The Senate GOP has forced a vote on ObamaCare for tomorrow. Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attached the repeal legislation as an amendment to the re-authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration.
According to Senator McConnell:
“For all those who supported the health law, it’s an opportunity to reevaluate your vote. To listen to your constituents who are desperately trying to get your attention. You can say, perhaps this was a mistake. We can do this better. Or you can continue to dismiss the majority of the people in this country as not knowing what they’re talking about.”
The “tomorrow” referenced here is today, as today is yesterday’s tomorrow — and this was a yesterday piece that I’m posting today.
Reportedly all 47 Republicans are on board. Forcing the Democrats to show their hands is a significant move; either some of the remaining “moderate” Democrat Senators will change their vote and perhaps force a Presidential veto (for them, a win-win, if they believe the President weak and unlikely to win re-election: they can run on having voted to repeal ObamaCare without worrying that their vote will actually matter here), or else they’ll double down, as many Democrats in the House did, and unite behind the President and Harry Reid.
Should make for good theater.
Faster, please.
and with a stroke we will know who owns the transformation of America into a fetid dirty socialist whorestate
“Oh, but I had to vote for it, lest the FAA go unfunded and planes drop from the skies!”
This is an excellent development. The left will demagogue this, of course, and lie about the outcome of a repeal. The right will hopefully use their time to explain why Obamacare is already a failure. Then we’ll have a vote. I’m hoping those 20 Demonrat Senators up for re-election in 2010 who probably want to keep their cushy fake jobs vote in favor of repeal, and the president has to veto. Then I hope those Demonrat Senators get voted out anyway.
What time does the carnival begin?
I like the strategy as well. But I have already heard guys like WVa’s Manchin back-tracking from his campaign rhetoric, and now claiming he can’t vote for overall repeal because he likes some of Obamacare’s provisions…
I hope all of his supporters in WVa have long memories on this one.
I believe that it’s important to make Democrats go on record as supporting the Obami’s statist agenda, that way there’ll be no weasel room during the 2012 campaign.
We’ll have not just one vote, but vote after vote for the next two years is what it’s looking like. There will be no doubt who is who when it’s all said and done.
Real proggs, being the noble, tolerant creatures they are, will naturally emigrate to Canada before they’ll crash the American republic. You know, for choice.
Somewhat OT:
Even someone who apparently gets the Vinson ruling:
Still can’t get his mind around the whole idea that the Constitution “is what it is” and instead sees that it is something that must be fudged, loopholed, to allow the federal government to do whatever the progressives find useful.
I’ll take a “moderate” 2012 election victory of 58% to 38% for conservatives.
McConnell was saying something to the effect that if they want to hold this up, they’ll be debating ObamaCare well into next week, and that was fine with him because there’s so much to say about it. Works for me.
Pressure.
Good. Put it to ’em like a twobyfour to the peach.
#8: sounds like that author is engaging in a bit of ‘wishing will make it so’.