Friday, August 6, 2010

WSJ: Show Me ObamaCare, a voter rebuke


PHOTO BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Read the full story from the Wall Street Journal here:

Senior WSJ Editorial Writer Joseph Rago reports on the Missouri results.

"...Missouri's Proposition C annulled the "individual mandate" within state lines, or the requirement that everyone buy insurance or else pay a tax. Liberals are trying to wave off this embarrassment, but that is hard to do when the split was 71.1% in favor in a state John McCain won by a mere 0.1% margin. The anti-ObamaCare measure carried every county save St. Louis and Kansas City with 668,000 votes, yet just 578,000 Republicans cast a ballot in the concurrent primaries..."