Mike Huckabee Backs Health Care Repeal

With 2012 looming on the horizon, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called on Tuesday for Congress to repeal the health care law passed last year with the support of President Barack Obama.

Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, offered strong support for repeal which will be pushed by the new Republican majority in the U.S. House on Wednesday.

We were told -- and sold --everything except the truth about the details in the health care act, noted Huckabee on Tuesday. And then, despite a majority of Americans rejecting this massive change in public policy, Congress enacted it anyway. Thats not the way its supposed to work in our representative democracy. This massive 2,500-page piece of legislation went to the floor of the House without being read by pretty much anyone, was rammed down the throats of an unwilling public, was enacted in the middle of the night -- and in the height of hypocrisy, exempted the president, the vice president, congressional leadership and committee staff from the bill that Americans didnt want.

Huckabee added that he would help lead what he called the most massive petition drive in the history of the country. Former New York Gov. George Pataki, who is also a potential candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination, has also backed a petition drive, calling forrepeal of the health care law.