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GOP would repeal health bill if they win in 2010

hypocritexposer

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Key Republican: GOP would repeal health bill if they win in 2010
By Michael O'Brien - 08/31/09 08:12 AM ET

Republicans will repeal healthcare reform legislation if they win control of Congress because of that bill, a key Republican pledged late Sunday.

The health bill is "dead on arrival" in Congress, said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said during an interview on Fox News.

"If they somehow manage to get the votes and get enough Democrats to walk the plank and commit suicide, in the next Congress, I'll be chairman Joe Barton of the Energy and Commerce committee, and we'll repeal it," Barton said.

Republicans have shown optimism at picking up seats in the House and Senate in the 2010 midterm elections, largely as a byproduct of the contentious healthcare debate that has played out across the country.

Barton, whose committee is one of the three key House committees to craft healthcare legislation, suggested the current bill is basically not viable in its current form.

"Take the current bill and just tweak the public option and call it a 'deal' -- you put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of the potential changes that could be made to win lawmakers' votes. "I think this bill's dead on arrival."

President Obama has three options on healthcare, Barton said: Starting over, abandoning the bill, or muscling the bill through in a party-lines vote.

The third option, the Texas Republican said, would only hurt Democrats.

"If he chooses option three, muscle it through, he's committing his party, in my opinion, to the political wilderness," Barton argued.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/56815-key-republican-gop-would-repeal-health-bill-if-they-win-in-2010
 

badaxemoo

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hypocritexposer said:
Key Republican: GOP would repeal health bill if they win in 2010
By Michael O'Brien - 08/31/09 08:12 AM ET

Republicans will repeal healthcare reform legislation if they win control of Congress because of that bill, a key Republican pledged late Sunday.

The health bill is "dead on arrival" in Congress, said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said during an interview on Fox News.

"If they somehow manage to get the votes and get enough Democrats to walk the plank and commit suicide, in the next Congress, I'll be chairman Joe Barton of the Energy and Commerce committee, and we'll repeal it," Barton said.

Republicans have shown optimism at picking up seats in the House and Senate in the 2010 midterm elections, largely as a byproduct of the contentious healthcare debate that has played out across the country.

Barton, whose committee is one of the three key House committees to craft healthcare legislation, suggested the current bill is basically not viable in its current form.

"Take the current bill and just tweak the public option and call it a 'deal' -- you put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of the potential changes that could be made to win lawmakers' votes. "I think this bill's dead on arrival."

President Obama has three options on healthcare, Barton said: Starting over, abandoning the bill, or muscling the bill through in a party-lines vote.

The third option, the Texas Republican said, would only hurt Democrats.

"If he chooses option three, muscle it through, he's committing his party, in my opinion, to the political wilderness," Barton argued.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/56815-key-republican-gop-would-repeal-health-bill-if-they-win-in-2010

The Republicans will more than likely pick up seats in both houses in the 2010 midterms.

The idea that they win enough to take control Congress is probably not very likely.
 

RobertMac

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After 50 years of Democrat control of the House, no one believed the Republicans could have won the House in 1994.

Anyone of any party that runs as a fiscal conservative will be elected.
 

Sandhusker

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badaxemoo said:
hypocritexposer said:
Key Republican: GOP would repeal health bill if they win in 2010
By Michael O'Brien - 08/31/09 08:12 AM ET

Republicans will repeal healthcare reform legislation if they win control of Congress because of that bill, a key Republican pledged late Sunday.

The health bill is "dead on arrival" in Congress, said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said during an interview on Fox News.

"If they somehow manage to get the votes and get enough Democrats to walk the plank and commit suicide, in the next Congress, I'll be chairman Joe Barton of the Energy and Commerce committee, and we'll repeal it," Barton said.

Republicans have shown optimism at picking up seats in the House and Senate in the 2010 midterm elections, largely as a byproduct of the contentious healthcare debate that has played out across the country.

Barton, whose committee is one of the three key House committees to craft healthcare legislation, suggested the current bill is basically not viable in its current form.

"Take the current bill and just tweak the public option and call it a 'deal' -- you put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of the potential changes that could be made to win lawmakers' votes. "I think this bill's dead on arrival."

President Obama has three options on healthcare, Barton said: Starting over, abandoning the bill, or muscling the bill through in a party-lines vote.

The third option, the Texas Republican said, would only hurt Democrats.

"If he chooses option three, muscle it through, he's committing his party, in my opinion, to the political wilderness," Barton argued.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/56815-key-republican-gop-would-repeal-health-bill-if-they-win-in-2010

The Republicans will more than likely pick up seats in both houses in the 2010 midterms.

The idea that they win enough to take control Congress is probably not very likely.

If the Democrats insist on ramming through Obamacare and Cap and Bankrupt on top of the Porkulus, they won't get control of Congress for a generation.
 

hypocritexposer

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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

That represents the lowest level of support for Democrats in recent years, while Republicans have tied their highest level of support for the third straight week. The previous low for Democrats over the past year was 37%.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot
 
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As long as they are talking strategy-- here is an interesting strategy old Max appears to be taking...Only needs 50 votes in the Senate that way to get thru the more progressive option if they go the reconciliation process (which the Repubs would whine about- but would soon be reminded they did the same to pass Bush's taxcuts to the wealthier taxpayers) :wink: .....

From a Montana progressive blog:

With Max Baucus pledging to move forward on health insurance reform with or without Republican backing, the GOP may have backed itself into an interesting corner.

The strange thing about all of this negotiating has always been, for me, that the rules of the Senate actually allow for far better (and more progressive) reform with fewer votes, although you may end up having to lose some good ideas along the way. The reconciliation process, for example, actually requires a stronger public option over a weaker one, in order to get the cost savings that can justify using the reconciliation process.

In other words, the main thing the teabaggers and GOP leadership are gaining by forcing people like Grassley out of the process is a good chance that whatever passes will be even more progressive.

That also means that people like Lieberman who have threatened to oppose any bill with a public option may have some incentive now to agree to vote against a filibuster to support a bill that could include health insurance exchanges, meaningful insurance regulation, etc., as well as a weaker public option, in favor of ending up with a bill lacking exchanges but containing a Medicare-like public option.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. The right-wing has apparently opted for being on the menu.

And I see no way the Repubs will take back control of Congress in 2010...
 
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