White House to RePIGlicans: Shit Or Get Off The Pot!

[Harry Hope]

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The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog

White House Piles On, Demands GOP Say Whether They Back Full Repeal

The White House is now joining calls from Dems and Tea Partiers that
GOP pols say whether they back a full repeal of the health care reform
bill, upping the stakes in a rhetorical battle with major
ramifications for 2010.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White
House blog this morning:

[B]efore it even becomes law, opponents of health care reform �
including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich � are already talking
about repealing it.

Certainly there is a fundamental disagreement here, since many
opponents of reform � again including Gingrich � appear to think that
insurance companies can do no wrong.

First, it does seem like another example of opposition at any cost to
want to repeal a law before its even enacted. �

Pfeiffer then proceeds to describe the specific new regulations on
insurance companies proposed in the bill, making the case that
repealing the bill would be a gift to them.

These comments come as Republicans try to make clear to their base
that full repeal is unlikely.

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Pat Toomey, the conservative primary
challenger to Sen. Arlen Specter before he switched parties, told
POLITICO that it was a longshot.

�We have to repeal very substantial parts of it and that�s not going
to be easy,� he said.

�I�m not sitting here predicting that a president who signs this into
law in 2010 is likely to sign a repeal in 2011.�

By making clear that it would be �very substantial parts� (but not
everything) and saying it wouldn�t be easy, Toomey is trying to
distance Republicans from the charge that they want to take away
popular benefits and move the discussion to safer political ground.

Will that be enough for the Tea Partiers?

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Hey, RePIGs, shit or get off the pot!

Harry