Mitch McConnell Says the Senate Will Have Another Meaningless Repeal Obamacare Vote

Senator Mitch McConell is promising Americans the Senate will be the next body to produce a symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare. All of this is merely political theater, as much as I wish it was a real movement towards killing Obamacare once and for all. Obama will veto, and Congress doesn't have 2/3 majority to overrule a veto.

The bottom line here is Americans knew how voted for Obamacare, and many of those legislators were voted out of office, and more may be voted out in 2012. The problem with the Republicans for me is they are talking about replacing one federal boondoggle with another federal boondoggle as they hope to push their own healthcare agenda with the promise to "repeal and replace."

For a party that is pushing the idea of listing which part of the Constitution applies to a bill before it's brought to the vote, I still can't find any power of the federal government to get this deeply involved in healthcare. Yet the Republicans aren't only going to repeal, they are going to replace. Replace with what that would meet the limits of government established in the Constitution. Repeal and repeal again.

What seems to be driving the repeal talk is forcing Americans to purchase something like health insurance--rightfully so. What bothers me is you have members of Congress freshly sworn in claiming to be Tea Party that want to push regulations on health insurance companies that are already contained in the Obamacare law in an obvious attack on the free markets. For example, newly elected Representative Billy Long has gone on record a number of times making the case he is a free market champion while also stating there are good parts of the Obamacare package such as regulating insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and forcing them to cover "children" to age 26. Free market champion or business killing government regulation champion?