Have to say I missed this, entirely – but the Las Vegas Democrat Examiner didn’t:
…Included in the deal were guarantees by Senator Reid that he would allow a vote in the Senate to deny funding to President Obama’s signature health care reforms, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare”, which was signed into Law on March 23, 2009…
Do keep in mind that this is just an agreement to allow a vote – and it would take 60 votes to ensure a de-funding of ObamaCare and even then a veto would be a certainty. But, still, it does look like a vote will be held, and that is a victory for the GOP. ObamaCare is horrendously unpopular and with the Democrats having 23 seats to defend next year (and 8 of them highly vulnerable), there will be intense pressure on a lot of Democrats to vote to de-fund. We could very easily get a majority vote in favor…and all those Democrats who are arm-twisted in to voting against de-funding will have a nice, political target on their backs for 2012.
One thing certain, the more we look at this deal, the better it is for us.
