Manchin votes right way on healthcare repeal

by: Carnacki

Wed Feb 02, 2011 at 18:46:04 PM EST

Update

From an email:

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) issued the following statement today after he voted in favor of measures repealing the onerous1099 provision that would hurt small businesses.

"I don't think that throwing out the good parts of this bill, like helping seniors afford prescription drugs or ending discrimination against people with preexisting conditions, makes good common sense," Manchin said. "That's why I have repeatedly said that we should make every effort to work together on repairing this bill before we start talking about repealing it."

"In that spirit, I am encouraged tonight that my colleagues put politics aside and started this repair effort by first supporting efforts to repeal the onerous 1099 provision. We should next work on commonsense legislative options to repair the individual mandate."

I got commonsense for you. Make Medicare available to all.

And am I the only one getting tired of Manchin talking about commonsense. I'd prefer he exhibited more of it and talked about it less than instead of the other way around. What did he do? Poll the phrase and test market it?