Are We Seeing Some Good Tactics?

RedState reports on what appears to be some good strategery on the part of Congressional Republicans:

House version (Via Instapundit):

Congressmen John Carter[*] (R-TX) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) yesterday introduced the Geithner Penalty Waiver Act, requiring that the IRS assess the same penalty against U.S. taxpayers that came forward in the UBS tax fraud investigation as paid by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for failing to pay taxes on his IMF income — zero.

Pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? I like Rep. Carter. And not just because of his name.

Senate version (Via Don Surber):

In their first shot at the measure this week, Republicans decided to try to strike at the heart of how Democrats plan to pay for the $848 billion measure by attempting to eliminate the proposal's almost $440 billion in Medicare cuts.

But instead of offering a conventional amendment, they decided to use an esoteric procedural tactic that would send the bill back to committee with instructions to eliminate the cuts. If successful, the GOP's gambit would force Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to use time-consuming procedures and hold another filibuster-killing vote on whether to restart debate on the bill.

That takes it off the floor, requires another committee vote, delays the bill, and ticks off Senate Democrats.  The 'delays the bill' part is probably the most important thing, here: health care rationing just isn't popular these days.

While it's a fine thing to play as many tricks as possible -- and I certainly think the GOP should pull out all the stops to freeze things up as much as they can -- the bottom line is that they are still a minority (big-time in the House).  No matter how successful they are at beating back the radical Leftist agenda of the Obamacrats for the next 11 months, we absolutely must retake the reins of power in Washington if we want to get things straightened out again.  That means spreading the truth of what's going on, what the Left's agenda is, and what Obama and the Democrats have already done to this nation in one short year...starting NOW.  The truth is a powerful thing, and we need to spread it far and wide.

There's my two cents.