More than 60 candidates, and some 30,000 voters, already have signed onto it.
The pledge is similar to the famous taxpayer contract promoted by Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform. It asks politicians and voters to commit to a specific anti-ObamaCare platform.
Elements of the pledge include commitments to:
* Vote for any legislation that seeks to repeal the healthcare bill, HR 3590.
* Vote for all discharge petitions that would bring repeal measures to the floor for a vote despite opposition from party leaders.
* Vote for any measure that would lead to ObamaCare's "defunding, deauthorization, and repeal."
* Support measures that negate only parts of the bill, such as its mandates, its provisions restricting doctor choice and access, and those provisions that "violate individual freedom and privacy, reduce healthy competition, increase costs, or raise taxes."
Polls show repeal is popular with the American public. A recent Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, for example, showed 51 percent of voters favor repeal.
Talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh is among those lauding the repeal effort is. On his Sept. 28 program he told listeners: "They're working hard at this site to get candidates to sign it as well, just to try to get some feet held to the fire on this rather than just a bunch of words."
National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru recently recommended the pledge as well, writing, "All candidates who say they oppose ObamaCare should take the pledge - or be pressed to explain why they won't."
"It would be understandable, if the Republicans seem to be coming into a new majority, that there would be vested interests that want them to not touch pieces of [the ObamaCare] legislation," Heather Richardson Higgins, president and CEO of Independent Women's Voice, tells Newsmax.
The important thing, she reasons, is to make every effort "to slow it, dismantle it, and eventually, once one has the presidency or the capacity to override the veto, either one, then to fully repeal it."
Higgins told Newsmax that every member of Congress has received the pledge, adding: "Now maybe they're all just really busy. But there are many of them who have not signed whom one would have thought would have signed. And that's a concern."
She adds: "Since our pledge is not one that is going to cut deals with different interest groups, but simply says, 'Go back to where we were and try again.' That might explain why some members are reluctant to sign it.
Its is unfortunate that the GOP is set on repealing the Affordable Health Care Act rather than pro-actively developing their own programs. the public is evenly divided on health care and most polls show a pluality of Americans think the new healthcare system is a good thing according to Gallup.
A Kaiser-Pemanente poll on July 29 showed:
Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent.
Fifty percent of the public held a favorable view of the law, up slightly from 48 percent a month ago, while 14 percent expressed no opinion about the measure, according to the poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Tea Baggers appear to be tugging on Superman's cape on health care because there is no broad public support for repeal and Obama would certainly veto any repeal legislation that comes across his desk.
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The pledge is similar to the famous taxpayer contract promoted by Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform. It asks politicians and voters to commit to a specific anti-ObamaCare platform.
Elements of the pledge include commitments to:
* Vote for any legislation that seeks to repeal the healthcare bill, HR 3590.
* Vote for all discharge petitions that would bring repeal measures to the floor for a vote despite opposition from party leaders.
* Vote for any measure that would lead to ObamaCare's "defunding, deauthorization, and repeal."
* Support measures that negate only parts of the bill, such as its mandates, its provisions restricting doctor choice and access, and those provisions that "violate individual freedom and privacy, reduce healthy competition, increase costs, or raise taxes."
Polls show repeal is popular with the American public. A recent Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, for example, showed 51 percent of voters favor repeal.
Talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh is among those lauding the repeal effort is. On his Sept. 28 program he told listeners: "They're working hard at this site to get candidates to sign it as well, just to try to get some feet held to the fire on this rather than just a bunch of words."
National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru recently recommended the pledge as well, writing, "All candidates who say they oppose ObamaCare should take the pledge - or be pressed to explain why they won't."
"It would be understandable, if the Republicans seem to be coming into a new majority, that there would be vested interests that want them to not touch pieces of [the ObamaCare] legislation," Heather Richardson Higgins, president and CEO of Independent Women's Voice, tells Newsmax.
For example the insurance companies, which hated the public option, [and] loved the idea of an individual mandate. So maybe they have a vested interest," she says. "And we all know that pharma was very much on the side of trying to get this legislation passed.
The important thing, she reasons, is to make every effort "to slow it, dismantle it, and eventually, once one has the presidency or the capacity to override the veto, either one, then to fully repeal it."
Higgins told Newsmax that every member of Congress has received the pledge, adding: "Now maybe they're all just really busy. But there are many of them who have not signed whom one would have thought would have signed. And that's a concern."
She adds: "Since our pledge is not one that is going to cut deals with different interest groups, but simply says, 'Go back to where we were and try again.' That might explain why some members are reluctant to sign it.
Its is unfortunate that the GOP is set on repealing the Affordable Health Care Act rather than pro-actively developing their own programs. the public is evenly divided on health care and most polls show a pluality of Americans think the new healthcare system is a good thing according to Gallup.
A Kaiser-Pemanente poll on July 29 showed:
Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent.
Fifty percent of the public held a favorable view of the law, up slightly from 48 percent a month ago, while 14 percent expressed no opinion about the measure, according to the poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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