Mitch McConnell has promised his party a vote on repeal of the health care bill.

[flpoljunkie]

Just reported on MSNBC by their Congressional correspondent. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to get Democrats on record supporting the health care bill and expects to achieve this vote by insisting that nothing will go forward in the Senate until the Republicans gets a repeal vote.

Call their bluff, Majority Leader Reid. Let them grind the Senate to a halt.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Hopefully, Reid and the Democrats will just ask McConnell this simple question:

Where are the jobs? :shrug:

[vi5]

2. I swear to god, if anything comes to a vote...

that doesn't get 60 votes then I am just absolutely done. I'm pretty close to being done to begin with, but if there is any move at this point to allow anything to come to a vote that doesn't have 6 votes for cloture, after 2 years of hearing "Well nothing anyone can do. Need the 60 votes." then I throw up my hands and completely give up.

[Sherman A1]

3. Precisely

Agreed & Well Said.

[monmouth]

5. Me too...n/t

[Andy823]

4. I agree!

Call their bluff and let them explain to the american people why they are doing "NOTHING" to fix our economy, and create new jobs! Dare the lame brain to do it, and make damned sure there are all kinds of TV ads telling the people just what is going on. Polls show that the majority of americans "DON'T" want it repealed, they like it or want MORE added to it, not a repeal! If McConnell wants to kiss up to the teabaggers, and that is all this is, let him, but make him responsible for stopping congress from working and make sure the country knows it!

[flpoljunkie]

6. Ezra Klein: Kevin Drum agrees Reid should bring up repeal

Should Reid bring up repeal?
By Ezra Klein

Harry Reid isn't planning to bring the House's health-care repeal bill up for a vote in the Senate. Kevin Drum thinks he should reconsider:

What's the harm in wasting a bit of time and making this a knock-down-drag-out fight? After all, the House leadership got a nice, clean repeal vote by bringing up the bill under a closed rule and allowing no potentially embarrassing amendments and virtually no debate. In the Senate, by contrast, Democrats control things, and they can bring up all the amendments they want. So maybe they should play along, hold hearings, and force Republicans to vote on, say, an amendment to the repeal bill that would keep the preexisting condition ban in place. And another one that would keep the donut hole fix in place. Etc. etc.

As a general point, I think "making people take semi-embarrassing votes" is vastly overrated in American politics. Can anyone think of a campaign that even partly turned on one of these gambits?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/01/should_reid_bring_up_repeal.html

[Blue Owl]

7. Well ain't that some shit

If I see Mitch voting 'gainst a bill I love,
Fuck him, and fuck Boehner too.

[flpoljunkie]

8. Florida's Senator Marco Rubio repeats the party mantra on 'Obamacare' and 'Democrat' leadership

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, criticized it as political theater. “The majority of Americans want Congress to work on creating jobs, but the Republican majority in Congress has demanded we spend the opening weeks of the 112th Congress on the political spectacle of repealing health care reform. "

Senate Democratic leaders say they will not take up the legislation, but Republicans will press anyway. Said Sen. Marco Rubio, "I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate to repeal and replace ObamaCare, and hope the Democrat leadership will heed the American people’s call by allowing an up-or-down vote.”

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/house-gop-approves-health-care-repeal

[zulchzulu]

9. Mitch sure isn't giving up his wonderful government-run healthcare! F*ck the people!

Go shark!