Eugene Robinson: A health-care fight Democrats should welcome

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010303442.html

If the incoming Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is serious about trying to repeal health-care reform, there's only one appropriate Democratic response: "Make my day."

Just to be clear, there's no earthly chance that a bill repealing the landmark health-care overhaul could make it through Congress and be signed into law. Even if Republicans managed to hold together their new majority in the House, they would face the inconvenient fact that Democrats still control the Senate. And even if a repeal measure somehow sneaked through the Senate, President Obama would veto the thing faster than you can say "preexisting conditions."

So this exercise in tilting at windmills can't even be described as quixotic, since that would imply some expectation of success, however delusional. The whole thing is purely theatrical - and woefully ill-advised.

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All along, what Democrats really wanted was for Americans to look closely at the details. Now it looks as if the GOP is ready to oblige.