What Are They Going to Repeal?

For all the talk of repeal by the GOP, I find it hard to believe that a campaign agenda built around stripping health care away from millions of children, reopening a doughnut hole to make senior's prescriptions more expensive, re-instituting an open ended policy that allows insurance companies to effectively deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions and ending a ban on lifetime caps is going to resonate all that well with the public.

Not to sound too naive, I know Republicans won't run their campaigns by saying "vote for me and I'll take your kid's health care away." Instead they'll take their usual fiscal conservatism route and say that legislation that reduces the deficit more than any bill in history is simply not affordable. Yes I know that makes no sense either, but that's what they'll do. The party that took the largest surplus in history and turned it into the largest deficit in history; that also enacted the largest expansion of Medicare since its inception; that also has never once objected to spending trillions of dollars on endless war and capital projects in foreign countries will assume total ownership of fiscal responsibility and the media will play right along. That, and of course, they will talk about small government and state's rights. It's almost as if the Civil War never happened-- not to mention the entire presidency 0f George W. Bush.