On the Today show this morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) said that if Republicans take back Congress in the fall, they will try to repeal health care reform, and if they can’t “repeal it outright, at least change and alter the course of it. And, if need be, not fund it.”
Pawlenty also said that Obama’s characterization of health care reform “as a bipartisan or centrist piece of legislation, I think just denies reality.”
He also commented on the comparisons between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R) health care plan for his state, and Obama’s:
Mitt Romney hasn’t been governor of Massachusetts for four years. He’s a sharp and good leader, and he’s a friend. If he had been governor the last four years, I believe he would have done some things to try to adjust it or try to improve it.
Pawlenty was also asked about the RNC staffer who spent donor money at a bondage-themed club, and described it as a “terrible incident.”
He continued that Chairman Michael Steele “has to take responsibility for that,” but the RNC has “done that. They’ve fired the employee.”
Pawlenty added that it’s “something that should not have happened. Its on Michael’s watch. But he’s taken responsibility for it,” and still has Pawlenty’s support.
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