DeWine to fight health overhaul

[Joanne98]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Republican Mike DeWine was sworn in yesterday as the Ohio attorney general and said his first move in office will be to challenge the federal health-care law.

DeWine narrowly unseated Democrat Richard Cordray in November after vowing to join a multistate lawsuit challenging the requirement that Americans buy health insurance.

DeWine said he expects Florida, which is leading the legal challenge, to petition the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida today to open the case to additional states, including Ohio.

"That was a commitment I made to the people of Ohio," DeWine said after his swearing-in ceremony regarding joining the suit. "I said I was going to act on my first day in office, and that's what I'm going to do."



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[Deep13]

1. tool. nt

[madokie]

8. And a fool

[peace13]

2. I have no response fit for the front page.

Here in Ohio we are in serious trouble! Teabagger Gov and his back woods buddies. Very, very sad.

[Ikonoklast]

3. DeWhiner hates Ohioans.

He's going to spend my tax dollars in a losing effort, while my state falls to pieces.

Dull tool, at that, and a political hack.

[mwb970]

11. The first thing DeWine does is take away our health care.

The first thing Kasich did was take away our trains. Then he tried to make his inauguration a private event with no press. He has promised to eliminate the state income tax (40% of revenue, with an $8-10B budget gap looming). In Washington, the first things the new republicans did was to give an $800M tax break to the ultra-rich without paying for it, and try to cut off unemployment payments to poor and middle-class Americans.

Ohio and the nation are in for a wild ride. I have not heard the childlike, impetuous millionaire Kasich say a single thing I agree with so far. I don't really expect that to change.

Why on earth would we elect so many awful republicans?

[chowhound]

13. because ohio cities are mostly blue but

the rest of the state is full of empty-headed useles republidorks

[mwb970]

14. I've found rural and small-town people to be friendly and kind.

But don't let them get started on politics! They turn into soulless, black-hearted monsters right before your eyes. It's scary.

[Roy Rolling]

4. Commitment

I think a commitment is the appropriate terminology---political yes-men who cannot think for themselves need to be committed.

[Kolesar]

5. Shouldn't he be out catching terrorists?

Instead of wasting public resources on this?

[Doremus]

6. The filthy vermin will not stop until they've permanently destroyed

anything good about Ohio.

May locusts prey on the one-cell organisms down state who once again placed us on the altar of repuke sacrifice.

[Botany]

7. Ohio is fucked

They will ruin the state and line the pockets of the well connected.

[madmom]

9. Well, here we go again, the taft administration wasn't bad enough, now we get more. YIPPEE!

[bulloney]

12. Taft's messes ultimately became the demise of Strickland.

Strickland took over a state that was in such a systemic mess that nobody could turn things completely around in only four years. There were some long-term things that he put into play that will yield benefits down the road...if Kasich & Co. doesn't kill them first.

Echoing your statement madmom, today's voters have the attention span of a gnat. They forget whose policies got Ohio into the mess that it's in and they vote the idiots back in only four years later. Then, they'll wonder why things got worse for the greater society while the Wall Street corporate fat cats have a feast under these incompetents.

[Ninga]

10. Ack!! DeWine represents the GOP strategy of starting so many brush fires, that

will keep Dems busy like whirling divirishes, that we will spin off the cliff never to return.

I hate what has happened to my state of Ohio. I hate the lazy voters who didn't bother to turn out. It is all their fault. Yuk. So there. :mad: :crazy:

[thereismore]

15. That little wiesel! He's a career runner for office. He'd run for any office, that repug. nt