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The Spectacle Blog
Last week, Jim wrote about Republicans who are getting more reticent about the idea of trying to repeal Obamacare.
Today, via the Hill, I see John Boehner said the following:
“They got everything else in the entire bureaucracy that they need to control our health care system is all in place with the signing of this bill,” Boehner said during an interview on WFLA’s Bud Hedinger Show. “That’s why repealing this bill has to be our number one priority.”
It seems that, for now, Boehner recognizes that in order to keep the base motivated during an election year, Republican leadership will have to keep talking about repeal. Preemptively surrendering on this would deflate conservatives ahead of midterms. The true test, however, will be whether Republican leadership will actually sustain the fight given that with President Obama in power, the earliest possible time to repeal the legislation would be in 2013. And that assumes that Republicans retake both chambers of Congress and the White House. Left to their own devices, Republicans will always look for the easy way out, and thus it will be up to conservatives to keep the heat on them to maintain repealing Obamacare as the top goal.
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Dai Alanye| 4.12.10 @ 2:15PM
Yep.
Siegfried X| 4.12.10 @ 2:22PM
It's pathetic, a party whose only goal is simply to repeal one piece of legislation which the other party passed.
What was the goal before ObamaCare passed? Did the Republican Party exist for any reason at all?
ggoblue| 4.13.10 @ 1:59AM
the main goal of the republican party is to kick as many democrats down the road as possible.
its going to be a good year.
Wendy| 4.12.10 @ 2:24PM
To his credit, Boehner does seem to be responsive when the base raises major concerns. I have seen him do things in the past to make things right. I do respect that about him, even though I don't think anyone in the House is particularly visionary.
I do not know why it would be so difficult for them to just follow Bill Kristol's advice and offer forth repeal as HR1 and SR1 every year until it is passed in 2013, while gutting it in the meantime.
BR| 4.12.10 @ 4:37PM
Sure, Siegfried- to be The Resistance to tyranny.
buckjohnson| 4.12.10 @ 4:46PM
Great post siegfried. What a goal, to repeal a HB. How about making the HC bill, or covering the people not covered, or perhaps helping the economy, anything but repealing a bill that the 9 million more voters that Pres. Obama recd wanted, some sort of HC reform that covered everyone. Good luck repealing that.
Oldefarte| 4.12.10 @ 5:54PM
Job #1 is for conservative Republicans to elect enough congressmen in November; and then job #2 [as Ginguich expertly proclaimed] would be to then simply DEFUND [block the funding of] this welfarecare. Without government money, Obamacare becomes worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leon| 4.13.10 @ 12:01AM
Republicans offered alternate reform that would not have trampled the Constitution and the peoples rights. Democrats, thwarting the clearly expressed will of the people crammed the unconstitutional bill through. Despite having complete numerical control they had to resort to dishonorable methods even to do that. I for one believe it's incumbent upon the party of "NO FASCISM" to get this bill off the peoples back before we have to go to jail in civil disobedience to being ordered to buy something arbitrarily selected by social engineering political class tyrants who exempt themselves and their cronies.
Richard Baker| 4.13.10 @ 1:20AM
Boehner needs to highlight the alternatives, such as Congressman Ryan's plan, to give folks something to vote FOR, as Rush speaks of. Party of NO and Hell No is OK but an viable alternative needs to be advanced and trumpeted.