Posted by
Defend America on Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:54:43 PM
Via The Plum Line:
Yesterday,
GOP leaders began to use a new phrase to describe their goals for the
health reform bill: “Repeal and replace.” Since then, however, GOP
officials have struggled to explain whether they want full repeal or just to roll back pieces they oppose.
A
senior Senate GOP aide just clarified the leadership’s strategy to me:
Continue to pledge and pursue full repeal, to keep the GOP base happy,
but only articulate it “piece by piece,” in order to avoid looking
intent on simply blowing up reform entirely.
Top GOP officials
have been in intensive discussions over how to proceed, now that
energized Dems are on offense after passing the bill. They’ve settled
on a game plan.
There’s “nothing partial” about our repeal push,
the senior Senate GOP aide told me, adding: “But it will be articulated
piece by piece so our position won’t be misconstrued as walking away
from the goals of reform.”
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/gop-strategy-pledge-full-repeal-but-do-it-piece-by-piece/