Posted on 01/31/2011 1:20:15 PM PST by Sub-Driver
All Senate Republicans appear ready to repeal health care law By: CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis
Washington (CNN) - Every Republican in the Senate now appears ready to revoke President Obama's signature health care law. This comes as a federal judge, in Florida, strikes down key parts of the law as unconstitutional.
The GOP holds 47 seats in the Senate.
According to Sen. Jim DeMint's office, 45 of them will co-sponsor the South Carolina Republican's legislation – introduced last week - to fully repeal the health law. Republicans are "standing with the American people who are demanding we repeal this government takeover of health care," DeMint said at the time.
DeMint's office told CNN it did not yet have confirmation that Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran would sign on. But CNN contacted Cochran's office and confirmed that he would.
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To some extent, yes. That is what was being discussed. However, that’s not the extent of the fight. I am just concerned that certain aspects of this battle may be forgotten as hope for repeal is abandoned.
For your information McCain always votes with the republicans and he was against the health care bill from the beginning
I don't put anything past the GOP's poltroon platoon.
The court case will draw out the debate for some months to come. I don’t think it will go directly to SCOTUS. Wouldn’t a circuit court have to hear the case first? That will keep the issue on the front burner maybe for the rest of the year then the SCOTUS decision will take some time after the case reaches them before their decision is rendered. I don’t think there is a chance it will fall from view anytime soon.
Between this story, Judge Vincent’s ruling and the chaos in Egypt, looks like Barry Soetoro is having a very, very bad day
Didn’t the RATs omit the clause that preserves the bill when one part is found to be Unconstitutional? A vote might not be necessary if SCOTUS upholds the ruling from Florida.
This is true [wait for the but monkey] unless enough Dems vote for repeal and then there would need to be even more cross-overs to override a veto ...
BUT
If the [key phrase] Will of the People as expressed by a vote of both Houses says repeal, can Obama veto it in light of all his rhetoric about the will of the Egyptian people??? He is ironically vulnerable there ... although the MSM will spin like crazy to cover for him.
To answer your question as simply as possible, yes.
[This comes as a federal judge, in Florida, strikes down key parts of the law as unconstitutional. ]
He struck the whole law because of the unconstitutional healthcare mandate.
You are right. The Supreme Court has been betraying the constitution with the regressives for decades now.
Yes, if the Senate passed it by some miracle, they would not have the votes to over-ride zero’s veto.
McConnell did a masterful job keeping his entire caucus of then 40 GOP senators together against BOcare in Christmas 2009 -- notwithstanding tremendous pressure on Collins, Snowe, Voinovich and others to cave -- not just from the RATS but from the MSM as well.
Continuing his masterful leadership on this issue, along with Senator DeMint, today we learn that all 47 Republican senators are on board for full repeal.
What has McConnell mostly gotten from too many conservative corners? Too often, ridicule and a failure to recognize this continued achievement.
Because McConnell exercised an important parlimentarian move after the House passed its repeal bill last week, the Senate MUST take up the full repeal bill at a time of the GOP's choosing. Reid cannot protect his members from a recorded vote on this issue.
With the vulnerability of both Senator Nelsons + Manchin + Pryor as a real possibility + Webb and others, it is likely that the full repeal will pass the Senate and Obama will have to veto the repeal. This is fine. Get them on the record -- both chambers -- on both the repeal bill and the override vote. Sets up 2012 nicely. Neither Stabenow or McCaskill would ever dare to vote for repeal given union backing -- but it gives their GOP opponent a great issue. Tester of Montana is another real possibility.
I would like to also point out that Mike Castle would have been a 48th vote for repeal. Party labels matter in critical circumstances, and I wish more people would understand this. Besides deficit reduction -- of which this is part -- there is no more urgent domestic danger facing this nation.
He voided the whole bill as unconstitution on the grounds of the individual mandate. The individual mandate was a Romney Rino invention... It’s the Republican “moderate” fascist preference to the communist solution of a single payer government system.
Snow let it all happen by letting it out of the Senate to go to a vote. She stabbed Ameirca in the back and voted with the Dems for a Senate vote then voted against the bill knowing the Senate had the votes to pass it. She really has to go but will probably stay with McCain forevermore-no matter what she does to the country.
The strategy of mutual destruction does not work with Muslims. So threatening Obama with refusing to increase the debt ceiling is null and void. He’d be happy to crash the country.
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