ObamaCare Unravels
January 20th 2011 · 0 Comments
Editorial: ObamaCare Unravels; House Votes To Repeal
Investor’s Business Daily
Jan 19, 2011
The House voted by a wide margin Wednesday to rescind ObamaCare. Critics sniff that the vote was merely symbolic and therefore a waste of time. But this decision carries some weight.
Though it passed 245-189 in the lower chamber, the repeal measure is not likely to get through the Senate. Even if it did, President Obama would stand ready with a veto, and there’s no hope of an override.
So the ObamaCare train wreck will continue until the Republicans have veto-proof majorities in both chambers or simple majorities in the House and Senate to go with a GOP White House. But that doesn’t mean Wednesday’s vote, dismissed as “partisan grandstanding” by Harry Reid, the Senate’s top Democrat, isn’t important.
First, it shows that the new Republican majority in the House is serious. GOP candidates ran last fall on the promise that they would repeal the Democrats’ overhaul of American health care.
Through Wednesday’s vote, they’ve done all that’s currently within their power to keep that promise, and that’s a clear signal to voters and to the opposition party. House Republicans won’t be moved off their principles.
Second, the repeal vote put House lawmakers from both parties clearly on the record. When the campaigning begins for the 2012 elections, those votes will be issues. Congressmen will have to explain to constituents who don’t like ObamaCare why they refused to repeal it.
For some Democrats, the explanations will be especially tough.
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