Friday, October 26, 2012

A bet I would never take.

Reading CSM's profile of five undecided voters, the last one, Elizabeth Cole from Arlington, VA made a bet that I would have never made.  She bet that, despite her support for Obamacare and its mandated healthcare free screening coverage for certain diseases, Mitt Romney wouldn't repeal Obamacare and that Senate Democrats would block a repeal.
"Yes, if something draconian happens ... I will be kicking myself and I will be part of the people who let that happen."
She doesn't understand politics.  The repeal of Obamacare and all of its provisions, would come from an omnibus budget bill from the Tea Party House of Representatives.  This is how Washington works: completely unrelated bills are inserted into larger ones, in hopes of forcing difficult political choices.  There will be no up and down vote on Obamacare that Senate Democrats will be able to forestall.

Conservative and moderate Democrats will be faced with either allowing the federal government to run, or to keep Obamacare, as Tea Party Republicans will not allow for a continuing extension of the current budget.  In fear for their political lives, these conservative and moderate Democrats will cave in and help to repeal Obamacare.

And I get to see Ms. Cole kicking herself.

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