RNC Chairman Michael Steele thinks “all of us should be scared to death” of President Obama’s health care plan.
Steele tried to take a bite out of Obama’s big push to get health care reform legislation before the August recess by calling it a “reckless experiment” in the “laboratory” of Congress.
He especially took issue with Obama’s timeline.
“If we screw this up, it could last a generation. And Congress is trying to do this in the next two weeks,” he said in remarks this morning to the National Press Club. “All of us should be scared to death.”
His speechwriters, though, wanted him to use a gentler phrase. In his prepared remarks, the sentence reads, “This reckless approach to an ill-conceived experiment should scare the living daylights out of all of us.”
Other fear-mongering in the speech included warning that 119 million people could lose their coverage under Obama’s plan. Steele also said that “much about our health care system is in good shape.”
