Posted on 09/20/2010 3:34:28 AM PDT by Son House
But Republican lawmakers portray the anticipated drama as foreshadowing the far bigger brawl of the 2012 presidential elections and a clash of visions with President Obama. A vote in the House to repeal the health-care overhaul would be among the GOP's top priorities.
Republican leaders are also devising legislative maneuvers that might have a bigger impact, using appropriations bills and other tactics to try to undermine the administration's overhaul of health care and financial regulations and its plans to regulate greenhouse gases. GOP leaders also hope to trim spending, return unspent stimulus funds and restore sweeping tax cuts.
Business groups have compiled lists of impeding regulations they hope to see stopped under a GOP House majority.
"We need to establish the proverbial lines in the sand and show we are serious about limited government," said Wisconsin's Rep. Paul Ryan, a leading conservative who is in line to chair the House budget committee if Republicans take control.
The White House concedes that Congress's withholding funds would be a threat to the health-care law, but argues such a strategy could backfire with consumers, particularly if it threatened to nix popular provisions, such as allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance plans until they turn 26.
"What the Republicans will be faced with is really taking those benefits away," said Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services. "They will have to face their constituents who have their children enrolled on a family plan and say, 'That can't happen anymore.'"
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This is their last chance [to stand up to it and stand for something] in my book.
Why not allow children to stay on their p[arents insurance until they are 56 and continue extending Unemployment insurance for 20 years. /s/
We’re gonna have what, 60-80 GOP freshman this November?..add to that the young conservatives already in the House, like Ryan, and you have a majority in the GOP caucus...I wonder if the leadership vote takes a surprise turn..
It’s absurd, isn’t it?
“kids” up to 26 can stay on the policy - sure. but the cost will be borne by the policy holder insuring the “kids”.
No more of me paying for your “kids”.
I also pray that impeachment proceedings and a trial for treason for Obama and others are in the planning stages.
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NEVER FORGET
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It’s now time for us to do to the Democrats on Healthcare...
...exactly what they did to Vietnam:
CUT THE FUNDING..!!!
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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NEVER FORGET
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“What the Republicans will be faced with is really taking those benefits away,” said Kathleen Sebelius,...
That’s what the dealer says after fronting you crack...
Carrying them until age 26? why not 36 or 46 or 66?
Grand kids too?
A lot of people are with you on that idea.
Remember reading that thread.Good one.Do you know why the pictures are x’s now?
At its core, the GOP plan will focus on spending and whittling away the health-care law, the Democrats' landmark achievement, which extends insurance to 32 million Americans. House Republicans say a full repeal would pick up a few Democratic votes, but acknowledge the effort would fail in the Senate.
This makes it sound as if the republicans have "pre-negotiated" something that might pass, but won't solve the problem. (See my tag line.)
Why not first try to repeal the whole thing, and make democrats publicly vote against repeal? And then Obama would have to veto repeal if it passed. This would make a very public contrast between the two parties. THEN introduce a bill that will pass.
I am betting we still have a few more voters that want to be left alone than voters that want the government to take care of them.
If the GOP’s plan is to defund programs that another Congress has already passed then it simply won’t work. Once a program is defunded, all that the Dems have to do is go to a judge and get a rulling which will require Congress to fully fund all programs. Could you imagine if Congress defunded the EPA, the judicial branch wouldn’t stand for that.
The only solutions are to repeal the programs or take control of the judicial system. Both will require lotsa’ conservative GOP wins at the polls...and will take some time.
Two things Republicans can do to tranform the political map of Ameirca is to clean up voter roles - then to end employee unions in Government. We have enough work rules in government that they do not NEED a union to get fair pay or fair hearings if mistakes are made. End the gov. unions and you level the playing field of politics!!
GOP Aims to Erode White House Agenda
Well, I should hope so.
It is horrific how far we have strayed from both the Constitution and the general principles of our Nation, our Republic, that it may be that difficult to reverse course. Yes.
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