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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:34 PM Jul 2012

McConnell Ratchets Up Pressure On Vulnerable Dems Over Healthcare Repeal

By Alexander Bolton - 07/06/12 10:08 AM ET

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is putting pressure on vulnerable Democrats to vote with Republicans to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

The GOP leader called on Democrats in an op-ed to join with members of his party to unwind what Republicans are calling the biggest tax hike in recent memory.

“In the eyes of the court, the failure to follow the individual mandate will get you taxed, plain and simple, and according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, it hits the middle class hardest,” McConnell wrote in a commentary published by the Washington Times.

McConnell may force Democrats to vote again on repealing the entire law, as he did at the beginning of the 112th Congress. Some conservatives have pushed for additional repeal votes, but McConnell resisted before the Supreme Court handed down its decision upholding the law.

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Asshole. emulatorloo Jul 2012 #1

IMO this might work if President Obama loses and can't veto ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #2

I think ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2012 #3

emulatorloo

(44,164 posts)

1. Asshole.

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:37 PM

Jul 2012

ProgressiveEconomist

(5,818 posts)

2. IMO this might work if President Obama loses and can't veto

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:52 PM

Jul 2012

any repeal effort.

But should the President lose, reconciliation might allow repeal of the ACA with a simple majority of Senators anyway.

I wonder how McConnell plans to get Harry Reid to allow a repeal vote in the Senate before Election Day.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

3. I think ...

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 02:28 PM

Jul 2012

Those "vulnerable Democrats" should do themselves (and Democrats general, as well as President Obama) a great favor and call a press conference ... all of them ... after creating as much dramatic buzz as they can muster.

And in this press conference say:

"I hear reports that Senate gop leader intends to call for a vote on the recently declared constitutional ObamaCare.

Well Mr. McConnell, I welcome the opportunity to (re)affirm my support for this ground-breaking law that {and tick off the big 5 of ObamaCare} for all Americans, while requiring those of us that can afford health insurance, but chose instead to make the rest of us pay for their health care, to pay a 'free-loaders penalty'.

Yes, Mr. McConnell ... please bring this vote. It will help the American people decide who is on their side and whom is not."

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