" provisions into their own HC reform bill. There's just too much baggage with the current bill that no one knows about.
“It’s actually a good strategy to simultaneously work to reform and repeal Obamacare.”
Disagree. It is important with regard to this health care Obamanation that principle drive the politics. The principle here is to constitutional democracy. Therefore any action highlight the real “change” that occured on November 2, away from socialism and back towards our founding documents and ideas. To do this, the new Congress must send an absolutely resounding message of rejection of ObamaCare, even if it means throwing the few good ideas out with all the crap.
As others have said, anything less sends the message that you are compromising and cooperating with an evil doctrine and its practitioners. To carry forward a true conservative revolution, it must be clear to every American that the new kids in town don’t want to be associated in any way with what happened under the previous legislature. Then, they can roll forward on other initiatives toward conservatism with strong public backing from Tea Partiers and like-minded folks.
If they show any compromise, they will engender a loss of confidence and they will become targets for the next election cycle, while weakening their own true base.
On the subject of healthcare reform, let them start with a clean, simple bill that supports market driven reforms, such as interstate insurance, more health savings account initiatives and tort reform. Once these measures take root and bend the cost curve downwards, the Republicans can present their own ideas to deal with pre-existing conditions and 26 year old children.
We didn’t get enough of the goverment to really repeal that mess. I guess it goes forward full bore.