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July 06, 2012

McConnell: Guys Seriously, We'll Repeal ObamaCare
— DrewM

Via Gabe from a couple of days ago but with this weird week you may have missed it. McConnell is emphatic that repealing ObamaCare is job 1 if the GOP has the House, Senate and White House.

Over the weekend, you and Chris Wallace of Fox News had an exchange about the uninsured, where you said thatÂ’s Â“not the issue.Â” What did you mean by that? And what is your preferred policy for covering more of the uninsured?
Our goal, number one, is to repeal and replace Obamacare. Number two, is to address the health care that the federal government has already got, which is in deep trouble, both Medicare and Medicaid. Earlier today I saw that 15 governors have now said that theyÂ’re going to opt out of the additional Medicaid mandate, now that the Supreme Court has made it clear that they have the option to do so. I think we will be looking at every angle to replace this, and what itÂ’s replaced with, of course, depends on what the market looks like at that time. For example, the private health-insurance market has already responded on the growing demand to leave 26-year-olds on policies, because itÂ’s turning out to be a good business decision for them. The issue of preexisting conditions has always been complex. Half of the states are addressing that with high-risk pools. IÂ’m not convinced that issue needs to be addressed at the federal level. We will see. But job one is to replace Obamacare in its entirety, clean up the health care weÂ’re already responsible for, and then weÂ’ll see where we go from there.

This is a really great point. The federal government has done a lousy job with the health insurance programs it runs so the idea that it is in a position to run the private market was always ludicrous.

As for the uninsured, Obama sold his plan as lowering costs for people and making the insurance they had better, the additional coverage was always a secondary point. If he'd been honest and said, "we're going to make your coverage worse and more expensive to cover people who don't have any (and coincidentally who mostly vote for Democrats)" it would have never passed. So no, covering 30 million or so more people isn't the issue, it's preserving it for the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have coverage.

As for people who doubt his and the GOP's commitment to repeal, McConnell has a message.

Boy, I donÂ’t know how they could be suspicious on this issue. Every single Republican in the House and Senate voted against Obamacare. I must have made 125 speeches about it on the floor. If there is any area where I donÂ’t think conservatives of any stripe should be concerned, it would be this one. WeÂ’ve been clear and unambiguous about Obamacare from the beginning to the end Â— all of it. And I led the fight in the Senate, so I know what IÂ’m talking about.

I know that Romney is focused exclusively on a message of "Obama and the economy stink" but he really needs to start talking more about repealing ObamaCare.

First, it is an economic issue.

Second, people don't need to be told the economy is awful. Everyone knows that. ObamaCare made things worse, repeal will make it better.

Finally, even though ObamaCare is unpopular (not because Obama hasn't sold it well but because people understand how bad it is) repeal will still be tough. Don't think so? How long is the list of repealed massive government entitlement programs? Yeah. We need to lay the political ground work to do it. Mitt needs to be able to talk about more than one issue and ObamaCare needs to be talked about and most importantly...repealed.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:05 AM | Comments (151)
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1 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2012 07:07 AM (Xb3hu)

2 Kick.

Posted by: Lucy at July 06, 2012 07:07 AM (6j180)

3 Romney has been pretty emphatic he wants repeal.

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2012 07:08 AM (Xb3hu)

4 1

Some things can never be stressed often enough.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at July 06, 2012 07:08 AM (Qxdfp)

5 yea, but what about the people who die? Whose going to save them from dying? Not doctors. Me. I'm going to save them...

Posted by: Barack Insane Obama at July 06, 2012 07:08 AM (136wp)

6 Oooh look, he must have made 125 speeches.

Posted by: dogfish at July 06, 2012 07:11 AM (NuPNl)

7 Oh, of course I believe him.

After all, the chinless Kentuckian and the crybaby in the House have done EVERYTHING possible in the last few years to do the repeal.

Posted by: Mark E at July 06, 2012 07:11 AM (WZmiu)

8 The actual track records of the UK and Canada Healthcare systems need to be put front and center - there is a reason the Donks don't ever take the obvious step of using them as a real-world example! Think about it.

Posted by: sherlock at July 06, 2012 07:11 AM (BKPeM)

9 I think we will be looking at every angle to replace this, and what itÂ’s replaced with, of course, depends on what the market looks like at that time. I don't like this sentence at all....

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 06, 2012 07:11 AM (UZQM8)

10 @5 -- That's what drove Anakin Skywalker to the dark side. We had to endure 9 hours of horrible dialogue, but that's basically it.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 06, 2012 07:11 AM (Ec6wH)

11 "Every single Republican in the House and Senate voted against Obamacare"

Really?

Posted by: Olympia Snowe at July 06, 2012 07:11 AM (MOHSR)

12 >>For example, the private health-insurance market has already responded on the growing demand to leave 26-year-olds on policies, because itÂ’s turning out to be a good business decision for them.

Yeah, they hiked the premiums on *everybody*, not just parents of deadbeat adults.

Posted by: HeatherRadish has a headache at July 06, 2012 07:12 AM (hO8IJ)

13 Every single Republican in the House and Senate voted against Obamacare. Well, yes - except for the one vote in committee that could have killed to whole thing.

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:13 AM (WkuV6)

14 Damn, MOHSR types fast

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:13 AM (WkuV6)

15 Repeal will be a tough slog and the leftards will sue and will not easily let Obamacare be undone, however, it is the fight worth fighting and prevailing in ... in any way possible. Down and dirty, by any means, the GOP must prevail in dismantling Obamacare and it's many tentacles ... because they are cleverly going to persist unless rooted out from the Government system.

The Government is infested with Big-Government democrats and they will do their best to keep what they've got going even if they have to lie and cheat.. cause that's what they do.

Posted by: Yip in Texas at July 06, 2012 07:14 AM (Mrdk1)

16 Perhaps Mitch senses the embryonic preference cascades out there. Yes, there can be more than one. He may be dumb, but he ain't stupid. Let's hope so.

Posted by: eman at July 06, 2012 07:14 AM (ejmiE)

17 The problem with 26year olds isn't solved by putting them on their parents plans - it's solved by giving them back the high deductible, catastrophic plans they liked.

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:15 AM (WkuV6)

18 "For example, the private health-insurance market has already responded on the growing demand to leave 26-year-olds on policies" Who the fuck thinks like this? A 26yo is a FULL GROWN adult, for fuck's sake. My kids won't be on my CAR insurance at 26, let alone my health insurance.

Posted by: blindside at July 06, 2012 07:15 AM (x7g7t)

19 Yeah, they hiked the premiums on *everybody*, not just parents of deadbeat adults. Posted by: HeatherRadish has a headache at July 06, 2012 11:12 AM (hO8IJ) Yup and in "General" Young Adults are healthy and do NOT use the health care system. So what ever increased or extra premiums they get is gravey

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 06, 2012 07:15 AM (05RcU)

20 Boy, I donÂ’t know how they could be suspicious on this issue... Knew it! Racist.

Posted by: t-bird at July 06, 2012 07:15 AM (FcR7P)

21 Posted by: Yip in Texas at July 06, 2012 11:14 AM (Mrdk1) Ask yourself: Where will lawsuits end up? Roberts will get a chance to fucks us on the same issue twice.

Posted by: blindside at July 06, 2012 07:16 AM (x7g7t)

22 I donÂ’t know how they could be suspicious on this issue. Experience is a bitch, Mitch

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:17 AM (WkuV6)

Paging Dr Smith...Dr Smith, paging Dr Smith. You're needed for an inverted penis.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 06, 2012 07:17 AM (Ec6wH)

24 The answer to the health care issue is simple; it is like any other economic problem: let the free market work. There is too much - not too little - regulation right now.

There are vast numbers of professionals: nurses, EMTs, PAs, etc. who are fully qualified to treat most complaints. But government licensing restrictions are way, way too severe - people who know how to do things are not allowed to do them. Ever have the nurse take your blood pressure; then she refuses to tell you? She'll tell the Doc - and probably explain to him what it means. But the Gov't won't let her (or him - excuse me) tell you.

Now - Gov't does have a function in requiring disclosure. All these people should make full disclosure of their abilities - and their limitations. And the Gov't can punish fraudulent disclosure. But the market now is substantively perverted.

This is blithering idiocy, and costs us hugely. Get government out of the way!!

Posted by: A One-Eyed Cat Peepin' in the Seafood Store at July 06, 2012 07:17 AM (eMtQ2)

25 10 @5 -- That's what drove Anakin Skywalker to the dark side. We had to endure 9 hours ofhorrible dialogue, but that's basically it. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 06, 2012 11:11 AM (Ec6wH) Natalie Portman's P00n? More specifically, lack of it... That's what I took from it at least

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 06, 2012 07:18 AM (UZQM8)

26 Replacement is our enemy, too. They will eff that up big time. Just tell the Federal government to take its ball and go home, Mitch.

Posted by: eman at July 06, 2012 07:18 AM (ejmiE)

27 Well, yes - except for the one vote in committee that could have killed to whole thing.

Let me guess: One of the Maine sisters?

Posted by: Cee-Lo Green at July 06, 2012 07:18 AM (kqqGm)

Fuck yes I want back on my 'rents insurance. Fuckers owe me for being their kid. Now watch me intercept the bong and choke down a one-hit mind melt!!!11!!

Choom FTW!!!11!!!

Posted by: Stoned Slacker at July 06, 2012 07:19 AM (rl5VL)

29 After all, the chinless Kentuckian and the crybaby in the House have done EVERYTHING possible in the last few years to do the repeal.

Posted by: Mark E
...........
Are you an idiot, or just ignorant of the fact that no GOP bill can be passed with A Dem in the White House and a Dem majority in the Senate?

Which is it?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 07:19 AM (UTq/I)

30 I'll repeat my usual response to fixing health care: Make it a personal deduction, and let Adam Smith's Invisible Hand do it's thing for a couple of years, then revisit.

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:19 AM (WkuV6)

A few years ago it was widely reported that there were more MRI machines in the small Washington city of Bellingham than in the entire Canadian province of British Columbia. That is where the BIG Vancouver is folks - bigger than Seattle.

Probably no longer true, but there are plenty of stats available to present the plain truth that the media will not speak of - the universal public healthcare systems in two anglo first-world countries, Canada and the UK, perform poorly, sometimes criminally so.

Posted by: sherlock at July 06, 2012 07:20 AM (BKPeM)

32 Cee-Lo Green, yep. Mitch like to dodge that one, when he could have removed her from the committee.

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:21 AM (WkuV6)

33 Anyone else feel like they're getting Chris Kleined? We, the base, are being placated. Massaged. Stroked. Jerked off. That's fine. The most important thing is winning in November. But this Obamacare issue is not the number 1 issue. It's just too damn convoluted and confusing to connect with people on, not to mention the fact that it's not yet having a direct tangible impact on people. It's the economy. It's Jobs. It's gas. It's groceries. It's housing.

Posted by: soothsayer, of the Wolverines at July 06, 2012 07:21 AM (KwX0v)

34 I cannot get enough of this prime Maltese cock stuffed in my ass.

Posted by: John Roberts at July 06, 2012 07:21 AM (rl5VL)

35 The Politics of Failure has failed. We must make it work again.

Posted by: president say stuff at July 06, 2012 07:21 AM (evdj2)

36 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 11:19 AM (UTq/I) Per Roberts ruling all we have to do is play the reconcile game a few times w/ new CBO scores. Then go back to Roberts and tell the shit head they won't reword the mandate to be a tax. End of story. But it won't happen like that because the Dems will stall at every turning point. So in essence you are more right than I am. But I just wanted to put it out there. The easiest way to repeal is make them choke on the mandate then let Roberts do what he should have done the first fucking time.

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 06, 2012 07:21 AM (UZQM8)

37 Who the fuck thinks like this? A 26yo is a FULL GROWN adult, for fuck's sake.>>

By 26 I had a wife, 2 kids, full time career job and a house mortgage. But then again I went to Vo-tech not a masters degree program in art lit so I don't count.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 06, 2012 07:22 AM (tf9Ne)

38 lol @ Mallamutt

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 07:23 AM (UTq/I)

I don't know how they could be suspicious on this issue.

Got a couple of days while we remind you of all the times you cockholsters folded faster than Superman on laundry day? All the times you assured us that this wasn't the hill to die on?

I don't trust this weasel any further than I could throw Michael Moore. I guaran-fucking-TEE you Obamacare won't be repealed. In fact, I'll slap a fresh sawbuck down on that (which should be enough for a few bottles of Val-U-Rite). Anybody in?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2012 07:23 AM (zF6Iw)

40 I know that Romney is focused exclusively on a message of "Obama and the economy stink" but he really needs to start talking more about repealing ObamaCare.

I don't know if you caught Romney's this morning responding to the BLS June jobs report, but he explicitly called out ObamaCare as the reason why 2/3 of small businesses say they're not hiring. The trick is to continue tying ObamaCare to the dismal economy, and Romney seems capable of doing this.

Posted by: Caiwyn at July 06, 2012 07:23 AM (ttktr)

41 Drew, your last point is key...how many agencies, departments or bureaus have the R's shut down? The current R leadership measures success in how slow the federal leviathan grows, not in actually getting any retraction.

I've never been a 3rd party rah rah guy, but this is the last election I vote R if they screw this up.

Last one. And I'll send letters to every R member of the House and Senate letting them know.

There will be blood.

Posted by: The Hammer at July 06, 2012 07:24 AM (wo1YR)

42 Out damn sockpuppet.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at July 06, 2012 07:24 AM (kqqGm)

43 Posted by: cajun carrot
........
You still need a GOP president and a GOP majority in the Senate.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 07:24 AM (UTq/I)

44 Are you an idiot, or just ignorant of the fact that no GOP bill can be passed with A Dem in the White House and a Dem majority in the Senate? Which is it? Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 11:19 AM (UTq/I) Please. People know the rules about passing legislation. Can you truly say the GOP has done everything it can do to push repeal down the throats of the Democrats?

Posted by: eman at July 06, 2012 07:24 AM (ejmiE)

45 But then again I went to Vo-tech not a masters degree program in art lit so I don't count. It shame that living in the real causes you to miss so much of the context. Esp. my inflated salary part.

Posted by: Art Lit Professor at July 06, 2012 07:24 AM (WkuV6)

46 Anyone who thought this health care bill was going to do anything but raise costs and lower care for the already insured in order to give benefits to the leeches of society needs to be tested for retardation. You don't simultaneously increase the pool of insured and lower costs for those who actually pay their bills.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 06, 2012 07:24 AM (fCkqS)

47 Looks like they are starting to accuse romney of two things. 1. Not being able to discuss obamacaretax as he is considered the father of obamacaretax and 2. Illegal tax stuff. Here's a link to the illegal tax stuff on BI: http://tinyurl.com/887qtoo

Have seen comments over the last two days on these two items, so has to be coordinated somehow....oh and they are continuing with the Romney outsourced jobs while at bain lie.

Personally I think romney shouldn't give them anything, nothing, nada, no more tax returns, nothing. If all the libs/dems are sheltering their income offshore and in other countries why are they a privileged class?

Posted by: lybor tee at July 06, 2012 07:25 AM (oZfic)

48 >>>How could we be suspicious?

How about because you weak ass punks have and your predecessors have a passed on nearly every chance to slow or reverse the loss of our freedoms over the last 3 fucking decades.

Does that give you a clue?

Posted by: typo dynamofo at July 06, 2012 07:25 AM (FU9ql)

49 I think the R governors (and some D ones) have the destruction of ObamaTax in the palms of their hands . . . if they opt out! It all falls down like the house of cards it is. Essentially, there were stupid states that mandated all kinds of crap in their Medicaid plans (MEDICAID covering IF treatment!?!? really?!?!) and they didn't want to pay for this largesse, being liberals. Ocare is just a way for them to not have to pay for these mandatory (usually statewide stupid mandates) coverage items. But if states that are not as boned all opt out . . . whoopsie! how is the Fed going to cover that? Again, I'm resigned to the fact that our best outcome at this point is a fedgov BK, how does that happen tho? could get ugly.

Posted by: BlackOrchid-TeamDagny at July 06, 2012 07:26 AM (J6kXj)

50 There is no way Romney would veto a repeal bill. He must get a repeal bill, though. That's up to the House and Senate. We must have a Republican Senate added to the Republican House. That done, the Republican Congress must pass a repeal. Romney will sign it if he gets it, Romneycare be damned. If they fail, the Republican party is toast. Who would defend them if they cannot, with majorities, bring themselves to do this one simple thing?

Posted by: David at July 06, 2012 07:26 AM (fIkHQ)

51 How does this help my children?

Posted by: Michelle at July 06, 2012 07:27 AM (Cydud)

52 Romney could tell us to go fuck ourselves and we would still have to vote for him.Obama is that bad,America can't survive another 4 years of this guy.

Posted by: steevy at July 06, 2012 07:27 AM (Xb3hu)

53 Gee Senator McConnell --- perhaps the Tepid comments you made in Elizabethtown a couple days ago on repealing Obamacare had something to do with the backlash against you. Watch out for this Senator. He is playing gentry bridge but doesn't realize the Dems are playing three card Monty. We need consistent and fire in the belly rock ribbed conservatives not GOP senators who can't even get down there repeal optics down.

Posted by: Journolist at July 06, 2012 07:28 AM (Ca+zh)

54 The problem is that the current 'Pub leadership decided not get aggressive with Obama and to let him own this depression. They could have: - Micro-managed the appropriations bills, quarterly - monthly, by department, hell by program - Made the debt limit a weekly drill, make Obama come beg for every dollar - Dropped the hammer on the Fed money pumps and twists. Let them explain themselves, on-camera. - Done nothing without a budget, no appropriations, no emergency funds, no CRAs, nothing.

Posted by: Art Lit Professor at July 06, 2012 07:29 AM (WkuV6)

55 It's about time Mitch. I was starting to wonder what was the point of supporting you spineless F*ks. At least you can say the right things not "we'll try but don't get your hopes up"

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at July 06, 2012 07:29 AM (0q2P7)

56 oops, sock off

Posted by: Jean at July 06, 2012 07:29 AM (WkuV6)

57 The GOP, even if it has all three branches firmly in its grasp, will agree to a bipartisan compromise.

Posted by: eman at July 06, 2012 07:30 AM (ejmiE)

58 "The bottom line is that there is a lot of unsettling information in what investigators have so far been able to piece together about Romney's finances. The easiest way for Governor Romney to put to rest what his campaign described to Shaxson as "unfounded allegations and insinuations" would be to release his tax returns. Yet he has not done so and shows no sign of changing his mind. Josh Marshall calls the questions "kryptonite" and thinks Romney will come under a lot of pressure to release more tax returns. Let's hope so. The guy's running for President, for Pete's sake."
http://tinyurl.com/887qtoo

The MSM and BI seems to have selective hearing.

Posted by: lybor tee at July 06, 2012 07:32 AM (oZfic)

59 @60: Look, they have to or they'll be uninvited for life from Hank Johnson's legendary teeter-totter parties.

Posted by: John Roberts at July 06, 2012 07:32 AM (tqwMN)

60 Here's an interesting scenario....Romney wins, House holds, Senate is 50/50. House passes a repeal bill, Romney vows to sign it all R's in the Senate vow to hold the line...except...Lezza McScruntski...she's not sure how she'll vote.

What would that conversation trying to get her to vote to repeal sound like?

There will be blood.

Posted by: The Hammer at July 06, 2012 07:33 AM (wo1YR)

61 You still need a GOP president and a GOP majority in the Senate. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 11:24 AM (UTq/I) From my understanding, just by using the House as the roadblock the mandate can't be get turned into a tax. Therefore it stays as a mandate, which makes it unconstitutional. But I'm not the scholar that Obama is so I don't know. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Which I believe you are trying to do. The Dems have to change the mandate to be reworded as a tax. The House isn't going to let them do that. But Boehner will cry cry cry everytime the Dems say the House is being evil and not working to get Obamacare reconciled.

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 06, 2012 07:33 AM (UZQM8)

62 Soon

Posted by: November 6th at July 06, 2012 07:34 AM (PEwU1)

63 Repeal McConnell while were at it.

Posted by: Journolist at July 06, 2012 07:34 AM (Ca+zh)

64 Mitch is saying, "Don't worry, my buddies and I will watch your wallet for you."

Posted by: eman at July 06, 2012 07:34 AM (ejmiE)

65 >>>Can you truly say the GOP has done everything it can do to push repeal down the throats of the Democrats?

You need to be careful putting actual legislation on the street that you cannot get passed, because a vague talking point then becomes defined and specific. It is a known quantity the more the American people know about any plan, the less they like it, because you can say with specificity and certainty what the bad things are about it. If they were going to repeal they would need an alternate conservative fix for the cost of healthcare, if they put that on the street way early, it would just get picked apart by the MSM until folks figured sticking with O-Care was a better bet.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at July 06, 2012 07:34 AM (0q2P7)

66 I keep seeing "the economy" as a boat that is foundering. Obamacare forces the crew to drill holes in the boat that cannot be patched. Who is going to have to bail harder to keep afloat? The ones who thought it was a free ride. Damn. Get rid of this thing for sure and help the market work out solutions that make sense.

Posted by: qalkabod at July 06, 2012 07:35 AM (FA1PE)

67 They all have the beltway bias virus. You need to get some washington outsiders in there and inoculate them against the virus. If you allow them to catch the virus it will continue status quo. Look, the virus has even spread to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Main symptom of the virus: fear of not being invited to the best washington parties. Other symptoms include: fear of losing the power, fear of having the other parents not talk to you when you drop the kids off at the pricey private school fear of not having the lobbyists call to take you to lunch..

Posted by: lybor tee at July 06, 2012 07:37 AM (oZfic)

68 I was told there would be no content.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 06, 2012 07:37 AM (WyYqg)

69 Medicare Part D.

Posted by: Valiant at July 06, 2012 07:38 AM (aFxlY)

70
"Boy, I donÂ’t know how they could be suspicious on this issue."

Especially with your exemplary record on controlling spending, carefully vetting the president's appointees and reducing the involvement of government regulations in every aspect of our life.

BTW - thanks for the flood insurance.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 06, 2012 07:38 AM (kdS6q)

Virgil Goode surrenders:

"He said he thinks Â“itÂ’s very unlikelyÂ” Obama health care reform will be repealed, even if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wins the election and Republicans have a majority in both houses of Congress Â— because of the vote margin required for repeal. "

Posted by: Perdogg at July 06, 2012 07:38 AM (Ttf/I)

The RNC needs to get busy with the personal horror stories of how bad state-controlled healthcare is. A Canadian judge has ruled that access to "insurance" is not the same thing as access to "healthcare" but that ruling is conveniently being ignored by the healthcare dictators up there who benefit from denying citizens access to care.

A couple of summers ago, a Canadian woman who was pregnant with quadruplets went into early labor. In all of Canada they couldn't find a neo-natal intensive care unit that had four incubators available at that time.

The Canadian govt paid a hospital in Montana to take this woman, deliver her babies, and care for them until they could travel. Is there anyone in the USA who would make the trip to Montana to get this kind of care? Unless they live in Montana of course.

My point is that all hospitals in the USA, even those in rural locations, provide topnotch care, quality care not available at any price under socialized medicine.

Posted by: Boots at July 06, 2012 07:38 AM (neKzn)

73 Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at July 06, 2012 11:34 AM (0q2P7) Oh, give it a rest. You can't do anything because the MSM will thwart you? You have to be careful? Being careful got us here in the first place.

Posted by: eman at July 06, 2012 07:38 AM (ejmiE)

ObamaTax imposes 21 new taxes on American taxpayers.

ObamaTax creates 159 new government bureaucracies.

The Obama administration has already written 13,000 new pages of regulations that will strangle taxpayers and businesses in red tape.

The Obama administration is preparing to hire 16,500 new IRS agents to enforce their "not a tax" taxes.

The non-partisan CBO (which scores legislation) admits that ObamaTax is going to cause Americans' health care costs to go up, and is also going to increase our deficits for many years to come.

Romney needs to keep reminding Americans of these facts each time he speaks about ObamaTAX.

Posted by: Bystander at July 06, 2012 07:39 AM (/sohm)

75 As of January 1, 2013 I will have an immediate pay cut because of Obamacare. My FSA credits will go from $5000.00 to $2500.00. Thank you SCOAMF and a hearty f**k you to CJ Roberts.

Posted by: mpfs, the power to tax is the power to destroy at July 06, 2012 07:39 AM (iYbLN)

76 39 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 06, 2012 11:19 AM (UTq/I) Per Roberts ruling all we have to do is play the reconcile game a few times w/ new CBO scores. Then go back to Roberts and tell the shit head they won't reword the mandate to be a tax. End of story. But it won't happen like that because the Dems will stall at every turning point. You can't filibuster budget reconciliation.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 06, 2012 07:39 AM (d6QMz)

77 Trust me, I won't pop in your mouth like that Barry Obama did.

Posted by: Mitchy McConnell at July 06, 2012 07:40 AM (kqqGm)

78 Posted by: Art Lit Professor at July 06, 2012 11:29 AM (WkuV6)

Oh you kidder you!

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 06, 2012 07:40 AM (i3+c5)

79 OT:
U.S Navy now buying $26/gallon biofuel to go with its $2 billion coastal patrol boats.

[link to frontpagemag]

Posted by: RioBravo at July 06, 2012 07:40 AM (eEfYn)

80 "Our goal, number one, is to repeal and replace Obamacare.",
Uh
No
Hell NO!

Posted by: Gerry at July 06, 2012 07:41 AM (8k9/4)

: mpfs, the power to tax is the power to destroy at July 06, 2012 11:39 AM (iYbLN)

But your premiums are going to go down 3000%!

Posted by: garrett at July 06, 2012 07:41 AM (uF6xs)

82 46 Posted by: cajun carrot ........ You still need a GOP president and a GOP majority in the Senate. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry There is a kernel of truth there. The House has passed several unrelated bills that included language that specifically defund parts of Obamacare but when Barry signed them he used signing statements to simply ignore that part. If the GOP would scream about this they might get across the fact that the administration is literally breaking the law constantly. Most everyday voters don't realize how blatantly corrupt Barry's administration has become. The GOP also hasn't tried putting a bloody horse's head next to Barry while he's sleeping. They sent somebody to do that once but he saw Michelle and thought someone had beat him to it.

Posted by: Daybrother at July 06, 2012 07:42 AM (BDj4t)

83 Listen, I'll be a sucker of as many cocks as you want, but the only ass I will put MY cock in is the Ass of the American Taxpayer. I will buttfuck the American Taxpayer and only the American Taxpayer. A man has to draw the line somewhere...

Posted by: John Roberts at July 06, 2012 07:42 AM (rl5VL)

84 You can't repeal and replace. Just repeal and let the private sector and the American public have at health care. Pass a law that says pre existing conditions must not prevent anyone from getting insurance, on a state by state basis, not the federal government.

Posted by: lybor tee at July 06, 2012 07:42 AM (oZfic)

85 >>Who is going to have to bail harder to keep afloat? The ones who thought it was a free ride.

Taking away the free ride is raaaaaacist.

Posted by: HeatherRadish has a headache at July 06, 2012 07:43 AM (hO8IJ)

86 Hey MM , YOU LIE as spoken once to the POTUS. The Republicans will never repeal all of the ACA , it is just to big of a collar on the collective. Everybody wants you on a short leash and a swim in the community pool. Screw that I got my own and I am keeping the water clean.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 06, 2012 07:43 AM (Jx90a)

87 Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at July 06, 2012 11:41 AM (OWjjx) I'm a little on the slower side of grasping fuckings of this magnitude. What I was offering up for the horde was what I understood as the easiest way to destroy OTax, sadly i am wrong from what you guys are saying. Shit...

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 06, 2012 07:43 AM (UZQM8)

88 Mitch McConnell does not inspire confidence. He is first and foremost a professional politician, and his number one job is getting re-elected in perpetuity. These GOPS (Grand Old Poobahs) who stay in the Senate forever without ever moving the ball disgust me.

TERM LIMITS FOR EVERY FEDERAL OFFICE

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 06, 2012 07:44 AM (8sCoq)

89 @ 93 HR dept, unless your the Game Keeper on Your OWN Land.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 06, 2012 07:44 AM (Jx90a)

90 Why would the GOP repeal Obamacare? Think of the power it gives them. No way they go through with it. They might add a few thousand pages of regulations on top of it though. You know, to make it more "market oriented". Face it, you go into government because you think more government can help. If you really thought big government was the problem you'd be in the private sector making money and being awesome. Admit it, Obama's right, his law is here to stay.

Posted by: Durka Durka at July 06, 2012 07:44 AM (hLRL6)

91 You people are missing the point. The only way out of this mess is a single payer system.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at July 06, 2012 07:44 AM (rl5VL)

92 >>As of January 1, 2013 I will have an immediate pay cut because of Obamacare.

But that's a tax cut. Lol, stupid wingers.

Posted by: ThinkProgress at July 06, 2012 07:44 AM (hO8IJ)

93 http://tinyurl.com/7samcsj JEF using a dead French guys SSN.

Posted by: sTevo at July 06, 2012 07:45 AM (uIz80)

Do I believe that Mitch McConnell will do what he says he's going to do?

Do I look like I just fell off a freakin' turnip truck?

I wish these clowns would stop trying to blow smoke up my heinie. That said, I'm willing to vote for anyone who is "Not Obama".

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 06, 2012 07:46 AM (oe1aw)

95 The simplest way to cover the doctors expenses for the uninsured would be to give the treating doctor a tax credit for the work that he or she preforms but cannot collect. They you would have doctors lining up to see uninsured patients to off set their taxes. The credit could be set at medicaid rates or even with a slight discount, which is better than the nothing a doctor currently gets for the free care that they provide.

Posted by: MacRdDoc at July 06, 2012 07:47 AM (phAHG)

96 I know that Romney is focused exclusively on a message of "Obama and the economy stink" but he really needs to start talking more about repealing ObamaCare. --- ^Completely agree with this and your three reasons. I am less concerned about Romney and Obamatax in the short term b/c it really is going to be a major driver for him getting elected (post-SCOTUS ruling). Longer term, I don't trust his nanny statism, but for the first couple of years - maybe even his first term - I think he'll be ok. That said, it's a bit rich for McConnell to act mystified that conservatives don't trust them. Senate has been full of squishes and Mitt's history and choice of Leavitt for his transition team would give anyone pause.

Posted by: Y-not at July 06, 2012 07:47 AM (5H6zj)

97 As Trent Lottta BS once said about the NEW TEA PARTY , appointees," Now we are going to have to show them how things get done here." MM is just an older political hack and you need to trust yourself and not Foxy news telling you how important the Hispanic vote is and why you need Marco Rubio?

Posted by: Clemenza at July 06, 2012 07:49 AM (Jx90a)

98 The way I see it Romney and the R's think that if they can get the Economy rolling again they can do whatever the hell they want, that includes replace the O with R in this health care bill. That is the trade off I'm understanding from voting for this guy? How far off am I?

Posted by: cajun carrot at July 06, 2012 07:49 AM (UZQM8)

99 "I know that Romney is focused exclusively on a message of "Obama and the economy stink" but he really needs to start talking more about repealing ObamaCare."

No, he doesn't. Come September he can talk about ObamaCareTax. For now, his focus is, and should be, the economy. He needs to introduce himself as the man who understands America's most important issue, and that isn't health care.

The low information voters can't handle much, esp. now when they're not yet really paying attention. Romney needs to pound on the economy all summer long: It sucks, Obama has made it worse, Romney will make it better. That is the message we want everyone to hear, over and over again. We don't want anyone who's lost their job in the last 5 years, or had their home value tank, saying "why is Romney wasting time on this unimportant crap, when the economy sucks."

Come September, when the low information voters can handle more than one issue at a time, by all means attack on ObamaCareTax and the Individual Mandate. Those are ripe targets, and will be winners for the GOP. But they'll be much bigger winners if the voters have already been convinced that Romney cares most about the economy.

Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 07:50 AM (4Pleu)

100 All of Drew M's Pollyanna-ish cheerleading for Romney is getting old.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 06, 2012 07:53 AM (vaKm1)

101 @ 107 You have the cross hairs over the Heart of the matter

Posted by: Clemenza at July 06, 2012 07:53 AM (Jx90a)

102 Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 11:50 AM (4Pleu) Agreed. If you think Romney isn't talking about the right things right now, you're probably not the audience he's addressing.

Posted by: Durka Durka at July 06, 2012 07:54 AM (hLRL6)

103 They all have the beltway bias virus. You need to get some washington outsiders in there and inoculate them against the virus.>>

How about we move the house and senate chambers to the most remote part of flyoverland. That will end the party circuit/beltway virus.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 06, 2012 07:55 AM (tf9Ne)

104 Most everyday voters don't realize how blatantly corrupt Barry's administration has become.

It's worse than that. They don't care because they've been inoculated with the fact that Bush tortured and killed brown people (including Americans in New Orleans) for no reason. A little "corruption" doesn't sound so bad in comparison. Because they're "all corrupt".

Posted by: The Mega Independent at July 06, 2012 07:55 AM (WyYqg)

105 Mitch "The Chinless" needs to go as Republican leader. He is a dinosaur.

Rand Paul as leader would really shake things up.

I would love to watch the old dawgs of the Senate piss their pants.

Posted by: mpfs, the power to tax is the power to destroy at July 06, 2012 07:55 AM (iYbLN)

106 If they get a GOP Senate and POTUS but do not substantially repeal Obamacare, will the Republican Party survive?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 06, 2012 07:56 AM (C8mVl)

107 @112 Nope a full and complete colonic is the tonic..

Posted by: Clemenza at July 06, 2012 07:56 AM (Jx90a)

108 115

No.

Posted by: mpfs, the power to tax is the power to destroy at July 06, 2012 07:58 AM (iYbLN)

109 Posted by: MacRdDoc Sane thinking. That's a taxin'.

Posted by: jasper at July 06, 2012 07:59 AM (evdj2)

110 >That is the trade off I'm understanding from voting for this guy? How far off am I? --- They cannot get the economy rolling with the Sword of Obamatax hanging over employers' heads. ---- >No, he doesn't. Come September he can talk about ObamaCareTax. For now, his focus is, and should be, the economy. --- Your response illustrates perfectly why Romney needs to talk about ACA. It's clear a lot of you don't understand what a job killer it is. As Gabe points out, repealing Obamacare will make the economy better. It's a simple fix. VERY obvious solution -- one that Obama and the Democrats cannot even LIE about using -- that should be presented to voters.

Posted by: Y-not at July 06, 2012 07:59 AM (5H6zj)

111

Boy, I don't know how they could be suspicious on this issue...

How do I know a politician's lying? His lips are moving.

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice shame on me. Fool me again, and again, and again, and again...... and I'm a candidate to send donations to the RNC,NRSC, & NRCC.

Posted by: Not One Red Cent at July 06, 2012 08:00 AM (grZ5S)

112
This ACA stuff is inside baseball for political junkies. Post #108 sums it yp rather well.

It's the economy, stupid!

Posted by: Corporal Cueball Carville at July 06, 2012 08:03 AM (7+pP9)

113

24 Paging Dr Smith...Dr Smith, paging Dr Smith. You're needed for an inverted penis.

Ohhhh, William! The pain... the pain...

Posted by: Dr. Zachary Smith at July 06, 2012 08:06 AM (KOHFD)

114
Your response illustrates perfectly why Romney needs to talk about ACA. It's clear a lot of you don't understand what a job killer it is.

Not to Joe Sixpack. He's not interested in some sort of complicated interconnection. He's very interested in nice sized, steady paycheck.

Posted by: Corporal Cueball Carville at July 06, 2012 08:07 AM (7+pP9)

115 Yeah... and we'll cut 100 Billion THIS YEAR from the Federal Budget!

Posted by: 2010 Campaign Promise at July 06, 2012 08:09 AM (lZBBB)

116 This ACA stuff is inside baseball for political junkies. Post #108 sums it yp rather well. ----- Absolutely not. Lots of regular folks are noticing how their benefits packages have changed. ANYONE in management or executive level knows what it's doing to hiring. Repealing ACA is a hanging curve for Romney to run on. It's popular and it's a dead-simple obvious fix. Many of the other economic devices to turn things around are either controversial or complicated. Independents and leaners are not necessarily big fans of de-regulation, for example. And with the media beating the drum of what evil things happen when the awful GOP deregulates industries, it is not a simple sell. All it will take is another big oil spill or bank scandal for Obama/MSM to say "see, we have to protect you from these." Repealing a massive tax for a program people did not want to see passed in the first place is easy. And it is economic.

Posted by: Y-not at July 06, 2012 08:10 AM (5H6zj)

117 Not to Joe Sixpack. He's not interested in some sort of complicated interconnection. He's very interested in nice sized, steady paycheck. ---- People's tax-home pay and benefits are already being affected. ACA is a pocketbook issue.

Posted by: Y-not at July 06, 2012 08:11 AM (5H6zj)

118 Not to mention that old folks are scared shitless of ACA.

Posted by: Y-not at July 06, 2012 08:11 AM (5H6zj)

119

Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2012 08:15 AM (h6XiD)

120 I believe Mitch McConnell!

Posted by: Guy Who Just Fell Off The Turnip Truck at July 06, 2012 08:17 AM (T3vUV)

121 How do I know a politician's lying? His lips are moving. Ha! McConnell has no lips!

Posted by: toby928© at July 06, 2012 08:18 AM (evdj2)

122

"Boy, I donÂ’t know how they could be suspicious on this issue."

Can't stop laughing at that one. And not in a good way. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I will be mighty pissed off. Please, God, let the Repubs take back the senate and get rid of this guy. Pleeeeeeeeeze.

Posted by: joanne is feeling meh today at July 06, 2012 08:19 AM (VNFBf)

123 Did Ace go on vacation with sean hannity and glen beck and rush lindbaugh?

Posted by: lybor tee at July 06, 2012 08:22 AM (oZfic)

124 Romney should continue attacking Obomanomics. When the media apparatchiks head-fake with immigration, stay on the economy, when the same tired old bobbleheaded acolytes pitch civil unions, hit them with the bad news from the construction industry.

GOP/governors attack ads are hip and slick and look awesome. More faster please. Flood the zone.

Pelosi is a toxic beast, tie her flippant arrogance to Obama's cold demeanor and run those run ads in Nevada and Arizona and New Mexico and Oregon. Smear both of them to hell - and when the Manhattan media whine - hit O with a new smear.

Throw in some Chevy volt epic fail language for good measure, package it in flash ads, and run them on gaming websites.

more faster.

Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2012 08:24 AM (h6XiD)

125 File under Things a Democrat Will Never Ever Say:

"IÂ’m not convinced that issue needs to be addressed at the federal level."

It's breathtaking to see that sentiment expressed by a DC denizen, even a Republican.

Posted by: FUBAR at July 06, 2012 08:25 AM (mdhVr)

126 What's that smell?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 06, 2012 08:29 AM (fCkqS)

127

115

No.

Posted by: joanne is feeling meh today at July 06, 2012 08:33 AM (VNFBf)

128 Thank you, DrewM. It's time for a second look at John Mackey's Alternative to the ObamaCareMegaTax: http://on.wsj.com/12Dlpb

Posted by: starboardhelm at July 06, 2012 08:35 AM (hHgxI)

129 The federal government has done a lousy job with the health insurance programs it runs so the idea that it is in a position to run the private market was always ludicrous.

WTF are you doing arguing this on points instead of principles?

Posted by: Ten at July 06, 2012 08:43 AM (56DAY)

130 What's that smell?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 06, 2012 12:29 PM (fCkqS)

Cat piss troll?

Posted by: joanne feels meh today at July 06, 2012 08:47 AM (VNFBf)

131 McConnell is a little bitch and no I don't trust him to fight hard for repeal. Remember when he could've kept the Democrats held up over Christmas on the Obamacare vote, but decided egg nog and cookies were more important and skipped town? No, it wouldn't have stopped them, but it would've inconvenienced them and served as a symbolic victory. A true fighter goes down swinging. McConnell fucking gave up so he could unwrap Christmas presents. Fuck this little Beltway bitch and his promises.

Posted by: Warden at July 06, 2012 08:48 AM (aQKiN)

132 Mitch - BLOW ME. I don't trust you at all. Integrity is like virginity.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at July 06, 2012 08:51 AM (tjcei)

133 I just feel like we are lost at sea in the doldrums...

Posted by: Max Power at July 06, 2012 08:53 AM (q177U)

134 Related, on means to overcome federal law, AZ won't roll over for Obamster.

Arizona Daily Sun:

The Arizona Constitution already says the federal Constitution "is the supreme law of the land." This measure, if approved in November, it would add language saying that federal document may not be violated by any government -- including the federal government. More to the point, it would allow Arizonans "to reject any federal action that they determine violates the United States Constitution." That could occur through a vote of the state House and Senate with consent of the governor. But that also could occur through a popular vote on a ballot measure, effectively allowing voters to decide which federal laws they feel infringe on Arizona's rights as a sovereign state.

Posted by: maverick muse at July 06, 2012 08:55 AM (BAnPT)

135

If there is any area where I donÂ’t think conservatives of any stripe should be concerned, it would be this one.

And yet we are. You guys have a track record.

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at July 06, 2012 08:57 AM (tsC/8)

136 How the hell did Whoopi get in here?

Posted by: Z Ryan at July 06, 2012 08:57 AM (tsC/8)

137

52I think the R governors (and some D ones) have the destruction of ObamaTax in the palms of their hands . . . if they opt out!

Haven't only 3 GOP governors actually done so? Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, and my guv Rick Scott.

Posted by: Marybeth at July 06, 2012 09:05 AM (Ks0w4)

138 Let me be clear: We cannot return to the failed policies of the past. We must continue with the failed policies of the present.

Posted by: Barry O. at July 06, 2012 09:06 AM (P8oOy)

139 The "repeal and replace" is what has me scared. Republican socialism is NOT better than democrat social;ism. We have to get the federal government OUT of healthcare and everything else. Markets work efficiently. GOvernment is the most inefficient method yet devised to try to do something. If folks need something, they need to go to their community, to their church, to their families first. Beyond that, the Masons, the Shriners, THe Knights of Columbus and many other groups provide charity to the needy. Stealing my money and throwing it away on a scheme guaranteed to increase cost while reducing supply is an idiotic crime.

Posted by: Benjamin Napier at July 06, 2012 09:08 AM (PMbrs)

140 Yes, I too have no idea how anyone could believe the Republican Party would not turn back federal power.

Posted by: Someone too stupid to breathe at July 06, 2012 09:10 AM (tZEX7)

141

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 06, 2012 11:56 AM (C8mVl)

No. If the Republicans don't repeal ObamaCare after getting elected to do just that, by 2018 the Republican Party would be dead.

And everyone at the top knows that.

Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 09:15 AM (4Pleu)

142 119:
I'm very aware how much damage ObamaCare is doing to the economy. I think that will be a great argument to make, in September.

Right now, the low information voters aren't paying attention. They don't want to hear the bad economy is Obama's and the Democrats in Congress' fault (it is, but they don't want to hear that).

For decades I've wanted to enlighten the voters. Ace's posts on the low information voters has caused me to give that up. You want their vote? Address what they care about, instead of what you (we) care about.

All summer long: The economy sucks, Obama hasn't done anything to make it better, Romney will.

In the fall, when they're actually starting to listen:
The economy sucks, because ObamaCare / EPA / other regulatory over-reach has been destroying business willingness to hire more people. Vote Republican for President and Congress, so we can repeal the Individual Mandate, and Obama's other job destroying policies. Every single Democrat in the Senate voted for ObamaCareTax. It doesn't matter what they say, they will always be a vote for the extreme Left when it matters. Vote Republican in the Senate, so we can repeal the Individual Mandate.

Do you want to win, or do you want to make yourself feel good? If you want to win, talk about what the voters are interested in, not what you're interested in.

Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 09:27 AM (4Pleu)

143 IF, Obama gets re elected there will be no new elections and IF there are it will be a one party system with only one person to vote for.
If Obamacare is overturned and repealed the Blacks and Unions along with all democrats will have a big riot.
If the Republican's do not win this election their party is dead as yesterdays fish dinner.
If the Republican's do win the election Obamacare will become Romneycare and the whole shit storm starts again.
The word around my area is, Obama will win by hook or crook or voter fraud and litigation perhaps even an outright violent coup. The word around here is "anybody but Obama" this November. anybody, means I'd sooner vote for a complete fucking idiot before I'd vote for Obama.

Posted by: HEP-T at July 06, 2012 09:30 AM (QcJER)

144 "Repealing ACA is a hanging curve for Romney to run on. It's popular and it's a dead-simple obvious fix."

Yes, it is. It's also the "top concern" of IIRC 5% of voters. What's the top concern of the majority of voters? The economy.

Should Romney put out a position paper explaining how ObamaCare is damaging the economy? Absolutely. Should he be talking about it right now?

Hell no. Right now, he's "introducing himself to the voters". What is the #1 thing Romney wants those voters to know about him? Romney will fix the economy. Romney is "focused like a laser on your top concern, the economy."

Why? Because it works.

Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 09:34 AM (4Pleu)

145 Via Hot Air:

"This kick in the gut has to end,Â” Romney told the press, and during a question-and-answer period put a large amount of the blame on ObamaCare. Â“When three-quarters of small businesses say that ObamaCare is keeping them from hiring,Â” Romney replied, Â“it shows that President Obama has put his liberal agenda ahead of job creation.Â”

Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 09:52 AM (4Pleu)

146

If they keep the house and get the senate and the WH (which I think they will) and they dont repeal it (which I dont think they will) they can kiss 2014 and 2016 Goodbye. Romney will be another 1 term president and the country will be sunk.

It is hard enough to hold my nose and vote for Romney as it is. In fact, I am not voting for Romney. I am voting ABO and that just happens to be Romney.

Posted by: retired military at July 06, 2012 09:58 AM (SElov)

147 Whether I'm right or wrong about what should be done, I seem to on the same page with Romney (yes, that does make me, a Perry supporter, wonder what's wrong with me :-) ):

Â“The highest corporate tax rates in the world do not create jobs,Â” Romney said. Â“Highest regulatory burdens in our nationÂ’s history Â– those do not create jobs. Trade policies that have not opened up new markets for American goods, particularly in Latin America, those donÂ’t create new jobs. Failing to effectively crack down on China for cheating and stealing American jobs, that has not helped.Â”

Â“The presidentÂ’s policies have not gotten America working again, and the presidentÂ’s going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it,Â” Romney continued. Â…

Â“It doesnÂ’t have to be this way,Â” Romney said. Â“The president doesnÂ’t have a plan. He hasnÂ’t proposed any new ideas to get the economy going. Just the same old ideas of the past that have failed. I have a plan. My plan calls for action that will get America working again and create good jobs, both near term and long term.Â”

Posted by: Greg Q at July 06, 2012 10:03 AM (4Pleu)

148 Problem is, Mitt squirms on this issue because of Romneycare. I don't think he or his staff have come up with a concise, coherent argument on why we should repeal Obamacare, when he is snarled up with Romneycare. I think the Obamacare decision is a nightmare for Romney. Now he's in the position of having to explain why we ought to repeal legislation that was just found constitutional, and which is viewed (to the extent undecided voters have thought about it) as being similar to legislation he promulgated.

Posted by: RM at July 06, 2012 10:33 AM (TRsME)

149 Let's put it this way, Mitch:
"I'll believe ya when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."
Only after the president signs the bill totally repealing every part of that gargantuan bill will I believe you. Until then I'm certain you'll find parts that just have to stay and that you'll work on a "revision" of the bill that's at least as awful as the original, then claim victory. Screw you, screw your party, and screw everyone who works in politics.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 06, 2012 10:42 AM (r4wIV)

150 The number one priority is not "repeal and replace" The number one priority is REPEAL. After that, we can worry about replacing it. We can't get hung up on deciding the replacement in advance of repealing it. That would delay repeal.

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at July 06, 2012 11:10 AM (Vl4fT)

151 If the GOP has the House, the Senate, and the White House, then job #1 is banishing the entire Democratic establishment to the Phantom Zone for 40 years. Thus spake Zod.

Posted by: General Zod at July 06, 2012 11:59 AM (2+bRt)

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