Kasich Shows Political Cowardice
Unfortunately, I believe this is correct in its assessment of Kasich's action.
Whatever justifications Kasich may give, the actual explanation for his embrace of the Medicaid expansion is political cowardice. Chastened by his failed attempt at public sector union reform and Obama’s victory in the state, Kasich is up for reelection next year. And he’s afraid to stand up to the inevitable onslaught of attacks from Democrats who would charge that he was refusing to accept free money to bring health care to poor Ohioans. The end result is that a politician who ran for office claiming to have been “in the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party” is now actively embracing a policy that the Tea Party movement was born to oppose.I'm disappointed in Kasich about this; I makes the whole tax-cut thing look like a bone he threw to the base. He is going to lose more support from this action than he gains. I fear Ed Fitzgerald will be a formidable opponent next year, and will skate to the state house and turn this whole state into Cuyahoga county. Yes, you should be shivering.
This should serve as a sober reminder to conservatives that no matter how big of a disaster Obamacare is when it’s implemented in 2014, the nation is almost certainly stuck with it. More broadly, it’s a demonstration of how difficult it is to defeat big government.
I've lived in this area most of my life. I love it here. I can't imagine not living by the lake. Still, we only have four and a half years until youngest daughter is done with high school. After that, who knows where we will end up?
ReplyDeleteBarb, here's one idea for you on where to end up.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be more than welcome down here, and we have lakes, too.
Thank you, pikkumatti. Texas is actually on the short list. :) Glad to hear we'd be welcome. Although your lakes are different than the inland seas of the Great Lakes.
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