Off the Bus

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The Chamber of Commerce, a key anti-Reform player and spender, is telling the GOP they can count them out on any campaign for repeal.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

edit: I think more businesses will start to REPEAL the GOP after this..

[angee_is_mad]

1. We can only hope

but I won't hold my breath.

[Top Cat]

9. Companies are not going to risk their revenue for a minority group in the long run.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Strong is the republicon FAIL

Fart around like a cabal of republicon chickenhawks, FAIL like a cabal of republicon chickenhawks

[MadMaddie]

3. I wonder how much the Chamber of Commerce lost supporting

the Repugs?

[firedupdem]

12. Probably lots...

their ignorant commercials were running non stop here in Nebraska.

[HughMoran]

4. "Brown not ready to repeal health care yet"

WASHINGTON – As Republicans are mounting plans to repeal the health care legislation -- and girding for battle in the Senate over a series of changes -- Senator Scott Brown is so far not immediately jumping on the bandwagon despite his well-established opposition to President Obama's health care overhaul.

Instead, Brown is keeping his options open in the wake of a Republican defeat, saying he wants time to study the bills and was noncommittal over whether he would vote against it.


http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2010/03/_by_matt_viser.html

[Top Cat]

7. Brown is hoping to get re-elected

He knows voted against the bill will assure that he will not stand a chance if any of getting re-elected.

[HughMoran]

8. Yep

Brown is calculating...

[Top Cat]

13. calculating on how he can keep his seat...

Brown knows the only reason he won the seat was beacuse of Coakley thinking she had the seat in the bag. Now he knows the seat will go back to the Dems.

[liberalpragmatist]

10. Intellectually, there's no reason he couldn't vote for the reconciliation bill

I mean, the Senate bill is going to be law AS IS. All the reconciliation bill does is modify the existing bill in popular, noncontroversial ways. Plus, it reforms student loans, and given the student population in MA, he'd be smart to support it by simply saying that the Senate bill is established law and he doesn't oppose modifying it.

But we'll see if he actually follows through. Frankly, quite a few of the GOP senators *could* theoretically say the same thing, but almost none of them will.

[chill_wind]

5. C.O.C keeping their powder dry for where they can meddle more realistically,

it sounds like.

But once the bill becomes law, Donohue said, "If people want to try and repeal, let them. We're not going to spend any capital on that." Instead, he said the chamber will push for changes to the bill when it enters the regulatory stage, always a key pressure point.

I wish we could ship both entities off the planet to some far off point in space. (one-way ticket). They deserve each other for all eternity.

[patrice]

6. Proof positive of the Crazy: Small-to-Medium Business WANTS HCR and Repubs are fighting it.

:crazy:

[Clio the Leo]

11. good! NT