Our Governor, Nikki Haley, posted this statement today on her Facebook page
(my response follows):
“South Carolina will NOT expand
Medicaid, or participate in any health exchanges. We will not support Pres.
Obama's tax increase or job killing agenda. I WILL do everything I can to get Mitt Romney elected and
work to strengthen our Senate so that we can repeal this unAmerican policy
aimed at moving our country in the wrong direction.”
Gov. Haley, it is one thing
to say you don't like a specific policy. It is quite another to say that a policy (that passed both
houses of Congress, was signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme
Court) is "un-American". By doing so you imply that anyone who disagrees with your
views (and supports the Affordable Care Act) is less of an American than you.
Well, I am a proud patriotic
American and will not let you, or anyone with whom I have policy disagreements,
call my love of this country into question. If you want to work to get
the act repealed that is your right - have at it. I will do what I can to keep it in place. But in doing so, and in working to
implement our different agendas, neither of us is any less of an American.
