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Memo to Snyder: Don’t stop the radical reforms now!ObamaCare’s a done deal: So here’s mapping out the road to repeal
December 19th, 2009 | 
Author: 
Dan Calabrese
The road to repeal starts here.
Now that Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson has caved on his abortion-related objections and will vote for cloture, there’s not much left to do. ObamaCare, one of the worst bills ever to be considered by Congress, is going to pass and be signed into law.
Who wants to sign the repeal?
There will still be the conference committee negotiations to iron out differences between the House and Senate, but let’s not kid ourselves. That’s not even a bump in the road. And while the bill may be slightly less disastrous than one that would have included a public option or a Medicare expansion, it’s bad enough as it is.
It will still hamstring the insurance industry with unsustainable restrictions on who must be covered, and for how much, and under what conditions. It will still set up “insurance exchanges” run by the government. It will still impose unprecedented mandates on individuals.
And it remains as fiscally fraudulent as ever. In order to claim the bill somehow reduces the deficit over 10 years, those “scoring” the bill at the Congressional Budget Office simply omit a certain Medicare-reimbursement increase of more than $200 billion for doctors, and only count spending over five years even while they count revenues in the form of new taxes and fees starting immediately.
Try this: Total up the money you’ll earn for the next 10 years, but only total up five years of your spending. You’re rich!
Keep telling yourself that.
Oh, and by the way, for those who still want to pretend there are no death panels, check into the Comparative Effectiveness Research Panel. No death panels, my ass.
There’s no way around this. Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill have just perpetrated the most criminal rip-off in the history of this country on the American people. And with its passage now a certainty, the only thing left to do is to start working on getting it repealed.
Here’s how to do that:
1. Republicans need to immediately start a coordinated, national congressional campaign for 2010 that focuses on two promises. One is to finally get federal spending under control, which won’t be an easy promise to sell because they didn’t do anything of the sort the last time they were in control. They need to say it and mean it. It would help if John Boehner would announce he will no longer be the Republican leader in the House and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would take his place. But at any rate, that’s the first promise. The second is to repeal ObamaCare.
2. Spend the campaign season pointing out everything that’s wrong with ObamaCare in its early implementations. The taxes. The fees. The contortions of the insurance market. The loss of individual discretion, which will start immediately and can be demonstrated in all kinds of personal anecdotes. Oh, and don’t think the mainstream media will help with this.
3. Since the public is already against the bill, and won’t be hard to convince of its shortcomings, Republicans need to propose not only to repeal these most egregious elements, but construct a campaign based on real market-based reforms. These can be sold as fixes to problems that Democrats ignored in their hasty push to pass this monstrosity.
Republicans cannot pretend the system was fine before ObamaCare. There have been problems with it for years, but they mostly stem from the fact that people are too reliant on insurance companies for their basic, day-to-day health care. Now they’re going to be reliant on both insurance companies and government regulators. It’s the worst of all imaginable worlds.
Republicans need to propose a system in which people will be reliant on themselves to the greatest extent possible.
4. Win back control of at least the House, and preferably the Senate as well. Even if Democrats maintain a small majority in the Senate, there will probably be enough Democrats willing to work with Republicans to form a working majority on reforms the public wants.
5. Pound, pound and pound away some more on the need for these reforms. Put unbearable pressure on President Obama. Create a political environment in which, if he resists popular reforms to his signature act of governance, he sets himself up for an electoral disaster in 2012. Especially make the case in the 2004 Bush states that flipped to Obama in 2008.
Can Obama hang onto North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico if he stubbornly vetoes such reforms?
If he decides he can’t, then ObamaCare is essentially repealed. This may give Obama a reasonable shot at a second term, but nothing – not even that – could be worse for the nation than allowing this boondoggle to stay in its current form.
And if Obama decides to tempt fate and veto the reforms, then Republicans can completely toss out ObamaCare in 2013, with a real, free-market-based, consumer-empowering alternative ready for the signature of a smiling Sarah Palin.
Start now.
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Why wait?
Monday morning each citizien can file a new W-4 (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf) and claim the maximum number of dependents.
Let’s just cut off the money to these robbers!
Until Republicans come back from their radical social views, there is no point in pretending to be the fiscally conservative party. They spent the last ten years selling themselves as the religious, nativist, anti-science party. Let them undo some of that, and then we can talk fiscal issues.
Do the Republicans have the “guts” to do it? I believe Jim Demint, Tom Coburn, Sarah Palin, Virginia Foxx, Michele Bachman, and that’s about it.
The Congress of the United States is corrupt. And I mean both Houses, and both major parties. I realize that a few Members of each House are trustworthy, but, as a group they are absolutely the most corrupt bunch to ever disgrace our Nation. Their voting records prove it. In November of 2010 the entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election; all 435 of them. One third of the Senate, a total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election. Vote every incumbent out – every one of them. No matter their Party Affiliation. Clean out the House of Representatives, and replace them with 435 people who have no political favors owed to anyone but their constituents. Let’s make them understand that they work for us. They are answerable to us, and they have to run that body with common sense, and fiscal responsibility, or be ousted. We will no longer stand for their corruption. Two years later, in 2012, vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out as well as that idiot who calls himself president. We can do the same thing in 2014 and, by that time we will have put all new people in that body as well. That’s what the Framers of our Constitution envisioned. We, the People, have got to take this Country back and we HAVE to do it peacefully. I am also suggesting term limits on the new bunch –8 YEARS FOR REPRESENTATIVES AND 12 YEARS FOR SENATORS. NO EXCEPTIONS. THE LONGER THEY STAY IN OFFICE, THE MORE POWER THEY GET AND THEY LOVE IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RE-ELECTED. WE HAVE TERM LIMITED THE PRESIDENT — NOW LET’S TERM LIMIT THE LEGISLATORS. Please, if you love this Country, send this (as I have done) to absolutely everyone who’s email address appears in your address book. A grassroots movement can change this Country in no time. Let’s make it happen. VOTE THE POWER ABUSERS OUT……..LET’S TAKE AMERICA BACK !!!
Do you really expect the Republican Party to do anything other than grovel for special interests?
Or to play anything but politically correct politics to try to win over people that will never vote for anything other than a democrat?
It will take more than politics as usual.
It will take a new political party, that’s what it will take. Republicans and Democrats are in the pockets of too many lobbies that haven’t the slightest concern for the American citizen. You mean this isn’t obvious to most Americans yet!!!
http://www.numbersusa.com/change/immigration/numbers/
While a new political party sounds grand, the problem is that most of the support will come from the republican party…splitting the vote. The dems would love this as it virtually assures them wins that they would normally have lost.
The republican party needs to be revitalized from within. The conservative base needs to retake the party. Play it smart and over the next couple elections and even possibly support those incumbents that are the only hold we have on the seats. (meanwhile limit the influence of those that are actually left leaning)
If it is not played smart we will never take back the party.
Sounds like a good plan, but will the Republican “leadership” bother to listen? The folks at VDare.com don’t call the GOP the “Stupid Party” for nothing! They could have stopped The Chosen One last year but instead they ran the brain-damaged John McCain – better known as “Juan McAmnesty!” And, that, my friends, was pretty darn stupid..even for a party that ran El Presidente Jorge Boosh…twice!
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If this is passed, expect an armed revolution at worst, mass defiance and withholding of our tax reciepts at best. It is unconstitutional to require a citizen to purchase a product from the government. But, we don’t need that worn out relic, we have GUNS!
Lock and load…
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