Because, of course, not even a Republican seizure of Congress would allow for a successful repeal of Health Care reform. There is the small matter of the presidential veto. With the veto pen in hand, any GOP effort to repeal isn't going to require 218 votes in the House and 51 in the Senate, it's going to require 290 and 67.
That would require, even if the GOP were able to hold all 34 Democratic dissidents (unlikely), a seventy-eight seat gain in the House for the GOP.
The wall to climb in the Senate is, shall we say, a little more burdensome. A twenty-six seat gain, which would be particularly problematic, given that there aren't 26 Democrats running for re-election in this cycle.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Repeal It!
Um, no:
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