Ending Obamacare? What Republicans really want is the Senate

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – House Republicans hope their vote today to defund the Affordable Care Act sticks. But it also had another goal: Republican control of the Senate in 2014.

“We are under the realistic assumption that if the Senate, if they held the vote, would have to live with the consequences,” said Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions, a member of House GOP leadership. “We anticipate this would give an opening next year in the election cycle.”

Sessions would know. When he chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee, he deployed a similar tactic to remove House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi from her spot as Speaker of the House.

“To make long term changes, you have to win the Senate,” Sessions said.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/ending-obamacare-what-republicans-really-want-is-the-senate.html/ .

[Thinkingabout]

1. Which means Democrats needs to hold the Senate with a 60+ and take the House back.

It won't be easy but will allow the Democrat agenda to unfold and become a reality.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Unlikely Democrats will be able to achieve a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate,

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Nate Silver seems to think the Senate is a tossup at this point.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. After Romney and his party got smacked in 2012

the GOP should have been a shred of a party but here they are as large as life taking the center stage....why?

[davidpdx]

4. Yep, that's all this is about

The Republicans are working up their talking points for the 2014 election, especially the Senate races because they know it will be very close. I want to see them stumble so bad that they fall on their faces and it leaves a mark.