GOP plans to cut spending, repeal health care law

[YankeeLeft7x]

Source: AP

GOP plans to cut spending, repeal health care law

By David Espo
AP Special Correspondent / November 4, 2010

WASHINGTON—Victorious at the polls, congressional Republicans asserted their newfound political strength on Thursday, vowing to seek a quick $100 billion in federal spending cuts and force repeated votes on the repeal of President Barack Obama's prized health care overhaul....At the White Houses, Obama said his administration was ready to work across party lines in a fresh attempt to "focus on the economy and jobs" as well as attack waste in government. In a show of bipartisanship, he invited top lawmakers to the White House at mid-month, and the nation's newly elected governors two weeks later....Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, in line to become the new speaker of the House, brushed aside talk that the No. 1 GOP goal was to make sure Obama is defeated at the polls in 2012. "That's Senator McConnell's statement and his opinion," he told ABC, referring to the party's leader in the Senate and adding that his own goals included cutting spending and creating jobs....But tentative talk of compromise competed with rhetoric reminiscent of the just-completed campaign. In a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said the only way to achieve key party legislative goals such as ending government bailouts, cutting spending and repealing the health care law "is to put someone in the White House who won't veto" them....

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/11/04/gop_plans_to_cut_spending_repeal_health_care_law/


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[Historic NY]

End corporate welfare....roll back military spending ... nah they will take it from the people.

[Historic NY]

1. End corporate welfare....roll back military spending ... nah they will take it from the people.

[Mz Pip]

2. On repealing HCR

I wonder how the insurance companies will feel about that. They'll be getting a whole bunch of new customers because of the insurance mandate.

Maybe they'd like to reconsider...

[blue sky at night]

3. it won't happen...

the Senate is not going there and Obama isn't either.
from the daily kos:

by Joan McCarter
Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 12:40:03 PM PDT

Mitch McConnell wants to have a one-issue fight for the next two years, convinced that that's what will bring Obama down in 2012. There are a lot of reasons why that won't work, and here are some of the reasons why.
Obama Isn’t Interested in 'Re-litigating' Health Care, Washington Monthly's Steve Benen observes. The president might have said he’s humble in his post-election press conference, but on his signature legislation, he "clearly doesn't seem inclined to budge on this. If Boehner & Co. think Obama will be pushed around on health care, and that with the right leverage, repeal is an option, they're mistaken.”...

Defunding Health Care Isn’t Really an Option, Either, The Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky explains. Boehner and Newt Gingrich have come out in favor of this option, but “that may be easier said than done. As former Senator Tom Daschle explained in a recent interview, ‘a lot of what we did in health care reform has more of an entitlement than a discretionary funding base. So as an entitlement, they would really have to change the law rather than simply not fund in order for it to be effected. The entitlement sections of the legislation are going to be fairly immune from defunding.’"....

And GOP Interest Group Allies Love It, Steve Pizer and Austin Frakt argue at The Incidental Economist. “The Republican base hates health reform because it’s a symbol of Obama. They think it’s a product of the far left, when in fact it’s chock full of Republican ideas. ... When the new Republican House majority starts legislating on health care, they will be more concerned with what the relevant interest groups want. The insurance industry, hospitals, and drug companies want looser regulation and lower taxes. That is, the big players want what they always want–more control over implementation and establishment of favorable regulations–even if it’s at the expense of a more efficient health system for the rest of us. But they also want the mandate, which can’t work without the subsidies and insurance reforms....

[ramapo]

7. Failed Civics 101

I guess the basics of how laws are passed is not well understood by the incoming "representatives", by the media, and certainly not by the public. Amazing how this repeal shit is thrown around like it has a snowball's chance in the middle of Washington DC in mid-July.

[tomhayes]

4. You CAN'T repeal healthcare and cut spending because...

The healthcare law DECREASES the deficit!!

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61O4NV20100318


More doublespeak from the ideologues.

[onehandle]

5. I hope teabaggers quickly realize that repealing health care, impeaching Obama, and curbing debt...

...are all not going to happen.

They need to form a real third party. The GOP is just using them.

[alanquatermass]

14. Heard that!!!

Health Care is here to stay and as for deficit reduction -- WHAT THE FUCK FOR?!!! We need MORE Gov't spending right now, not less.

There is a reason that Western Europe and Canada are LIGHT YEARS beyond where we are and it is because they believe that Government -- first and foremost -- exists to take care of its citizens.

Ours is all like, "Hey, American public: Go to hell!!!"

[USA_1]

15. Ummm ...

Curbing debt - no. But repealing Health Care Reform and impeaching Obama are very real possibilities.

[bluestateguy]

6. Ahem, cough..

[Drale]

8. This is what happens when you elect

uneducated lowlifes, who only months earlier where on the verge of being homeless. I think its time that if you want to run for office, you need to submit a resume to the American people with all your previous jobs, your level of education and what not, and not just release ads blasting everyone and their mothers.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Idiots voting for idiots. What a bunch of jokers.

And we have to pay for this nonsense.

[eringer]

10. If that is there agenda they are in for a rude awakening

Most overlooked in the last election was the latino turnout. They will come out strong for Obama in 2012 as he will continually press the new congress for immigration reform for the next two years. This will make the tea baggers explode. Obama will say that the only way to achieve immigration reform is to put someone in Congress that will support it. What goes around comes around.

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Pukes make me fucking sick....nt

[glinda]

12. Sounds like a death threat to me.

[nolabear]

13. You'd think they'd buy us dinner first, at least.

[savalez]

16. I heard "Boner" today say...

that they would like to get things moving again but it's gonna take some time to undo the damage that the democrats have done to America. I am paraphrasing a little bit but that's almost exactly what he said. I can't believe that dude. Two days in and he's already spewing bullshit like that. We got to do everything we can to destroy Beohner's term. Damn I wish we had an entire cable news outfit on our side.