It wasn’t long ago when the Obama White House was singing the praises of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. After all, Schwarzenegger was one of very few Republicans in the country to throw his support behind ObamaCare.
Now, however, the Governator isn’t mincing words in withdrawing that support.
In his State of the State Address before a joint session of the California Legislature earlier today, Schwarzenegger accurately called the health care bill “a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes.” Below are some highlights from the speech:
Congress is about to pile billions more onto California with the new health care bill.
“While I enthusiastically support health care reform, it is not reform to push more costs onto states that are already struggling while other states get sweetheart deals.
“Health care reform, which started as noble and needed legislation, has become a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes.
“You’ve heard of the bridge to nowhere. This is health care to nowhere.
“California’s congressional delegation should either vote against this bill that is a disaster for California or get in there and fight for the same sweetheart deal Senator Nelson of Nebraska got for the Cornhusker State. He got the corn; we got the husk.”
Is Governor Schwarzenegger’s about face on health care reform a prelude to what’s to come in the final stretch of this debate. For the sake of the nation, we can only hope.
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