--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: <snip> > No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if > Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how > many votes could we muster to re-open the "doughnut hole" and > charge seniors more for prescription drugs? [etc.]
True, BUT: The Republicans will use the *threat* of repeal to get votes in November, and they'll get at least some because their base won't realize it can't be repealed, and the Democrats are too chicken to call the Republicans liars, just as they have been throughout this ordeal. And if the Republicans *do* manage to take over the majorities, the rest of Obama's agenda is down the tubes-- regulation and global warming and withdrawal from Afghanistan and everything else we need to get done. The Republicans are beyond the pale. But if the Democrats had only had some spine, they could have discredited the Republicans from the start. And if Obama hadn't been so entranced by his vision of himself as the great bipartisan hero, the bill we have now wouldn't be such a clunker. We had the majorities; we could have gotten through a much better bill by bulldozing the Republicans.
