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Home Front: Politix

House Votes to Repeal Health Care Law: 245-189, Senate dems vow to kill it

2011-01-20

WASHINGTON -- Sen Jim DeMint, R-S.C., intends to introduce a bill next week that his spokesman says is "identical" to House-passed legislation that repeals the new health care law.

Majority Republicans in the House stood unified for the 245-189 vote Wednesday to turn back the $1 trillion, 10-year package that supporters say is vital to extending insurance coverage to 30 million uninsured Americans. Opponents call the law a stinker that will break the bank while limiting access to doctors and treatment.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has vowed to prevent a repeal vote in the Senate. And if it ever did make it out of that chamber, the White House has signaled it would veto any attempt to overturn President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment.
We expect it to die in the Senate. All the Republicans need to do is bring it to a vote. The law is already vastly unpopular and any dhimocrat that votes to keep it that is already treading on thin ice with his constituents will be in deep doo-doo in 2012.

Posted by:DarthVader

#6 ...just to relieve themselves of federal mandates from their budget pressures, you'll get that 3/4.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-20 22:20

#5 Actually, just 7 more States would make the magic 2/3rds, or 34 States, that could call a constitutional convention. And though they aren't going to do this, it signals to both the congress and the Supreme Court that the law is intolerable.

Speaking of which, the Republicans plan to introduce a new constitutional amendment in congress that would permit simple resolutions by 2/3rds of the States to overturn any law. And while this, too, would fail in the Senate, after the 2012 elections, it could very well pass.

And likely 3/4ths of the States would agree.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-20 18:35

#4 hopefully the other 30 will fall in line as well

Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-20 14:33

#3 There are now 27 states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare.

Posted by: DarthVader 2011-01-20 14:30

#2 ...and the ever growing inflation rate fueled by the Fed-Tres axis of printing money eating away at Americans income. Saving the banks (the few, the insiders) to cover their mortgage losses by inflating the costs of everything else for the rest (the many, the outsiders) is certainly not going to help either.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-20 12:16

#1 already treading on thin ice with his constituents will be in deep doo-doo in 2012.
This vote is a chip in the poker game for the next presidential election. More importantly, any party that gets stuck with the blame for persisting high levels of unemployment will not do well in 2012. I think most of those unemployed at this moment will still be unemployed come Election Day 2012.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-20 12:08

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