| Fridays with Erick Erickson | 03.02.12 |  |
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working on some popular bipartisan legislation to begin partially repealing parts of ObamaCare — no doubt parts of ObamaCare that would never have made it in had the Democrats read the bill first.
I think any partial repeal, and we've already seen some, is a disastrous plan for the Republican Party to follow and will almost certainly ensure that ObamaCare stays around forever. The only strategy the Republicans should pursue is full and complete repeal, repeatedly getting the Democrats on record supporting a policy the American people are opposed to by significant majorities.
In a partial repeal strategy, as the GOP is now pursuing, once they've gotten rid of all the stuff on which there is bipartisan agreement, every additional point of repeal becomes a full on partisan fight just like a full repeal vote, but with one big difference: a full repeal vote has the American people on the side of the GOP.
Each additional partial repeal vote will have the public breaking off back and forth between the Republicans and the Democrats depending on the particular part of ObamaCare being considered for repeal, making partial repeal a mine field for the Republicans.
If the GOP will not commit to votes on full repeal with the American people so clearly on their side, prepare to be nickeled and dimed into an even more costly form of ObamaCare where all the stuff both sides agree they hate (the stuff that was initially designed to keep costs down) goes away and all the stuff the Democrats love stays because a handful of Republicans are too scared to vote with the rest of their party to get rid of the programs.
That also adds one significant issue — the items in ObamaCare that are the most unpopular on both sides of the aisle are the things written into the bill designed to mitigate the costs of ObamaCare. Once both sides get rid of those proposals with no alternatives to mitigate the costs, ObamaCare will not just stick around, but be an even bigger budget burden.
—Erick Erickson |
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The Texas Declaration of Independence
On this date in 1836, the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico was adopted by the Convention of 1836. The Texas Revolution had begun five months previously in October. |
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