Republicans in the Senate are forcing a vote on health care repeal.
Manchin is up for reelection in 2012.
From The Hill:
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a freshman Democrat facing reelection in 2012, told The Hill he would not support repeal despite his vocal criticism of the law’s individual mandate to buy insurance.People were warned about this guy, yet here he is. Remember the gun shooting commercial? Mr. Tough Guy conservative Democrat apparently isn't so touch.
First he was for it; then he was against it. Now he's for it again. In An interview:
Chris Wallace: You're saying now that if you had known what was really in the bill, although last March you said you would have voted for it, you are now saying you would have voted against it?
Joe Manchin: Correct. Knowing the existence as far as how reaching it had been, as far as [garbled], I would have. And I think many people didn't know about the bill. It ends up 2,000 pages or more
The vote on the repeal of the health care bill is to get politicians on record; if they avoided making a commitment (we're not advocating for any particular outcome, to quote a well known secretary of state) in the past, then they'll be on record now.
Another particularly galling comment from the same article at The Hill is this:
Democrats, in turn, accused Republicans of turning their attention away from the nation’s employment woes.Yes, it's always been the Democrats who are most concerned about employment and job killing policies. We believe that.
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