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.
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 “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“The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act is repealed in its entirety.”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.
“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 And, after all, he did get DADT repealed which allows gays to go off and fight wars.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.)