To the readers of Red State,
Are you for:
A) Repeal;
B) Repeal and Replace;
C) Repeal and Start Over: or,
D) Repeal Parts and Preserve Popular Elements of ObamaCare.
Clearly I am for A. I am very interested if the loyal readers of Red State are ready to die on the hill of Repeal or something short of Repeal. I would be fascinated to hear if you are for A, B, C, or D (or even none of the above) and why. Thanks.

because it will keep us united. Muddying the water gets us tangled up in the small weeds and allows the enemy to counterattack and nitpick.

A) really means repeal and replace, in the way I heard someone say last week, Repeal Ocare, and Replace Obama in ’12

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Don’t you mean that conservatives want to repeal and replace Romneycare, what is essentially Nixoncare and what is also essentially what Ronald Reagan proposed in the 1980s? That would be a LOT more accurate.

I have thought about this a bit and I think if the mid terms do serious enough damage to Dems there is a possibility of some near death conversions after the election making repeal a possibility sooner than the GOP alone 2013 minimum date.On the other hand, if the country doesn’t throw out Pelosi from the speakership , I shudder at what the arrogance of Dems would lead to over the next 2 years.

The reality here is that it is delusional to think it would ever be “repealed.” That’s not pessimism but reality.

A commenter at the Human Events website suggested an excellent link regarding how this bill might best be dismantled. The link is a podcast of John Yoo at Ricochet. He has a very interesting thought.

http://podcast.ricochet.com/ricochet-podcast-special-edition-john-yoo.mp3

Option D in my view will probably be the only course that can be done.

Why?

By the time Republicans have a large enough voting block in the Senate and the House, people will be hooked on some aspects of Obamacare and won’t want to give those parts up. The 2010 election might change the balance in the Senate, and less chance in the House, at best some sort of R majority in 2012 with being able to do something in terms of revising Obamacare.

Probably the preexisting condition provisions, probably the extension of benefits to your children who are not fully employed. I haven’t looked close enough, but there are going to be other “goodies” that people will have grown to like.

This behemoth is too complex and wordy to try to salvage any part of it. It needs to be dead in the water, and while they are at it eliminate some of the other burdensome regulations that have caused the explosion in health care prices in the first place by divorcing the consumer from consideration of cost versus value.

Let’s make it happen and retake the Senate.