Posted on 07/04/2012 6:30:33 AM PDT by IbJensen
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters outside the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 26. On Monday, McConnell said the odds were against repealing Obamacare. Photo Credit:AP/J. Scott Applewhite
It's on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against repealing the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.
The Kentucky Republican said Monday it's hard to unravel something of the magnitude of the 2,700-page health care law, WHAS-TV reports.
"If you thought it was a good idea for the federal government to go in this direction, I'd say the odds are still on your side," McConnell said. "Because it's a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place."
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U.S. Constitution, Article 3 Section 2:
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;-- between a State and Citizens of another State,--between Citizens of different States,--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
I appreciate his coming out of the gate swinging hard however for the best of us all, it's time for him to tone down the rhetoric a wee bit now and not lose any friends across the isle.
Things will never change till the whole GOP leadership structure is razed and rebuilt from the ground up without juniors and seniors.
Mitch should resign.
The other senator from KY would make a better majority leader.
Well Bich, then let the revolution begin.
Just do it!!!!
Just do it!!!!
ObamaCare will have to be defeated in bits & pieces, as individual issues with it are challenged as implementation begins. If it is a tax, can it be levied against tax-exempt institutions (like religious groups)? Can exemptions (waivers) be granted to allies of the Democratic Party if it is a tax?
Preemptive cowardice.
PLEASE read this interview, posted today, between McConnell and Robert Costa of National Review:
many times I have commented that I believe GOP and Dems are on the same side and that they “choreograph” their supposed fights to make it appear they have differences.
If we have a majority of repubs in Congress, which I HOPE will be the case after Jan 1, why would it be so hard to “undo?” Total repeal may be off the table, (or maybe not), but I’ve read many blogs and comments by judicial experts who discuss a work around in the form of defunding, etc.
All this leads me to believe after McConnell’s comments, the GOP simply does not really want to do away with any of it.
I say if we end up with the majority in Congress, we need to kick azz and take names. SHUT them out of meetings, leave them off committee positions, etc. DO unto them the same way they have done unto the GOP for the past four years!
Screw em!
Nothing will change as long as we have the present two-party system.
He must think we all live in his fluffy puffy world where, in favor of dinners, golfing cordial relationships with their “esteemed colleague” we don’t care about the rule of law, our founding documents and the intefrity of our nation.
Let’s hope he’s wrong.
What a wimp and a wimpy thing to say 4th of July week.
Just finished reading it and thanks for the link.
I, along with millions, have become paranoid about these undependable RINOs. I seldom believe anything they say as they were complicit in shoving America into this pit.
We need more Ron Ron and Rand Pauls, along with an army of Steve DeMints!
... we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. ... we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air ... We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
intefrity what?
inegrity
many times I have commented that I believe GOP and Dems are on the same side and that they “choreograph” their supposed fights to make it appear they have differences.
If we have a majority of repubs in Congress, which I HOPE will be the case after Jan 1, why would it be so hard to “undo?” Total repeal may be off the table, (or maybe not), but I’ve read many blogs and comments by judicial experts who discuss a work around in the form of defunding, etc.
All this leads me to believe after McConnell’s comments, the GOP simply does not really want to do away with any of it.
I say if we end up with the majority in Congress, we need to kick azz and take names. SHUT them out of meetings, leave them off committee positions, etc. DO unto them the same way they have done unto the GOP for the past four years!
Screw em! DO not reach across the aisle to them. NO compromise. A compromise with the Dems, simply put is this-
YOU cave and give them EVERYTHING they want, you get NOTHING but rave reviews from the press calling you a maverick and visionary, then you mayyyyy get invited to a DC cocktail party. The sum total of jack squat.
What an ass....first order of business, this clown needs be put down from the leadership roll, appoint him senate majority latrien scrubber.
This is what I suspected all along, some of the GOP squishes were just as happy to go along with this law as were the dems.
He’s been groping for his friends across the aisle far too long! These Republicrats call it bi-partisanship, but it’s really disgusting. There are, as you know, no friends of America across the aisle and too damned few friends in the ranks of the Republicrat Party!
Thanks for posting.
Like a wounded animal, the anti-American hard-left media has to go nuclear to try to SAVE HUSSEIN.
No lie is too big for Big Media, as they have declared themselves justified in anything in order to SAVE HUSSEIN.
I just have a hard time when I realize that so many of these monsters have families that they have to go home and teach such lies and hatred for anyone without a “D” after their name.
Geriatric Old Plotters.
They are to conservative policy as Vidkun Quisling is to Norwegian national defense.
I just posted Costa’s interview as a separate thread. I do hope others will read it. Excerpt:
Costa: On a final note, what’s your message to conservatives and tea-party activists who are suspicious of Republican leaders and their commitment to repeal?
McConnell: Boy, I don’t know how they could be suspicious on this issue. Every single Republican in the House and Senate voted against Obamacare. I must have made 125 speeches about it on the floor. If there is any area where I don’t think conservatives of any stripe should be concerned, it would be this one. We’ve been clear and unambiguous about Obamacare from the beginning to the end — all of it. And I led the fight in the Senate, so I know what I’m talking about.
I think he’s correct.
If 51 senators need to vote yea, then there needs to be a 60+ repub majority to offset the rinos. Unlikely.
Well, that's ONE Paul I can support....
Please read #13.
As Hussein goes down hard, watch Big Media’s hatred of the truth get worse.
Bigger and bigger lies are their only hope.
FU BO and the media sycophants you rode in on!
How did people like McConnel and Bonehead become the power brokers? in the, Rino I mean, Republican Party?
Kind of reminds me of small towns where the insiders push a doofus for Mayor. For the purposes of getting away with all kinds of shenanigans.
Whoa!
I was so discouraged reading the headline as I thought McConnell was one of the sort-of good ones. The media is going full force in lie mode.
The headline is a fake. I take back my former comment.
Maybe it can be taken out of breaking news.
And let me say National Review is a treasure.
Much prayer is necessary.
What do you expect from a Republicrat? Giving up before we even start - that’s their way. It’s really very easy - repeal the tax and don’t fund the bureaucracy.
Maybe if you would stop believing everything you hear in the newsmedia you claim you don’t believe in the first place.
Well, which is it:
McConnell: We’ll Repeal Obamacare, One Way or Another
I’m already hearing commercials on the radio (WABC) from Healthcare.gov about a black grandfather and grandson playing ball and all the free screenings etc the grandfather can now get.
The Founders expected Congress, the Law Makers, to be more powerful than either the Court or the Executive. We need to move away from administrative law. Force the executive departments to get approval from Congress for every regulation. The Executive cannot make law per the Constitution. This needs to be a campaign just like the 2nd Amendment and Life movements.
I don’t understand Mitch’s contention that the bill will be hard to repeal because it’s “2,700 pages long.” What does that have to do with its anti-Constitution dictates and its violation of religious freedom?
I’m getting very tired of receiving at least 3 pieces of correspondence per day from legislators asking for money to DO THEIR JOBS.
Mitch, if you think the task is too formidable, step down and let an enthusiastic conservative attack the problem.
By the way, thanks for providing the left with an excellent sound byte to use in the future. Contending a task is nearly impossible before the battle begins is a great way to invigorate the opposition.
EODGUY
“Mark my words, ALL new taxes,”
None of the elites want it repealed. Big corporations want full on socialized medicine.
I don’t see this changing.
“I’m getting very tired of receiving at least 3 pieces of correspondence per day from legislators asking for money to DO THEIR JOBS.”
They don’t. Their surrounded by “aids” from the git-go.
100s-1000s of them and D.C. connected bureucrats multiplied by each office holder exponentially, that are after their “take” also. Tentacles, thousands of thousands of “mark my words, no new taxes” lying, all up the Eastern seaboard.
Lobby paid off bribing, led by phony “banking” payable to “the Federal Reserve” every April.
Replicans need to work hard to get rid of Rino’s in 2014.... McConnell and Graham would both be high on my list!
What's really hard... is understanding why republican members of both the house and senate continue to elect people like him and bonehead their leaders.
I was surprised to read that the infamous Dred Scott decision has never been explicitly overturned.
THIS is why his later lie posted above means nothing... like his candidate romeny... he is a man of many faces and many statements. He can be whatever he needs to appear to be... until he goes to work. Then he is a spineless, lying coward.
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The best way to ensure that the media doesn't "spin" or create outright falsehood is to not give them a chance. In other words, make the original statement SO blunt, so un-nuanced, so straightforward, that any spin would make that media outlet a laughingstock. See my comment
For them everything is hard or impossible or not dignified or will cause criticism. Compare this to Pelosi’s, “we will go under the fence, over the fence, any way possible...”. Team Pelosi will never quit no matter how obviously wrong they are.
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