In the Toledo Blade, Marilou Johanek, explains that John Kasich thinks he can tell you later on how he'll fix the state. Here is an excerpt:
....how will voters get the unvarnished truth about what sacrifices lie ahead with budget shortfalls?
They start by cornering Mr. Strickland about the spending increases he's gambling on in the state budget and demanding to know how, short of an economic miracle that makes revenue suddenly surpass all expectations, the state will ever maintain its projected funding levels. Voters must demand to know exactly how Mr. Kasich intends to handle Ohio's budget problems if he becomes governor, and refuse to accept his lame response: "People will have all the specifics when it's time for me to give it to them."
That kind of cavalier attitude could upset conventional wisdom and allow the incumbent to surge in the polls - as Mr. Strickland did in a Quinnipiac University poll released this week, showing him ahead of his Republican challenger 44 percent to 39 percent.
Kasich won't tell you what sacrifices you'll have to make until he gets elected. Are you willing to gamble your future on the unknown? Would you buy a car not knowing how much it will cost you?
*** I'm watching the health care conversation on C-SPAN 3 right now. John Boehner looks like a meek little mouse. I'm surprised. For the last two weeks, Boehner has been boasting what he'd do or say at this health care summit with the President. Today, he looks like an unimportant, unnaturally orange person.
A few weeks ago, we attended a fundraiser for a young woman who has cancer, but no health insurance. It is so sad that people have to resort to this type of fundraising to get treatment, while the Republicans continue to get big political contributions from health insurance firms to stop health reform.
We cannot afford to start over with the health care reform. If the Republicans refuse to be part of the improvement of health care in this country, they need to get out of the way.