McConnell Hints That GOP Will Campaign On Repealing Health Care Reform
OPS_admin | Dec 27, 2009 | Comments 0
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hinted on Sunday that Republicans would campaign for office in the months ahead on a pledge to undo health care legislation, should it become law. But the Kentucky Republican refused to commit to pursuing a repeal, saying merely that the health care reform of 2009 would be a major issue come 2010.
“Certainly politically, it is a big problem for [Democrats]. They all kind of joined hands and went off a cliff together,” McConnell told ABC’s “This Week,” when asked whether the GOP would push for a health care reform repeal. “There is great unrest in the Democratic Party. And the reason for that it is, the surveys indicate the American people are overwhelming opposed to this effort to have the government take over their health care. It will be a huge issue next year. And that’s why you hear the Democrats saying, ‘Let’s not tackle any big issues’.”
Pressed by host Jake Tapper to say more definitively whether a repeal of health care was going to be a tenet of the Republican agenda, McConnell said he thought he had answered the question. He then proceeded to provide another
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