Rep. Eric Cantor: public option – has been "resoundingly rejected by the American people."

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/08/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5370949.shtml

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But Cantor said one key element of more liberal proposals – the public option – has been "resoundingly rejected by the American people." The Senate Finance Committees proposal doesn't contain a provision for a public option, but would subsidize health care for low-income Americans.

That plan is just one of several in Congress, so lawmakers will have to merge the varying proposals – some of which still contain a public option provision – into one bill. That process will likely change the overall cost and deficit projections.

Cantor said he would meet with House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer to "look at the things that we can agree upon."

But he insisted that Republicans would "reject the notion of the government takeover" of health care.

[kestrel91316]

1. Cantor and statistics = EPIC FAIL

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Town Hall screamers reject the idea while the other 65%+ of Americans approve.

[Ineeda]

3. keeps proving the idiocracy. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

4. Hmmm, he must be Boehner's neighbor in the State of Denial.

:eyes:

[Barack_America]

5. "American people", meaning "rich, white folks".

The rest of us are not even on Cantor's radar screen.

This is not the first time I have heard a Republican today declare the public option dead. The insurance industry whores are clearly getting desperate. That makes me happy.

[dennis4868]

6. How is the public option....

a government take over of health care...I never understood that phony argument by the right wing nut cases.....even a newscaster from FOX News doesn't agree with that argument.

[subterranean]

7. They know it's not a government takeover

but Frank Luntz told them to use that phrase as often as possible because it sounds "scary."

[Robyn66]

8. I guess we should all contact Cantor's office now

and let him know that the Public Option hasn't been rejected by us.

[underseasurveyor]

9. That idiot is so full of shit

I'm surprised he doesn't leave a brown trail everywhere he goes.