GOP in a bind over healthcare repeal vote

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-congress-agenda-20110113,0,4502549.story

House Republican leaders are eager to fulfill their promise to vote to repeal the legislation, but taking up the divisive issue could hurt the party at a time of calls for rejecting partisan rhetoric.

By Kathleen Hennessey, Washington Bureau

January 12, 2011, 8:12 p.m.

As lawmakers promise a new era of comity after the Arizona shooting attack that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition, Republican leaders grappled with how and when to return to an issue that brought political discourse to a boiling point.

A House vote to repeal the healthcare law, put on hold after Saturday's shooting of 19 people in Tucson, presents Republicans with an unexpected challenge.

If they move too quickly, GOP leaders risk appearing tone deaf to pleas to reject overheated rhetoric — the leading of example of which is the healthcare debate last year.

But if they delay the vote much longer, they could infuriate their most conservative supporters and "tea party" activists.

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1. I wonder if they'll change the name of "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Act".

I imagine it's being given serious thought. Then again....

[mwb970]

3. They must use "job killing" for everything now. Frank Luntz said so.

I wonder whether they find their justification somewhere in the job-killing Consititution, suddenly the principal source document for job-killing republicans.

It's snowy here today, but I hope the job-killing sun puts in an appearance. Have a nice job-killing weekend!

[madinmaryland]

6. What's is ironic, is that after this weekend they are going to have to take the "killing"

part out of that statement.

:D

[LawnKorn]

2. The Republicans are on the hook to their Tea Party masters

It will only be a short delay before the force a roll call vote.

Besides, the Tea Party wants a new distraction in the news to take the heat off their favorite figure head, Sarah Palin. Palin will command "Give me some cover here!", and the good Republican will throw themselves into the fray allowing her to slip away and plan her next public appearance.

[vi5]

4. Oh please....

They aren't going to tone down anything. They aren't going to lower their rhetoric or calm things down or stop appealing to fringe lunatics.

And they won't have to. And nobody will call them on it.

The media will still insist that "both sides need to tone things down."

Democrats will internalize this call to "tone things down" and will continue to purge even the most slightly intemperate voices from their ranks (intemperate in this case being anyone who dares to say anything not nice about any republican no matter how reprehensible they are or what the did was).

And we'll continue our headlong march into destruction.

We'll take the high road and they'll take the low road and they'll be wherever the hell it is we're going well before we will and in much better shape than we are.

[Mumble]

5. They should focus on bringing back "don't ask, don't tell"

The Republican party is screwed up and all their leaders have serious emotional problems......crying, lying, gun loving, drunks, and druggies just to name a few. Where do they get there characters from? I couldn't make it up....crying Boner, gun totin Palin, the drunk orange guy, Rush on uppers or downers, 2 and 3 times divorced women haters like McCain (or Rush...plenty to pick from), and of course the "witch."