Schwarzenegger Blasts Senate Health Care Legislation

by Stephan Tawney on January 6, 2010

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, notorious moderate and supporter of much of Barack Obama’s agenda, can’t even support the Senate’s health care overhaul legislation. He blasted the bill in his State of the State speech today:

Now 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.

When even a moderate greenie defender of higher taxes and massive government spending can’t support this legislation, you know it’s bad.



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