Half-Hearted Damage Control: Blunt Says "Final Decision" About Creating Health Care Plan Will Come Next Week

Blunt has "clarified" his statement about not wanting divert attention away from the GOP's obstruction efforts with his own legislation. He now says there are multiple "tactics that could be employed," which presumably could include legislation.  But after flatly stating that there was no reason to bother with a bill, producing legislation as he promised seems highly unlikely.

Either way, he is refusing to stand by his many promises to introduce health care reform legislation, and showing that he's perfectly okay with the status quo. 

Barb Shelly of The Star has the goods:

Also from Blunt: "There’s a variety of tactics that could be employed during the debate on the House floor and the leadership won’t make a final decision next week until the Democrats announce how they will proceed.”

When it comes to health care and other matters, Blunt and other GOP House members are quick to assert that the emperor has no clothes. But they're laughably chicken about suggesting what the emperor should put on.

The Health Care Solutions Group last month did release a list of principles for health care reform.

But it contains no cost estimates and no real estimates of how many people would gain insurance through the plan.

Look, if Republican ideas for health care are any good, put them into a bill, release cost estimates, and let them be subjected to the same analysis as the Democratic proposals.

I suspect Blunt and the GOP don't want to do that, because they know, in their heart of hearts, that their wardrobe is the most threadbare of all.

Indeed.