-By Warner Todd Huston
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, KY) announced on Tuesday that he intends to bring to the floor a vote to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid certainly does not want this vote to occur but even so it is highly doubtful that McConnell can get the 60 votes needed to sustain a repeal. The Democrats still out number Republicans 53 to 47.
But a repeal is not all that McConnell wants with this vote. At the very least the Republican leader wants to put the entire senate on record giving the voters a clear accounting of which senators support Obamacare and which do not. McConnell hopes to put centrist Democrats on record as to where they stand.
McConnell’s aim is to get centrist Democrat senators in trouble back home for the 2012 election cycle and put pressure on them to reverse past support of Obama’s take over of America’s healthcare system.
If you want to help push the senate to vote for McConnell’s repeal , Freedomworks has identified eight key Democrat senators to contact.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
(202) 224-3954
Sen. James H. Webb (D-VA)
(202) 224-4024
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
(202) 224-5274
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)
(202) 224-6551
Sen. Robert P. Casey (D-PA)
(202) 224-6324
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
(202) 224-2644
Sen. Claire C. McCaskill (D-MO)
(202) 224-6154
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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