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Kristol Says He Helped Congressional GOP Formulate ‘The Best
Arguments Against’ Health Care Reform
By Matt Corley on Oct 30th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
In Dec. 1993, Bill Kristol, a current Fox News contributor
and the editor of the Weekly Standard, issued a now-infamous
memo to Republican leaders, arguing that they should
“defeat” President Clinton’s health care reform plan
“outright” instead of negotiating a compromise. In later
memos, Kristol counseled that Republicans should oppose
reform “sight unseen” because “there is no health care
crisis.” Kristol’s advice “animated” Republicans, who
concluded “that all-out opposition to the Clinton plan” was
“in their best political interest.”
Throughout this year’s debate over health care reform,
Kristol has played a similar role, arguing in the media that
Republicans should “kill” reform instead of trying to be
“constructive.” In an interview on the Washington Times’
America’s Morning News radio show yesterday, Kristol
revealed that he had met with some congressional Republicans
on Wednesday night to devise strategy for defeating reform:
KRISTOL: Next week will really be a first crescendo in the
big health care debate. And this dinner I was at last night
was some Republican members, Senate and House, some
staffers, some outside people, trying to think about how to,
the best arguments against it and where the politics of this
lies. She is really going for it. And I think the issue is
Medicare. I mean this will be the largest package of
Medicare cuts I think the Congress will ever have passed.
Later in the interview, Kristol distilled the conclusions
from the strategy session with congressional Republicans,
saying that citizens “need to go see their congressman and
say ‘do not vote for this until either we have a chance to
read it more carefully, but really more importantly just
don’t vote for it because it’s going to cut my Medicare and
raise my taxes.’” He echoes the same attack line in his
Weekly Standard column today: “There will be no Republican
votes for the Pelosi Plan of tax hikes and Medicare cuts.
Will there be enough Democratic resistors so the bill is
either withdrawn or defeated?.” Listen here:
For the past month, Fox has been claiming that it is not
actually a “communications arm” for the Republicans. What do
they think about one of their regular contributors advising
Republicans on strategy behind closed doors? Will they
disclose Kristol’s advisory role when he appears on the air?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/30/kristol-advise-gop/
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