Some Michigan Republican candidates vow to repeal health care reform after election

[Bozita]

Source: Grand Rapids Press

Some Michigan Republican candidates vow to repeal health care reform after election
By Monica Scott The Grand Rapids Press
March 21, 2010, 6:36AM


GRAND RAPIDS — GOP candidates to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Vern Ehlers oppose proposed national health care legislation that could pass today, but they are split on whether signing a pledge to back its repeal makes sense.

State Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, and state Sen. Bill Hardiman, R-Kentwood, say they will join dozens of Republican lawmakers and candidates in signing the pledge against the $940 billion measure that extends coverage to an additional 32 million Americans. Amash has already signed on.

Steve Heacock, chief administrator of Van Andel Institute, isn’t going to jump on the bandwagon.

“This seems political to me, and I am more about the result than making pledges,” he said. “On substance, the bill disturbs me because it creates a government program for people who can better obtain insurance through the private market and borrows from a Medicare program that will be bankrupt in 2017.”

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/03/west_michigan_republicans_vow.html

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I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

[Mithreal]

1. The bill may be shit to some extent, but they would erode it even more for all the wrong reasons.

[Jefferson23]

2. Oh do please sign on, I can't wait to see the Dems slam them back

with ads that read, Republicans Want To Take 32 Million Americans Healthcare Away.

As much of a disappointment this bill is imo, the Republicans are plain stupid to run it as proposed in the OP.

So let's hope they continue with it, lol

[wisteria]

3. This won't work for them. Once people find out more about what is in this bill that benefits them

such as, still retaining coverage even if you lose your job, Republicans are going to find themselves running against the good. What are they going to do? Are they going to claim still having Insurance even if you get laid off or lose your job is a bad thing and needs to be repealed?

[vduhr]

4. They're just trying to hang on to that last strand of

bullshit!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. And Obama would veto it.

:think:

[Bozita]

6. REAL GOPers can't think that far ahead.

[customerserviceguy]

7. What if they attached it to a military appropriations bill?

Then they'd have him.

[Ikonoklast]

8. He'd veto it. And go on the tube to tell exactly why he did so.

And they'd have to start all over, and be exposed as the obstructionists they are.

[customerserviceguy]

10. If his popularity

is above 50 percent at that time, you'd have a point. If it's hovering around 25 percent, then maybe not.

[Ikonoklast]

11. At that point, he'd have nothing to lose.

Poke them right in the eye with a veto, then.

[customerserviceguy]

12. And then the military shuts down

and AQ launches a strike, and then, well, you get the idea.

We'd never have a Democratic President again for decades.

[Ikonoklast]

14. Doesn't work that way.

There would be continuing appropriations until a final funding bill gets passed, without the offending amendments.

This has happened before.

Bush did it, Obama has already threatened to do it.

[Zambero]

9. When will they be putting their 'pledge' in writing?

That would be a gift that kept on giving!

[Bozita]

13. How about midnight in Philadelphia, MS, ... in blood?

They could wear long white robes.