Happy Hour Roundup: Boehner Slams Signature Achievement Of…Romney
* Republican vs. Republican? GOP House leader John Boehner’s blog is taking aim at a surprising target: One of the signature achievements of none other than fellow Republican Mitt Romney.
Boehner’s blog has a post up that slams what has happened in Massachusetts under the universal health care bill passed in 2006 — which Romney signed as governor. The post largely attacks Massachusetts Dems for boosting health care spending, but it also indicts the plan itself as proof of the foibles of government-run health plans in general.
“Massachusetts’ experience confirms what House Republicans have been arguing: a government-run health plan puts bureaucrats between patients and doctors and lets pencil-pushers decide what medical procedures or prescription drugs the government will allow its citizens to use,” Boehner’s blog says.
Boehner spokesperson Michael Steel claims this wasn’t an attack on Romney: “Our criticism is that Massachusetts Democrats have failed to control costs in their statewide universal health care program. Given the reports that the White House has pointed to Massachusetts as an example for what they want to do nationwide, that is troublingly relevant to the current debate.”
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* Duncan Black, on the Mark Sanford meltdown:
In a sane country it would be none of my business who Sanford was having an affair with, and in a sane country gay people would be allowed to get married no matter what people like Sanford think about it.
* Ben Smith unearths a funny, or perhaps sad, episode of Sanford history.
* Many Sanford questions remain.
* A great post from Ed Kilgore on the big gap between grassroots Republicans, who support a public health care option, and Congressional Republicans, who don’t.
* The Senate finally cast a key procedural vote in favor of Harold Koh, who had been under assault from the right for months, clearing the way for his confirmation as legal adviser to the State Department. Eight Republicans backed him.
* Republicans keep up the assault on ABC for airing the Obama health care special, which is on tonight. Question: If critical views and tough questions are broadcast, as the network promises, how will the GOP Media Fairness Caucus respond tomorrow?
* And CNN gets it right on the Pitney-gate scandal that wasn’t.
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ok, thx sg. apologies again.
No worries Greg
Hunh. Koh’s cloture vote passed 65-31. So why did Harry Reid wait so long?
With a call for the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine?
Fantasy healthcare scenario:
Blue Dogs work with GOOPers on the Senate Finance Committee to nix the public option and go with co-ops. But GOOPers get cold feet, and it fails to get cloture.
Then the Senate HELP Committee’s version with a public option meets up with the House bill and passes via budget-reconciliation rules.
Here’s the take-away sentence in my previous comment about the Obama aministration and healthcare: Still, letting the bipartisan string play itself out is good optics, and the semi-nuclear reconciliation option is still there.
ROFLMAO! How many times did I post vis-a-vis Sanford the one thing: Cherchez la femme.
Everybody ignored it.
I love it when I’m right, but jeez this was a gimme.
Tena I don’t believe anybody ignored you, I just think most people were thinking the same thing in the blogosphere. The only ones who didn’t get it were reporters in the Village.
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sgwhite – probably they didn’t; I’ve been doing post and run cause I had a guest.
But there’s just never any other explanation. It’s either a woman or a boy.
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