Huckabee Rips GOP Senators on 9/11 Health Bill

[Maimonides]

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Huckabee-GOP-911-Health/2010/12/17/id/380280

Former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, a likely candidate for president again in 2012, is angry at GOP senators for holding up the Zadroga bill, which would give millions of dollars of medical assistance to 9/11 first responders. "It should be passed," Huckabee said on Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show," The Hill reports. "Every Republican should vote for this bill."

Read more: Huckabee Rips GOP Senators on 9/11 Health Bill Senate Republicans have delayed passage of the bill due to concern over how to pay for it. Democrats are to blame too for making the bill "part of a political battle," he says. "If it needs two [senators to pass], there ought to be 25, 35, 45 Republicans voting for it."

Huckabee says he will make a formal decision on whether to launch a 2012 presidential bid “later rather than sooner.

Read more: Huckabee Rips GOP Senators on 9/11 Health Bill

Huckabee is 100% right here! Shame on Conservatives who have no questions about sending BILLIONS to Iraq and Afghanistan, but who are opposed to giving health benefits to 9/11 responders who got sick due to the government LYING about the air at Ground Zero being safe!

[Secularbeliever]

Agreed I am all for restraining spending but this is not the place for it.