Posted on 11/12/2014 8:28:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ted Cruz is still ready to use any means necessary to repeal Obamacare.
But even his fellow conservatives aren’t all jumping on board – a sign that the Republican repeal or bust movement is struggling while Obamacare continues to enroll millions of people with health insurance.
While Cruz wants to use a draconian budget measure to repeal Obamacare with just 51 votes in the Senate, he looks to be increasingly out on a limb. Utah Republican Mike Lee, a leader in the conservative movement, isn’t sold on the so-called budget reconciliation procedure to gut the law. Rand Paul says he’s for repeal but is hedging on exactly how to do it.
Mitch McConnell, who may enjoy a 54 vote Senate Republican majority by January, won’t commit to using the simple majority vote to kill Obamacare. And none of the Republican 2016 presidential candidates are pushing hard for the more radical Senate procedures to repeal the health care law.
Interviews with a wide range of key figures in the Senate and within the conservative movement show that while the party may be united rhetorically on repealing Obamacare, Republicans are surprisingly squishy on exactly how to do it.
The most popular response is to say, “yes, I’m for repeal,” but without saying how. Paul spokesman Brian Darling says the Kentucky senator “is committed one hundred percent to a full repeal,” but added that “using regular order or reconciliation or both is an inside the beltway fight.” And Steve Daines, the newly elected senator from Montana, said through a spokesman only that he “supports fully repealing Obamacare” and “will closely examine how to most effectively achieve that goal.”
And that doesn’t even address the moderates like Maine Republican Susan Collins, or politically vulnerable blue state Republicans who are up for re-election in 2016.
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This is why a vote for McConnell or any of his ilk is a wasted vote. This is why GOP increasingly nauseates me.
Junk the entire thing and start over.
They either do this or the next election cycle will be an incumbent massacre.
Ted Cruz is a courageous fighter trying to preserve America; however, he can’t do it alone.
Congress has to grow a set, which isn’t all that likely.
Is this true?
It looks like this goatee has an investment in Obamacare, like tax lawyers and the tax code.
http://www.politico.com/reporters/DavidNather.html
(Not ad hominem, just pointing out a possible conflict.)
Junking obamacare is just a start. There are so many other things to junk one wouldn’t know where to start.
But I vote for the massacre anyway. Too many make a career out of politics.
The makings of fight song right there!
Thank the people that demanded conservatives keep him in office. They have a large part of the blame here. And they need to be called on it.
Thank them too when Amnesty comes up and he fast tracks it. All we had to do was sacrifice Mitch and JonBon and the congress had a chance at conservatives having a say. But no. Rinos had to be empowered no matter what.
The R's are not likely to patch the deficiency and at that point, the entire program is going down. No reason to spend the political capital to try to repeal it at this point under circumstances in which if they pass a repeal, Barry will veto it.
If the Court doesn't do the job for them, the R's will have lots of opportunities to cut off pieces until the program becomes a further problem for everyone.
I know the argument well. Do you vote for a guy with an R by his name who can be trusted to betray you when it most matters, and has lost all fear of you?
Because thats guys like McConnell, McCain, Graham. They can be counted on to betray you every time. They’ve learned how to work the system to keep their “conservative rating” high while screwing you every time.
Ted indeed has support. The problem is Mitch has the majority leader seat and Jonbon rules the House. I hope he fights them fail or not. But he sure as hell can’t count on what should be his base to back him anymore. Conservatives will back him to the hilt. the rest will cave like the RINOs they support when their heroes do.
They spend weeks campaigning to the left against an issue. When it’s safely in the fail category they vote for it and their rating stays high.
They do it every time. And people ignore it.
for all the freepers who attacked anyone who would vote their conscience and not for a lesser evil - which is still evil - just a few weeks ago . . . . ***WHIP WHIP***** get back on your plantation fools.
They will wait a day till the immediacy of these things settles then come back out screaming again as usual, demanding to be considered conservative dispite full throated RINO support.
Frauds.
Ted Cruz is William Wallace from "Braveheart" and those guys are the Scottish Lords.
If memory serves things didn't end well for Sir William Wallace.
Which is why the last time I was excited about a potential POTUS candidate his initials were RWR. Ted Cruz has become a courageous conservative hero. He has my support.
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