Isn’t this just stupid? Can you imagine the chaos that would be caused repealing Obamacare? Can you imagine the anti-conservative mood riled up by liberals, the horror stories that will result? No president be it Obama or any successor is going to repeal the Affordable Care Act any more than liberals were going to repeal Medicare Part D or conservatives are going to privatize Social Security. Why? Because despite the polls which largely reflect the views of under and uninformed Americans, nobody will stand for repeal.
In addition, at this point repeal is simply a bad idea. Fixes and changes are needed for sure, but not repeal. Conservatives who continue to push for outright repeal are not thinking conservatives, they are extreme and as naive as the far left.
Four days before Election Day, conservatives are attacking Mitch McConnell, potentially the next Senate majority leader and in a tight race himself, as insufficiently committed to repealing Obamacare.
At issue are McConnell’s remarks to Neil Cavuto of Fox News on Tuesday, when McConnell said that a standalone repeal of the health care law would take 60 votes and a presidential signature — essentially an impossibility during the next term of Congress.
After conservatives and liberals alike divined a change in McConnell’s position this week, McConnell’s office reasserted Thursday that the GOP leader is “committed to the full repeal of Obamacare,” including by budget reconciliation, which requires only 51 votes and has been mentioned frequently by McConnell, but was omitted in the Cavuto interview.
This clarification is not enough for some conservative activists. L. Brent Bozell’s group, ForAmerica, posted on Facebook McConnell’s campaign office phone number and instructed callers to jam McConnell’s campaign phone lines and tell him to “stand with conservatives.”
Bozell says he won’t stand down until McConnell personally commits to Obamacare repeal via reconciliation if Republicans take the Senate majority this election. Bozell said the statement from a McConnell spokesman on Thursday was a “good first step. But no, it’s not enough.”
“He seemingly backed away from what he has been pledging for years to do. And people need to know, because it’s serious and he’s solemnly pledged and done so over and over that he would repeal Obamacare,” Bozell said in a phone interview. “No. 1, it needs to come from the senator, who is the one who went on Cavuto. His spokesman didn’t go on Cavuto. Second of all, the word ‘willing’ is not what I am looking for. It’s ‘will.’”
Asked in Kentucky Friday about the angst in his party’s right flank, McConnell said he remains open to budget reconciliation or “anything that may work” to attack the law but maintained that scrapping the law with Obama in office is implausible.
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