Repeal, Repeal, Repeal!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is the time of year when televisions across America are flooded with campaign commercials. One candidate is running for office, and the other one is trying to stay in office. The guy trying to defeat the incumbent is always trying to point out how different they are from the person already in office. What amazes me, though, is the central theme in all the Republican candidates' commercials and websites. They all seem to be pushing for one thing, repeal. According to them, we need to completely repeal the health care bill that was passed and start over. We need to put, "common sense reforms", in place that the "American people want". My question is this, what are those plans?

It seems to me that they aren't working toward reform, as much as they are working toward being put into office. The Republican candidates, especially those endorsed by the Tea Party Movement, do not have a definite plan for what they would replace the bill with. What do you replace banning Pre-existing conditions with? What do you replace banning removing coverage from a sick person with? What do you replace establishing Insurance Exchanges, a simpler way of comparing and purchasing insurance, with? There was no bill from a single Republican in office outlining their plans for after Repeal. It seems as if the members of the Right have gotten all caught up in their fiery rhetoric and their doomsday predictions. Rather than establishing a clear, concise alternative to the plan being implemented, they have made people so angry and afraid that they don't need said plan. The candidates in the "Tea Party Express III" do not need clear, logical ideas that counter the ones put into place. They do not need a legitimate plan to be put into action once they would get elected. The reason that the Tea Party will stop being a legitimate force in any election after 2010 is that there is no substance. They will either lose a majority of races and be seen as a barking dog without teeth, or their candidates will get into office, repeal the health care plan, and try to come up with something that will never amount to anything because they did not have a plan put into place. Americans are a funny people: they get excited/zealous about their politics to the point of being blinded, but they are also very fast in pointing out when they have been duped. People that support and sustain the Tea Party may feel victorious in November, but they will feel betrayed from that point forward. Because rhetoric is nothing, if nothing is holding it up.