Evan Bayh: ‘Far left’ wants Obamacare to fail to make room for bigger government program

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Former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who retired rather than seek reelection in 2010 after voting for Obamacare, said that the political “far left” wants the law to fail in hopes of replacing it with a “more expansive, government-centered program.”

“The far left may not want to solve some of the problems because they really would prefer to have a more expansive government-centered program,” Bayh said yesterday on “Fox News Sunday,” after repeating the Democratic refrain that “the far right doesn’t want to solve some of these problems. Because they want the bill to fail.”

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