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All Senate Republicans appear ready to repeal health care law
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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; congress; healthcare; obamacare; repealit; senate; statesrights; teapartyrebellion
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To: Sybeck1
Obama’s pet is being killed.

Time for him to 'scoop the poop'.
81 posted on 01/31/2011 3:38:25 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: mwl8787
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.

I will have a brand-new respect for McConnell if it gets to a vote, even more so if he keeps the vast majority of Republicans together for it. After being burned by the Republican Party many times, the repeal votes of Obamacare in the House and Senate would go a long way toward reestablishing some trust among the conservative base. I would love to believe that the Republican Party has changed and has internalized the message of the Tea Party.
82 posted on 01/31/2011 3:44:31 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: KansasGirl
If this passes the Senate and Obama vetoes it, he is pretty much a goner in 2012, IMO.

I think so too. Any opponent will point out that he overrode the House, Senate and most of all the American public to further his socialist ideology. And by 2012 I dread to see what Obamacare will have done to insurance rates (I had a 12% increase this year).
83 posted on 01/31/2011 3:48:34 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: The Pack Knight
Ben Nelson has indicated support for at least a partial appeal as well. Maybe the bribe he secured for Nebraska isn't looking like all that sweet a deal after all.

I forgot about him...he got booed out of a pizza parlor!
84 posted on 01/31/2011 3:54:06 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Sub-Driver

I won’t EVER comply with obamacare mandates. Ever.


85 posted on 01/31/2011 4:29:28 PM PST by APatientMan
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To: SaraJohnson

That’s what is so worrisome. We still gotta lotta praying to do.


86 posted on 01/31/2011 4:29:39 PM PST by Silentgypsy
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To: NonValueAdded

“MSM will spin like crazy to cover for him. “ Now, the issue is to prepare proactively to debunk their junk.


87 posted on 01/31/2011 4:32:49 PM PST by Silentgypsy
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To: HushTX
And should Obama veto the repeal, which he likely will, that COULD cost him the next election. It would be a clear indication that he doesn’t give a damn about the will of the people.

Hasn't he already shown that, over and over?
88 posted on 01/31/2011 4:45:13 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: TomGuy
The judge voided the bill. Unless the SC overturns the ruling, the bill is void.

Sorry, that's not how it works.

A US District judge voided the bill. His ruling is only enforceable in his specific district.

Judges in other districts may use his ruling as a precedent for their own rulings, but his ruling isn't binding outside his district.

If the federal government appeals (and I presume they will), then the Circuit Court of Appeals will rule. If they reaffirm the ruling, then the scope expands to that circuit (I believe there are 10 in the country).

Whoever loses in the Court of Appeals can then appeal to the US Supreme Court. But, the Court rarely takes a case unless there are conflicting rulings among the US Circuit Courts.

Since other courts have affirmed Obamacare, the potential for conflict exists. But, until it bubbles up to the Circuit Courts, the Supreme Court probably won't consider it.

89 posted on 01/31/2011 4:52:28 PM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: freekitty
Did the judge void it for the state or all states?

His ruling is currently enforceable only in his district.

It's not even the entire state. It's only the northern district of Florida:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_Florida

90 posted on 01/31/2011 4:55:32 PM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Sub-Driver

They’d BETTER vote against it....we’ll be taking names and
getting rid of some more RINOs in 2012!


91 posted on 01/31/2011 5:02:18 PM PST by luvie (No Compromise!)
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To: what's up

Obviously the woman is prepared to do anything to cling to the government trough.


92 posted on 01/31/2011 5:24:04 PM PST by dools0007world
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To: SaraJohnson

That is an absolute shopworn lie regarding Senator Snowe. She only voted in favor of the Baucus plan in the Senate Finance Committee, which the RATS then controlled the committee by a 13 to 8 margin. The Baucus bill would have gone forward with or without Senator Snowe’s vote.

There is plenty to Senator Snowe’s record to attack. This is NOT one of those issues. Snowe not only held firm on cloture throughout Christmas 2009, she further privately promised Mitch McConnell that she would NOT give Harry Reid the patina of bipartisanship by securing her vote, either on cloture or final passage.

I, among others, have plenty of disagreements with Senator Snowe, but this is not the occasion, and I wish people would learn the truth and give her a modicum of credit on this issue. She does not support this law, and she has signed on to repeal, as well.

OK?


93 posted on 01/31/2011 5:31:16 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: justlurking

You are correct. The USSC will not take the case until the various Circuit Courts of Appeals weigh in. Moreover, the Obama justice department does NOT want a fast track to the USSC - they will do everything they can to kick this past the 2012 election - further hoping that they can induce Justice Kennedy to retire or another conservative justice to drop dead.

This one is for keeps, folks.


94 posted on 01/31/2011 5:36:48 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: Silentgypsy

Yes that is correct. However, banging the repeal of Onadacare drum in the House makes the Dems defend it. It is essential to the ultimate repeal of this travesty that the dialog not be allowed to languish. It will also, along with Onada’s disastrous energy and economic policies, set the table for the 2012 Senate and presidential elections.

The Usurping Marxist Onada and his band of angry commies will be trying anything to divert voter’s attention from those topics. We’ve already seen how they tried to use the AZ shooting to redirect the voter’s attention to guns—again.

Current Mid-East turmoil will also be used by Onada and his propaganda organs to avoid talking about Onadacare and his energy/economic policies. I’m somewhat hopeful that Egypt will get a grip on itself. Mubarak may have to do some bobbing and weaving, but so far only about 250,000 Egyptians have been involved in the demonstrations in that country. I’m not sure the so-called unrest extends beyond Cairo. With a 20 million or so population, 250,000 demonstrators hardly represent the majority of Egyptians.

It remains to be seen whether or not the Muslim Brotherhood can sustain—let alone enlarge—its move to destabilize the Mid-East.


95 posted on 01/31/2011 5:39:59 PM PST by dools0007world
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To: Sub-Driver

How will Murky vote?


96 posted on 01/31/2011 5:41:20 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Green Bay Packers: 12-time NFL Champions)
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To: LostInBayport

McConnell pulled a smart parlimentarian move last week by not allowing the House-passed repeal legislation to get buried in a Senate committee controlled by the RATS. McConnell can pull up the repeal for a floor vote at a time of his choosing and Reid CANNOT protect his RAT Senators from taking a brutal vote on repeal. Too bad for them.

McConnell deserves your respect NOW already on this issue. Keeping a minority of 40 senators together the weekend b4 Christmas in the face of immense media hostility and pressure from unions, the White House and trial lawyers was an amazing feat.


97 posted on 01/31/2011 5:42:58 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Senator Murkowski has already signed on to the repeal bill.

Give McConnell still more credit.


98 posted on 01/31/2011 5:48:30 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: Izzy Dunne

If they can’t get this done, then they should at the very least out law any waivers. we’ll see how his union buddies and other big donors like that.


99 posted on 01/31/2011 5:51:31 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: Silentgypsy

You sound worried that it might pass the Senate and reach Obama.


100 posted on 01/31/2011 5:56:10 PM PST by Defiant (There is no line on the march towards marxism that Democrats won't cross. Democrat=CPUSA)
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