Posted on 09/23/2010 1:44:34 PM PDT by pissant
Earlier this morning, I spoke with Congressman Steve King (R-IA) in an exclusive interview about new developments on his discharge petition to repeal ObamaCare. King got the first Democrat, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS) to sign the discharge petition earlier this week. He remains about 40 signatures short of forcing Nancy Pelosi to schedule a floor vote on the repeal bill, but getting the first Democrat to sign the petition shows more bipartisanship for repeal that Pelosi had for ObamaCare’s passage, King points out. I asked King why the other Democrats who voted against ObamaCare haven’t signed the discharge petition, even though they now use that vote to protect themselves in their re-election campaigns, a hypocrisy which King hopes their opponents will highlight in the midterm elections:
I also spoke with Rep. King about the tax cut expirations facing Congress, and he didn’t mince words about his disappointment with John Boehner’s remarks from last weekend on that subject. King questioned the wisdom of playing the “hole card” at the beginning of negotiations rather than the end, and said that the conservative caucus felt discouraged by his apparent concession. Thirty Democrats have signed up to extend all of the expiring tax cuts, which means Pelosi and Barack Obama are on the extreme side in this debate.
King also talks about the Tea Party and Constitution Day, for which his office released the following celebratory statement:
“Our Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution were brilliant men who understood the threat posed to individual liberties by a large and intrusive federal government,” said King
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
I think Obamacare might have been written by Stephen King ...
Nothing Stephen King has written is nearly as frightening as ObamaCare
Thanks, King is the man!!
You and I both know that. Which more folks did.
which = wish
I tell them, he's here and he's right under our noses. Why don't we all see it.
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