letter before you one? he must have gotten the address wrong. i did see it in press. but we have not received a copy of the letter in my office yet. greta: in the letter, he he said the lawsuit you suggest is live from and political attempt to thwart the acts of congress and the law. it doesn t sound like there is much wiggle room with this governor. i don t think there is going to be much wiggle room for him. he s been a staunch supporter of president obama. he s not running for reelection. the rule of law is not going to dictate what he is willing to do in a case like this. in the past when i ve asked for his approval to fight federal preemption in a number of cases, probably 10 or so cases in the three years since i ve been attorney general, he s approved in all of those cases. this is unusual from a legal perspective. from a political perspective, i m not surprised he didn t
in light of that, how fast do you think this is going to proceed? give me an idea of the track on this. the attorney general filed it yesterday. it is in what is called a declaratory judgment action many we are just asking the court to rule on the merits of the petition based on our virginia statute that we just enacted saying no mandates are permissible in virginia. and in the federal law that says you must have a mandate under penalty of law. they can rule on the nature of the legal brief and of the laws themselves. it is not going to take a lot of evidence. it is not going to take a number of hearings. i don t think the attorney general there s been a judge assigned. i don t think we ve got a hearing scheduled yet. i think the impact is so significant, particularly there s no severability clause in the federal act i think the courts are going to want to hear it soon. our law doesn t go into effect
the problem with the individual right of choice with the individual. it is unprecedented greta, for us to have this sweeping attack not only on the rights of an individual to be free from the federal government telling them to have to buy a product or service they can require you under the premise that would be in this bill to go out and buy a car or to buy a membership in a club or something. also unprecedented to have this much people want to call it an unfunded mandate. this is much more this is taking state s resources and putting it to use for the federal government s purposes and manipulating the states to their end to a drina is above the sovereign protections that are in the constitutions of states. we think we will win on that basis. we all believe that deeply. greta: wisconsin s attorney general wants to join the other states and sue but so far hasn t is stopping him?
and explained why we needed a fix. and we ve attempted to get a fix. we make no apologies for it and it wasn t a special deal. greta: 40% income every person? that sounds like a better deal than before. some people are sailing people are 40% richer then why do you need the money, explain it to me. let me try. i don t believe and know that the people of our state are not 40% richer. that s the deal. the federal government is saying we are. it is a joke. greta: you are not 40% richer? the federal government is saying we are. the federal government s formula, we are 40% richer. that is why the governor and i stood shoulder to shoulder to tell the federal government that is incorrect, we are not 40% richer and we tried to change the law so we could continue to pay the same amount for medicaid that we ve paid for the last 10 years.
difficult for them already we know the children s preexisting condition piece that president obama touted doesn t go into effect until 2014. tax cuts are going to hit right away some of america s best, oldest and biggest businesses saying they have to lay-off people and cut benefits for their own employees in the wake of this bill. sean: george bush was called every name in the book on a regular basis. and then some. some that hadn t even been made up yet. sean: true, all right. the difference i think dana, you may be talking about one person, two people, three people, that are not reflective of a larger moment that includes stay at home moms and housewives and military members and the elderly. talking about in the case of the criticism against president bush, most came from congress. most of it came from senators. where were their voices then? remember, the member of the