Slate's David Weigel: Health Care Repeal Vote Day: January 12

[flpoljunkie]

Health Care Repeal Vote Day: January 12

Posted Monday, January 03, 2011 4:50 PM
By David Weigel

Just announced: the House of Representatives will start debate on repeal of health care reform on Friday, with a final vote scheduled for January 12. That "final vote" is going to succeed in the House, and head to the Senate where it lacks the votes to go any further. But this is the "big vote" that Tea Partiers were promised, right out of the gate.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/01/03/health-care-repeal-vote-day-january-12.aspx

[Parche]

1. republicans will need health care

once we take care of them in 2years

[great white snark]

3. I like how you think submariner.

:thumbsup:

:patriot:

[vaberella]

2. Well a lot of DUers are in accord of this measure.

So my thoughts on this is that yes there will be Dems to support this measure and I'm unsure if there will be Dems uniting on this. I'll wait until the votes. I can believe there will be many other votes to repeal Obama's successes in the government. And I doubt there will be any FINAL vote.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. The HCR law ain't going anywhere

Harry Reid has said that he'll fight it and the Republicans in the Senate will NEVER IMHO pick off enough Dems to muscle it through the Senate and get it to President Obama's desk (where it would die anyway because there is no way in hell the Senate and probably not even the House will be able to pass it with a veto-proof majority). This will be Tea Party "theater", nothing more IMHO. After all, they only (cleverly) promised to hold a vote on it, not to make sure it got enacted. :eyes:

[flpoljunkie]

8. Link to the bill, such as it is...

http://rules-republicans.house.gov/Media/PDF/HR__-Repeal.pdf

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. "Job-Killing Health Care Law"

I'm seeing red right about now. I hope President Obama is too. :puke: :mad:

[flpoljunkie]

12. They do know how to hammer a phrase for their paymasters. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce took in tens

of millions of dollars from the health insurance companies to run ads against 'Obamacare.'

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. I just feel sick to my stomach at what's about to happen in Congress

not unlike I did in 1995- though we are in a slightly better position than we were then and I don't expect Dems to go along with this and, more importantly, I don't believe that people, if they're honest with themselves, really want to go back to what was the status quo even if they might have some misgivings about portions of the new Health Care Law. At the very least, I don't think that Republicans are going to be successful in ginning up public anger (among the general public) at the Democrats for standing in the way of a repeal and/or efforts to de-fund it.

[flpoljunkie]

5. Plumline posts link to the repeal legislation, when it comes online.

And: The GOP legislation repealing health reform will be available on line later tonight right

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/happy_hour_roundup_157.html

[muntrv]

6. Dems response should be: "Hey republicans! Are you going to give up

your Congressional-taxpayer-funded-health insurance?"

[craigmatic]

7. You have to hand it to them, they know how to do symbolic politics.

[Clio the Leo]

9. Rec for using Weigel's name in the title...

.... 'cause he's awesome. :)

[DrToast]

11. When the House passes repeal and sends it to the Senate

The Senate should send it to the CBO for scoring. Then the Senate can hammer the Republican House for sending them bills that increase the deficit.

[flpoljunkie]

13. The duplicitous R's made repeal of 'Obamacare' exempt and apart from their budget rules

Dems say new GOP plan to repeal healthcare would increase deficit

By Jason Millman
12/27/10 12:02 PM ET

Democrats are pouncing on a Republican plan to repeal the healthcare reform law, accusing Republicans of breaking their campaign promise to reduce the deficit.

Under new budget rules released by Republicans, the House could repeal the healthcare reform law without offsetting the $143 billion that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates it will shave from the deficit over 10 years.

The new rules allow the Budget Committee to “make appropriate budget adjustments” to account for the repeal of the reform law before adopting a fiscal 2012 budget plan, House aides explained.

James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy for the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the GOP rules include “various things that would make it possible to repeal it without running into points of orders.”

Horney said Democrats have a potent argument against the Republican plan.

“It’d bad for the budget,” Horney said. “It would increase deficits, and Democrats should certainly make that case.”

more...

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/135141-dems-pouncing-on-gop-healthcare-repeal-effort-in-face-of-deficit-pledge?page=5