Posted on 12/02/2010 9:40:43 PM PST by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.), founder and chairman of the House Tea Party Caucus, told CNSNews.com that there will need to be an “insurrection” against the House Republican leadership if it does not hold an independent, straight up-or-down vote on repealing the entire Obamacare law that does not tie this repeal to other policy initiatives including any effort to “replace” elements of Obamacare with new federal health-care reforms.
A spokesman for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R.-Va.), who will be the House majority leader in the next Congress, told CNSNews.com in response to Bachmann’s statement that Cantor agrees with Bachmann and is committed to the vote she wants.
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Please stop to think about this statement. It sounds so good and powerful but in reality what does it really mean? If this would actually happen, it would mean the conservative movement would be so weakened it would cease to be effective at all.
We need clear thinkers hanging together to dislodge this creeping socialism--none of this knee jerk emotionalism. The fact is there simply will not be sufficient new bodies to empower any third-party movement with any chance at influence.
You go girl. And they need to submit this vote over and over all the way into the next election.
She forgot the word “weekly”
You don’t sound very conservative to me. Are you sure you signed up at the right forum 7 months ago? I don’t know how all the millions upon millions of US college graduates from decades past managed to survive without being on mommy and daddy’s insurance. /s
To identify the "stalwart RINOS" so they can be targeted in primaries next time they face election. Defunding is also a good and needed tactic, but the Bachmann's vote requirement is also good.
2011 should be "the year of the long knives" for Republicans. They need to spend the year making deep cuts to leftist programs and eliminating as much of the useless bureaucracies as they can possibly eliminate. Go deep, cut deep, and send a message to Washington D.C. and their leftist parasites that they won't forget for 100 years.
Good for Bachmann. I don’t trust Eric Cantor any farther than I can throw him. He and the others better get with the program. We voted these folks in to make drastic changes not start compromising with the enemy.
The best Republicans in the House can do is not fund Obamacare. However, no one knows for sure how that process can be fully or partially accomplished at this point. Having said that, defunding is the ONLY option for the GOP House at this point to turn off the money for Obamacare.
Most colleges offer college insurance from what my niece told me over Thanksgiving. She had it at Univ of Nebraska. If so then folks don’t need to keep their kids on a policy til age 26.
I love these new sheriffs in town. We've taken a giant step to the right.
Sarah Palin has 2.5 Million friends on Facebook. She has the opportunity to do this. She is the only person in America who could do this.
Those friends on Facebook will also be activists on the ground providing millions of person hours at no charge.
This is reality.
Not so much. i figure it's a free vote since they know it won't really be enacted. several dems will get cover from it, as will rinos.
Furthermore, there is no reason why both courses of action cannot be taken.
agreed
Your understanding of the situation is very different from mine. Obamacare is not funded in years going forward. Each year Congress must pass a budget that authorizes spending for various programs. If they do not vote to fund something then it is unfunded. Thus there is no need for Congress to pass legislation and for Obama to sign it to de-fund Obamacare. They need only to not pass legislation funding Obamacare. The Republican House majority is sufficient to accomplish this. A spending bill that includes Obamacare funding need never reach the Senate.
Certainly our new FRiend doesn't understand the marketplace as well as he might. Will his premiums stay the same or will his insurer expect policyholders to actually pay for this new coverage? Will his insurer go out of business? Will colleges that now offer health care plans to their students discontinue these plans?
It is fun to think that the government can just order somebody to give you something that you want. In truth, people respond to government diktats in all sorts of unpredictable, self-interested ways.
Yeah he really changed his tune in a hurry.
He did and that is how it should be. We the people need to lead our Representatives.
I've been a little frustrated at the number of FReepers who want to jump on every piece of bad news and bellow about how all of Congress is inexorably corrupt and that it's time to go third party or go survivalist or whatever.
It is going to take decades to dig ourselves out of the hole we're in and those who think instant redemption is possible are just making it harder for the rest of us to bring about the real thing.
I was simply pointing out an historical reality.
I no longer care who controls the government.
The situation has escaped control by any mere political party or ideology or man.
I sometimes lose hope. It’s easy to forget that it took decades to get into this mess, and it’ll probably take decades to get out of it.
Both are full time students pursuing degrees in law and medicine. Both have very limited time to spare for part
time jobs. Yet they manage to work a few hours every week
to earn pocket money, no where enough to buy a full fledged
health insurance.
After they start earning in full time careers, obviously I
will not need to buy their insurance.
My parents supported me through graduate school which helped me finish my masters in record time and started earning good money at earliest age possible.
I am trying to do the same for my kids. One wants to pursue a law degree, the other a medical degree. Both require 7 or 8 years of college. I do not want them to delay the degrees by working in minimum wage part time jobs.
This is as capitalist as it gets.
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