I know, everyone’s all upset about Mitt Romney’s campaign manager Eric Fehrnstrom’s blunder about the mandate being a penalty and not a tax. He should probably be kept off TV since he’s not very good at making his point. But I’m more concerned about what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said about repealing Obamacare.
“If you thought it was a good idea for the federal government to go in this direction, I’d say the odds are still on your side,” McConnell said. “Because it’s a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place.”
In all fairness, he did go on to say he will do whatever he can to get it repealed, including reconciliation. But still, he could try to be a bit more enthusiastic about it. Good grief.
Related reading – Keith Hennessey: A Strategy to Undo Obamacare
Mitch could be a player but he’s obviously not the leadership material needed at this point in our country’s history. But who knows; that leadership position might be the only thing keeping him from being another Senator Snowe or Brown type. Time will tell and so will voters.
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The liberals never complain about how hard enacting their policies are — they just go ahead and do it. So, Mitch needs to shut up and start working instead of whining.
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How much of our money has been spent/debt accrued while John and Mitch have been our “representative” legislators?
The Constitutional Republic is overthrown.
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Now that I’ve read his exact statement, I believe he is just stating a fact. It is harder to alter something than to create it new. It may be a blessing that the Obama team decided to put off the worst parts of the ACA until after the elections, i.e. 2013, 2014. So the Republicans can eliminate those parts immediately. There is a Catch 22 to repealing the Act, and that is there definitely will be government-job layoffs, which will bode poorly for the Republicans. However, because Republicans will be legislating to help small businesses, that could even out the workforce.
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New motto of the Senate Minority leader: When the going gets hard, give up!
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McConnell can be replaced for cowardice in the face of ObamaCare repeal!
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Along with all the rest of the republicans who so staunchly upheld our liberties when they voted for this legislation rater than against it.
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True, though it’s depressing. It’s always much easier to stop something than try to take it back, and there’s already a lot of people complaining and outraged but at the same time “undecided” on their Presidential candidate. Really?? How would that be possible?? I think he’s talking about the general apathy in the country. If people were not apathetic, I think the SC decision would have come down much different. If 90% of the country had been outraged, perhaps Roberts would have been less concerned about his image and more concerned with the nature of the Constitution.
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The bigger concern is that the only reason we are discussing this is because one of Senate Majority Leader’s own party, Olympia Snow, cast arguably the most important vote for Obamacare by voting it out of committee because she thought we needed a “discussion” on healthcare.
Between her and the Chief Justice, Republicans, not Democrats, gave us this monstrocity that is Obamacare.
Now they want us to belive that they will repeal it?
If the Democrats had any brains, they would be praising both Snow and Roberts in ads claiming that Obamacare had bipartisan support – which at the most base level it does.
In the end, it came down to 2 Republicans, one whose vote gave birth to the bill and the other whose vote made sure the law was kept alive.
Thank you Republicans!!!
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