Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty delivered a red meat assessment of Obamacare and it appears he doesn’t like it much. Pawlenty slammed Obamacare as a “bait-and-switch” and said the president is “corrosive to freedom and liberty.”
In a NewsMax interview, Pawlenty really went after Obama serving a hearty dish of red meat to conservative voters across the country. Gov. Pawlenty is widely considered a prime candidate for president in 2012.
Pawlenty calls President Obama a “movement liberal” and says he’s “projecting potential weakness” to the world with his foreign policies.
“His solutions are federalization of policy, spending way beyond anything we’ve seen in terms of deficit or debt levels, spending the country into bankruptcy,” Pawlenty says. “And what’s behind it is a philosophy that government knows best, a nanny-state mentality on domestic issues that will ultimately be corrosive to the other pillars of our country — to markets, private enterprise, individual responsibility, freedom and liberty.”
As to Obamacare, Pawlenty calls it a bait-and-switch.
Obama sold his healthcare proposal as a way to reduce costs and help the economy. But, Pawlenty says, “I think it’s going to go down as one of the biggest bait-and-switch acts in history, in the sense that the diagnosis of the problem for the healthcare delivery system in the country was supposed to be cost-containment. In other words, we need to make it more affordable for individuals and families, businesses, and governmental entities. But instead they are now focused substantially on expanding access.”
Pawlenty really went on a tear with his thoughts on Obama. If you want a frank rebuttal of Obama this is the interview you want.
Tags: dailydose, The Winning Line, Tim Pawlenty
Here is an idea for you blog readers:
Why don’t we cristen the new 1900ish page House Health Care take over bill “ScaryCare” in honor of her Highness – the Wicked Witch of the West – Queen Nancy the 1st!
Here is a great article about how “ScaryCare” will demolish Private Medicine and Health Insurance with or without a “government option” plan:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024833.php
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Sorry all Patriots that I have been behind on blogging/posting info the past week….
Trying to get caught up tonight on the newest Obamacare takeover happenings….
Looks the like the predictable “opposition” to the throw-away government option plan was put out today by Snowe and the usual moderate D types…..again, I think that was all show to scare the right and keep the left fired up…..Reid was just throwing it out there to appease the based, keep up maximum leverage on the R and special interests, and dropping it will allow Obama to swoop in and appear “Moderate”…..as I have said all along - this was nothing but a head fake to keep our eyes of the really damaging elements!
While its good that this “government option” scam is going to be killed off, its BY FAR not the most onerous provision in the Obamacare takeover….
The Unconstitutional Individual Mandate will erode our freedom and individual liberty and is just as surely a government HC takeover as the government option scam……we need to keep the pressure up and let our lawmakers both R and D know we still oppose this as well as the anti-competative “preexisting conditions” and “communtinty rating” mandates!
We need to let the know that we still see the Federal government takeover core is still in any so called reform bills – Individual Mandates, subsidies/taxes, and regulation….
Where does the HC power grab really stand?
I see it this way - we are in MORE danger then ever now. The left will push thru all the rest minus a government medical welfare entitlement plan and sold as “moderate compromise” because so many will be relieved to just see the government option go and not realzing that all the rest of Obamacare will destroy private HC and Health Insurnace…..as promised in 5-10 years…and so will go our econonmy, our politics will forever be statist dominated, and our individual liberties will be NO more!
We need to send the statists a message in upcoming elections but need to continue to call, fax, and email Congress as much as ever on HC!