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To: Sully- who wrote (78605)	3/23/2010 11:28:50 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

*** The campaign slogan is nice, but I want more than words!! *** 'Repeal and Replace' By: Rich Lowry The Corner I had a phoner with Sen. Mitch McConnell earlier this morning. He says, "'Repeal and replace' is likely to be the slogan for the fall elections,” and he expects it will be "a major, if not the major" issue in the fall. If Democrats thought they'd put health care behind them, "the way to guarantee it's ahead of you is to pass it." He scoffs at the notion that Republicans could have forged a meaningful compromise with Democrats: "They would have given us 5 percent of the substance and we would have given them the patina of bi-partisanship. It would have been foolish in the extreme. It would not have been a substantially better product, and the politics" would have been a disaster. In general, he says, "This is the kind of thing that happens when liberals are given too many seats." He's not sure exactly what Republicans could do to start rolling it back if they win the House, but they will begin to try to unwind it "as soon the American people" give them the leverage. In the meantime, he expects "a significant number of Democrats" to vote with Republicans during the reconciliation fight, to try to give themselves cover for having passed the underlying bill. Going forward in the Senate, he expects "a lot of health-care exhaustion." He says there's "bipartisan interest in doing something about 'too big to fail'" and hopes that Senators Dodd and Shelby can work something reasonable out on financial reform. But he doesn't think immigration reform will happen: "It's an explosive issue and I don't see the Democrats bringing it up in an election year." It might split Republicans, but it would split their side too. He believes cap-and-trade, in the form it passed the House, is still dead. And he likes Kentucky over Cornell. .