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GOP tactics on ObamaCare move away from full repeal
The Hill ^ | January 16, 2015 | Sarah Ferris

Posted on 01/16/2015 12:05:15 PM PST by C19fan

Republicans are shifting their tactics on ObamaCare, an abrupt change from the party’s repeal-only rhetoric that dominated the last five years of debate.

The GOP is coalescing around the idea that incremental changes, rather than a sweeping repeal effort, can be more appealing to voters — while also holding out the possibility of hollowing out the law from within.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; gop; obamacare; romneyagenda; romneycare; romneycare4ever; sorosagenda
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Isn't it funny how the 2 ObamaCare items the GOP leadership are trying to repeal, the medical devices excise tax and the 30 hour full time definition, are two components that bother the Chamber of Commerce the most. If you are going to repeal just parts of ObamaCare how about the tax on "Cadillac" insurance plans. The way ObamaCare works eventually all employee provided plans will fall under the tax.
1 posted on 01/16/2015 12:05:15 PM PST by C19fan
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But...but....they said we had to elect Republicans to repeal this!!!! WTF? I’m so tired of the GOP. More dangerous and more traitorous than the D’s at this point!!!


2 posted on 01/16/2015 12:06:36 PM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: C19fan

The GOP is throwing away the 2014 election and preparing to lose the 2016 Presidential election.


3 posted on 01/16/2015 12:06:57 PM PST by Truth29
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To: C19fan

Disgrace.


4 posted on 01/16/2015 12:07:33 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: C19fan
Explain again why voting is important.
The only difference I see is the speed with which we go over the cliff, but down we'll go either way.

5 posted on 01/16/2015 12:09:02 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: C19fan; Norm Lenhart

” Isn’t it funny how the 2 ObamaCare items the GOP leadership are trying to repeal, the medical devices excise tax and the 30 hour full time definition, are two components that bother the Chamber of Commerce the most.”

Yeah, it’s freakin hilarious!!

1,000


6 posted on 01/16/2015 12:10:49 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: C19fan

Chickensh*ts.


7 posted on 01/16/2015 12:12:15 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: dware

” I’m so tired of the GOP. More dangerous and more traitorous than the D’s at this point!!!”

A traitor, is a traitor. You can’t be half pregnant, half patriotic, or half a conservative


8 posted on 01/16/2015 12:13:29 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: C19fan

My golly, Maude. Who could have predicted this?


9 posted on 01/16/2015 12:13:58 PM PST by laweeks
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To: C19fan

They are mass producing white flags as we speak.


10 posted on 01/16/2015 12:15:10 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: BitWielder1
The only difference I see is the speed with which we go over the cliff, but down we'll go either way.

We truly have a one party system now. One party with two factions. Elections do not matter.

11 posted on 01/16/2015 12:15:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Life and death are but temporary states. But Freedom endures forever.)
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To: C19fan

‘Always the game': Amanda Carpenter
laments a majority afraid to lead



12 posted on 01/16/2015 12:17:20 PM PST by Bratch
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Maybe no republican should ever get a single vote, ever again.


13 posted on 01/16/2015 12:17:26 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The only difference I see is the speed with which we go over the cliff, but down we'll go either way.

Note tagline below.

14 posted on 01/16/2015 12:17:59 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: dware

It’s time for a new opposition 2nd party the GOP geldings are following the other lemmings off the cliff of insanity and cowardliness.

Am I surprised at any of this? Not in the least. I escaped from the GOP plantation and I’m not going back to these gutless liars.


15 posted on 01/16/2015 12:19:10 PM PST by sarge83
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To: C19fan
It isn't progress unless the mandate is dropped. Next to nobody could vote against repealing the mandate as a stand-alone issue and get re-elected.

Republicans were given enough rope with their massive victory this election, courtesy of constitutional conservatives. They're using it to hang themselves.

16 posted on 01/16/2015 12:20:12 PM PST by grania
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Prophets. We are prophets.

Actually we just refused to lie to ourselves. Maybe we qualify as an endangered species because of it. Because we sure were right about.... Everything that’s happened.

But no...we are the bad guys that hate America and love Obama.


17 posted on 01/16/2015 12:21:32 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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I don’t mind the GOPe repealing the device tax and the 30 hr definition, as long as they include a repeal on all and absolutely EVERY exemption and make ObamaCare apply to every single citizen in the US.

[strategery]


18 posted on 01/16/2015 12:26:18 PM PST by taxcontrol
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Republicans RINOs are shifting their tactics on ObamaCare, ..."

There! Fixed it.

Nobody believes me when I rant that RINOs are referred to as Republicans only in the few weeks before an election.

All that RINOs have to do to kill Obamacare is to honest up by pointing out the following. Regardless what Obama’s activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, the Supreme Court had historically clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes.

”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

19 posted on 01/16/2015 12:26:47 PM PST by Amendment10
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” Actually we just refused to lie to ourselves”

Or anyone else.

The GOPe now has House & Senate. No Fairy Reid to oppose, so the traitors don’t even have an opposition party to claim anymore. No governor on their racing car.


20 posted on 01/16/2015 12:27:11 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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