-By Warner Todd Huston
Several Republicans and candidates here in Illinois have spoken out on the passage of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s version of Obamacare. Here are a few of them (in no particular order).
Republican State Chairman, Patrick Brady, warned Illinois Democrats that what they have wrought is “wrong for Illinois.”
Today is a disappointing day for Illinoisans as Nancy Pelosi, Melissa Bean, Debbie Halvorson and Bill Foster ignored the concerns of voters and rammed a trillion dollar 1,990 page government-run health care bill through Congress ignoring pledges of transparency and bi-partisanship. Illinois for generations will be forced to deal with the consequences of this legislation that increases health care costs, increases taxes on small businesses and the middle class, cuts Medicare and puts a Washington bureaucrat between you and your doctor.
Joe Walsh, candidate for the 8th Congressional District, took the occasion to accuse incumbent Democrat Bean of proving she is a left-winger.
With these votes Melissa Bean has abandoned any pretense of pretending she’s a moderate any longer. In just the past year she’s been a rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi on the wasteful stimulus package, the misguided cap-and-trade proposal, and now this jobs-killing ObamaCare monstrosity.
11th District candidate Adam Kinzinger went after Democrat Debbie Halvorson’s “yes” vote in Washington.
Despite a promise to hold an in-person town hall forum before the final health care vote, Debbie Halvorson chose to ignore her constituents today by voting for Nancy Pelosi’s 2,000 pages, $1 trillion dollar health care bill. HB 3962 narrowly passed the U.S. House late Saturday night despite Democrat leadership strong-arming members to tow the party line and vote for the bill.
“Once again, Debbie Halvorson proved herself to be a loyal foot soldier in Nancy Pelosi’s liberal army,” said Adam Kinzinger. “Today’s health care vote will harm seniors by cutting Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars, add to our national debt, increase health care costs and hurt families and small businesses by raising taxes. If Debbie Halvorson would have held her own town hall forum on health care, she clearly would have heard loud and clear her constituent’s opposition to this bill.”
Ethan Hastert running for the 14th District ignored his opponents and went directly after Speaker Pelosi.
Instead of producing a bipartisan proposal that delivers the solutions Americans want, Democrat leaders are simply pushing ahead with a government-run health care experiment that will drive families into government-run care and kill jobs with massive new tax hikes and mandates.
Also a candidate for the 14th District, Mark Vargas wrote several FaceBook posts about Pelosi’s bill.
This healthcare bill isn’t what the american people want. This isn’t what the people in the 14 district want
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The house has officially moved us one step closer to complete socialism by passing the healthcare bill tonight. Bill Foster has proven himself guilty of legislative malpractice.
Vargas also said, “I will make fighting this bill a top priority. My staff and I will be meeting with officials in Washington, Representative Foster’s staff, and staff members in the U.S. Senate. As your elected representative, I will lead the charge to repeal this bill.”
And Rep. Mark Kirk, GOP candidate for Senate, wrote that Pelosicare would:
Cut more than $400 billion from senior health care under Medicare, including a $100 billion cut for Medicare hospitals, $100 billion from Medicare doctors, $100 billion from Medicare Advantage and other cuts to Medicare skilled nursing, hospice and even wheelchairs;
Raise taxes by more than $700 billion — pushing the top marginal rate in Illinois to 49.9% (four percentage points higher than France) – while unemployment tops 10%;
Start more than 100 new government programs, many of them designed to delay or deny care using the power of the ultimate monopoly – the Federal government.
The Wall Street Journal recently called this legislation “The Worst Bill Ever.” On top of trillion-dollar deficits, it will put our children deeper in debt, cared for by a government bureaucracy that will soon deliver poor service at high cost with the inefficiency and corruption of other government programs.
Kirk was also right to note that this bill barely passed. The final count was 110 to 215. This was NOT an easy win for team Obama. We still have a chance to stop this communist mess as the bill passes to the Senate for further debate and another vote.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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