If a candidate for election to any public office is seeking support on the basis of a pledge to repeal Obamacare, write him or her off. Any such candidate is a lying, out of touch with reality, or given to spending time on useless endeavors such as tilting at windmills.
Repeal of the health care monstrosity that Obama and his cohorts enacted by resorting to the most unsavory tactics possible in our political system would be wonderful . . . but reality has to be faced.
It ain't gonna happen.
It can't. At least not until after Obama is out of office. In the first place, even if Republicans win control of the House of Reprehensibles and pass repeal legislation, no such measure would make it out of the U.S. Skanksty, where it is impossible for the GOP to gain the 60 seats necessary to send such legislation to the president. Even if that were miraculously to be achieved, is there anybody out there who seriously believes Obama would not veto any such legislation, or that both of the dismal bodies of congress conceivably would override his veto?
Therefore, repeal is out until at least 2013. That, however, does not mean that all is lost until then. There is a practical alternative if serious Obamacare opponents win control of both the House and the Sty in November or even just the House -- the body that originates appropriation bills.
All the House would have to do to stop Obamacare for all practical purposes would be to steadfastly refuse to appropriate the funds it or the myriad bureaucratic bodies necessary for its operation. Just defund it.
And if a stalwart House majority has the gumption to do that it also could look at other counterproductive and useless federal programs and organizations to do away with -- not by legally eliminating them but by drying up the flow of funds necessary to keep them from withering away to practical extinction. The Department of Education and the Department of Energy immediately leap to mind.
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