. . .that something this sweeping in scope cannot take place without some degree of tacit support from the ostensible opposition. Not the “double agent” sort of traitor, but just individuals who for whatever reason buy into the enemy’s propaganda, believe the battle cannot be won, and backtrack from what they should be doing.

Get it? It’s just like Drill, baby, drill! Obama was pounded daily by this simple repeating message of “Drill, baby, drill!” during the campaigning season. True, Obama won the election, but it doesn’t change the fact that for a while, he was damaged by this simple message.

I’m no political expert, but I think it should start with something simple and easy to remember. Repeating it over and over will drive the point home in the minds of voters everywhere.

Maybe you can come up with a better, brief message. What do you say?

One senator out of these three that is not serious about repeal. And from living in Iowa durring college I know Grassely is as squishy as they come. Ryan and Price are just thinking of what to do in the present. I agree with you, Hogan that we need to keep their feet to the fire, this law CANNOT and WILL NOT stand.

But, it’s just the first quarter in what is going to be a long fight I think our side will come around and we will see to it.

One senator out of these three that is not serious about repeal. And from living in Iowa durring college I know Grassely is as squishy as they come. Ryan and Price are just thinking of what to do in the present. I agree with you, Hogan that we need to keep their feet to the fire, this law CANNOT and WILL NOT stand.

But, it’s just the first quarter in what is going to be a long fight I think our side will come around and we will see to it.

published a clear, readable timeline of what happens when in this bill. It was chock full of major campaign issues. If the Repubs just made sure the people saw this stuff ( like seniors aren’t allowed to buy a wheelchair until they’ve rented for 13 months), their elections would be virtually assured. I can’t help but be upset that this list wasn’t put out *before* they voted!

But if the Republicans just keep saying Repeal, they’ll look silly.

For those Republicans who don’t get it. Read http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094104575144372942933394.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADSecond
Mass treasurer TIMOTHY P. CAHILL. This monster must be repeal
no way around it. And those who disagree must be sent home for good. Start with Sen Grassely then John Mc Cain

I don’t mind the “repeal and replace” label. There are reforms needed – but we need to offer conservative reforms. We have to have middle America (moderates) behind us to pull of a repeal, and they are going to want to know that we have alternatives…

Rep. Mike Castle (establishment pick to for the GOP Senate nom in Delaware) is another Republican who doesn’t get it. It’s time to Repeal Castle.

http://repealcastle.com/

The premise that gov. must be the source of the solution. Gov. is the source of the problem. The inflation began with over regulation, with Medicare, with too much FDA and with not treating adults like adults.

Too much regulation – more paperwork, more CYA, higher prices.
Medicare-gov pays for it, gov regulates it. see above.
FDA – sure we need some oversight, but these guys WAY overdo it. Not to mention it is extremely political. There IS, sad to say, lots of favoritism and nepotism in this ‘scientific’ organization.
Not treating adults like adults. – If I am terminal and I want to try an experimental treatment, I shouldn’t need the government’s permission. IT’S MY BODY.

God, if these people had been around in the 18th and 19th century, we’d still be using leeches, we’d still be bleeding people, and the barber surgeons would still be around, unionized.

Want a message to light up the voters. It isn’t repeal and re-write. Sorry Newt, you are my hero of the last millennium, but you are a general preparing for the last war. Chris Christie has the message. Cut spending, cut the size of government, cut taxes.

Sure, I know if you cut subsidies to states, the states may have to raise taxes. Still, that means 300+ representatives and 100 senators that aren’t taking their cut from my money before they return it.

Here are some ideas.
REPEAL the bill, REDUCE Taxes and spending, RETURN power to the people
REPEAL the bill,REDUCE taxes DOWNSIZE the fed.

REPEAL the bill, REDUCE spending, REVERSE the growth of government.

But these are just a few ideas.

What Governor Christie says is, promise less, spend less, employ less, and liberate more. And too me, THAT is a message dear to everyone who was looking for change.

WmCraig
SolvoReor

www.Freedoms-Light.org

and we’ve been called Eeyores, condemned as purists and fanatics for our efforts

Many smart people at all levels in the Republican Party and Conservative Punditry were actually making the argument after the passage of the House Bill on Xmas Eve that “The best thing for the Republican Party would be to let the Democrats pass this and run on Repeal when the electorate is up in arms over it’s passage.

I said then I would LOVE to sell some swamp land to anyone who believed that the people currently in leadership and/or the people mentioned in this diary would hold the line and actually fight to repeal this after it passes and I was beaten about the head for my saying so…

YET HERE WE ARE!

Lucy has once again yanked the football out at the least second after Charlie Brown has fully committed proving himself to be a sucker for believing her after she has pulled it away every single time a thousand times before!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

And my respect for Paul Ryan just went from a 9 to about a 4 in three seconds. If they run on the platform of repeal, man the seats they will gain will be enormous. Run on the platform of every time Obama goes BOO and dares you repeal you crawl under your desk leaving a trail of pee behind you and these guys are gonna hurt the party.

I guess looking at numbers is confusing to them. My only thought is that these guys don’t understand what 55% means. You would think basic math would be something a member of Congress would understand. In case they need any help 55 is bigger than 45 and as more details of this bill come out that 55 is going to get bigger which means the 45 is going to get smaller. Do you want to be on the record as siding with the American people or as a being a bunch of sniveling cowards?

Their parents must be proud.

This is why I keep stating that you can’t rely on Washington to solve your problems. There is not going to be any repeal because of a few nitwits and when the rubber hits the road, the number of nitwits is going to grow and the excuses are going to start flying. I mean, come ON people, we’ve been around the block a couple of times. We are not a bunch of neophytes.

The guy sitting in for Rush said it very well today – I wish I could remember his name. To be conservative means you have to resist the tendency to want to get stuff for your constituents – be it pork or even something as horrible as ObamaCare. It’s not sexy to sit there and not get stuff. You get to Washington and the game takes you over – not the other way around. You begin to notice that to be popular you have to get stuff, or to get a vote you have to agree to give other people stuff, so you figure why should I not get stuff for my people? Kids in a candy store.

So you start to backtrack on your principles. Sure, there are some pols who are principled, but a vast majority are not. Rely on them at your own risk.

So that leaves us with the courts. Want to take any bets the Commerce Clause is gonna be dragged out on this one and stretched to new levels of imaginative interpretation to allow Congress unfettered powers over your life? So what then?

By 2010, and certainly by 2012, the message has to be more than repeal. It cant be repeal, give us power, just trust us, and then we’ll start from scratch. There will be huge gaps that need to be addressed if the bill is just repealed.

I stand with Paul Ryan on this. There needs to be substantive solutions and answers. Conservatives who rely on a sheer tide of anger that will last two and and years will be dissappointed. And just because someone opposes this bill, doesnt necessarily mean that they oppose everything in the bill and reform.

With respect to Grassley, there are some things that have broad based support. I dont see the need in parsing words at this early stage. The base is angry, but the middle wont hold if we dont offer solutions.

Repeal is a good election slogan, but thats about it. There is an outside shot that it could if we commit to the long march of building super majorities. The louder we scream repeal doesnt mean much if we dont elect winning Republicans from coast to coast. Litigation and reconciliation only offer band aids.

Squishy Reps need to be replaced in the primaries and Dems need to be replaced in November. Then the health care coup d’etat can be repealed. period.

It is not enough that the sleeping giant has been awakened. He must be filled with a TERRIBLE RESOLVE! I don’t hear any resolve in the voices of Price, Johanns, and Grassley, much less a terrible resolve.

by the afterglow of Obamacare’s 49% “approval” rating maybe? When the fall renewals hit group health plans and sticker shock sets in of the cost of lifting caps and banninng recisions, these front runners will be marching home again like Johnny, hurrah, hurrah.

The Republicans should be writing a better, more appealing, less costly, more free choice plan, even before the November elections hit. You can’t sell anyone an empty paper bag. Now wait a minute, I just remembered 53% of the voters did buy an empty paper bag in 2008.

Seriously, the Republicans must, must come up with better alternatives than Obamacare, or they will stay in the wilderness. I thought the Republicans always had the reputation as being those with ideas.

…is a stud. He is one of the most courageous leaders in Congress. His “roadmap” for rreforming entitlements is exactly what this nation needs. Even National Review has criticized him for being too bold. If some of you want to sit back in the peanut gallery and criticize everyone else, why don’t you RUN for office yourself.
On the roadmap – I think we need to have it as our ultimate goal, but we might have to get there incrementally.

Is this possible even if difficult? Also, it would put every seat in state legislatures in play?

I believe Paul Ryan voted for TARP and the stimulus bill. That is why I haven’t supported Ryan like some others have supported him.

pretty much these guys are all a bunch of spineless wimps.

In today’s Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094104575144370174652834.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADSecond#

are a perfect example of why just letting things go to get along and not being seen as “the party of ‘no’” doesn’t work. On the far-reaching policy implications of ObamaCare, the answer cannot be “No thank you,” but rather “Hell no!”

I suspect that, despite his very visible profile as the uber-conservative arch-enemy of Obamacare on television, John McCain would have compromised with the Democrats on the bill along time ago, if it wasn’t for a serious primary challenge from a real conservative in Arizona. Lindsay Graham, Snow..these dinosaurs have been there forever, and unless they are gone, nothing will change. Nothing. Instead of being driven over the cliff of totalitarian socialism, we will be gently pushed down the waterslide of said same.
Obamussolini. That’s what we have.

Here they go again.

Some mouthpiece for Mitch is apologizing (by inference) to the Obama Regime for being a bit slower than light speed in rubber stamping His Annoited Majesty’s selections for judicial sub-tyrants.

The line went this way: “Gee, why are we being criticized, when we are acting faster on Obama nominees than we did on Bush nominees.”

Well I’ll criticize you. You are a worthless moron and so is your RINO boss.
You may have made nickles with the MSM, but you have a lifetime enemy here.

Perhaps, Senator Hatch will take offense that a staff wimp saw fit to apologize for his committee — to the oppressors. Hatch has seen what is happening to Bennett and may develop a backbone.

The problem with repealing Obama-care is that while the Democrats were able to secure a vote on Obama-care because they had, from June 2009 through December 2010, 60 Democrat US Senators, Republicans have never had 60 Republican US Senators.

So, as long as the GOP worships the Senate rules more than the US Constitution, the Unconstitutional and socialist legislation called Obama-care will remain the law of the land.

Republicans US Senators like John McCain and Lindsay Graham value the filibuster rule (especially when the Democrats are using it to block conservative legislation and conservative judicial nominees) and the appearance of bi-partisanship more than they value the concept of fiscal conservatism, limited government or the US Constitution.

So, as long as we continue to believe that the filibuster is a bulwark against socialism, we will continue to be powerless as creeping socialism continues to eat away at the United States of America.

If for no other reason than the manner in which ObamaCare was rammed down the throats of America, it should be completely repealed. This talk of compromise (read: give the progressives some of what they want now and the rest later) is more of the McCain pragmatism (read: opportunistic) approach to RINO politics. It is too bad that folks like Ryan have been sucked into this strategy.

in Florida that banned farmers from placing a laboring sow in a restrictive cage so she wouldn’t roll on her babies as they were born. A constitutional amendment.

So now we pass a bill that chains ALL of us TO the laboring SOW, and forces her to ROLL ON US as she struggles.

Unreal.

Repeal, Baby, Repeal!

Another congressman talking adaptation rather than repeal.