The Senate votes on Obamacare repeal

  Earlier this year the House voted in favor of repealing Obamacare in its entirety sending the bill to the Senate for a vote. Harry Reid had vowed to block this bill from ever making it to the Senate floor for a vote but today the bill made it to the Senate floor and the bill failed along party lines by a vote of 51-47.

  There never really was a chance that the Democrat controlled Senate would vote to repeal Obamacare but Harry Reid did not want vulnerable Democrats forced into voting in support of the unpopular and unconstitutional legislation. But today the Republicans successfully forced the vote and now we have ALL of the Senate Democrats on record as supporting the Obamcare legislation which was recently ruled unconstitutional by a Florida judge. Apparently the constitutionality of the legislation is of no concern to the Democrats.

  When the House passed the repeal legislation it was widely viewed as a symbolic victory–which is basically all that it was–but the vote held earlier today could have ramifications in the 2012 elections which will be more far reaching than if this were just a symbolic vote because this could affect the next elections. People now  know exactly who still supports this legislation and they can now be targeted and the crosshairs will be on them when the people head to the polls in November of 2012. And this is precisely the reason why Harry Reid did not want to vote on a bill in which he was guaranteed the outcome he wanted; he did not want to force vulnerable Democrats to go on record as supporting Obamacare, even though we all know they do support it.

  What this vote did was make the healthcare issue much more transparent than Harry Reid would have liked it to be, and it also ensures that healthcare will still be a major topic in the 2012 election, much to the chagrin of Democrats who had hoped that is would disappear by that point. We now know that ALL Democrats still support the measure even after it has been ruled unconstitutional and we will have the chance to hold ALL of these Democrats accountable for their vote today.

  Just getting the repeal vote to the floor against the will of Harry Reid was a victory in and of itself and it may show us that Harry Reid’s influence is waning just a little bit. And this vote could prove troublesome in the 2012 election because of the 33 seats which will be up for grabs the Democrats currently hold 23 of them. And out of those 23 seats, many of them are held by Democrats in Republican leaning districts who rode Bush Derangement Syndrome to victory in 2006; when you consider how unpopular this legislation is, these Democrat may have signed their walking papers today, and there is the real chance that Republicans can now pick up enough votes to repeal Obamacare in 2012 if the Supreme Court does not strike down the law before then.

  As of right now it looks as if the Supreme Court will probably hear the Obamacare case later on this year during the next session of the court, but there is a push underway to get the case heard before then and there are some Democrats who would like to see this case adjudicated as soon as possible. Here is what Bill Nelson had to say on this issue:

The vote to repeal health care is largely symbolic, because the Supreme Court is going to have to be the one to decide this matter,” Nelson said in a statement. “We ought to do the right thing and ask the High Court to rule quickly so we don’t keep arguing over this for the next several years

  Bill Nelson is exactly right because as the Obama regime looks prepared to ignore the Florida court’s ruling and as the Obama regime looks to keep moving forward with a law that has been deemed unconstitutional we appear to be headed towards a constitutional crisis which must be resolved one way or the other as soon as possible. There are too many questions which must be answered and we cannot afford to let this law hang in limbo until the next Supreme Court session.

  The House needs to move to immediately defund this legislation pending the Supreme Court nomination if Barack Obama continues to ignore the court.