Principles out the window: Kasich takes Obamacare's free money

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February 6, 2013

Principles out the window: Kasich takes Obamacare's free money
Posted by Laura

Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is a Republican. He also proudly calls himself a conservative. But is it conservative to flip-flop on something as important as Obamacare? (Mitt Romneycare was the GOP nominee, after all.) Kasich has decided for "practical reasons" to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. He is one of five Republican governors taking the federal money; he says it's good for Ohioans because of the strain otherwise put on his state budget. But can the GOP win by doing what Pat Buchanan calls the ongoing "striptease" of its basic principles?

02/6/13 7:22 AM

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