Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday morning joined “Fox and Friends” to help sell the Senate’s last-ditch attempt to repeal Obamacare, where he argued that “almost anything” would be better than the Affordable Care Act and that any funding issues with the current proposal could be addressed later.
“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Pence to respond to Republicans like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who oppose the deal since it will decrease federal funds to their states.
Pence acknowledged that the bill will decrease funding over time, but argued that the way the bill distributes money is preferable. He also argued that Republicans should push ahead despite concern about funding, and that any issues like that would be addressed later.
“It’s absolutely true to say the Graham-Cassidy bill over time levels out on a per-person basis the way we distribute money on healthcare, which I think resonates with most Americans, that we will ultimately get to place where the resources available to states are based on a per-individual basis. And we’ll get to that,” he said.
“But, there is time in the days ahead and in future budgets to address those issues as they arise,” Pence added, stressing that the Graham-Cassidy bill is Republicans’ “last best chance” to “head America back in the direction of the kind of healthcare reform that’s based on individual choice, state based innovations.”
Earlier in the interview, Pence touted the bill by declaring that basically anything Republicans could pass would be better than the status quo.
“Almost anything would be better than Obamacare. Obamacare is imploding,” he said.
Asked if the bill would pass, considering that a few Republican senators have so far held off on publicly backing the bill, Pence said, “We’ll see. We’re close.”
I’ve been around quite a while, so I have a long frame of reference. Still, I can say without equivocation that there’s never been anything in American politics quite so cynically evil as Graham-Cassidy and the blind Republican rush to pass it so they can finally boast: “Yep, we killed Obamacare!”
I call “pants on fire”…
ETA: talking about “pants on fire”, here’s Spicey claiming he never “knowingly” lied during his time at the WH.
Evil against the weakest members of our own population. And also an astonishing example of black-is-white straight-up lying in the face of the obvious truth. There’s just no lower limit I can see.
In an effort to sell the repeal to skeptics, Pence appears on the flagship show of the Pravda network. Because that’s what skeptics of the trump administration watch. Fucking fox and friends.
Pay no attention to the devastation behind the curtain.