Repeal the Healthcare Law? After this, I say it maybe time to do so.

And 8th District Rep Jim Marshall was right when he called the law a "Disaster".

Politico reports that supporters of President Obama's health care plan --including the AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org and SEIU-- are now moving away from their previous assertions that the health care bill would reduce the deficit and health care costs.

The confidential presentation, available and provided to POLITICO by a source on the call, suggests that Democrats are acknowledging the failure of their predictions that the health care legislation would grow more popular after its passage, as its benefits became clear and rhetoric cooled. Instead, the presentation is designed to win over a skeptical public and to defend the legislation — in particular, the individual mandate — from a push for repeal.



The Herndon Alliance, which presented the research, is a low-profile group that coordinated liberal messaging in favor of the public option in health care. Its "partners" include health care legislation's heavyweight supporters: AARP, AFL-CIO, SEIU, Health Care for America Now, MoveOn and La Raza, among many others

Andre Walker over at Georgia Politics Unfiltered thinks the only option now is to repeal the plan altogether & even cited a Jim Marshall article in which he saye the Healthcare Law is a "DISASTER": 8th district Democratic Congressman Jim Marshall recently called health care reform "a disaster." [Stucka, Mike (2010-8-6). Marshall: Health care reform 'a disaster'. Macon Telegraph. Retrieved on 2010-8-20.]


The presentation also counsels against the kind of grand claims of change that accompanied the legislation's passage.

Now I thought that the bill wouldn't be repealed, instead parts or provisions of the legislation would neither be repaled or be thrown out. Now after hearing that this new Law won't reduce the deficit & reduce cost.

Im with Andre to say the only option now is to repeal the Damn thing, if that means people with pre-existing conditons losing their benefits. I wasn't a huge suporter of the bill, only the rural aspects of the legislation, but this bill will do more harm that good, especially when it comes to the federal deficit & debt.

Blue Dogs push for new blood

The House Blue Dog Coalition, which is losing an unusual number of members, is aiming to replenish its ranks by making endorsements in a handful of competitive races.

Blue Dogs are throwing their support to a group of like-minded conservative Democrats that includes Steve Raby in Alabama’s 5th District, Chad Causey in Arkansas’s 1st District, Roy Herron in Tennessee’s 8th District, Trent Van Haaften in Indiana’s 8th District, and Stephene Moore in Kansas’s 3rd District.


If elected, these hopefuls would join a thinned Blue Dog group in the upcoming 112th Congress. Tennessee Reps. John Tanner and Bart Gordon, Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry, and Kansas Rep. Dennis Moore, are all retiring, while Indiana Rep. Brad Ellsworth and Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon are waging Senate campaigns. Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman who started the cycle as a Blue Dog, switched to the Republican Party in 2009 before losing his seat in a primary.

The list of outgoing Blue Dogs outpaces the 110th Congress, when the only Blue Dog who retired was Alabama Rep. Bud Cramer. Texas Rep. Nick Lampson, Florida Rep. Tim Mahoney and Louisiana Rep. Don Cazayoux - all freshmen – lost their campaigns for re-election.

Causey, a former Berry chief of staff who is running for his onetime boss’s Jonesboro-area seat, said the turnover allowed for an infusion of new leadership into the influential coalition, whose focus on fiscal conservatism has put them at odds with their national party on issues including the health care overhaul to the economic stimulus package.

“People come and people go. Sometimes it provides some fresh air into the House. It gets a little musty in there sometimes and it lets you gets some fresh ideas onto the table,” he said.

Causey, Herron, Van Haaften and Moore, who is the wife of Dennis Moore, are all looking to fill seats of departing Blue Dogs. Raby, a former chief of staff for Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin, is running for the conservative-leaning 5th District seat that had been held by Griffith and, prior to him, Cramer.

Raby and Van Haaften secured their endorsements last week after meeting with groups of local Blue Dog Democrats, said their respective campaigns. Raby huddled with Mississippi Rep. Travis Childers, Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright, Florida Rep. Allen Boyd and Tanner, while Van Haaften met with Indiana Reps. Joe Donnelly, Baron Hill, and Ellsworth, whose seat he is seeking.

The Blue Dog endorsement typically provides candidates with an opportunity to distinguish themselves from party leaders.

In an interview, Raby, who faces a November battle against Republican Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks, argued that the Blue Dog seal of approval would help him sell himself as an independent-minded and fiscally conservative Democrat in a district where John McCain won 61 percent of the vote.

“It’s going to be helpful for my campaign in north Alabama. It’s a well-known political commodity,” said Raby, whose campaign website makes no mention that he’s a Democrat. “People understand that a Blue Dog is a congressman who can focus on issues and not politically pander.”

If the Bluedogs are endorsing candidates to replenish their ranks, then they ought to look here in Georgia where candidates like Doug Heckman & Frank Saunders are running as center-right democrats this election cycle, (Heckman's running in a open seat)

Paul: Tea parties won't rebuild GOP

The Politico:

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Wednesday night that despite the groundswell of grass-roots conservative energy, the tea party movement is not likely to revive the Republican Party.

Says Paul: “I don't think you can talk about the tea party as a party,” Paul said during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “It’s made up of a lot of different people. And I don't even see them as being Republicans.”

“I think they're unhappy. They're unhappy with the establishment party. And that's made up of the Republicans and the Democrats,” Paul said. “If the Republicans don't catch on to that, they can't build their party.”

Asked about a recent photo that has been widely circulated in the liberal blogosphere showing a prominent tea party organizer from Houston holding up a sign with incendiary racial language, Paul said the tea parties sometimes “act too angrily, and it doesn't come off well.”

“If they keep doing that, yes, it may not necessarily build the party,” Paul said.