Posted on 03/23/2012 8:38:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Legislation to roll back President Barack Obama’s health care law will be the first order of business next January if Republicans win the Senate this fall, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week in an interview with Roll Call.
But the Kentucky Republican conceded that repeal legislation would likely fail, given that even the most optimistic forecasts project the GOP to win a majority that falls well short of a filibuster-proof 60 seats. Still, if McConnell replaces Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as Majority Leader in 2013, the Republican vowed to use every parliamentary tool at his disposal to block the implementation of the law, much of which is scheduled to take effect in 2014.
“If I’m the leader of the majority next year, the first item up will be repeal of Obamacare,” McConnell said. “We will be looking at it in every way that we can to see if we can prevent the full implementation of this monstrosity.”
With the Supreme Court scheduled to hear three days of oral arguments on the constitutionality of Obama’s signature domestic achievement beginning Monday, Senate Republicans have revived a messaging campaign that they believe has been successful in helping turn public opinion against the health care law — and keep it there. According to the RealClearPolitics.com polling average, voters favor repeal 50.7 percent to 40.7 percent.
McConnell, who filed an amicus brief in the case, declined to predict how the Supreme Court would rule. However, he said if the law’s mandate to buy insurance is upheld, it would open the door to laws forcing Americans to “eat carrots, or to quit smoking, or to lose weight.” Democrats dismiss such complaints as hyperbole and contend Americans will embrace the law once it is fully implemented and they experience all of its benefits.
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I agree that we need a new conservative political party. I am more than willing to take the short term political hit giving power to the Democrats a decade or two while the party gets off the ground.
We are dead anyway with the current GOP. We need a new conservative party. The USA is dead without it.
On a repeal vote with actual consequences, there wouldn't be 40 "yes" votes from the GOP.
Is that being a bit presumptuous?
If the GOP retakes the Senate, will there be a fight for the Majority Leadership or will the same tired people just assume their same tired positions?
-PJ
Quite true. The GOP is moving to the right, which is leaving many old stalwarts stranded. For what its worth, my information is that the GOP grass roots in Utah are in a rebellious mood and that Hatch is in trouble.
“......we need a new conservative political party........We are dead anyway with the current GOP.....
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You are clearly not paying attention to the direction in which the GOP has been moving since 2010. If you were you wouldn’t say this. “Creating a new political party” (also know to gleeful liberal politicians as “splitting the Republican/conservative vote”—you don’t want to be one of those gleeful types do you?) would ONLY SERVE THE INTERESTS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.
“If the GOP retakes the Senate, will there be a fight for the Majority Leadership or will the same tired people just assume their same tired positions?”
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There will most definitely be a fight. I predict that McConnell will have to settle for something other than Majority Leader. He has clearly demonstrated he’s not up to the task.
They don’t need 60 votes. Cloture is just a parliamentary rule and can be closed off (aka: nuclear option). If the original Obamacare bill can be passed via reconciliation, then it can get whacked via reconciliation.
If the GOP has the House, Senate and White House, (Plus the WILL TO DO IT) then they can suspend the cloture rules and reconcile. There will be a sh*t storm by the MSM and Democrats and the GOP needs to stay strong.
1. Elect more Conservatives
2. Give some heat at their town halls, letter, phone calls
3. Make it known that if the GOP fails on it’s promise, then they’re dog meat. The GOP is dead at that point.
What new GOP party direction? You mean the one that shoved liberal Mitt Romney down our throats? That GOP Party?
Yes, I’ve been paying attention. We have a few Tea Party freshmen and Jim Demint. They have said they won’t let Demint have any real power and they have steamrolled the Tea Party freshmen.
Yes, there are a few real conservatives in the GOP, but othewise it is lead by the same old blue blood country club asswipe RINO surrender chickens who screw us over time and again.
New GOP. Not hardly. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Well Sir, to quote the old English proverb—
“There are none so blind as those that will not see.”
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