[StBernard] RNC CHAIRMAN STATEMENT ON SENATE HEALTH CARE VOTE

[Westley Annis]

RNC CHAIRMAN STATEMENT ON 
SENATE HEALTH CARE VOTE
 
WASHINGTON - Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele
released the following statement today:
 
"Very early this morning, as the majority of Americans were asleep, Harry
Reid and his liberal allies quietly got one step closer to enacting their
2,700-page government-run health care experiment with absolutely no input
from Republicans and absolutely no care for the American people's
opposition.  For months concerned citizens have been telling Democrats that
they don't support their plan and with this vote Democrats have shown they
aren't listening to their concerns.  I don't know about you but I am sick
and tired of it.  President Obama and Harry Reid will claim that they have
reached a grand compromise benefitting all Americans.  But I would call it a
grand deception because this costly government-run plan still increases
premiums and health care costs, still cuts Medicare, and still forces
Americans to pay for it with hundreds of billions in new taxes during the
worst of economic times.  A top down bureaucratic government-run health care
system that will cost nearly a trillion dollars is not what the American
people want.  If the liberals in Congress don't understand this by now -
they will when the voters give them a pink slip in 2010."
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