President Obama Dares GOPs to Run on Repeal Platform: 'Go for it'

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | March 27, 2010 at 09:30 am

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Obama to GOP Repeal plan: "Go for it!"

LA Times : President Obama has made good on one of his early promises

Citing events in 2009, such as when lawmakers warned about the political fallout from the health care reform effort, and when August Town Hall meetings were often loudly and rudely disrupted by tea party activists wielding slogans and signs, and when Scott Brown's victory seemed to spell certain defeat, the LA Times reminds us that President Barack Obama promised he would soften the political fallout and make the bill publicly acceptable.

Thursday, says the Times, he made a down payment on that promise.

Telling Iowa that it had believed in change and reform "when all the pundits had written us off" an electrified Obama told throngs of cheering fans in Iowa city that his law will bring multiple benefits to millions of Americans.

GOP Plan of Repeal has been called "Unlikely" by Republican Leaders

In any case, GOP leaders are calling the plan of "repeal and replace" unlikely at best and delusional - as in the case of David Frum - at worst.

Liberal political analysts have pointed out that it is precisely this "all or nothing" attitude which has brought disaster to the GOP, and embroiled it in conflict. This is the gist of the remarks made by David Frum, which caused him his salaried position with the American Enterprise Institute this week.

A fired-up and ready-to-go Obama told a cheering crowd in Iowa City that the law will bring dividends this year -- for small businesses eligible for a healthcare tax credit, for patients with preexisting conditions, for twentysomethings who want to stay on their parents' insurance policies.