House GOP plans to vote to repeal health care overhaul in weeks

[meegbear]

Source: RawStory.com / AP

Eager to show who's now in charge, the House's new Republican majority plans to vote to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul before he even shows up in their chamber to give his State of the Union address.

Though full repeal is a longshot — the House vote would be just the first, easiest step — they'll follow up with dozens of attempts to hack away at what they derisively call "Obamacare."

The strategy is not risk-free for the Republicans, who won't have a replacement plan of their own ready by the time of the repeal vote. But they say there's no time to lose.

Senate Democratic leaders are sending their own "you-don't-scare-me" message. In a letter Monday to House Speaker-to-be John Boehner, they served notice that they'll block any repeal, arguing it would kill popular provisions such as improved prescription coverage for Medicare.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/house-gop-plans-vote-repeal-landmark-health-care-overhaul/

[SpiralHawk]

1. The Republicon health care plan =

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Empty gesture.

Senate still democratic majority and Executive Branch is democratic.

[Champion Jack]

4. a bunch of impotent, loudmouth rightwing assclowns and nothing more

[aquart]

8. Pretending to do a day's work.

[toddwv]

11. There's plenty more empty gestures where that one came from.

They'll go down their talking point list. Might get a couple through and then call it a victory and back to business as usual.

[bluestateguy]

3. I'd love to see Obama have an East Room bill vetoing ceremony

But alas it won't get to that point because it will disappear down the black hole of the Senate.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. Time to mobilize DU in support of repeal.

Only a year ago "Kill the Bill" was the flavor of the month here.

What happened? Did it get better somehow?

[aquart]

6. I still think the bill is a piece of shit.

But it's all they let us have.

There is an old Yiddish joke, when you ask Meyer Rosenberg why he wears glasses, of which one lens is broken and the other missing, he says, "Better than nothing."

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. I have a ton of "Kill the Bill" Cafe Press culch from '09...

...I'm still trying to unload, and you're not helping.

[aquart]

10. Oh. Sorry.

[Arkana]

9. Aaaaaaahahahahahahaha.

The emptiest of empty gestures.

[DonCoquixote]

12. If we had guts

Obama would turn around and say "you want to revisit this..talk to my good friend Dennis Kucinich. The plan I offered was the compromise, THIS is overreach, though it does not have the mandate you claim to hate.