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How a Republican Congress could begin the process of repealing this unpopular law.

August 25th, 2010 · Change of Power, Healthcare, Obama Exposed, Obama's Scheme, Republicans

Putting the Brakes on ObamaCare

By Grace-Marie Turner

If Republicans take control of one or both houses of Congress this fall, many will have been elected with a promise to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare. But what are their options, really? There likely will be an initial showdown, but President Obama will surely veto any challenge to the law, and it would be hard to imagine mustering the votes to overturn it.

Information is the key weapon. Republicans can use congressional hearings to explain what ObamaCare is doing to the economy and the health sector. Their strongest cases would be built around jobs, the cost of health care, and the rising deficit.

If evidence shows that looming mandates on employers are crippling job-creation, they should be repealed. If health costs are rising, as they inevitably will be, Congress needs to hold hearings to investigate the causes and explain why the offending taxes and regulations must be repealed.

Here are six key strategies that a Republican Congress could employ to put on the brakes:

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A Bad Day for the Obama Agenda

May 20th, 2010 · Accountability, Change of Power, Dissention, Government, Republicans

The primary election results show rising intensity among Republican voters.

By KARL ROVE

The temptation for politicians and political analysts is to draw broad, sweeping conclusions from election results. But most election outcomes defy being reduced to a single cause.

Campaigns are a complicated mix of issues, personalities and impressions. Voters settle on a candidate after using an algorithm that varies from person-to-person, contest-to-contest, and year-to-year. Tuesday’s election results reflect an anti-Washington, anti-Obama, anti-establishment feeling among voters, but they also reflect the candidates’ individual winning messages.

Take Kentucky’s GOP primary, where ophthalmologist and tea party activist Rand Paul won the Republican nomination to replace retiring Sen. Jim Bunning. Dr. Paul’s victory was a rejection of the Republican establishment, shrieked observers. He defeated Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who was supported by the state’s senior senator, Mitch McConnell. But Dr. Paul won with support from party regulars Cathy Bailey (finance chairman for both George W. Bush and Mr. McConnell), Kentucky State Senate President David Williams, and Mr. Bunning himself.

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul.

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Republicans end filibuster of financial overhaul bill in Senate

April 29th, 2010 · Accountability, Congress, Dissention, Ethics, Finance, Government Control, Politics, Republicans

By Shailagh Murray and Brady Dennis Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Republicans ended their three-day filibuster of a financial regulatory overhaul Wednesday, reaching agreement with Democrats to begin debate on a bill aimed at curbing the risky investment practices that brought the U.S. economy to the brink of collapse.

After voting three times this week to block debate, GOP senators decided to reverse course and attempt to reshape the bill through the amendment process. The change in tactics came after Senate banking committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and the ranking Republican on the panel, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), announced that they had again reached an impasse in their efforts to reach a bipartisan compromise.

Democrats had embraced the GOP filibuster as an opportunity to portray Republicans as defenders of powerful special interests, in particular major banks and investment houses. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had threatened to keep the Senate in session overnight Wednesday to reap maximum political benefits.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham threatens to abandon push for climate energy bill

April 24th, 2010 · Accountability, Climate, Congress, Dissention, Immigration, Immigration, Non-Transparency, Republicans

News Alert: Sen. Lindsey Graham threatens to abandon push for climate energy bill
02:08 PM EDT Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to abandon his effort to push a climate energy bill Saturday, arguing that Democrats’ efforts to pass immigration legislation has undermined his faith in the process.

Graham, along with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), planned to unveil their climate proposal Monday.

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Prominent Republicans making more endorsements in primary races

April 24th, 2010 · Accountability, Change of Power, Republicans

By Karen Tumulty Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 22, 2010

You might think that no sensible Republican with presidential ambitions would wander into a blood feud within the party. This year, you would be wrong. The likely contenders for the 2012 GOP nomination have been sprinkling their marquee-worthy endorsements in an unusually large number of bitter primary contests across the country.

In Florida, for instance, Mitt Romney this week joined past — and possibly future — presidential rivals Mike Huckabee and Rudolph W. Giuliani aboard the increasingly crowded bandwagon of Senate candidate and “tea party” favorite Marco Rubio. That’s looking like a safe bet: The former Florida House speaker has amassed a lead so formidable in the GOP primary that Gov. Charlie Crist, the early favorite, might ditch his party and run as an independent in November.

This is turning out to be a year when any association with Washington and the political establishment can be toxic. And that’s reversing the old calculus that primary endorsements unnecessarily create enemies. In such a climate, says longtime strategist John Weaver, wading into the fray can be “a pretty smart play” for presidential candidates trying to demonstrate their throw-the-bums-out bona fides. So far, their endorsements have kicked up dust in GOP primaries from Kentucky and South Carolina to Indiana and New York.

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Here come the Republican amendments

March 25th, 2010 · Congress, Healthcare, Republicans

By Shailagh Murray
Senate Republican amendments to the health-care “fixes” bill are stacking up, and some could prove tough for Democrats to oppose when the around-the-clock “vote-a-rama” begins later today. And yet if the legislation changes in any way, it must return to the House for a final vote. So look for Democrats to hang tough — at least on most of these measures.

Here are highlights from the growing list:

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States launch lawsuits against healthcare plan

March 22nd, 2010 · Accountability, Dissention, Government, Healthcare, Republicans

Reuters
Monday, March 22, 2010; 1:21 PM

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Less than 24 hours after the House of Representatives gave final approval to a sweeping overhaul of healthcare, attorneys general from several states on Monday said they will sue to block the plan on constitutional grounds.

Republican attorneys general in 11 states warned that lawsuits will be filed to stop the federal government overstepping its constitutional powers and usurping states’ sovereignty.

States are concerned the burden of providing healthcare will fall on them without enough federal support.

Ten of the attorneys general plan to band together in a collective lawsuit on behalf of Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington.

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Republicans hope for another Senate victory, this time in Obama’s Illinois

January 31st, 2010 · Change of Power, Republicans, Senate

By Lois Romano Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 31, 2010

CHICAGO — Not a good week for the Democrats here trying to hang on to President Obama‘s old Senate seat.

The party’s leading contender — state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias — has spent these last precious days before Tuesday’s primary scrambling to explain why regulators have targeted his struggling family bank for greater oversight. Giannoulias, once a senior lending officer at Broadway Bank, is being pressed relentlessly by his Democratic rivals and the media about his role in the bank’s woes.

Republicans promise that it is not a topic that will go away.

The Senate race in the president’s home state will be among the most symbolically important and expensive races in the country this year. After Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts this month, the GOP sees a clear path to victory in this Democratic state — and his name is Mark Kirk.

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Roger Roth for Congress (R-WI)

January 30th, 2010 · Congress, Republicans, Wisconsin

Roth Declares Candidacy for Congress

Appleton (WI)… Homebuilder, Iraq War veteran, and State Representative Roger Roth today called for a clean break from the failing policies of Washington and declared his candidacy for Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District in next year’s election.
“Out of control government spending, exploding federal debt, and a government takeover of health care are all threatening to end the American Way of life.”
“I will stand up to the ruling elite in Washington who are taking our nation down the path of inflation that will wipe out the savings of our senior citizens, bailouts that prop up failing big businesses at a huge loss to the taxpayer, and massive tax increases that will drive even more investment capital and jobs abroad.”
“It is time for real leadership in Washington. America today is a first-rate nation with third-rate leadership, leadership that is failing our people.”
“Washington can’t keep promising all things to all people and mortgage away our children’s future. We must return to our roots by allowing our citizens the liberty of using their God-given talents in the pursuit of happiness.”
A life-long resident of the Fox Valley, Roth pledges to run a grassroots campaign that will span the entire district. His uncle is the former Congressman Toby Roth.
Roth resides in the Town of Grand Chute in Outagamie County.

P.O. Box 26, Appleton, WI 54912
www.rothforcongress.com
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Obama talks to House Republicans in Baltimore in rare, televised debate in

January 30th, 2010 · House, Obama's Scheme, Republicans

By Paul Kane and Perry Bacon Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 30, 2010

BALTIMORE — President Obama offered a muscular defense of his first year in office Friday in the most hostile of territories — a gathering of House Republicans, who engaged him in a pointed debate that had moments of both tense drama and bipartisan comity over the stark policy differences that separate the two sides.

In an unusual session, Obama repeatedly accused Republicans of seeking political gain at his expense by opposing fiscal policies they had previously supported. But he also reached out for their help as he recalibrates his 2010 agenda to focus intensely on the economy, and he provided House Republicans — a group he basically ignored for the past year– with a 90-minute, nationally televised platform to air their policy prescriptions for the nation.

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