Democrat Governors Wary of Obamacare
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When your own side is having trouble swallowing the pill, you’ve got some trouble:
Republican governors are not alone in being concerned about what the proposed health care legislation might mean for their already overstrained budgets: Democrats share the same worries.
“We’ve got concerns,” Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware said in an interview Wednesday, hours before getting elected as the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. “And we’re doing our best to communicate them. We understand the need to get something done, and we’re supportive of getting something done. But we want to make sure it’s done in a way that state budgets are not negatively impacted.”
The issue here is that Reid, et al are lying through their teeth on the budget impact of Obamacare – and one of the ways they lie is by attempting to pass all sorts of new costs on to the States, and thus off the federal government’s books. The “Louisiana Purchase” was all about this – a special deal for which would offset the costs being piled on a State in return for Landreiu’s vote (yes, its corrupt and dishonest – but when has that ever stopped a Democrat?).
For the Democrat governors who will have to deal with these massive, new spending requirements its another story – they can’t help Reid pass the legislation and the Democrat party won’t need any governors as Presidential material until 2016 (Obama being certain to be re-nominated in a walk over in 2012) – and thus the Democrat powers that be are more than willing to throw them under the bus. But that is not where they, the governors, want to be thrown. They’d all like to get re-elected, and thus, so they are worried about budget-busting federal requirements on Obamacare.
It’d be nice if we could get some principled, Democrat support for rationality on health care – but it looks like we’ll just have to concentrate on self-interest on the part of individual Democrats; peeling off as many as we can who feel directly threatened in their political future.
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8 Responses to “Democrat Governors Wary of Obamacare”
Caucus of Corruption
Let Congress vote on this, and then we’ll vote on Congress.
It’s not that complicated.
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they will and we wont….and they know that.
neo, I think this country is so p’d off we are more than ready to vote out anyone who doesn’t prove to have the best interests of the nation—-as opposed to their party, unions, or other interests—in mind on every single vote.
We hired ‘em, we can fire ‘em.
And I think we will.
I can’t wait until November 2010. Nothing will make me happier than increasing the unemployment rate by adding Pelosi and Reid to it.
I wish I could believe that, Amazona, but, when push comes to shove, there are way too many people who forget the f***ed up things Democrats do, and vote because Dems promise them unicorns and lollipops.
Teach, you are right, but in this case what they are doing is not subtle, is not far away happening to someone else, is not too complicated to understand. This is an in-your-face, over-the-top, train wreck.
I would keep it simple.
Did Sally Smith vote to spend trillions WITHOUT EVEN READING THE BILL?
FIRE HER !!!
Did Jim Jones vote to give billions in earmarks when the nation was facing financial disaster?
FIRE HIM !!
Remember, Oblahblah won by about 6% of the vote. We don’t need millions upon millions changing their votes—we just need a hair over 3%. And two years before the hammer comes down on him, all of the House of Representatives and one third of the Senate will have to answer for their actions, for votes that are more closely watched than most.
God, I hope you are right.
Interestingly, I had a similar convo with a staffer from Richard Burr’s office, who was calling me about an email I sent like two months ago (Burr is not very good about responding.
Once we got beyond the point, I asked the staffer what Burr and the other GOPers were going to do about fighting back, and exposing the Dems malfeanse during the 2010 election cycle. Told him they need to fight tough, smack the dems around, and not retreat when the dems start crying and calling the GOP mean. The GOP needs to man up. Question is, will they listen, or turn into girly men, as usual?
Not only governors are wary of Lootercare but so is the California Medical Association. The CMA is the second-largest state medical group in the country, has come out in opposition to the Democrat healthcare plans.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-cma-oppose3-2009dec03,0,5473048,print.story