‘Repeal and replace’ already being repealed, replaced
“Top Republicans are increasingly worried that GOP candidates this fall might be burned by a fire that’s roaring through the conservative base: demand for the repeal of President Barack Obama’s new health care law.
It’s fine to criticize the health law and the way Democrats pushed it through Congress without a single GOP vote, these party leaders say. But focusing on its outright repeal carries two big risks.
Repeal is politically and legally unlikely, and grass-roots activists may feel disillusioned by a failed crusade. More important, say strategists from both parties, a fiercely repeal-the-bill stance might prove far less popular in a general election than in a conservative-dominated GOP primary, especially in states such as Illinois and California….”
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who chairs the committee responsible for electing GOP senators this fall, said in an interview, “The focus really should be on the misplaced priorities of the administration” and Congress’ Democratic leaders.
“The No. 1 concern of the public is jobs and people losing their homes,” he said. “The administration has been obsessing on this health care bill.”
As the story notes, GOP Senate candidate Mark Kirk of Illinois was promising two weeks ago to “lead the effort” to repeal the measure. “On Tuesday, when asked repeatedly by reporters whether he still wants it repealed, Kirk would say only that he opposes the new taxes and Medicare cuts associated with the law.”
That kind of sudden shift almost certainly was driven by in-house polls that tested the “repeal and replace” strategy and found it wanting. (h/t Steve Benen at Washington Monthly)
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I Report :-) You Whine :-( Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 1st, 2010
5:48 am
401!
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 1st, 2010
5:50 am
402! Hat trick!
bwa
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
6:04 am
whiner – how many peeps did you have for breakfast???
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 1st, 2010
6:10 am
Why do I get the feeling that the Urinal will not be coming to this guys rescue, like it does for any garden variety pervert?
“What we heard today is that Mr. Stone talks a lot, that Mr. Stone is angry,” Swor said in court. “There’s nothing that says he was looking to make war on the United States.”
Dissent is not a crime, I think, just sayin….
Bout time to show the evidence, you reckon?
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 1st, 2010
6:13 am
You can hide but it is already hanging around your neck, just sayin…
While Obama made flying visits across the country to tout the new legislation, a number of key Democrats, who led the charge for healthcare reform, seemed to keep a low profile and are doing little to beat the drum.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 1st, 2010
6:15 am
Like the first tiny blossom of springtime, a small inconsequential shoot of green that grows into a massive tree that blocks out everything else around it, just sayin….
• By 50%-46%, those surveyed say Obama doesn’t deserve re-election.
Aahhh, change is a comin…
Rightwing Troll
April 1st, 2010
6:31 am
Too bad your nut sack “change” is such a disaster. Nut sacks had 8 years to implement “change” instead we got where we’re at… This country can’t stand any more “change” like that…
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww… bwa
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
6:33 am
“Dissent is not a crime, I think, just sayin…. Bout time to show the evidence, you reckon?”
and I’m SURE you’d be saying the same thing if these guys were Muslim …
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
6:54 am
Lets hear the Conswervatives moan about this:
White House Launches Push For Workplace Flexibility
At the White House on Wednesday, Michelle and Barack Obama held a summit meeting to discuss, as the president put it, “what we can do — as business leaders and advocates, as employees and as government officials — to modernize our workplaces to meet the needs of our workforce and our families.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/white-house-launches-push_n_520909.html
Rightwing Troll
April 1st, 2010
7:03 am
Unfortunately Finn, something like this is neccessary.
Dad’s routinely are punished in family court for “keeping thier nose to the grindstone” by the removal of thier kids in divorce. The “conservative” courts of GA feel that a father that works all the time to support his family and doesn’t take the time to attend every play or conference doesn’t deserve to have any more interection with his children other than write a “support” check to the ex-wife, actually the “conservative” courts of GA feels that way about dad’s who do attend every play and conference as well… if the ex is a “stay-at-home” mom, it gets worse for dad, no time with the kids and a lot more money paid out.
Rightwing Troll
April 1st, 2010
7:04 am
“Dissent is not a crime, I think, just sayin…. Bout time to show the evidence, you reckon?”
and I’m SURE you’d be saying the same thing if these guys were Muslim …
what if they’re gay muslims?
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
7:06 am
From Hannity’s Conservative Victory book:
“Obama and his party stand for America’s economic bankruptcy, virtual surrender in the war on terror, and a culture of death, from abortion to embryonic stem cell research to healthcare rationing tantamount to death panels. He stands for a comprehensive radicalization of our culture, from turning our schools over to homosexual activists, to undermining the sanctity of heterosexual marriage, to expanding the dependency classes. He stands for polarization and alienation between racial and ethnic groups, and between those of different economic circumstances. He stands for government swallowing the private sector and equalizing income and asset distribution; he may even use the courts, if he can pull it off, to impose what he and his fellow radicals call ‘economic justice,’ a grand-scale version of ‘spreading the wealth around.’”
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/foxs-sean-hannity-rails-against-the-dependency-classes-89642187.html
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
7:08 am
Rightwing Troll,
I’m all for it. I can do the same job at home as I can do in the office so I work from the house 2-3 days a week.
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
7:09 am
Finn – yet another example of what I always say about the bubbleheads like Hannity: when all you got it nuttin’, ya fling poo
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
7:10 am
No wonder the Tea Party crowd are spitting mad and shrieking at Congressmen. No wonder they’re freaking out in front of the cameras. Sean Hannity and Fox News is telling them the world is ending. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous.
If you’re stupid enough to fall for this nightmare vision of the future – and sadly, millions are – you’ll actually become the danger to society that Hannity claims he’s working to prevent. Funny how that works.
The Fox News noise machine is cranking at full tilt this year, obviously. It’s a shame this kind of overheated rhetoric is turning it’s anchors into cranks.
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/foxs-sean-hannity-rails-against-the-dependency-classes-89642187.html
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
7:11 am
and Hannity is the king of the pooh flingers.
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
7:14 am
Another excellent commentary by Eliot Spitzer, this time about how the SEC totally failed to do their job.
http://www.slate.com/id/2249403/
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
7:16 am
Finn – 7:11 – they’re all trying to live up to their own diety, Limbaugh (other than their weight, they’re all in his craven image)
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
7:20 am
totally off-topic, but since it’s Maundy Thursday …
is it wrong to want to eat your weight in hot cross buns???
mmmmmmmmmmmm …
FinnMcCool
April 1st, 2010
7:32 am
Why are the buns mad?
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2010
7:34 am
mornin’.
In 389 posts not one “conservative” is brave enough to broach the subject matter? Pathetic….
I don’t know that it’s especially pathetic, more like human nature. But JCB raises a pretty reasonable point. A few righties touched on HCR in general, true, but unless I missed something, none of our resident GOP voters seems interested in discussing the specific political strategy topic.
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2010
7:34 am
Why are the buns mad?
Who cares, as long as they’re hawt?
jt
April 1st, 2010
7:38 am
Which is more “stupid”?
A tea partier or one who votes for political candidates in different political parties expecting a different result than voting for a candidate in the other political party?
A tea partier or one that believes some bureaucrat in Washington, who doesn’t know you from Batman, actually cares about you.?
A tea partier or one who has voted for political candidates in your own party, expecting them to care more about you than the people who actually paid for them to be elected.?
Just wondering.
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2010
7:40 am
Who is more stupid, jt? A person I’m inclined to think rather highly of, or a person I will now willfully mis-characterize and lampoon as I stack my rhetorical deck?
jt
April 1st, 2010
7:44 am
Are you calling me a conservatoid, sir?
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2010
7:50 am
Oh, and where are my manners? Mornin’, jt.
Are you calling me a conservatoid, sir?
‘zounds, no. (Verily, I think my preferred nickname for run-of-the-mill self-IDing conservatives is “conservadroid.”)
You are more of a confirmed Glibertarian, yes?
Sometimes I’ll refer to such folk as “Libbers,” just to get people confused with the slur against feminists that was used some years back. But I digress.
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
7:53 am
“Why are the buns mad?”
cuz they’re only brought out at Easter when they should be celebrated all year around for their tastiness!
USinUK
April 1st, 2010
7:53 am
oh, and g’morning jt … dB …
stands for decibels
April 1st, 2010
7:59 am
Finn, I had a glance at your 7.10 linkee….
Excuse me, the what? The dependency classes? Is that what they call the poor at his yacht club? Why is he expressing himself like an oligarch circa 1910? Who talks like this in 2010?
With all due respect to Mr. O’Doherty, he obviously doesn’t bother to listen to the AM band. This sort of language is pretty typical among those listeners; it is what makes them feel like they’re Randian “producers”. Of course Ayn was just a throwback to a long line of charlatans, playing greedy people for suckers.
jt
April 1st, 2010
8:00 am
Top of the morning UK.
and the DB.
@@
April 1st, 2010
8:23 am
Once again, Obama’s slow on the uptake.
Offering flex time is nothing new. Companies are already doing it. There’s a problem though:
Choosing fear over flex time
Blame it on the recession, Hewlett and other workplace experts say. Flex-time employees, those who work alternate schedules that included working at home or around their children’s school hours, have become more skittish, they say.
It’s called job security or insecurity, if you will.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/worklife/03/29/flex.time/index.html
Brakeman
April 1st, 2010
9:09 am
to jewcowboy @ 2:29am:
1) Why are you up at 2:29am?
2) It’s a free country ………. I post what I post.
3) The SCOTUS will decide all of this anyway since we are ruled by a judicial oligarchy.
jewcowboy
April 1st, 2010
9:43 am
Brakeman @ 9.09,
1. Why are you up at 9.09?
2. Nice way to avoid the topic
3. Another nice way to avoid the topic
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 1st, 2010
11:28 am
Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice will hit the “normal” line as defined by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) for this time of year.
Let me guess, cripples, that means we only have until 2335 until the Arctic ice is totally melted away, instead of 2315, right?