Posted on 09/07/2009 5:13:57 PM PDT by rvoitier
Just a little talking point when the moral relativists come at you with, "Well, Bush did it too!"
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
WALLACE: Let me bring Speaker Gingrich into this conversation.
First of all, I'd be curious to hear your take on what both of your Democratic colleagues here on the panel are saying. But also, the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit bill, which President Bush signed, had a trigger in it, a trigger that's never been pulled.
If President Obama now supports a trigger, you know, that would give private insurance companies, let's say, four years to provide an affordable insurance policy, would that be more acceptable to Republicans?
GINGRICH: I don't think so. I mean, the 2003 bill had a trigger which said specifically only non-governmental entities could be developed. It did not have a trigger that led to government, because if you say to the government bureaucracy, "As long as you find it has failed, you get to build a brand-new bureaucracy," you have a guarantee the trigger's going to go into effect. I mean, you — you're only delaying for four years what will become a 100-year problem. But let me just make a — and I agree with Senator Alexander from this standpoint. Mrs. Clinton came to see us in 1993, and we gave her our best advice, which is don't do a comprehensive bill. I said to her at the time, "Do one bill a year for eight years, assuming you get re- elected. After eight bills get through and signed, you'll have significantly changed the system." No one can write a single bill. If the president comes in Wednesday night and says, "Instead of a 1,300-page bill, I want a 1,200-page bill" — and I think what Mr. Podesta said was very important. The country actually is not as interested in what the president wants as what the country wants. The country has for two months been trying to tell the president it does not want government rationing, it does not want bigger spending, it does not want decisions centralized in Washington. Now, the country's been clear in 1,000-person town hall meetings, in every poll I've seen — the Gallup data is devastating on this. If the president were to come in and say, "Let's try to get five bills between now and Christmas. Let's get litigation reform," which is the most popular single thing. "Let's get reform of paying the crooks in Medicare and Medicaid," which 88 percent of the country and Zogby said they would like to have as a first source of money — because our estimate is you've got 70 to $120 billion a year of theft. There are a number of specific bills you could pass with huge bipartisan majorities. The country would calm down. The president would be much stronger by Christmas. And we'd get a lot done.
What is a “trigger”? Thanks.
the way I read this is——— in the early clinton years -— Gingrich said to hillary clinton ...
“”Mrs. Clinton came to see us in 1993, and we gave her our best advice, which is
don’t do a comprehensive bill. I said to her at the time,
“Do one bill a year for eight years, assuming you get re- elected. After eight bills get through and signed, you’ll have significantly changed the system.””
The wundafull thing about triggers are that triggers are wundfull things!
"Truh-i-double-guh-errrrrr" -- that's trigger!
Trigger was Roy Rogers horse, and he didn’t want government rationed health care either.
““What is a “trigger”? Thanks.”
I found this:
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1143";
That’s a trigger, but not the one being discussed. As usual, the Dems appear to be engaged in historical revisionism when discussing the alleged “public plan option” trigger in the Medicare bill:
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/10/no-public-plan-option-in-medicare-part-d/
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