Gov. Bob, still angling for that coveted VP slot on the ticket
Bob McDonnell / AP
Note from Dan: This email came in last night from Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. I reckon a guy can always be hopeful, eh?
Dear Friends,
As you know, this morning the Supreme Court of the United States voted to uphold President Obama’s healthcare plan. Ironically, the Court upheld the law based on it being a massive tax hike on Americans, which of course is the exact opposite of what the President argued when he pushed the plan through on a party-line vote in the Senate in 2009. Whatever the reasoning, our nation now stands on the verge of witnessing a bureaucratic takeover of our entire health care system.
Today’s Supreme Court decision to uphold President Obama’s disastrous healthcare law is detrimental to the Virginia economy, our nation’s prospects for economic recovery and the free-market system. And now, there is ONLY ONE WAY to fix what happened: Elect Mitt Romney the next President of the United States.
Governor Romney has committed to taking immediate action to repeal and replace Obamacare on day one of his administration, and that is why this election is so critical. It’s going to be a clear choice between President Obama’s big government takeover, accompanied by skyrocketing costs and tax increases, and Governor Romney’s faith in free markets and consumer choice. With Governor Romney’s leadership, we can replace Obamacare with healthcare solutions that put patients and doctors, not bureaucrats, in charge of healthcare in America and without sacrificing American jobs in the process.
But before that can happen, Mitt Romney has to win this November. And that means he has to win Virginia. That’s going to take all of us working together from today through November. So if you haven’t already, please visit www.MittRomney.com to find out how you can get involved. Today’s decision should remind all of us that elections matter. And this November’s election matters more than any election in our modern history.
On day one, Governor Romney will taking immediate action to repeal and replace Obamacare, but he needs your help to make that happen! There is ONLY ONE WAY to stop this law: Elect Mitt Romney. Please visit www.MittRomney.com and let’s win this election and get our economy back on track, and Americans back to work!
Sincerely,
Bob McDonnell
Governor of Virginia
June 29, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Gov Bob is speaking reason and sense.
The Governor should do what our governor did. Our governor appointed 10 members of the Board of Trustees at Purdue University. As his second and last term is expiring, he applied for and was recently appointed as president of Purdue University. Your governor has appointed the Rectors at UVA, VT & Wm. & Mary as well as the other public universities in Virginia. Surely, given recent events at UVA, someone could be pushed out and he could become a university president. The salary would be much higher I’m sure.
Dear Gov. Bob
What I think I am reading is that you actually like the status quo in Healthcare, maybe with a few tweaks. You LIKE the system whose costs are increasing at double the rate of inflation, and have for many years. You LIKE the system that drives many people into bankruptcy because they get sick. And, oh yes, you like this system that is 41st out of 45 industialized countries in infant mortality. OK. Your position is clear. I think you are wrong, but your position is clear.
Keep Talking Gov Bobby. You are guaranteeing a Democratic wave coming soon to Richmond.
I just noticed that our highly esteemed yet severely bruised state attorney general (the court losses are piling up) first reacted yesterday like the black helicopters were landing, and ten returned two hours later to admit that he hadn’t really looked carefully at the result and now he doesn’t think it sounds so bad.
Nice job, Cooch.
Old Blue, so true. The GOP only addresses the health care situation in the US in response to Democratic initiatives. The same was true when Clinton tried it. They came up with their own counter proposal but dropped it immediately after he failed.
Good Krugman article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/opinion/the-real-winners.html?_r=1&hp
Pick me! Pick Me!@ Pick Me! Oh please Uncle Mitt, Pick me! I’m going to be needing to get out of Va. fast when folks finally realize what I’ve really done to them by pushing everything off on the local govts. or kicking the pain for paying for it or fixing it down the road. The disaster is not the ACA for America and Va. It’s Bob McDonnell and Kenyy the Cooch for Va.
But he sure looks good in a suit.
Personally, I think McDonnell is too short to be Romney’s VP pick.
That is not a slam by me of short people. I just don’t think Romney will pick one of them. Image is everything to that guy.
How tall (or short) is the Gov?
Scott Whitaker
I got a chance to read the Krugman piece. I agree. I think it is a great scandal that our fellow Americans can go broke just because they get sick. I have been very careful with my money over the years, but if I lost my insurance, my life savings could be wiped out by one major illness. And most people are in the same boat.
“On day one, Governor Romney will taking immediate action to repeal and replace Obamacare….”
Has anyone bothered to ask him exactly what he’s planning on replacing it with?
Or how he can even guarantee such action will be successful? Obama had quite a struggle to get the healthcare law passed in the first place…what makes Romney so sure he won’t have the same fight on his hands to pass his “replacement” plan? After all, Congress makes laws, not the President. (people tend to forget that around election time…the fulfillment of campaign promises of presidential candidates depends heavily on the cooperation of Congress, which is never guaranteed).
VT Hokie has a good point.
Romney is acting as if, when he’s elected president, he can veto the Affordable Care Act that Obama signed.
First, he can’t do that. At best he can issue executive orders of questionable legality that approximate the death of the ACA.
Second, he’s not going to be elected anyway. So he can’t even do number 2.
#9 old blue
Yeah but it’s an empty suit! And he’s really short!
Romney is doing a lot of talking about what he will do without seeming to realize he cannot do it. He is going to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline “Day 1″, only that is the purview of the State Department and he cannot replace Hillary Clinton by “Day 1″ no matter what he thinks.
He says he is going to “Stand up” to China “Day 1″. As if! That is pure BS and everyone, including China and except for the rabid right wing knows it.
Same for the ACA, you cannot, by fiat, overturn legally passed and SC approved legislation and unless his party wins the Senate, he will not get the approval on any day!
He has not won yet and he will have to spend the campaign explaining what his Romneycare is OK but “Obamacare” is not. It is not going to work in his favor.
The BEST he can hope for is to be able to tweak some of the provisions, but cutting the mandate and expecting the insurance industry to still cover all of the goodies people do like is purely stupid. They are private, for profit businesses and they are not going to take less and do more.
#13 Heck, I’m still waiting to hear his miracle solution for the world’s economy. Lots of empty promises.
@17 gdad
He’s made his economic plan perfectly clear . It’s BushandDickonomics on steroids.
I’d love too see him propose a plan that he likes better than one that is already his plan.