Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who’s trying to climb his poll numbers for president, came out swinging at Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other perceived establishment Republicans who promised to repeal Obamacare, but have failed to press the matter.
He also prepped to unveil Tuesday his own plan to counter Obamacare – a replacement health-care package based more on states’ rights.
But his criticisms of McConnell were blunt.
Radio host Glenn Beck asked him: Do you agree there are several politicians on Capitol Hill who “are part of the establishment, like Mitch McConnell, that are part of the problem?”
And his reply: Definitely.
“Yes, I hear it all the time and I share that sentiment,” he said, the Hill reported. “We were told if Republicans got the majority there’d be a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare. It is August. Where is that bill? Where was that vote?”
Senators tried a procedural vote on an amendment to tack on a highway bill that would have repealed President Obama’s signature law, but failed to obtain enough support, the Hill said. But Walker’s hardly alone in drumming the beat against establishment Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Billionaire Donald Trump has run a hugely successful campaign by positioning himself as a Washington outsider who cares little for political correctness, and his blunt rhetoric has won him first-place accolades in the polls.
Sen. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, has pressed his backers to tear down the “Washington cartel,” and the “McConnell-Reid leadership team,” referring to the Republican Senate head and his Democratic second, Harry Reid.
Walker, meanwhile, has put his campaign focus on Obamacare. In advance remarks of a speech he’s due to deliver Tuesday at a machine-parts shop outside of Minneapolis, Politico reported the candidate lays out a replacement plan for Obamacare and says: “If you’ve had it with Obamacare and you want someone who is going to do something about it, I am your candidate.”
His plans calls for more authority to the states and a sliding-scale tax credit program for individuals who aren’t covered by their employer’s health-care plan. Walker’s plan would also expand health-savings accounts and let people purchase insurance outside their states of residence, Politico reported.
