It’s a game.
A.) Dems team up with Repubs to repeal individual mandate.
B.) Obama vetoes.
C.) Dems get cover for 2012.
D.) Law still in place.
E.) Dems hold Senate.
Don’t do it.
A.) Dems team up with Repubs to repeal individual mandate.
B.) Obama vetoes.
C.) Dems get cover for 2012.
D.) Law still in place.
E.) Dems hold Senate.
Don’t do it.”
I agree. These dems couldn't bring themselves to vote for repeal, so how serious are they? Never trust democrats to actually care what the public thinks or wants.
Here’s another game:
1) Pass full repeal out of the House, make the Senate vote it down. (Done.)
2) Pass repeal of the 1099 provision, Senate Passes, 0bama signs.
3) Pass repeal of Medicare Cuts. Senate Passes, 0bama vetoes (killing him with Seniors in 2012).
4) Next most hated provision
5) Next most hated provision
6) Etc., until
7) Pass repeal of the Individual Mandate
I think there is usefulness in the “Death by a Thousand Cuts”. And I agree, we don’t want to make this easy for Democrats. So let’s hold the trump card (Repeal of the Individual Mandate), until the very end after they’ve taken every other hard vote we can send their way.
By the time the House and Senate pass the evisceration of 0bamaCare’s Individual Mandate, it will show the American people it is time to throw 0bama out for the obstructor that he is.... in about mid-September of 2012. Then, our Presidential Candidate can use this club on him for two months.