“The government is a predator, not a competitor”

Posted by Bill Dupray on Aug 17 2009 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Okay, Senator Chuck Grassley wins the bumper-sticker-of-the-week award for that one. Not only is it pithy (alliteration and all), it succinctly puts the lie to the entire public option in ObamaCare. And with his position on the Finance Committee, it likely signals a death knell for the Socialist heart of the whole scheme.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) dug in against a public option today, telling MSNBC this morning that “the government is a predator.”

“When you have the government running something, the government is not a fair competitor,” he said. “The government is a predator, not a competitor.”

Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee and key Republican negotiator on the health care reform bill, said he wouldn’t vote for a plan without widespread Republican support.

“I’m negotiating for Republicans and if I can’t negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I’m not a good representative of my party,” he said. “It isn’t a good deal if i can’t sell my product to more Republicans.”

So with the White House apparently pulling chocks on the public option this weekend, Grassley’s description can be shifted to describe any of the coming anti-capitalist, government takeover, Socialist utopian programs The One and Igor Emanuel can cook up in the West Wing.

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