Two words, my friends: “Bipartisan support.”
“U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of
West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap
spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s
health-care law.
“There’s no way I could not vote
for it,” Manchin said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast today. “It’s very
reasonable and sensible.”…
Manchin, 66, said he’d be
willing to delay the individual mandate as part of the budget negotiations
because the Obama administration in July gave businesses an extra year to
provide their workers with health insurance.
“Don’t put the mandate on the
American public right now,” Manchin said. “Give them at least a year. If you
know you couldn’t bring the corporate sector, you gave them a year, don’t you
think it’d be fair?”
Two intriguing footnotes. One: News of this broke while
The One was busy delivering his umpteen-thousandth speech about how terrific
O-Care will be if we just give it a chance…..To Read More……
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