# John Boehner vows to repeal Obamacare. Will he and the repubs succeed?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-boehner-vows-to-repeal-obamacare-will-he-and-the-repubs-succeed/626602
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [June 28, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-boehner-vows-to-repeal-obamacare-will-he-and-the-repubs-succeed/626602 "2012-06-28T17:11:15Z")
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### Author: ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-boehner-vows-to-repeal-obamacare-will-he-and-the-repubs-succeed/626602/34 "2012-07-04T00:32:36Z")

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> What’s the current best progressive thinking on the filibuster? Should it stay? Go? What?

I think it should be kept for Democrats only and repealed for Republicans. Its obvious that Dems wouldn’t abuse its use. Now simply the threatened use of it by the Reps makes every bill a de facto 60 vote issue. For all the crying the right wing likes to do whenever Dems use it, there are 10 instances of much more egregious uses of it by the Reps. And don’t try to turn this into some other argument about the Dems needed to grow a spine and actually call the Reps bluff, its irrelevant. The point is that its being overused and it should stop

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