Mon Jul 2, 2012, 03:48 PM

maddezmom (130,846 posts)

Senate minority leader McConnell: Odds long against lawmakers seeking to gut health care law

Source: AP

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — It’s on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against lawmakers wanting to gut the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

The Kentucky Republican talked about the law on Monday to about 50 people at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.

WHAS-TV (http://bit.ly/LSUtqX ) reports that McConnell says it’s hard to unravel something of the magnitude of the health care law. As a result, the odds are on the side of people who think it’s a good idea.

He says it’s much harder to undo something than to stop it in the first place.

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Jul 02, 2012
Poll: Most oppose blocking Obama health care law

A new poll shows that most Americans -- 56% -- want to see critics of President Obama's health care law drop efforts to block it and move on to other national issues.

The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation also reflects continued partisan divisions over the law in the days after a divided Supreme Court found it constitutional.

"Democrats overwhelmingly say opponents should move on to other issues (82%), as do half (51%) of independents and a quarter (26%) of Republicans," Kaiser reports.

"But," it adds, "seven in 10 Republicans (69%) say they want to see efforts to stop the law continue, a view shared by 41% of independents and 14% of Democrats."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/07/poll-most-oppose-blocking-obama-health-care-law/1

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Senate minority leader McConnell: Odds long against lawmakers seeking to gut health care law (Original post)	maddezmom	Jul 2012	OP
Welcome to your "Waterloo" McConnell	livetohike	Jul 2012	#1
Lapdog tumbles off lap, meets floor. Yips until picked up again.	freshwest	Jul 2012	#2
"He says it’s much harder to undo something than to stop it in the first place."	Phlem	Jul 2012	#3
It's a lovely walkback from his Friday's statements on pressing for Reconcilliation	Sheepshank	Jul 2012	#4
Tom Hartman gave the following:	democrat_patriot	Jul 2012	#5
It would have to be a reconcilliation bill to do that	cojoel	Jul 2012	#6
McConnell is a shrewd, cockroach-like survivor, making this a big deal.	JohnnyLib2	Jul 2012	#7
While majority of the American public	Iliyah	Jul 2012	#8
Translation: Polling shows voters are warming to Obamacare..	DCBob	Jul 2012	#9
Martin Bashir played a blip from the Face the Nation interview	BumRushDaShow	Jul 2012	#10
Oh, they will ALL try to gut it. You can bet 100% on that. It will become their cause...	Honeycombe8	Jul 2012	#11
The Turtle is already making excuses for failing to repeal it...after all his blather on TV.	Auntie Bush	Jul 2012	#12
yup	maddezmom	Jul 2012	#13

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 03:54 PM

livetohike (14,724 posts)

1. Welcome to your "Waterloo" McConnell

How is that working out for you?

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 03:57 PM

freshwest (31,480 posts)

2. Lapdog tumbles off lap, meets floor. Yips until picked up again.

Last edited Mon Jul 2, 2012, 04:35 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 03:59 PM

Phlem (1,338 posts)

3. "He says it’s much harder to undo something than to stop it in the first place."

Pure republican strategic actionable tactic.

Anybody...?.....Democratic leaders?..... Anybody.....?

Now you know, you don't negotiate with Republicans.

EVER!

-p

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 04:07 PM

Sheepshank (5,026 posts)

4. It's a lovely walkback from his Friday's statements on pressing for Reconcilliation

....apparently he knows he and he alone is wafting out in the breeze........ all screwn....for all to see.

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 04:09 PM

democrat_patriot (2,766 posts)

5. Tom Hartman gave the following:

Republicans will propose repealing it with legislation that views it as a tax. As it deals with money, no filibuster. If the Repubs get 51 senators, then they can repeal it.

Then:

They put it back in place 1 law at a time and take credit for creating the exact same thing that is in place right now.

Dems NEED to get a better message about ACA - hire a damn advertising firm for Christ sake.

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 04:49 PM

cojoel (239 posts)

6. It would have to be a reconcilliation bill to do that

Given the CBO scoring it is unlikely this could be done through reconcilliation since it would change the revenue forecasts significantly.

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 05:13 PM

JohnnyLib2 (9,408 posts)

7. McConnell is a shrewd, cockroach-like survivor, making this a big deal.

Ol' Mitt will have to react.....

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 05:21 PM

Iliyah (2,357 posts)

8. While majority of the American public

want the congress-critters to create and work on job developments, and seeing that Pres O's poll numbers are pulling away from Mittens, I think the senate GOP won't go through such procedures, which is quite technical and time consuming.

No hope for the house goppers, they are in the Outer Limits. This past weekend showed how out of touch goppers are and truly showed how crazy they are.

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 05:29 PM

DCBob (14,773 posts)

9. Translation: Polling shows voters are warming to Obamacare..

and sick of the GOP trashing everything that Obama wants.

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 05:44 PM

BumRushDaShow (11,956 posts)

10. Martin Bashir played a blip from the Face the Nation interview

with Cheeto, where the host said that since there had already been 30 attempts to repeal the law, when is the GOP planning to just give up, and move on to something else. And Cheeto interrupted and said "We'll do it one more time".

M'kay.