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Yes it's free money to the states, because it's already committed. Yes, Ohio's medicaid program is the best in the country. Yes, Kasich wants to repeal and replace it. And your point is? Oh, that's right you have none.Republican John Kasich Just Got Extremely Real on Obamacare
There are certain rules you have to play by in order to be a part of the Republican Party today, and one of the most important is never to say anything nice about Obamacare. Even if you are trying to push the party toward the center on Obamacare, you must pay fealty to the belief that the law is horrible and must be replaced. Ohio Republican governor John Kasich just committed the ultimate taboo:
"That's not gonna happen," Kasich told The Associated Press during a recent re-election campaign swing.
"The opposition to it was really either political or ideological," the Republican governor added. "I don't think that holds water against real flesh and blood, and real improvements in people's lives."
Obamacare … helps people? The opposition is political or ideological? It should therefore be judged by its actual effects on human lives? Those ideas may be bleedingly obvious, but you can’t say them.
Kasich either has no interest in running for president or possibly remaining in the Republican Party at all, or he will soon be delivering a groveling apology.
Wait for it.....
Update: Some are wondering why Kasich's statement is so shocking, given that he, and several other Republican governors, have already accepted Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Why is Kasich’s Obamacare admission “stunning” when he was an early GOP adopter of the Medicaid expansion? Wake me when Perry comes aboard.The answer is that accepting the Medicaid expansion, which was already contentious and possibly disqualifying for a potential president, required a series of evasions. Republicans would portray Medicaid as having nothing to do with Obamacare. Or they would argue that the law is horrible, and they would love to repeal it, but until that happens they can't turn away free money for their state.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 20, 2014
What no major Republican has done is depict the law as a positive good while dismissing opposition.
Second update: ...aaaand here's Kasich claiming the AP is "wrong," without explaining what part about the quote is wrong:
The AP got it wrong. Ohio said NO to the Obamacare exchange for a reason. As always, my position is that we need to repeal and replace.
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) October 20, 2014
The spin is killing me!
Fact is fact. If you want to believe the BS politicians in the GOP and far right who are trying to control your mind and the way it thinks because they think you are too stupid to know the difference between the political reality and the ideological fight that can't be won till 2016, then that's your choice.