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.

[The Second Stone]

1. The Democrats should offer an amendment

to include a saving clause, which they inexplicably left out.

[bleever]

2. Also see E.J. Dionne similarly welcoming the focus on the Constitution

that Boehner et al have promised to mandate in all legislation:

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/112831414.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUvDEhiaE3miUsZ

[lamp_shade]

3. I love his last sentence. "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."
I'll be watching and so will (hopefully this time) that "vast majority of Americans" that Mitch McConnell is constantly referring to.
LET THE SHOW BEGIN. I'm all strapped in and ready.