Well, at least one Republican is staying on task - Granite Grok

Well, at least one Republican is staying on task

Since Obamacare was passed, the Republicans have said “REPEAL!”.  I’ve been waiting for this to happen for real quite some time , again to see if actions would finally match the political rhetoric:

Senate Budget Committee Chair Michael Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution Tuesday that includes “reconciliation instructions” that enable Congress to repeal Obamacare with a simple Senate majority. Passing a budget resolution that includes those instructions will mean that the legislation can pass through the budget reconciliation process, in which bills cannot be filibustered.

That means Republicans will only need 50 of their 52 members in the Senate, and a bare majority in the House, to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act. According to the Wall Street Journal, the budget resolution could be passed by both houses as early as next week.

To be clear, passing the budget resolutions does not itself repeal Obamacare. But it’s the necessary first step if Republicans are to do that this year, and unless three or more Republican senators defect (or 24 House members do), it’ll be smooth sailing for the repeal effort from there on out.

Live by the sword, die by it.  I just hope that the Rs don’t lose

their nerve because it is CLEAR that the Democrats and the Media are going to throw everything at them; after all, Obamacare is their Holy City, their sacred writing, the last linchpin holding what the Progressive movement has been aching for for a century.  They will not give it up willingly even as they know they can’t stop it.

That is, of course, some Republicans go wishy-washy because they can’t stand the heat.  Some, I bet, are already reciting their go to verse “don’t make waves, don’t make waves…..”

Put THAT into context – not a small number of House and Senate Dems were so tied to this monstrosity of central planning (and cronyism) that they were willing to sacrifice their careers for it.

Does that same intensity exist, if need be, with the Republicans?

(H/T: Instapundit)

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