Posted on 01/02/2011 6:47:03 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Healthcare repeal bill coming before Obama's annual address By Bridget Johnson - 01/02/11 09:17 AM ET
The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Sunday that Republicans will bring up a healthcare repeal measure before President Obama even delivers his State of the Union address this month.
"I think there wil be a significant number of Democrats who will join us," Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said on "Fox News Sunday."
Upton said that leaders are counting on Democrats who voted against the massive healthcare reform package to do so again, coupled with greater GOP numbers.
"I don't think we're going to be that far off from having the votes to override a veto," he said.
Upton said that even if repeal faces hurdles, House action will "put enormous pressure on the Senate to do the same thing."
After that, Upton said, House Republicans will work on chipping away the healthcare bill piece by piece, such as the 1099 requirements and individual mandates.
Upton also said that the Stupak language -- an executive order from Obama to ensure that public dollars wouldn't be used to fund abortions -- will be taken up early as a separate bill.
Repubs need to float a repeal bill over & over & over no matter how many times it fails or gets vetoed.
Get the demtards to have to defend this monstrosity in public, over & over again.
However, I'll believe it when I see it. All indications are that the Republican Congress, overall, is willing to sell its soul to the devil for power. If so, they will have become a domestic enemy of the Constitution, and therefore proper targets of Oathkeepers.
It will be repealed before the 2012 elections, in fact, it will be repealed before the case hits the SCOTUS.
Amen. Not only that, they need to keep the heat on the RINOs and “Blue Dogs”. Put these guys on record. Let guys like Richard Lugar (RINO-IN) vote against it. Let’s see him defend that in the 2012 GOP primaries.
The only republican who voted for the Heathcare bill is gone, Cao.
Obamacare is the key to creating a socialist state. IT MUST BE REPEALED.
“Medicine is the cornerstone of the arch of socialism.”—Vladimir Lenin
The “repeal bill” should be a simple one-line sentence:
“The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act is repealed in its entirety.”
Absolutely nothing more.
Schedule a vote on it once a month, EVERY month.
Good start. Pass it. Again and again if necessary. Make the Kenyan Clown play defense until he knuckles under.
“Repubs need to float a repeal bill over & over & over no matter how many times it fails or gets vetoed.”
If the conservatives can get a repeal bill through, and they’ve already defunded provisions of the health care legislation, smart politics says Obama should sign it. Failing his signature, enough Democrats who can see the future will cross over to override the veto. The consequences to leaving the defunded health care bill alive would be to leave a gapping wound in the insurance industry to further enrage voters in 2012.
If he signs it, Obama can come across as a “moderate” and pick up voters in the middle. He needs 11% of those voters to win reelection. A moderate is somebody who does something on your side of the agenda. Note that Romney is hailed as a moderate Republican. Obama will still be seen by the left as their best hope. And, after all, he did get DADT repealed which allows gays to go off and fight wars. (I wonder if they thought that through. Given that I’ve read 85% of “gays” are self-identified in order to get out of the service, I wonder just what they won here.)
Now, having said that, I think Obama is 100% ideologue and can’t cross to the center or compromise. (Compromise is where both sides find common ground and agree on some third course with which neither side is happy but nobody’s ox gets seriously gored.)
Do you really expect Obama to sign a a repeal of Obamacare? The best we can hope for is for repeal bills to be sent to his desk repeatedly forcing him to veto each one and forcing democrats to go on record supporting Obamacare thereby sending them to their doom in 12.
What are the odds they can get a veto proof majority?
Yes. He will be conviced to do so by dems who will tell him that if he agrees to the repeal he would take an issue away fro the GOP in 2012. There will be a second bill that will remove the mandates and pie in the sky spending so both sides can claim they got what they want. They will do so to avoid any more legal defeats in the courts.
It will get filibustered or vetoed so the GOP needs to be prepared to cut off funding.
So, not a repeal of Obamacare, but a repeal of parts of Obamacare i.e. the mandates and spending. That still leaves quite a pile of stinky garbage since the bill is 3000 pages. Not really much of a victory against big gov socialism. The entire bill needs to be repealed and then minor tweaks to healthcare proposed, because that is all that is needed.
Get er done !
That may be the end result given political reality, however, unless the republican house sends repeated bills to completely repeal Obamacare to the Senate, they are NOT doing what we elected them to do. They need to have a continuous fire lit under their arses to send the repeal bills up, and to defund out of control regulatory agencies like the EPA and FCC.....at a minimum.
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