Yes, after flying death panels, death books and Obama with a Hitler mustache because he was a socialist, communist, fascist dictator that wanted to put granny to sleep they began to realize that maybe that was not the soundest of strategies to begin with.
Now Mitch McConnell and his "brain trust" within the Republican leadership have done what they do best. Come up with a catchy slogan that actually offers nothing in the way of solutions and just says "hey America, to hell with you". Yes, their grand new slogan appears to be "Repeal and Replace":
Meeting with reporters after a private party strategy meeting, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, took pains to say that Republicans will push not only to overturn the law, but that they intend to replace it with something else.
"I think the slogan will be "repeal and replace", "repeal and replace," Mr. McConnell said. "No one that I know in the Republican conference in the Senate believes that no action is appropriate."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Oh, but not only that they have come up with a totally original name to refer to the new law as:
In another twist, Republicans are now referring to the measure as the health spending law – a subtle shift that is an attempt to emphasize the federal fiscal issues they believe resonate with Americans.
I guess they ignore the fact that the original house bill ripped apart in the "House of Lords" and with which they did nothing to improve but just said "no" was deficit neutral:
House Democrats' newly unveiled healthcare reform bill will cost about $894 billion over the next 10 years -- but a combination of tax increases and spending cuts keep the bill deficit neutral, the Congressional Budget Office revealed on Thursday.
That means the bill, unveiled earlier today by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), satisfies the two cost criteria President Barack Obama established for healthcare reform earlier this year.
Total enrollment in the public plan would be about 6 million, or one-fifth of the total consumers shopping in the insurance exchange.
http://thehill.com/...
What we do not see here is one single shred of vision that tells how these Republicans would have solved this crisis or one thing whatsoever they would do to "replace" it. That is because the only idea they have to replace this legislation if repealed is to go back to the same old system that treats millions of Americans as second hand citizens while doling out hundreds of billions of dollars in Corporate Welfare and bankrupting our country with the consequences.
It is true the bill as passed does need some fine tuning over the next few years. However, this includes nothing that any Republican would want. This would include adding a public option to offset a mandate, and eventually moving America into what it should have had in the first place, a real single-payer system.
However, here at Hillbilly Report we salute McConnell and his cohorts for such catchy new slogans and such a broad vision of our country. Hell we are just so glad he used the health insurance we pay for that he fought so hard to keep us from being able to attain too and finally made a dental appointment and quit giving the good folks in Kentucky a bad name:
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