VIDEO-- Rep. Peter King: Health care reform is "not a major issue"

By GottaLaff

Backwards Day:



If health care is not a major issue, then I guess $173 million to fight it is what, mad money? Actually, that's not a bad name for it:

Republicans have worked hard to stall and kill health care reform while not trying to appear callous to the health care needs of Americans. This strategy was outlined by GOP consultant Alex Castellanos in a well-publicized memo. But earlier today, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) failed to stick to the talking points. On MSNBC, King declared most Americans don’t view reform as “a major issue”. [...]

[A]s HuffPost’s Sam Stein notes, “Being the third highest ‘top priority’ is hardly synonymous with being a minor issue.” When NBC/WSJ tallied the respondent’s first and second priorities, “health care shot up to a tie for second place, at 32 percent.” In addition, Time Magazine and Gallup found that more than 70 percent of the public wants health care reform.

Yeah, health care reform's no biggie. Neither is the economy, unemployment, or national security.