“As Republicans, we have to say we’re going to repeal this as soon as we can”
“I’ve long maintained there are three possible routes to repeal of ObamaCare: the courts, the presidential election, and our constitutional responsibility for oversight,” Boehner wrote in a letter to House Republicans earlier this month. “With two of them having come up short, the third and final of these becomes more important than ever.”
Republicans insist that they’ll keep up their opposition to the law until repeal becomes a possibility again — when Obama leaves office in 2017. But by then, America will have been living with the law’s biggest pieces in place for more than three years. The tax subsidies, individual mandate and insurance exchanges will have been in effect for three years, assuming they are enacted on schedule in 2014.
And some in the party concede that taking a government benefit away from people is extremely difficult.
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Just stop. Nobody believes that you are going to do anything except cower and capitulate to Obama and Reid. Just get it over with.
besser tot als rot on November 26, 2012 at 1:27 PM
There are still a fair number of credulous morons out there. Boehner needs to keep lying to and deceiving these people so the donations keep rolling in.
Doomberg on November 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Time to contact these pantywaists and give them our blessing to do what they will anyway — fold like a cheap lawn chair.
Tell them we no longer care what they do, because they’ve made clear they no longer care how we live with the consequences of their spinelessness.
Our hope lies with state governments telling these nabobs to pound sand.
CurtZHP on November 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM
dc, the whole r bunch there, will do squat about bhocare! It is/will be up to the states to deal with bhocare! I do not trust anyone in dc any longer, they all lie just keep us voting and funding them!
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letget on November 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM
When someone is denied a life-saving procedure because they are too old, young and it’s too expensive, I would think the cry for repeal will be loud and sustained.
Death and misery are not the same as a Social Security check.
Rixon on November 26, 2012 at 1:36 PM
They cave, we slave. We’re already captive on the Dem plantation. Any Resistance on the part of Boehner is just more smoke.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Slainte on November 26, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Principals have no principles.
Schadenfreude on November 26, 2012 at 1:40 PM
ObamaCare will stand unless parts of it are rendered unconstitutional by SCOTUS. This is what the people deserve for sitting out this past election.
reddevil on November 26, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Besser & Doomberg, how would you propose we proceed? Roberts was bullied and did what he did, and the morons outnumbered us at the polls. We can say “repeal Obamacare or face the fiscal cliff” and Democrats will gladly walk away, rail against us for across the board tax increases (that they privately love, love love), press helps convince the gullible morons it’s our fault. We lose the House and perhaps our filibuster leverage, leaving us completely exposed to 2 final years of Obama with nothing to lose and nothing to stop him.
The Count on November 26, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Feh.
yeah right.
ted c on November 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM
I trust “oversight” as far as I can spit.
Blake on November 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Was that addressed to Boehner or the electorate that reelected Obama and kept the Democratic senatorial majority intact?
apostic on November 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Sounds like you think that we can play prevent defense (capitulating to the Dems) for the next four years and the people will magically begin to support the GOP in 2016 (and will re-elect a GOP house in 2014). How does that work? Do you expect to find a genie in a lantern and wish for a fair media and competent GOP politicians in 2016? Or, maybe your end game is just to make it to 2016 and then commit hara-kiri. Because, either way, we’re completely exposed to the statist overlords in your scenario – either in 2014 or 2016.
You’re still in the denial stage – I’m at acceptance. What do I propose? I propose that the GOP stop pretending that it has the will or power to be a force for freedom in this country.
besser tot als rot on November 26, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Yes.
besser tot als rot on November 26, 2012 at 2:12 PM
They should have move to impeach Justice Roberts and remove him from the SCOTUS
profitsbeard on November 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM
We can’t do that. Roberts votes with us on the issues of minimal consequence while completely selling us out on the fundamental questions of individual freedom. So we just have to keep him!
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besser tot als rot on November 26, 2012 at 2:34 PM
So, basically, what you’re saying is we should refuse to fight and give the dems what they want, otherwise we’ll lose in the next election and they’ll be able to get what they want. Hmmmm, tough one.
xblade on November 26, 2012 at 2:38 PM
Assuming that it’s a net benefit. If this POS is as destructive as economists have forecast, the country will be begging for its repeal by mid-2014. I say let it happen. If we’re wrong and it’s a raging success (highly unlikely) well, the political class is already calling us idiots so no harm done. If we’re right and it’s something close to an economic apocalypse, shove their noses into it. Either way, they own it.
Marxism is for dummies on November 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM
It will have to be taken out by “revision” not repeal.
But that hasn’t worked on any other gov’t program to date.
The government has never met a problem it couldn’t make worse.
ProfShadow on November 26, 2012 at 2:55 PM
I was thinking of his proven judicial incompetence for calling Obamacare a “tax” -which would required, legally, that the Court could not rule on the matter since it would first have to be implemented as a tax, and then have someone protest it in the legal system, getting it back the SCOTUS for a proper review and decision.
Roberts is a self-demonstrated legal incompetent and his ruling was judicially illegitimate.
Impeachment should have begun the same day.
Our gelded GOP are are gutless as a disemboweled Mohammad in Dante’s Inferno.
profitsbeard on November 26, 2012 at 3:21 PM
I’m afraid ObamaCare is here to stay. The best chance to ditch it was at the Supreme Court, and Roberts made sure that didn’t happen. Once a program is in place, it’s awfully hard to dislodge it. Hell, we’re running trillion dollar deficits and people get their panties in a wad over cutting the subsidy to public broadcasting. If we can’t even bring ourselves to do that, how can we possible rid ourselves of things like ObamaCare?
The public likes stuff, and the gov’t likes taxes. Neither are willing to give them up.
changer1701 on November 26, 2012 at 3:32 PM
They will blame the doctors or hospitals, not the government.
cptacek on November 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM
So what does that mean? Out the other side of your mouth you say we should retrench and try to force the conservative/freedom agenda on them.
The Count on November 26, 2012 at 4:06 PM