Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal

[Zorro]

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Republican activists, increasingly optimistic they can win the White House and Senate next year, are beginning to lay the groundwork for a multi-pronged campaign in 2013 to roll back President Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul.

The push includes an effort to pressure Republican candidates to commit to using every available tool to fully repeal the law, a tactic pioneered by conservative activist Grover Norquist, who made an anti-tax pledge de rigeur for GOP politicians.

Other conservative healthcare experts are developing an alternative to the law, an effort that could protect Republicans from past critiques that their healthcare plans left tens of millions of Americans without medical coverage.

"The window for action comes and goes," said Tom Miller, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, one of several conservative groups involved in the effort. "We need to be ready."

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More at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-healthcare-20111018,0,7765555.story

[tularetom]

1. "increasingly optimistic they can win the White House and Senate next year" - WTF?

Perhaps they can win the Senate, since there are twice as many Senate Dems up for election this cycle.

But the WHITE HOUSE? Are they kidding? Have they actually watched any of these silly ass debates.

[SlimJimmy]

2. I say we minimalize Mitt Romney at our own peril. The White House and all of us

should not take his candidacy lightly.

[dtexdem]

3. They wish to continue to steal from me and mine.

They are thus declaring themselves the continuing enemies of the American people.