From NRO’s The Corner:
Tonight, three conservative Democrats — Reps. Dan Boren (Okla.), Mike Ross (Ark.) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.) — joined Republicans in voting to repeal Obamacare.
But 10 of their colleagues who opposed the bill back in March — Reps. Ben Chandler (Ky.), Jason Altmire (Pa.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Heath Schuler (N.C.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Tim Holden (Pa.), John Barrow (Ga.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.) and Dan Lipinski (Ill.) — voted against repeal.
“At least we once and for all know where they truly stand,” said Alex Cortes, chairman of DefundIt.org…
Indeed, we do – and now we’ve got even more ammunition to beat these Representatives in 2012. Our campaign that year, aside from concentrating on the abysmal failures of President Obama, should tie in the need for big Republican Congressional majorities to ensure that real reform happens.
This is the point of the repeal vote – not that we expect to obtain repeal while Obama is President, but that we show the American people we’re serious about doing their political will. Now that we’ve done it, the argument for us easily shifts to, “we need more help in DC to get the peoples’ business done”. These ten faux-moderate Democrats are the best means the GOP can use to build in our 2010 victories in the House…just as any Democrats who vote against cloture in the Senate will be our best means of getting a GOP majority there.
The ball is in our court and things are clearly moving our way – all we have to do is keep pressing the reform issue. Democrats dare not allow the reforms to pass, because any real reform means that Democrat special interests will lose money and/or power…but as they fight a rear guard action for the Ruling Class, they’ll be digging their own political grave. The next 22 months are, I think, going to be a lot of fun for Republicans on the political level.
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