Politico's Ben Smith posted a list of conservative House Democrats who will be targeted by a new RNC radio ad on healthcare. The list includes IA-03's Leonard Boswell.
Text of the ad:
Most Americans agree. It’s time to take action to reform our healthcare system. But the dangerous experiment President Obama and the Democrats in Congress want just can’t be the right answer. The question is what Congressman Boswell will do.
Look at their record. The stimulus package cost us hundreds of billions without creating new jobs. The national debt has more than doubled.
If Barack Obama and the Democrats get their way, the Federal Government will make the decisions about your health care. And, their plan costs a trillion dollars we don’t have. You have to pay a new tax to keep your private insurance. It’s too much, too fast.
Call Congressman Boswell at 202-225-3121, that’s 202-225-3121 and tell him to say no to this dangerous experiment.
Of course, the quote “Most Americans agree. It's time to take action to reform our healthcare system” is not followed by any Republican proposal or idea to actually fix healthcare. I hope Boswell doesn't cave on this, and it's heartening to know that he still supports a public option. Boswell's support is an apparent break with other members of the Blue Dog Coalition, whose opposition to a public option was deconstructed in this Paul Krugman article yesterday.
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I welcome their money-wasting
in this district, which I still believe is not vulnerable in 2010. CQ Politics has this in the “Democratic-favored” category, and most other forecasters still have it in the safe D category.
Probably they are trying to keep up negative publicity on Boswell with a view to a likely Boswell/Latham matchup in the redrawn IA-03 in 2012.
Thanks for the diary.
desmoinesdem Tue 28 Jul 12:07 PM