If GOP had brains (or the Senators supposedly presenting GOP voters had brains) they would announce not only opposition to the bill, but also make a pledge to repeal the law when they get majority (and refuse the fund any section of it).
This would further weaken the dems willingness to vote for a legislation that will be repealed anyway.
Now the impression dems get from GOP is that once they pass it, it will stay forever (naturally gradually expanding).
“If GOP had brains (or the Senators supposedly presenting GOP voters had brains) they would announce not only opposition to the bill, but also make a pledge to repeal the law when they get majority (and refuse the fund any section of it).
This would further weaken the dems willingness to vote for a legislation that will be repealed anyway.
Now the impression dems get from GOP is that once they pass it, it will stay forever (naturally gradually expanding).”
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The problem with this is, even if the Republicans sweep back into Congressional power after the November 2010 elections, an attempt to repeal Obamacare would be met with a presidential veto, which I believe would require a 2/3 vote in the Senate to override. The Republicans won’t have those kind of numbers.
It looks like it may be up to Joe Lieberman to stop this. Fortunately, I don’t think he’s forgotten how the Democrat party demonized him as he unwaiveringly supported the war in Iraq. After the Dems threw him under the bus during the 2006 Connecticut Senate primary race, he broke ranks with the party to become an independent and won re-election as a result.
Let’s hope and pray he sticks to his guns and becomes the deciding vote to kill debate on this heinous health deform bill.