WASHINGTON – If US President Barack Obama’s Republican foes win next week’s elections, they will spare no effort to beat back his signature health care overhaul, the party’s leader in the House said Wednesday.
“This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles,” Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner said in an interview with a conservative radio host.
Boehner, who would all-but certainly replace Democrat Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House of Representatives if Republicans retake the chamber in the November 2 vote, vowed an all-out war on the health overhaul.
“We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can,” Boehner said in remarks reported by The Hill newspaper and confirmed by the Republican leader’s office.
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There are rumors out that if the Republicans win the House, Pelosi will resign or retire or whatever. They do not have another election, doesn’t the govenor appoint a replacement. If it is a republican in charge would she really give her opposition another seat.
“If it is a republican in charge would she really give her opposition another seat.”
Probably. The alternative is being bombarded by rotten tomatoes from the peanut galley. That wouldn’t look good.
Is this what you envision Congress to look like November 3rd, Jack. Note, the Dems are on the left? How do I know? Where else would you find Nancy Pelosi but right there in front of her party (wearing the white T-shirt and wearing the goggles)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-_V6RK4rQ