The Time Has Come For Democrats To Launch Their Obamacare Counter-Offensive

It looks like Republicans are finally starting to get bored with trying to repeal Obamacare (from Dana Milbank):

In Tuesday’s repeal effort by House Republicans — their first of this Congress and their 56th overall — it became clear that they had succeeded at one thing: They had bored even themselves into a slumber.

For much of the debate Tuesday afternoon, no more than a dozen seats were occupied on the pro-repeal side of the House. More than once, the GOP had nobody available to speak.

Word is that this latest attempt to repeal will die a quick death in the Senate because the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster simply aren't there. But I believe it would be a mistake for the Senate Democrats to filibuster this bill.

Harry Reid should simply come out and say there will be no filibuster and that the House Bill repealing Obamacare will receive an up-or-down vote in the Senate. Both Reid and Obama should state publicly that they want an up-or-down vote so they can get the Senate Republicans on the record as to which ones want repeal and which ones don't.

Obama can then veto this bill, doing so while a dozen Americans who would be dead today if it wasn't for the Affordable Care Act stand behind him.  Hell, Obama can even hand out pens afterwards.

You see, when the previous fifty-five votes to repeal Obamacare took place, the Affordable Care Act hadn't been fully implemented yet.  But that is no longer the case, and if a member of the House or the Senate votes right now to repeal, that means this individual is voting to take health coverage away from millions of Americans.

I think Sun Tzu once wrote that the best time to attack an enemy is when he is falling asleep.  Well, maybe he didn't actually write that, but he should of.  The GOP is getting bored with trying to repeal Obamacare, so the time has come for the Democrats to hit back hard and make the Republicans own their repeal votes.  After all, the 2016 General Election is just around the corner, and I suspect that millions of voters might not like the fact that the GOP is trying to take health coverage away from them.