Mitch McConnell: I Assure You There Will Be a Senate Vote to Repeal Obamacare (Video)

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell assured Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday today that there will be a vote on Obamacare this year in the US Senate.

Senator Mitch McConnell:

“Well first I don’t know why democrats don’t want to vote on it. They’re proud of it. They think it’s one of the most important things they’ve done to for the country. In fact only three House democrats have voted for repeal last week. So first I’m a little perplexed that they don’t want to have this vote. But, look if they don’t want to have this vote we’ll have the vote. I’m not going to discuss how we’ll do it from a parliamentary point of view here but it’s very hard to deny people votes in the senate and I assure you we’ll have a vote on repeal. If that does not pass and I don’t think anyone is optimistic it will, we intend to go after this health care bill in every way that we can. It is the single worst piece of legislation that passed in my time in the senate.”

#1 January 23, 2011 at 9:33 am
Oldpuppymax commented:

That’s nice, Mitchie, but you must force NUMEROUS votes, not just one! Democrats must be forced to take stands on every part of HusseinCare, every tax increase, every death panel empowerment, every attempt to fine US citizens, every payment for abortion. Nope. One vote won’t get the job done. So don’t allow just ONE vote to get you all proud and puffed up before climbing back under your desk, little Mitchie. Force a dozen or more and we’ll talk.
#2 January 23, 2011 at 9:33 am
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:

I don’t believe this. It has the same hollow ring as when Nancy Pelosi stood up and emphatically gave her assurances that the Democrats would retain control of the House.
#3 January 23, 2011 at 9:38 am
The Elector of Saxony commented:

Need to force repeated votes on domestic oil production. Title the acts “Lower Prices at the Pump Act”, and force every Dem to stick it up their a** for President Snuggle-Bunny. Make ‘em vote NO and sit back, watch gas prices hit 4$ this summer and blame the pain on Jug-head and the dopey-crats.
#4 January 23, 2011 at 9:43 am
LtT26 commented:

“I’m not going to discuss how we’ll do it from a parliamentary point of view here but it’s very hard to deny people votes in the senate and I assure you we’ll have a vote on repeal. If that does not pass and I don’t think anyone is optimistic it will, we intend to go after this health care bill in every way that we can. It is the single worst piece of legislation that passed in my time in the senate.”

Prove it Mitch. You’re one of the biggest pussies in our party. You, Hatch, Lugar, McCain, Graham, Kirk(new and already on rino hunt radar)…and boehner still looks like a pussy to me.

they’ll cave.
#6 January 23, 2011 at 9:54 am
Robert commented:

Maybe he can discuss with his Democrat buds while he’s sitting with them at the State of the Union speech.
#7 January 23, 2011 at 10:01 am
Conservative to the Core commented:

file under:
Broken Promises, Delusions, Never Serious in the First Place

*sigh*
#8 January 23, 2011 at 10:22 am
MAJ Mike commented:

Just another RINO grunting in the night.
#9 January 23, 2011 at 10:23 am
bitterclinger commented:

Now, as for backing a real warrior in the conservative blogosphere…

Jim, are you up for it? I like anything that makes lefty heads go ‘splodey.

http://bit.ly/fuou80
#10 January 23, 2011 at 10:29 am
NeoKong commented:

We’ll see.
#11 January 23, 2011 at 10:37 am
Jason D. commented:

Why must Republicans force repeal down our throats?
#12 January 23, 2011 at 10:40 am
Noah commented:

I don’t like McConnell and I hope he gets voted out of office when elections come around again.
He is a Rino ,he is fighting against Jim DeMint and I find him a threat to Conservatives values.

He is one of the reasons the progressives did so well for so long in destroying America.
#13 January 23, 2011 at 10:52 am
andy42302 commented:

Obama won in 08 with a campaign promise of HCR.
Many Democrats won in 06 and 08 with a campaign promise of HCR.
HCR became law by the representatives that were elected with the promise of making it law.
HCR went through the proper procedures to become law. It was a fair vote.
Polls show that people don’t want a repeal of HCR.

But that aside;
HCR addresses a profound need of a change that even most Republicans concede is needed.
HCR will have a positive effect on our debt.
Republicans fought HCR with lies such as “death panels”.
Republicans continue to lie with “job killing” as the 650,000 jobs they claim to be “killed” will be a result of people leaving their jobs because they’re only working because they need the insurance.
#14 January 23, 2011 at 10:54 am
valerie commented:

He also needs to support BO’s proposed review of Federal Regulations (and I would add, policy) so that we can free up investment funds for all kinds of business, not just seed money for medical research as proposed by the administration today.

Yeah, I am re-osting this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/health/policy/23drug.html

Guys, government investment in any industry dries up private investment. It is counterproductive and always wrongly targeted, because it is late, too little, and focused on the grant application process instead of real research results. They even admit that the proposed funding is less than private industry could do, instead.

They need to adjust the wrong-headed economic and FDA policies that deprive people of the motive and the means to make selections among emergent technologies. This can be done.

All we have to do is stop strangling that goose.
#15 January 23, 2011 at 10:57 am
Militant Conservative commented:

#11 January 23, 2011 at 10:37 am
Jason D. commented:

Jason you did not even give America a wet kiss or the benifit of a reach around.

Your tyranny of the majority is what the constitution should have stopped.

Now the next few years will be spent getting America back on track and away from socialist ideals. Powder is dry.
#16 January 23, 2011 at 10:59 am
Militant Conservative commented:

Trolls abound today.

The public did not want Obamacare, They did want HCR.

Keeping things nebulous is how they fooled the masses into voting for the democrat/socialists.
#17 January 23, 2011 at 11:09 am
b5blue commented:

Whatever happens, we must not let the leftists dictate to us the outcome:

http://reformaliberal.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/an-invitation-to-debate-the-obamacare-repeal-efforts/

Make no mistake, the libs hated this House vote.
#18 January 23, 2011 at 11:10 am
b5blue commented:

@ Jason D.

It wasn’t forced. The public doesn’t want Obamacare and the repeal vote was bipartisan. In fact the repeal effort passed by a far larger measure than the original Obamacare vote.

You were saying?
#19 January 23, 2011 at 11:10 am
Carlos commented:

I agree with #12, Noah.

Tips for Mitch: Purchase your shirts in a larger neck size. Your 3 rolling necks could use the breathin’ room. Hey, perhaps a turtleneck would make a dramatic fashion statement in the senate! Spring the $ for the Lasek surgery…lose the fugly glasses. Grow a chin. Just sayin’…
#20 January 23, 2011 at 11:12 am
bg commented:

++

i’d say the same thing to Mitch McConnell that i’d say to Barack Obama..

actions speak louder than “just words”; 2 & 3; & much more i’m sure..

unfortunately for US, we are a country plagued by doubting Thiomases..

but not to worry, once all eyes are opened, we’ll hopefully see a change..

until then, well, we’ve more or less given a highly suspiciously motivated
unknown (aka: Golden Calf) permission to lead (aka: sell for a few pieces
of Silver) US into the desert so to speak..

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#21 January 23, 2011 at 11:17 am
Magic Eight Ball commented:

brave journal lies
#22 January 23, 2011 at 11:29 am
jainphx commented:

The caliber of trools we have today! The way they twist reality and actually believe their twisted visions. The 2010 elections prove the lie to Andy, but for cheating and voter fraud, there might not be a Demoncrapic party. I guess old Andy was out of the country in a cave. Hey Andy! wake up, the Dems lost everything down to dog catcher because of jamming “health care” down the throats of the people that demanded they not pass it, but like you they didn’t care or listen.
#23 January 23, 2011 at 11:31 am
bg commented:

++

#19

not playing the ObamAlinsky game, i don’t give fig what people look like,
what they wear, or what they eat for breakfast, etc.. it’s what they do
or don’t do to or for “we the people” that counts.. that said, he is old..
so give him a break already, like retirement in the next election if things
go in the opposite direction..

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#24 January 23, 2011 at 11:32 am
RedBeard commented:

Deeds, not words. Once I see what McConnell does, I’ll applaud what he says here.

Does that make me a cynic? Yes, it does, and with very good reason, given Republican “leadership” over the last decade or so.

If any Republican bigshots are offended by this cynicism, there’s a simple cure. They can prove themselves in Congress, and continue doing so day after day. If they do, then they will have earned our praise and ended the cynicism. But the ball, as they say, is in their court. And we are watching.
#25 January 23, 2011 at 11:32 am
bg commented:

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re: #23

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#26 January 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm
andy42302 commented:

Yet jainphx, polls indicate that people do not want HCR repealed. And even when you present the most twisted and exaggerated poll that you can find, it isn’t consistent with your election result assessment.
The reason that Dems took such a beating in Nov is because they couldn’t repair the economic disaster that Bush and the GOP left them as quickly as voters would have liked. While you can argue that point all you like, people of reasonable intellect realize that it has merit.
#27 January 23, 2011 at 12:27 pm
W. Joy commented:

I want Obamacare repealed — the government cannot manage large programs efficiently or effectively and I do not want a BIG SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT making decisions about my healthcare. I’m tired of people telling me about my being on Medicare means I’m already in Government healthcare. It’s a crappy program and I think it should be dissolved — I wish the Tea Party had been around in the 1960′s — maybe they could have prevented some of the 1960′s Great Society programs. Medicare and all of its rules and regulations are a big reason health care costs are so high today. No one with any common sense would pass a new and larger health entitlement program to take the place of a smaller one that has proven to be 700% more costly than originally projected — but then Progressives are mindbogglingly stupid when it comes to economic matters.
#28 January 23, 2011 at 1:55 pm
John Lee Pettimoore III commented:

The trolls are whistling past the graveyard with “polls”. Wait until the effect of out of pocket premium increases for the average consumer hits the workers’ paychecks. The call for repeal will get louder as the year goes on. It’s already hit me for THIRTEEN HUNDRED FORTY FOUR dollars annually for the same insurance I had last year. This is comparable to putting a gun to my head and robbing me of that money.
#29 January 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm
John Lee Pettimoore III commented:

Monday, January 17, 2011

Support for repeal of the national health care law passed last year remains steady, as most voters continue to believe the law will increase the federal budget deficit.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 55% of Likely Voters favor repeal of the health care law, while 40% oppose repeal.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law
#30 January 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm
RedBeard commented:

Man, the trolls certainly do miss George Bush. Must be trying times indeed.
#31 January 23, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Arch commented:

Don’t bet the Farm on ObamaCare.

The law was very unpopular when it passed and now that people have read it, it’s more unpopular. People who voted to pass health care reform were slaughtered in the midterms.

The republicans repealed the bill in the House by an overwhelming margin. Three democrats voted for repeal because they knew a vote against would bring the wrath of their constituents and certain defeat in 2012. Paul Ryan is going to gut funding for the major structural feature regardless. The House republicans are working on replacement legislation addressing the problems – selling across state lines, group pools for preexisting conditions, reducing costs, protection from excessive lawsuits, but no mandates or death panels.

There are 27 States in the suit filed by Florida. Virginia has another suit hoping to have the whole law ruled unconstitutional. Idaho is passing a nullification of ObamaCare. Every state knows that it will bankrupt them if it proceeds.

The democrats have a slim majority in the senate, so they do not need any republicans to block repeal. However, 23 of these democrats are up in 2012 and they watched their colleagues go down to defeat and they are afraid of opposing repeal. Reid hopes to keep the bill bottled up in committee so his vulnerable democrats do not have to support ObamaCare again. There are parliamentary maneuvers around the Majority Leader.

One is Senate Rule 14:

“Using Rule XIV to Bypass a Senate Committee

“Senate Rule XIV, para. 4, states: ‘… and every bill and joint resolution introduced on leave, and every bill and joint resolution of the House of Representatives which shall have received a first and second reading without being referred to a committee, shall, if objection be made to further proceeding thereon, be placed on the Calendar.’”

This is what McConnell is talking about.

Obama has promised to veto the repeal bill, but that may blow up in his face as did the midterms. People do not want ObamaCare and they will call their senators to say so. Overriding ObamaCare would destroy the Obama Presidency.

If Obama is smart (and to date I have seen no evidence that he is) he would throw in the towel and sit down with the republicans to draft a compromise heath care bill. That’s the only way he gets reelected and possibly makes gains in congress.
#32 January 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Arch commented:

Trolls are you still out there?
#33 January 23, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Simon commented:

I like McConnell, but it’s obvious the trolls here pretending to be conservatives don’t. Did you see him versus Salazar? Did you hear about where he plans to sit? Did you pretend to be one of us and then bash us all yet again, little troll-ops?