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Will Toomey seek repeal of health care?
The ultra-conservative Club for Growth on Thursday announced a push to have health care legislation repealed and is seeking the support of members of Congress.
The first two to sign up were Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ).
The pledge reads: “I hereby pledge to the people of my state/district to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”
Since the Republicans have done absolutely nothing in the way of providing substantive health care proposals, it boggles the mind as to how the Club for Growth could take the lead for repeal of sensible health care legislation.
One also has to wonder where the Club for Growth’s “wunderkind” Pat Toomey is on all of this. Of course, it would come as no surprise if he supported the idea based upon his love of Wall Street and disdain for average, working Americans.
Pat… where are you?
January 14, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Tags: Club for Growth, Pat Toomey
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ChescoTom
Jan 14th, 2010
Abe, what would you consider plain vanilla conservative? CfG is hardly any more “ultra” in its views than EMILY’s List is on the other side. You cheapen your argument and reveal deep seated antagonism when you add unnecessary and innacurate modifiers to your language.
David Diano
Jan 16th, 2010
The Club for Growth want to repeal income taxes for the rich even further than Bush cut them, to bankrupt the country.
Ed H.
Jan 19th, 2010
Never mind that the GOP has consistently shown that they want no parts of reforming health care… almost every idea that they’ve talked about either costs consumers more, or are extremely overstated as to be a means to lower costs. Look at “tort” reform, for example, and the CBO has come out and said it would lower costs to insurance companies by 0.5%, but that doesn;t necessarily mean the consumers would see the lower costs reflected in their ever rising premiums.
Today, the GOP won in Massachussets in their bid to keep insurance costs high and to further outsource American jobs.