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Not so unrepealable: Writers emphasizing the difficulty President Romney might have repealing Obamacare point to the 60-vote requirement to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. Undoing the health care law “would require the acquiescence of Senate Democrats, which is highly unlikely,” the NYT‘s Jennifer Steinhauer tells us. What’s more, according to New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza, “there is literally nothing Republicans could offer Democrats in return for repealing the Party’s greatest achievement since the Johnson Administration.”  a) But of course, if the GOPS win control of the Senate, they don’t have to obtain the acquiesence of all Senate Democrats in repealing the Party’s greatest achievement since the Johnson Administration. They only have to obtain the acquiesence of a handful (10 or fewer) Senate Democrats, some from states where Obamacare is quite unpopular–and this after an election in which, by definition, many Obamacare supporters will have been punished by voters. b) And do Republican really have “nothing” to offer Democrats? For starters, it seems like Dems might urgently need some Medicaid fixes in the not-too-distant future. …