ROFL! Repubs already backtracking on threat to appeal HCR.

[JBoy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/23/nrscs-cornyn-we-wont-call_n_510232.html?ref=twitter

Cornyn: We Won't Call For Repealing All Of Health Care

Rather than promising to scrap the bill in its entirety, the GOP will pledge to just get rid of the more controversial parts.

"There is non-controversial stuff here like the preexisting conditions exclusion and those sorts of things," the Texas Republican said. "Now we are not interested in repealing that. And that is frankly a distraction."

The remarks seemingly put Cornyn at odds with the head of all Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), who signaled on Tuesday that he would support a legislative effort by fellow Republican lawmakers to fully repeal the health care bill. Cornyn himself had previously suggested that he'd support a full repeal campaign as well.

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Ruh Roh. This will only confuse and anger their base.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Fatass Limbaugh and Batty Beck haven't given them orders yet.

They won't know what to do for a while.

[Cha]

2. Their base that's so easily

confused and angered.

[wryter2000]

3. That didn't take long

I predict they'll drop it all quietly and go find another issue to scare their "constituents" with.

"Government takeover of banks. They're going to give all my money to communistical nazis."

[tridim]

4. The GOP fall has begun. It's going to be so sweeeet!

Frum was right.

[aquart]

9. Not looking forward to it.

You do realize that if THEY fall, WE will split?

[tridim]

11. You don't think the GOP will split?

I'm thinking four parties in 2016. Teabag, Conservative, Republican and Democrat.

We don't have any reason to split, why not just remain unified as the big-tent Democratic Party?

[aquart]

24. We've been talking collapse, not split.

If THEY collapse, WE split. Unity with no opposition is NOT democracy. Our more liberal side would split from our more conservative side. We are beginning it, within the party, in the primary challenges. If the Republicans are unable to field candidates to run under their banner, do you really think it is in anyone's best interest to let Democratic candidates run unopposed?

If, however, the Republicans devolve into a Teabagger and a Conservative Party, each fielding its own candidates, we will, of course, remain gleefully united.

[MUAD_DIB]

17. By definition the Democrats are a party that include many varieties.

I don't necessarily see a split.

[Arkana]

19. Personally, I'd like it if the Republicans all went to Somalia

and the US got two new parties: Progressive Democrats and Blue Dogs.

The Blue Dogs are assholes, but they don't seem to be vicious assholes like the Republicans.

[laughingliberal]

20. +1000 nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. They can't work to REALLY repeal the whole thing --

because they will need the new bill as an issue to run on in the midterms and 2012. Just like they never REALLY want to overturn Roe -- they get too much political mileage put of it. They will get mileage with their peeps with this bill, too.

[elehhhhna]

6. pre-ex condition exclusion is a DISTRACTION? lmao

[Lex]

7. yes, EVERYthing is political to them, nothing is about actual people with problems

that need solving.

[Yavin4]

8. In 10 Years, They'll Take Credit for Passing It

Like they have with Social Sec. and Medicare.

[Whisp]

18. seriously, you are correct. and it will be in less than 10 years. nt

[Leopolds Ghost]

25. Of course they are, it's a Republican bill. Originally proposed by Romney and Gingrich.

[malaise]

10. It's all good

What a beat down. :rofl:

[DCBob]

12. "This will only confuse and anger their base."

You got that right. Their base is all or nothing. They believe the Dems can do nothing correct.

[JBoy]

14. Yup. Their base lives in a world of black & white. Cornyn's position reeks of grey.

[WolverineDG]

13. The overnight polling results came in & whadya know?

people gettin' all pissy about Republicans wanting old people to keep getting screwed by the Medicare donut hole & insurance companies playing games with recission & "pre-existing conditions" & not wanting the GOP to "save" them from all that.

dg

[Motown_Johnny]

15. we need to push them into passing Another bill.. to help cut costs.

then they can run against our bill

[DearAbby]

16. But but you said it was Socialized healthcare....a take over

it was bbbbaaaaad, and it would kill granny....wha happened within 48 hours to change this?

[lunatica]

21. Yah, just like they did with the Stimulus money.

[pipi_k]

22. Ruh roh is right...

whatsa matter...are their constituents starting to find out that some of them might actually be better off under this new law or something?

[Scurrilous]

23. LOL

:thumbsup:

[upi402]

26. shunt gate will just send their base down other chute

as long as they get their Fox feedbag of hate...

[Hekate]

27. But, but, but-- the Clockwork Orange Man said, and McNasty said -- oh dearie me ROFLMAO

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: