Posted on 11/05/2014 6:15:14 AM PST by mbarker12474
Politics 2014 Election McConnell: No Shutdowns, No Full Obamacare Repeal
Jay Newton-Small/Hazard, KY @JNSmall
8:22 AM ET
Sen. Mitch McConnell was giddy... Kentuckian... TIME’s interview ...
Notably, a full repeal of Obamacare was not on his mind...
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... get America back to work ... Keystone XL pipeline ... medical device tax ... 40-hour work week ... individual mandate ... bipartisan majority in the Senate
... agree on with the President ... comprehensive tax reform and trade agreements
... international trade
... nuclear option? ...we’ll discuss that...
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... immigration reform? We’re going to discuss...
What if ... executive action ... immigration? ... funding process. ... a budget ... appropriations bills.
... a government shutdown? ... you re-pass it.
... possibility of a government shutdown?
No. There is no possibility of a government shutdown. Remember me? I’m the guy that gets us out of government shutdowns. (He laughs.)
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So, in 2016, what’s your top priority?
Well, it’ll be to keep the majority, of course.
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(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Not a permanent fix, just till we can retake the whitehut and eliminate it permanently.
Someone hands you a crap sammich...
how do you “fix” that?
Millions have coverage? Millions don’t. Millions more won’t soon when they get their 25-100% rate hike in the coming weeks.
You can’t “fix” it, but you CAN repeal it and replace it.
Repealing Obamacare is a non starter, as the President would never sign it.
Well then the GOP is free to pass the Vitter amendment and put it on Obama’s desk. Time for the beltway elite to eat their peas. But that won’t be happening because the GOP is fine with obamacare. They have no intention of ever repealing it.
Now, this is beyond the GOPe.. but...
They need to pass the repeal bill and replacement bills at the same time and drop them on Zero’s desk right around the time people get their NEXT 25-100% increse in premium notices next year.
Turn the people on Zero. Force him to veto it..
Then.. Over ride his veto.
I’d suggest that the gov’t shutdown hasn’t hurt the GOPe one whit.
It was sold as health care, but it is only health insurance, and very expensive insurance at that.
Because of the huge deductibles, fewer actually can afford day to day healthcare than before.
Exactly as predicted. So what are we going to do about it? We have to fight on every front at all times. We don’t have a choice.
Well I believe that providing for America in general, is the government’s job.
America’s corporations have exported (far) too much of America’s one-mighty manufacturing industry, and sold it to China, which doesn’t even leave Americans as majority owners, and who practice communism.
I am completely ready for our government to support American industry.
Completely.
How that support is done, is a subject which could be very very messy, but in principle I am completely in support of America’s government stepping in and rebuilding America.
100%.
I am just very concerned, that Dems will move first.
That would be catastrophic, in my view.
GOP, support American industry.
And when they discover the GOP is just more of the same they'll speak again in a few years.
Get someone else.
Might I recommend Cruz?
Mike Lee.
The importance of voting Republican: Exhibit A.
He won too easily.
You can’t fix stupid, and ObamaCare is stupid.
No, but a bill sent to him to repeal what 70%+ of the american people want sets the stage for what can be done over the next two years.
It needs to be defunded; the mandates need to be removed and the funding sources through the exchanges killed off, thus killing the source of money. Go big, make a scene, regardless of whether or not the Nazi Fuehrer signs it or not. Put it on him, and make it about him not removing something that the majority of the public wants removed.
The economy may be the primary focus of the electorate but obamacare is a large part of what is killing the economy.
Do what the people sent them there to do and let the consequences of not following through fall on the dictator.
Maybe, but it can be effective in screwing ocare into the ground in advance of a conservative president with control of both houses where it CAN be killed.
actually Rand Paul mentioned defunding Obamacare last night.. here is my issue with that... the worst parts of this bill have not even kicked in yet... so many Americans are asking, what’s the big deal? doesn’t seem to bad, etc... ‘
as well, we can’t override a veto in the Senate... that simply won’t happen... the dems will vote as a block against that.
I think we will have a better chance of repeal and replace, when the worst parts of Obamcare finally kick in.. the employer mandate, more huge increases on premiums, and the fine that will be charged against those without health insurance...
just my take, and I’m open to being wrong on this.
I’ll not argue, but I will say I do not see how to “fix” the socialist stepping stone that is Obamacare.
For every newly covered individual, it has been said that two or more individuals have lost their insurance. For those who still have coverage, many have meaningless coverage - very high premiums and stratospheric deductibles and co-pays.
Getting government out of the health care business to the maximum extent possible is the only mechanism I see to “fix” Obamacare - and that means repealing it.
Yesterday was not so much a wholesale embrace of the GOP as it was a complete and total repudiation of Barack Obama and the gang of criminals he brought to Washington in 2008.
In the last 2 decades, it became clear to me that we were losing that struggle as those major institutions gained ground among the growing class of those either employed by or dependent upon the expanding welfare state. My way of emotionally coping with that was to tell myself that if the majority did, indeed, lust after a socialist welfare state, well then, let’s bring it on and let them have it good and hard. Rub their noses in it. Shove it down their throats!!
At the same time, I continued to tell myself that there were still enough honest-to-God adults out there who, once they had a taste of a totalitarian command state regime, they would reject it. I refused to consider that so many citizens (and I use the term loosely) would come to love and embrace the thing enough to sustain it and prolong the economic and personal agony history teaches always attends such despotic systems.
Yesterday, I THINK we began to come to our senses!
I’d analogize what happened yesterday to what an otherwise healthy human body does when faced with an existential threat. Just as our bodies are complex organisms, nations are complex organisms. Faced with ISIS, ebola, the invasion across the southern border and Obama’s criminal neglect of those threats, and on and on and on we STILL have the resolve and character to rally and turn back the threats and deal with the SOURCE of the threats.
All that said, we’re not out of the woods yet.
Now it’s up to the Pubbies to set out a serious and freedom oriented AGENDA and be RESOLUTE in repairing the damage this renegade regime has done over the last 6 years!
Obama and Valarie Jarrett are NOT going to go gently into that good night. As an egomaniacal malignant narcissist, this guy will dig in his heels. Just as a wild animal is most dangerous when cornered, Obama is now in a corner from which there is little chance escape. Ted Cruz was asked last night by if the Pubbies would take up the matter of Obama’s “lawlessness” and he stated rather emphatically that they would.
I’ll be watching to make sure that happens! I’m sure Darrel Issa and Trey Gowdy are licking their chops. I’m doubling my popcorn order for THAT show!
The only event that would please me more than what happened yesterday would be the sight of Barack Obama leaving the White House in manacles and leg irons with Eric Holder right behind him. If he and Eric are smart, they’ll spend today booking air travel to some non extradition country. I’m sure Lois Lerner would like to go along!
And speaking of air travel, tell these new Pubbies to take the keys to Air Force One away from Obama. It’s time to halt his endless taxpayer funded world apology tour!
Now comes the hard work of keeping all these new folks honest in the toxic and corrosive atmosphere of Washington, D.C. . it’s up to these same voters to watch all these new folks like the proverbial hawk and keep them within Mr. Jefferson’s “chains of the Constitution.” When you see them beginning what is the inevitable drift into the D.C. Swamp, CALL AND LET THEM KNOW WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO “BUSINESS AS USUAL”. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121! Write it down.
You should call just to hear the world’s worst “Music on Hold”.
The massive wins by in the statehouses MAY mean that at least SOME voters believe the 10th Amendment will be the most important tool to roll back the growth of fedzilla and return the states to the status of “LABORATORIES OF FREEDOM” the Founders intended them to be.
In that vein, the new national Pubbies need to start taking apart the federal bureaucracy, starting with the Department of Education, the EPA, the IRS and on and on.
Not to be the skunk at the picnic, but there IS some not so good news: The good guys won this one but the tight margins in many of these races mean that there are STILL large pockets of diehard Democrats who STILL DON’T GET IT!!
If you know any of those folks, spend some time attempting to acquaint them with our history, the ideas of the Founders, our tradition of freedom, the Constitution and why those things are important! There will be another election in 2 years and – unless we somehow reach them – many of these folks will be cocked and locked for payback!
And while he’s a huge improvement over the clearly deranged Harry Reid, I’m very
worried about Mitch McConnell’s comments that he would crush the Tea Party.
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