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Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacare working group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Both Harry Reid and Obama changed the rules to meet their needs, why not McConnell?
Let’s make 44 votes “deeming it passed.”
Agree...we need to “deem” a few (hundred) things, just like they did. I don’t hold out hope of Midge doing any such thing, though :(
Also....since 0bolaCare was *passed* via reconciliation (51 votes), it’s repeal Bill could very well be passed the same way. Then we only need 7 more votes.
Too bad Midge already threw the baby out with the bathwater, on that. He ran his re-election campaign on that premise, then quickly changed his tune, once he won. Traitorous.
In my opinion, this is where all of us conservatives should be putting our energy. I’m not talking about the details of Cruz’s plan, I’m talking about a vision. We’ve criticized all things Obama for years. I think that tack has reached it’s maximum level of effectiveness.
I’d love to see the GOP bring out a more conservative voice by becoming the party of good things, hope, belief, faith, strength, vision, advancement, personal achievement, etc.
IMHO, we need to really push the GOOD, the positives!
Dem negatives are out there and those who choose not to see them are going to continue to pretend not to see them, no matter how much we highlight the Dem failures.
I think Cruz is very able to articulate a clear Conservative vision and if we can start to repeat that, to build on that, then the Conservative train will be unstoppable! I sense that people are hungry for it!
Obamacare is unconstitutional, period.
Please don’t replace it with more government interference in the free market which interference in the late 60’s and 70’s is where the cost issues with health care began in the first place.
If you dig down deep enough in most market-related areas that have systematic problems, you’ll find government hiding and interfering, causing the problem. And we all know that once government, like a camel, gets its nose in the tent and begins screwing up a market area, their answer is ALWAYS MORE GOVERNMENT.
They’re off being influenced by lobbyists. Paid lobbyists...
44 co-sponsors is interesting. The American people don’t want obamacare. That is shown over and over in polls. So even gutless RINOS should be able to get behind a populist push to kill obamacare. Obama won’t sign it. The only hope to override a veto is to cut some nefarious deal with dems and I don’t see that happening nor would we like such a deal.
I agree that McConnell would probably go against it if he thought he could get away with it....just that he has not done so. I’m sure Cruz is on the look out for the McConnell friendly fire.
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Last paragraph of article:
If Republicans could get around a Democratic filibuster, Cruz would be the only prospective presidential candidate who could claim to have authored the first Obamacare repeal that passed through Congress.
Deport, who again are the most vulnerable RAT senators in ‘16?
I think they should waive those penalties right NOW!!!
Deport, who again are the most vulnerable RAT senators in ‘16?
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It may come down to who are the most vulnerable GOP senators in 2016.
There are 10 Democrat and 24 GOP seats up that cycle.
Well said and .... AMEN!
Having said that, and with a well reasoned eye to our current disaster, I must conclude that the next POTUS has to be a governor. Not Jeb. Not Christie. Not Perry -- he had his shot.
I think I have to go with Walker. I'm no longer even a Republican but I'll volunteer to work for this guy is he gets established in south Florida.
Sorry, Senators: Rubio, Cruz, Paul, et al. You guys might make a good veep and set yourselves up nicely for 2024, but this time, we have to have a governor, with a record for winning against long odds.
Flame away.
It may come down to who are the most vulnerable GOP senators in 2016.
There are 10 Democrat and 24 GOP seats up that cycle.
We - and ALL conservative/TEA groups - need to start in on these 34, now!! We’ll help Cruz *whip*....lol.
and use “the nuclear option” harry reid used to override the veto
Naw. Obama will veto it and they won’t have the over-ride votes.
Thanks, deport!
Here’s the list of 34 Senators up for re-election, in 2016:
Pubbies (24):
Ayotte
Burr
Blunt
Boozeman
Coats
Crapo
Grassley
Hoeven
Isakson
Johnson, Ron
Kirk
Lankford
Lee
McShame
Moran
MurCOWski
Paul
Portman
Rubio
Scott - SC
Shelby
Thune
Toomey
Vitter
Dims (10):
Bennett
Boxer (Not running)
Blumenthal
Leahy
Mikulski
Murray
Dingy
Chuck U Schumer
Shatz
Wyden
Yeah. To the Rats, Compassion = Money for them
They saw all of their buddies that voted it in into law, out of the senate one way or another for that vote.
But in this their base is pretty unified. So the Dems will stick with Obamacare to the end. I don't see a cloture vote succeeding.
They saw all of their buddies that voted it in into law, out of the senate one way or another for that vote.
But in 2016 all the Democrat incumbents are in Blue states. If anyone wavers on Obamacare I'd think it'll be Republicans like Kirk and Ayotte who are facing tough races to begin with
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