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Health Care’s Biggest Hypocrite — Or Hero (Romney_
New York Times ^
| January 6, 2010
| Timothy Egan
Posted on 01/07/2010 6:29:30 AM PST by greyfoxx39
For Democrats who see their political prospects this year as a tossup between catastrophic and merely horrible, there is hope on the horizon from a most unlikely source. No, not Rush Limbaugh, who recently praised his medical experience in the government-mandated, heavily unionized health care system of Hawaii. Mahalo to him. One of the most prominent supporters of the main ideas behind the health care plan passed by the Democratic Senate is a top Republican prospect for president in 2012 Mitt Romney.
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Asked recently about the Democratic bill, Romney dismissed it as something which no one understands. Au contraire, to use the language Romney mastered during his Mormon missionary days in France. Perhaps no one understands it better than Mitt Romney.
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Republicans are not the party of no when it comes to health care reform, Romney said in July. This Republican is proud to be the first governor to insure all his states citizens.
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If Romney had the guts to back his convictions, he would proudly praise the Senate plan for doing most of what he urged last summer and bequeathed to his state three years ago. But as Will Rogers said, if you ever injected truth into politics, youd have no politics.
In a few months, Romney will hit the road with a book designed to compete with Going Rogue, Palins overstuffed mishmash of platitudes and inaccuracies. He plans a 17-state No Apology tour, named for the title of his tome: No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.
One way to make good on that premise is to stand by his ideas on health care, now part of the defining document of a Democratic Congress in an election year.
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NYT pins Mitt on his record on healthcare.
To: rabscuttle385; 2ndDivisionVet; Diogenesis; fieldmarshaldj; Jim Robinson
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posted on
01/07/2010 6:32:29 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(Obamacare: Old folks don't deserve healthcare. They use up too many carbon credits just breathing.)
To: greyfoxx39
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posted on
01/07/2010 6:34:44 AM PST
by
svcw
(The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
To: greyfoxx39
Notice the swipe at Sarah...Hmmmm! I guess we know which one the NYT would pick for President
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posted on
01/07/2010 6:34:54 AM PST
by
Bigtigermike
(Loose lips sink ships, stay away RINO's)
To: Bigtigermike
Notice the swipe at Sarah...Hmmmm! I guess we know which one the NYT would pick for President. Timmy had several "swipes" at Sarah in the article that I left out. Either he has a bad case of "PDS" (Palin Derangement Syndome), or his editor does...the article reads as if the article was finished on Mitt and someone just plugged in the hits on Sarah before publication.
Smooth-talking billionaire Mitt is SO much more the NYT kind of folks than the people's choice, Sarah!
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posted on
01/07/2010 6:45:35 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(Obamacare: Old folks don't deserve healthcare. They use up too many carbon credits just breathing.)
Romney has made it clear that he believes healthcare is a state issue, not to be tampered with by the Fed government.
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01/07/2010 8:16:39 AM PST
by
webboy45
To: webboy45
Romney has made it clear that he believes healthcare is a state issue, not to be tampered with by the Fed government.
Wow!
And that makes it ok that he forced everyone by law and threat of a fine in Massachusetts to get health insurance?
Or that his plan subsidized the poor so that they could get health care (re. Socialized Health Care)?
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