tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post8387745273620850214..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Questions 2: RepealJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-31073871948301757362010-03-23T09:38:22.567-05:002010-03-23T09:38:22.567-05:00When has the unpopularity or impossibility of a ca...When has the unpopularity or impossibility of a campaign plank ever stopped Republicans from running on it? This is the party that ran against treating non-Anglos and women with respect for 40 years and is still running on the proposition that all immigrants from south of the Rio Grande should legally be second-class citizens, if not barred from citizenship entirely. I would go so far as to say that the impossibility of a policy is, to the Republicans, a positive trait.Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14776242322789918501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-91238317543989651872010-03-23T08:09:43.228-05:002010-03-23T08:09:43.228-05:00I think your foresight is basically spot on. But I...I think your foresight is basically spot on. But I don't think that a campaign against HCR is a recipe for GOP success.<br /><br />Outright repeal of HCR is out of the question. No conceivable anti-incumbent wave in November could take the GOP high enough to repeal HCR, at least not in the Senate. Furthermore, a lot of what is in the new law will be popular. If Republicans were sensible, they would campaign on changing how health care reform was funded, talking about lifting the tax burden on businesses. That is something they could accomplish with even a slim majority in congress, through reconciliation, or by enlisting the help of conservative Democrats. But sensible Republicans? That might be a stretch.JonathanUnoreply@blogger.com