Restate Red Alert: Senate Democrats On Verge Of Healthcare Deal. A Call To Action
Posted by G.J. Merits in healthcare, tags: alert, deal, erick, erickson, gop, healthcare, McConnell, michael, national conservative symposium, obamacare, redstate, RNC, senate, steele, unanimous consentErick Erickson of Redstate is reporting the Senate Democrats are on the verge of a healthcare deal – a deal which would expose McConnell’s public strategy of holding 40 Republicans and finding 1 or more Democrats as flawed in the extreme. Add to this equation the behind-the-scenes fact that McConnell’s strategy is to use ObamaCare’s passage as a catalyst to increase GOP gains in the Senate and you have the ingredients for a complete GOP meltdown next year.
Given the fact that a it doesn’t take 40 Republicans to succeed in stopping the Reid Bill; it doesn’t take 20; it only takes one Republican to object each time Harry Reid propounds a unanimous consent agreement to rush another amendment through the process, McConnell has shown himself to intellectually challenged. The GOP strategy will not stop ObamaCare as the Redstate story makes plainly clear. Therefore, only one option remains – throw up every procedural block in the book to slow down ObamaCare, for if it passes McConnell and the rest of the GOP, with the exception of Senator Jim DeMint who stands alone in standing up for this country, will have succeeded in pushing the themselves and the rest of the GOP over a cliff and pulling the country along with them.
RNC Michael Steele gets the message and fiscal conservatives applaud him for recognizing how McConnells’ strategy is bad for the country and a nightmare in the making for the GOP. Last week CBS reported that RNC leader Michael Steele sent a memo to the Senate GOP telling them to pull out all the stops and use every trick in the book to stop ObamaCare. What screw is loose in McConnell’s head? The Senate GOP should do their job and defend this country. This is and always has been warfare and wars are won by engaging the enemy, not running from them of prostrating oneself before them. This is the very definition of impotence. What the GOP leadership needs now is a large canister of mental Viagra.
Today is the day folks – call your Republican Senator and burn up the phone lines, or send them an email. Inundate them with one clear message: “Let ObamaCare pass and we will abandon you – in droves”.
What McConnell fails to realize that we live in an age where information flies at speeds he can’t even begin to comprehend. With blogs, social networks, and events like the National Conservative Symposium and the technology that will be brought to bear by Tea Party Support, it will not be long before his treachery is household knowledge and his dreams of a GOP tidal wave dissipate before his eyes. Watch yourself Senator.
The time for wobbly and treacherous strategies is over. Listen now our join many of us in the unemployment line. To the Senate GOP I say this – do not follow McConnell. Sell us out and we vote you out. Period.
Get this story out on the social networks. Email it to all your friends. Now is the time for action for time is indeed short.
Related:
Democrats Play Hardball with Their Own
If the Tea-Party/Grass-Roots movement is for real it will make its bones right now by pledging to throw out of office any Republican Senator who fails to object, obstruct and fight to kill the Reid Bill by any parliamentary means available to them—with no possibility of a commutation of sentence before they next stand for reelection regardless of how they try to atone for their mortal sin between now and then.
Nobody says it better than Dr. Hunter: YES, WE WANT NO OBAMA – CARE:
Unless Republicans become galvanized to actively obstruct the Reid Bill, our guess is Democrats will get their game together at last and push a skinnied-down version of ObamaCare through the Senate by year’s end. What a shame that will be. And, far from redounding to the electoral benefit of Republicans as the Senate GOP Leadership seems to calculate, it likely will result in conservative activists staying home from the polls in droves next November.
Code Red Rally in D.C. today; Update: What will Nelson’s payoff be?; MoveOn to hold counter-protest
ObamaCare: the not-unexpected cave-in on the public option
Breaking: Lieberman wins, Senate drops Medicare buy-in
CBO confirms ObamaCare is a takeover of the health insurance industry
How much is America worth?: Dems Offer Nelson up to $500 million in Earmarks to Vote Yes. So that’s how much the Democrats think America is worth. Going once, going twice….sold! For $500 million dollars. I guess with the Senate GOP doing nothing about it equates to their price for America being, well, nothing.
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I am also disgusted with how the Republicans seem to be handling every issue, but how will voting all Republicans out of office fix anything?
Are the non-existent Tea Party candidates going to be elected to a majority of offices?
I am at a loss to figure out how anything that anybody is proposing will actually solve or reverse anything.
Angus,
I feel your anguish. But it comes to this. If the Republican’s allow ObamaCare to pass then they are no different than Democrats in my book. Allowing it to pass to gain seats next year is the biggest sellout of the American people in recent memory. So the solution is to get rid of them and get ready for a really long haul of pain. Anything worth it and worth fighting for will not be easy to achieve. Gird your loins.
Isn’t that the same logic that was employed in 2008 to justify not voting for McCain? Electing Obama was supposed to create the perfect conditions for a revival of conservative values in the Republican Party and usher in a new era of Republican majorities when the voters rejected his policies. When that starts to happen, advocates of that idea attack all Republicans for selling out.
Most of the problems we now face are the result of failing to look ahead and plan for desired outcomes.
Define the desired outcome, (a Constitutionally based Republic that expands liberty), and only focus on what works towards that goal.
Will voting Republicans out and Democrats into office move us closer to the goal? Will sending faxes or tea bags to all 100 Senators move us towards that goal? Will educating voters about how their God-given liberties are being stolen move us closer? Will voting all Democrats out of office move us closer to achieving the goal? Would voting all Republicans out of office move us closer?
Angus, nobody says it better than Dr. Hunter: YES, WE WANT NO OBAMA – CARE and Democrats Play Hardball with Their Own. It really comes down to how effective the Tea Parties are. With TPS and a well-organized Tea Party look for things to get shaken up a bit.
Where your argument falls a little flat is that in the McCain election there was no Tea Party and now there is. Now something can be done but ONLY if the Tea Parties becomes organized. One of the problems many of the Tea Parties have – not all of them – is this belief that a top down organizational structure is somehow bad and not grass-rootsy enough. The flaw in their argument is that a true grassroots movement like they are talking about is only useful in an actual revolution – something spontaneous that starts at multiple local levels and then swells to a national level and culminates in the overthrow of tyrants. As this is not the case, those Tea Parties that insist on no top down organization become nothing more than social gatherings that make noise on a periodic basis but are incapable of applying constant and consistent pressure. As such, they are rather useless. They don’t understand strategy, they don’t understand how the system works, and in point of fact they are rather ignorant of exactly what they should be doing. Like a bunch of beads rolling around on the floor, they need a thread to string them together, but are to proud to admit it. In the end they will look into the mirror and realize their own worse enemy is them.
When the Tea Parties become pertinent by organization and alignment then DC is in for one hell of a storm. And trust me, it’s coming. If only they knew now, the GOP could save itself. But alas, living in the Beltway bubble has an effect on one’s frontal cortex and objective thinking is the first casualty for most of the bozos who are supposed to represent us.