<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b9125581-3c92-4c74-9ead-3cae972885b5/C2A8D080-F0CE-4552-8F8D-8CC96741D518/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/" style="font-size: 11px;">hotair.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">The <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/health/policy/20health.html?_r=1&hp">New York Times</A> reports that both Republican and Democratic governors across the country have realized what Barack Obama’s health-care reform means to them — and they’re not going to sit quietly while Barack Obama passes the buck to the states:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">The nation’s governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">that Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">— with bipartisan animosity voiced against the plan during a closed-door luncheon on Saturday and in a private meeting on Sunday with the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">“I think the governors would all agree that what we don’t want from the federal government is unfunded mandates,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">In fact, the Times reports that this message was unanimous.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">The budgeting for these bills only reflect the <EM>federal </EM>responsibilities for this expansion, but it carries hefty costs for the states as well.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/20/governors-begin-to-realize-who-will-pay-the-obamacare-bills/">This exposes the shell game Obama has played with ObamaCare.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C2A8D080-F0CE-4552-8F8D-8CC96741D518/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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