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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell has a 'secret' plan for 'Obamacare'
McConnell has a 'secret' plan for 'Obamacare'
By Steve Benen
Republicans promised voters in 2012 that with public support, they would repeal the Affordable Care Act. Voters responded by electing Democrats, seemingly ending the debate...as recently as two months ago, there wasn't much left to fight about. President Obama had won re-election; the health care law's implementation would continue apace; many Republican governors started accepting the law's provisions; House Speaker John Boehner called the Affordable Care Act "the law of the land"; and Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said, "The arc of partisan fever is beginning to recede, and pragmatism is beginning to come to the fore."
That was late January. Now, congressional Republicans seem to vote uncontrollably on "Obamacare" repeal and National Journal reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a "secret Republican plan" to destroy the law.
Sure, those darned voters got in the way of McConnell's dreams...The "secret Republican plan" really isn't much of a secret. Hell, it's not really much of a plan, either. McConnell's idea is apparently to have Republicans win a bunch of elections and then destroy the law through the reconciliation process so Democrats can't filibuster the GOP's anti-Obamacare crusade.
That's roughly the same plan Republicans came up with last year, right before the electorate re-elected President Obama and expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/28/17502714-mcconnell-has-a-secret-plan-for-obamacare
By Steve Benen
Republicans promised voters in 2012 that with public support, they would repeal the Affordable Care Act. Voters responded by electing Democrats, seemingly ending the debate...as recently as two months ago, there wasn't much left to fight about. President Obama had won re-election; the health care law's implementation would continue apace; many Republican governors started accepting the law's provisions; House Speaker John Boehner called the Affordable Care Act "the law of the land"; and Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said, "The arc of partisan fever is beginning to recede, and pragmatism is beginning to come to the fore."
That was late January. Now, congressional Republicans seem to vote uncontrollably on "Obamacare" repeal and National Journal reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a "secret Republican plan" to destroy the law.
By Election Day, Senate Republicans were ready to, as McConnell put it, "take this monstrosity down."
"We were prepared to do that had we had the votes to do it after the election. Well, the election didn't turn out the way we wanted it to," McConnell told National Journal in an interview. "The monstrosity has ... begun to be implemented and we're not giving up the fight."
Sure, those darned voters got in the way of McConnell's dreams...The "secret Republican plan" really isn't much of a secret. Hell, it's not really much of a plan, either. McConnell's idea is apparently to have Republicans win a bunch of elections and then destroy the law through the reconciliation process so Democrats can't filibuster the GOP's anti-Obamacare crusade.
That's roughly the same plan Republicans came up with last year, right before the electorate re-elected President Obama and expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/28/17502714-mcconnell-has-a-secret-plan-for-obamacare
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McConnell has a 'secret' plan for 'Obamacare' (Original Post)
ProSense
Mar 2013
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. Time to make turtle soup, Senator Reid.
Change the rules and silence him.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. It would be even better if he lost in 2014. n/t
talkingmime
(2,173 posts)2. Ah. McConnell's Trojan Rabbit!
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)4. Um, let me guess... repeal and repeal?