SHE WON'T GO!
Mitch McConnell had lunch with GOP Senators and told them all that he wasn’t going to allow yet another vote on health care. Mitch thinks the GOP should focus on other stuff and deflect attention from a conservative ideology that allows billion dollar corporations to deny people life-saving care in order to make more money.
Mitch still wants to protect the corporate right to deny coverage based on very lenient definitions of pre-existing conditions, and he still objects to insurance companies covering basic preventative care (like cancer screenings, which reduce the cost to the overall system), and he still objects to anything that stands in the way of the insurance industry making billions off of sick and dying people. But he thinks that can wait until 2013 because the only way they can repeal Obamacare is to win the White House and all of Congress and… well, apparently Mitch thinks repealing Obamacare is a bit of a loser at the polls.
But not everyone’s on board. Says the Hill:
Members of the Senate GOP conference are split on the issue. Conservatives such as Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) claim they should remind voters they are committed to repealing the $930 billion initiative.
Other GOP lawmakers say they are already on record in favor of repeal and believe another vote is not needed.
During a private lunch meeting on Tuesday, McConnell argued that forcing a vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would give vulnerable Democrats a chance to vote for it and provide them with political cover heading into the election, according to senators who attended and requested anonymity.
Joining DeMint in testing McConnell’s power is Rand Paul, our other dear Senator, who told the Hill:
“It would be a good idea to have it,” said Paul. “In the last five years it’s one of the biggest issues of contention. It’s a big momentous issue we’re talking about on the Supreme Court level, so I think it would be useful to get everybody on record on it again.”
“I doubt any Democrats will vote for repeal,” Paul added. “They’re already on record so many times as being for it. They could always say they voted for it before they voted against it.”
Americans remain split on health care, with Dems heavily favoring and Republicans heavily opposed. The Conservative base has used the issue as a calling card for the past two years and, for the far right tea partiers, it’s been especially effective. What Mitch might be foreseeing, rather than a worry that some Dems will suddenly be against it (Rand’s probably right on this), is a worry that the Health Care Law could actually grow in popularity over the next several months and thus weaken moderate or vulnerable GOP Senators. Mitch thinks everyone’s made their voices heard and they don’t need to needlessly reinsert it into campaigns (let that be tactical, he wishes), but as is the usual beauty of Rand Paul and his brethren, they want more dumb votes to waste more time to appeal to the loud voices of the Tea Party.
Mitch wants to go slow and steady with his demolition plans, Rand wants to burn the whole place down.
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BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
The health care bill needs to be repealed. Many republicans were brought into office during the last election cycle on the campaign promise of repealing the bill…. and now they all run and hide. No one keeps their promise anymore. They all need to go along with the electorial college that allows a president to be elected based on the outcome of a few states and winning with less than 30% of the popular votes.
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