Yesterday our Illustrious Senior Editor (that means he is older), referred to Bruce Braley’s healthcare themed town hall event which was held at Genesis East in the summer of 2009. We were there as well.
The ISE man said that Bruce promised to read the bill before voting. We could be mistaken but the draft bill was already notorious for being 1500 pages or so. Congress was already being ridiculed for the unlikelihood that such a bill would be read before being passed. We believe Braley said at that meeting that he had read the bill, but whether he said it there or not is a quibble because more than once he said he read the bill prior to final passage. Now we see that he is all about making big corrections to what is inherently a destructive and unworkable economic disaster for the country.
In that regard, Kevin Hall, writing at The Iowa Republican (TIR), challenges the putative Democrat nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat to man up:
We are still anxiously awaiting Bruce Braley’s apology for telling Iowans that Obamacare would “allow Americans to maintain their choice of health insurance”.
Come on Bruce, show a shred of testicular fortitude and come clean. You claimed you read the bill. Which, if true, means that you knew three years ago that many people would lose their health insurance because of the bill that you helped push through Congress …
Look, Towelboy, no matter what Towelie might have told you, Iowans will not be conned by your pathetic attempts to conceal your liberal record. You know what they say about slugs? They always leave slime in their tracks …
Bruce, voting with Republicans now on a Republican bill that lets Iowans keep their insurance doesn’t change the fact that you lied to them about this bill in the first place. Plus, your pals in the senate, including your hero Commie Tommie Harkin, won’t take up the bill. Even if they did, your good buddy Barack will veto it.
Kevin’s Korner, Hall’s trenchant often funny column that reports on (skewers) Iowa politics and political personalities, is available weekly at TIR. Read the entire column the Braley comments were excerpted from here. R Mall
