Kasich: ‘Let’s Grow up and Serve America’
RUSH EXCERPT:
KASICH: "You know, the president’s not supposed to be crossing all the Ts and dotting all the Is. That’s an excuse. Look, there are plenty of people around that understood this, and frankly I think was a tug-of-war inside the administration as to what the path forward ought to look like. I saw the president. You know, I was in the oval office. One of the things we talked about was bringing some control to the pharmaceutical companies. The president liked that idea. He called Gary kon and sat there and talked about if."
BASH: "You think he’s fine, the notion that he wasn’t invested and knowledgeable and involved in the policy enough is — is not true?"
KASICH: "Look, he’s going to learn from this, but you can’t expect the executive to know everything, and my job as the governor. The seventh largest state. We have many complicated things. I need to have very good staff. They all need to be on the same page. You can’t have them fighting with one another and we don’t. That’s what — you know, look, I think — I hospital president will come to understand that, but I think he’s learning a lesson from this and the fact is I think his instincts — my opinion, my opinion, his instincts would have been to cut a deal and bring the Democrats in and get this the thing done and I still think there’s a chance to do this, Dana. They cannot walk away, close their eyes and lock the door because the system is not health and ObamaCare needs to be significantly reformed, and it can be constructively. I talked to senator portman on Friday. I’m going to be in Washington on Monday with a few meetings with some constructive members. This cannot go away, Dana, because there are too many people’s lives that are at stake if we fail to be able to reform this program. This is serious, serious stuff, and the idea that it’s a quaint notion that Republicans and Democrats ought to work together, that’s how broken that city is. That is how broken. Maybe what the president needs to do is he needs to call everybody out and say let’s grow up and let’s serve America."
