Saturday, January 16, 2010
In for a Penny -- In for a Pound...
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Q Do you think [the MA election on Tuesday] is in some ways a referendum on the health care bill?
Robert [Baghdad Bob] GIBBS: No, I think it’s a referendum on whose side are you on.
Q A lot of the polling suggests that the problems that Democrats have had in places like New Jersey and Virginia, as well as Massachusetts, is based on public dislike of what they perceive to be the health care plan, and you’re not getting any traction in places like Massachusetts. You got a candidate who was perceived to be a run-away—a walk-away winner who is now in danger of losing. What’s wrong with your message?
MR. GIBBS: Well, that’s why we have elections. That’s why we have elections. We’re not on the ballot in—there’s a campaign that’s going on in Massachusetts. We’re happy to lend our support. And I think as you heard the President say yesterday, we’re going to get health care done, and we’ll be happy to have a campaign on whether you’re for the status quo, whether you’re for protecting insurance industry profits, whether you’re for protecting bank company profits, or whether you’re on the side of the American people. We’ll be happy to have that—we’ll be happy to have that --
See, real Americans are not for profits—despite the fact that that’s where jobs come from. And bankers and insurance guys aren’t Americans. Nor are stockholders, pension funds nor widow ‘n’ orphan funds.
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