As newly-empowered Republican Congressional leaders make the rounds following their historic victory in the House of Representatives in last Tuesday’s election, the clear consensus is an abridged, which is to say emasculated, approach to repealing ObamaCare.
Ignoring the national mandate to reject the President’s socialized medicine, which is in judicial dispute by nearly half the states of the union, may be defunded by Congress, and is already having a devastating impact on American health insurance and business, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin prematurely declared the repeal effort dead until 2012 on FoxNews this week. The Republican power-seeker who, like his religious conservative Congressional colleagues Mike Pence, Jim DeMint and Eric Cantor, talks like he champions capitalism and individual rights but, in fact, does not, basically told the Tea Party movement to go to hell. But the Tea Party rank and file may yet put Rep. Ryan in his place. Though it is true that, in the abysmal pack of major GOP 2012 presidential contenders, not one recognizes that health care is not a right, the only one pulling away from the pack thus far, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Christian conservative, is making a name for himself by leading the charge against ObamaCare.
Once the American people get a whiff of Obama’s health care dictatorship to come and once the Tea Party figures out that they’ve been had less than a week after the huge GOP gain, sellouts like Pence, Cantor and Ryan may be flushed out with Obama. Watch what the GOP does on repealing ObamaCare and, in a party demanding more capitalism not less, look for the most consistent advocate for repeal not replacement. Whomever comes closest to arguing for the morality of capitalism, not Christianity, against ObamaCare and demands its unequivocal repeal, to the extent anyone in the GOP can achieve such a status, would be catapulted to frontrunner in the race for the Grand Old Party’s nomination for 2012. Don’t count on Congressman-Can’t-Do Paul Ryan.