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McConnell: We’ll Make 'Every Effort' to Repeal Obamacare — But Its Namesake is Still in Office
Washington Times ^ | December 8, 2014 20:47 GMT | David Sherfinski

Posted on 12/08/2014 1:54:09 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, says he has every intention of voting to repeal Obamacare with a new GOP majority in January, but also said people should be realistic about what to expect in the way of repeal with President Obama still in the White House.

“We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare. … It was a very large issue in the campaign,” Mr. McConnell told Roll Call. “We’re certainly gonna keep our commitment to the American people to make every effort we can to repeal it.

“It is a statement to the obvious, however, that Obama — of Obamacare — is the president of the United States, so I don’t want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama — of Obamacare — in the White House,” he said. “But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aca; affordablecareact; majorityleader; mcconnell; medicaldevicetax; obama; obamacare; senate; senatemajorityleader; sequester
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More mamby pamby from Cecil...


1 posted on 12/08/2014 1:54:09 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

D’oh ,just remove the wheels and make sure it gets no fuel , FOOL


2 posted on 12/08/2014 1:55:31 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Which means .... He won’t


3 posted on 12/08/2014 1:55:33 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Up Yours Marxists

McConnell will do NOTHING.


4 posted on 12/08/2014 1:55:39 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
McConnell: We’ll Make 'Every Effort' to Repeal Obamacare

Yeah, sure you will.

5 posted on 12/08/2014 1:57:20 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: molson209
It is called death by a thousand cuts. Hamstring it. Start by repealing the most popular things like the medical devices tax. Then gut it a little at a time.

Take out totally stupid benefits which almost nobody uses and then work up from there. It ain't rocket science, Mitch.

If you've forgotten already, look up what the Democrat congress did to Bush when they took control in 2007.

6 posted on 12/08/2014 1:59:09 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

It all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘effort’ is.


7 posted on 12/08/2014 2:01:30 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Up Yours Marxists

McTurd-le is full of hot air. The Uniparty sucks.


8 posted on 12/08/2014 2:03:59 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
I'm from Missouri, Mitch ...

SHOW ME!

9 posted on 12/08/2014 2:07:06 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: jsanders2001
Which means .... He won’t

He never had any intention to.

10 posted on 12/08/2014 2:07:52 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Put repeal up for a vote and see which Marxists have the stomach to vote for it now that many of their political cronies have been sent home.


11 posted on 12/08/2014 2:07:55 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

They’ll make every effort to use DC subterfuge to hoodwink conservatives and some other Republicans into thinking they are actually trying to repeal Obamacare.

Just as they’ll use every ruse and subterfuge to pretend they are actually fighting Obama’s illegal executive action to grant legal status to illegal aliens.


12 posted on 12/08/2014 2:16:37 PM PST by Will88
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To: Up Yours Marxists

It will be in a new bill that we have to pass first to find out what is in it.....

You know how damned well that worked out last time they did this crap....


13 posted on 12/08/2014 2:26:37 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Vigilanteman

[ It is called death by a thousand cuts. Hamstring it. Start by repealing the most popular things like the medical devices tax. Then gut it a little at a time.

Take out totally stupid benefits which almost nobody uses and then work up from there. It ain’t rocket science, Mitch.

If you’ve forgotten already, look up what the Democrat congress did to Bush when they took control in 2007. ]

I would also add that they should pass a bill that forbids ANYONE in the executive branch structure from altering it in any way or the execution of it in any way.

Then pass a bill removing the exemption of congress and the executive branch from obama care.

FORCE the power elite who wanted the G-D Damned thing to actually live by it!


14 posted on 12/08/2014 2:28:58 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
"We'll make every effort" is nothing but GOP-E speak. They'll have a couple of fake votes ("oooh, it was so close!), toss out some anti-Ocare rhetoric, and maybe even stay in session til midnight a few times for good measure. But with great sadness and a hearty pep talk to "the base" to keep those donations rolling in, we'll stop these varmints yet.... Ocare will remain.
15 posted on 12/08/2014 2:31:43 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

“I tried everything I could to not raise taxes on the middle class”

Bill Clinton


16 posted on 12/08/2014 2:32:40 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Up Yours Marxists

McConnell is a liar.


17 posted on 12/08/2014 2:34:24 PM PST by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

The GOP should have had an entire strategy already mapped out for this.

These jokers have no intention of repealing it. Their corporate lobbyist donors love it too much.


18 posted on 12/08/2014 2:34:28 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: VRWC For Truth

[ McTurd-le is full of hot air. The Uniparty sucks. ]

Of course if I ran the senate i would pooison the well on Obama care so to speak so much that all the jackasses who wanted it would have no choice but to vomit it back up and reluctantly repeal it....

But then again Obama’s “Bitch McConnell” has never really been on our side and so will only pretend to fight against it and do nothing, like a dry descicated fart in the desert wind...

All sound and fury but nothing to count...


19 posted on 12/08/2014 2:36:47 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

What an idiot. Obamacare’s namesake is not in the White House. Obamacare’s eponym is in the White House.


20 posted on 12/08/2014 2:39:38 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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