Posted on 01/16/2014 9:53:40 AM PST by cotton1706
Conservative and Republican affiliated groups have started the 2014 assault against Democrats who support Obamacare. At the very same time, it is increasingly clear Republicans are laying the groundwork to abandon their opposition to Obamacare.
The Business Roundtable, which has a great relationship with Republican Leaders, is now listing Obamacare as an entitlement worth preserving.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former economic advisor to John McCain and who opposed passage of Obamacare, has started a think tank premised on keeping, but fixing, Obamacare. Holtz-Eakin has the ear of Republican leaders. In 2009, Mitch McConnell appointed him to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
The Chamber of Commerce is declaring it will work to fix, not repeal, Obamacare. In fact, just last week the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said, “The administration is obviously committed to keeping the law in place, so the chamber has been working pragmatically to fix those parts of Obamacare that can be fixed.”
Concurrent to this, the Chamber of Commerce has begun funding candidates to beat conservatives in Republican primaries.
The Republican Main Street Partnership, headed by former Congressman LaTourette — who is a friend of Speaker John Boehner — is working with the Chamber and party leaders to target conservatives the party leadership finds troublesome. LaTourette has been parroting talking points from the National Republican Senatorial Committee about the Senate Conservatives Fund, Club for Growth, and others.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Wrong. It is the final nail in the coffin for the GOP.
I need to see a LOT of confirmation before I swallow any of this.
I’m not gullible enough to read one blog entry and then believe the sky is falling.
Erickson has a viewpoint but it is only that, just his thoughts. Like the saying goes “Opinions are like a—holes, everybody has one.”
there are clearly some people with R after their names who are a big part of the problem in the United States...
More like the middle of the end. The beginning of the end was Bush 41. Hopefully the end of the end will happen in our lifetime. Preferably next week.
abandon opposition to ObamaCare and passing amnesty.
Looks like I have a free day to fill on election day, take a walk, play with the dogs, upgrade my linux, sleep late...
Being freed from having to worry about the election clears my mind.
This and amnesty means I won’t have to worry about voting
Billions spent, years in the making, no benefits yet, and we knew well in advance that it wouldn’t work. It took a blizzard of lies to keep it alive.
So the GOPe and their Chamber of Commerce want continue throwing good money after bad by calling ObamaCare an entitlement worth “preserving.”
Greeeaaat...
Uniparty Ping!
You aren’t surprised by this betrayal.
Because you are awake and see the party of government for what it is.
A scam!
The GOPe could easily be wiped out in the 2014 elections, and it will be their own fault.
Dead party walking.
A national party no more....
It’s pretty clear that large employers intend to get out of the healthcare business and have passed the word to the pubbie leadership not to kill Obamacare. That’s where their strange reluctance to defund or repeal comes from.
They don’t care.
I don’t expect they do.
What fools they be....
DC fops
It's the only time we take the law into our own hands. Don't ever sit on your hands!!!
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