Rangel on Health Care Repeal Efforts: 'It's Impossible to Undo This Thing' [VIDEO]

Charlie Rangel had a rather combative interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network last night, in which he dismissed House Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act as merely “symbolic.”

“Going straight toward a repeal, without recognizing that we have a disaster in the health delivery system and without talking about what you are going to replace it with is absolutely ridiculous,” Rangel said. “So we are going through something symbolic.”

Today in a largely party line vote the House set up rules for a debate which would culminate in a simple up-or-down vote on repeal. Most political observers think that Rangel’s analysis is correct, since any repeal efforts would likely die in the Senate, and would certainly die on President Obama’s desk.

“It’s impossible to undo this thing. You can do what you want to do politically and I guess this is an extension of the Republican victories at the polls in November, but that’s not how the law process works,” Rangel said.

Cavuto also tried to get Rangel to open up about the recent censure vote against him, especially if he was bitter that so many of his colleagues voted against him.

Rangel would have none of it.

“At my age bitterness is a luxury that I can’t afford,” he said. “This is a political body that I’ve joined. As Truman once said, ‘If the kitchen is too hot, get the hell out.'”

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