Reaction Swift to Roy Blunt's Broken Promises
When the leader of the House Republicans' health care reform working group backs away from numerous promises, it's big news.
How long until a Blunt spokesman says Roy Blunt didn't mean what he said (again)?
That’s a pretty stark admission that Republicans won’t introduce their own bill solely because they think it’s better politics to keep the focus on the Democrats.
It gets better. Head over to the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group’s Web site, and you’ll find prominent video of Blunt vowing the GOP is “drafting our own legislation.”
Dems are already circulating Blunt’s recent suggestion that government perhaps shouldn’t have created certain other well-established government health care programs. “After saying Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes, now Roy Blunt is admitting he will not offer any healthcare solutions,” DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz emailed me.
Blunt: GOP Shouldn't Have Health Care Plan, It Would Just "Confuse" People
The Hill:
Republicans who had promised last month to offer a healthcare reform alternative are now suggesting no such bill will be introduced.Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said, "Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work they've got to whatever we're offering right now?"
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said Republicans won’t offer a health care bill of their own, breaking a previous promise. Greg Sargent notes that on the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group’s Web site, “you’ll find prominent video of Blunt vowing the GOP is ‘drafting our own legislation.’”
