Republican Strategy to Kill the Bill

The Republicans are confident that they can kill the bill when they take back the Congress in November. They believe a majority of the country hates the health care bill signed by President Obama. What they will do when they return to take over the Congress and perhaps the Senate is to starve off any funding to any of the programs that supports the bill and force the President to shut down agencies and programs that support the health care bill. Their strategy is since they will control the funding the President will have to relent or the government is shut down. I think this will be a big mistake by the Republicans. When some of the most popular provisions of this bill take place this year like preventing insurance companies to refuse in giving coverage of those with prior illnesses the people may like what they are getting and side with the President and fight back. Ineresting times are coming.

 

If the Republicans want people to hate them even more than they already do, they'll go ahead with this plan. First of all, it's a long time until November. We don't know if they'll sweep, so their plan is flawed right there. Let them tell it, this bill wouldn't go through, especially after Brown won in Massachusetts. We see what happened there.

Secondly, if the majority of Americans didn't want this bill then why did it pass? This is the same Conservative nutjob prism that turns a Tea Party mob of a couple of thousand into half a million people when they tell the story, so them saying a "majority" of Americans didn't want it is more Conservative wishful thinking.

At the end of the day, Obama kept a MAJOR campaign promise. I personally was not a fan of this bill, but action did occur while all the GOP did was say "no."

The Pandora's Box is open, no stuffing it back in now.

 

That's just like when they say: "the jury will disregard what it heard".:smt042

 

And "all comments will be stricken from the record."

 

Yeah you seen quite a few episodes of "Law & Order" just like me.:mrgreen:

 

Dude I know my rights because of L&O. Not that I come in contact with law enforcement at all.

 

Republicans are fucked. Even the sane Conservatives are admitting it. Here's what Bush's former speechwriter has to say about the situation.

http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo

 

I read this. Interesting take from a non-nutjob Conservative.

 

When people like David Frum start to sound rational, you know that the Republican party has gone off of the deep end.

 

People like him always were rational, but it's always in their short-term interests to rouse the rabble a.k.a. Birthers, Tea Partiers and other fringe elements because they are motivated to vote, contribute, etc. Now the fringe has taken over the party and the architects can either a) be like Rove and become a pundit (co-signing the madness to stay relevant), or b) be an outlier like Frum or old-school intellectual Conservatives like the late William F. Buckley.

David Stockman who was Reagan's finance guy basically co-signs with the Obama Administration's handling of the economic crisis last year and was the first to admit tax increases were necessary (saw him on Newshour last month). Another outlier.

 

on world news tonight the democrats reported death threats, bricks being thrown through windows with messages attached, emails, phonecalls from angry republicans...although the cases were isolated they did all make it on the news...democrats responded by saying that the republican party created the backlash with messages of doom to their party...now they are backtracking and asking that those against the bill use their anger more constructively by getting people signed up to vote and volunteering...

in light of this media coverage the democrats plan to take this and run with it showing their supporters just how far they can distance themselves from this extremist behavior...

you would think they were vandalizing abortion clinics if you came into the news coverage in the middle of the story...democratic offices/headquarters

 

This bill is basically a centerist bill that could get stonger down the road.. Majority of the people really want single payer universial health care silimar Canda and Great Britian..

 

Kill the bill?

Puuuuulleeeeaaaaasseee.

 

That's too much to the left. The health care system in Canada and in the UK (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) is ok - average and below average - but definitely not high-tech cause the government runs the show. When the governments runs the whole health care system it becomes ineffecient and ineffective. There are many examples I can state to prove that this is the case.