Fri May 21, 2010 at 03:00:00 PM EDT
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| Just like magic if you read many of the headlines, Governor Christie "just found money" to enable scrapping his plan to make seniors pay more for prescription drugs. I have a few deep thoughts regarding this latest development.
I can't help but wonder what the reaction would have been if Corzine was the Governor doing this. See a Democrat who changes from their original proposal is a Pandering Flip Flopper. But as we've seen with the coverage of this one, a Republican who does this is a Course Changer.
Oh and about that found money, it's actually savings from the dreaded healthcare plan that was recently passed. Senator Lautenberg reminded people about that: "Today we see how President Obama's health care reform law is already working to deliver tangible benefits for New Jersey's seniors," stated Lautenberg. "Thanks to the health care reform law, New Jersey's seniors will be shielded from the budget ax that threatened to make their prescription drugs more expensive and less accessible. The new health care reform law will soon bring even more benefits to millions of New Jerseyans." You know, the new awful healthcare law that the right wing wants Christie to join a lawsuit to repeal? The one that Christie hasn't said he won't join yet, but is willing to take the benefits of? Yeah, that one. Maybe someone in the media could ask him why he isn't ruling out joining suit to overturn the healthcare law at the same time he's taking the benefits of the law to score political points.
Politics I say? What else do you call "finding the money" right before you speak to a group of seniors and a day before you meet with the AARP. But Jay Webber will accuse of the Democrats of playing politics. Move along, no politics to see here. |
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