It took crazy Steve King less than 24 hour to announce his Repeal of Obamacare. He must have been in a race with Michelle Bachman. And over on the other side of the Hill, McCain and DeMint chime in. As did Mitt Romney, who has apparently reformed himself since his days as the governor of Massachusetts who implemented a very similar reform.
But they're on their ownon the money side of the repeal campaign. The Chamber of Commerce, the giant spender against reform, aren't interested in playing, according to the WSJ.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue criticized the health care legislation as a "very, very expensive" and disruptive change to the nation’s health-care delivery system. A companion bill that completes the overhaul legislation cleared the House last night and is expected to cross the final hurdles in the Senate this week.
But Donohue made it clear the chamber won’t be spending any of its substantial war chest on a campaign, favored by Republicans, to repeal the legislation. The Washington-based chamber, which represents three million businesses of all sizes, spent heavily in an unsuccessful effort to kill the health bill. Minutes after Democrats won passage in the House Sunday night, the chamber issued a statement calling the vote "a wrong and unfortunate decision that ignores the will of the American people."
But once the bill becomes law, Donohue said, "If people want to try and repeal, let them. We’re not going to spend any capital on that."
That doesn't mean the fight against reform is over for the Chamber. Donohue promises to weigh in on the regulatory phase and in future legislative tweaks. "'We have to see what we can do to deal with some of the issues that seem most egregious,' and mount challenges in Congress and potentially in the courts, he said."