What Will Republicans Do if Health Care Passes? [View All]

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My guess is they'll continue to whine and be the party of 'no'.

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What Will Republicans Do if Health Care Passes?


Ron Brownstein notes that if President Obama does sign a health care reform bill, "which appears more likely than not, Republicans will face a momentous choice between consolidation and repudiation -- between accepting the new program and seeking to dismantle it. The alternative paths are neatly captured by the GOP's contrasting reactions to the two central cords of America's existing social safety net."

"After FDR got Social Security approved in 1935, Alf Landon, his Republican challenger in 1936, denounced it... Roosevelt's landslide victory over Landon (and subsequent re-elections) provided Social Security the time to build impregnable support..."

"By contrast, Republicans largely accepted Medicare soon after President Johnson signed it into law in 1965."