In the mind of Governor Bob McDonnell (R-VA), if the President doesn’t take the first step on entitlement reform, than it’s time for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to take up the mantle.
On Fox’s Your World this afternoon, McDonnell talked to fill-in host Stuart Varney, saying that he hoped that the national party’s majority in the House would bring the “tough message to the American people” on entitlement reform.
“I think it just takes strong leadership, President Obama didn’t give it,” said McDonnell. “Now the House Republicans are going to have to be the ones to lead the way, deliver the tough message. They should do it, they better do it, and I think the people of America will accept it since they are doing it in their personal lives now.”
Asked if his decision to make massive spending cuts in Virginia’s health care, education, and public safety budgets would hurt his chances at reelection, McDonnell appeared confident that he had made the right choices.
“Republicans and Democrats agreed with me, and they run for re-election every couple years,” he said. “So, I helped to lead the way and took the first shot, but after a good deal of looking at the fiscal realities, everybody pretty much agreed this was the right course of action.”
Watch the video below:
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