Posted on 01/29/2012 11:48:23 AM PST by maggief
Pam Bondi makes a big show of opposing FEDERAL intrusion into our lives, but she is fine with STATE intrusion into our lives. Note how she blusters of the federal government while embracing state authority. The problem is the trampling of the rights or the INDIVIDUAL. The Romney bandwagon is all smoke and mirrors. Romney is no conservative.
New video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ukrm7hxbAw
(FL Attorney General) Pam Bondi Supports Romney Care and State Mandates (Video: FNC-F&F)
Youtube ^ | January 29, 2012
... “that’s what states are supposed to DO!”
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See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839168/posts
Florida AG Pam Bondi lets the cat out of the bag regarding Romney’s National Healthcare plans
From a segment on Greta ^ | Jan 27, 2012 | Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839432/posts
New Romney Healthcare Czar, Pam Bondi, on Greta defending RomneyCare and his Healthcare Task Force
Greta show, transcribed by thouworm, original sans transcript post to FR yesterday ^ | Jan 27, 2012 | Greta, Pam Bondi
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839298/posts?page=1
We’re Screwed… Florida AG Pam Bondi Says Mitt Wants Romneycare In Every State (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 28,2012 | jim Hoft
Pam Bondi steps up the effort to push RomneyCare in Florida!!
NO ROMNEY, NO WAY!!
RomneyCare = ObamaCare = CommieCare = taxpayer funded abortion = death panels = socialism = tyranny. Romney still brags about RomneyCare TODAY!! He would like all 50 states to implement similar socialist plans. These are the indisputable facts and that’s really all you need to know about Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney has now bought off Florida Attorney General PAM BONDI, and her mission as Romney’s new National Healthcare CZAR is to head up a National Healthcare Task Force to impose socialist RomneyCare-like plans on all fifty states. They claim to be doing this as a tenth amendment “states rights” effort, but they fail to take into consideration that they must have the consent of the governed before imposing unwanted socialist systems on we the people. Doesn’t matter if it’s federal or state, it’s still SOCIALISM!! And a state forcing its government approved and controlled top-down socialist program on its citizens against their will, or else, especially with federal backing is FASCISM!! TYRANNY!! It is unwanted, unnecessary and UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! We the people are the SOVEREIGNS!! Together, we can put a stop to this!!
Ronald Reagan warned us that the socialists would try to impose socialism on America through socialist healthcare. Well, here it is. A so-called Republican now wants to impose a socialist healthcare system on us, only he calls it a “conservative free-market program.” Well, if it’s conservative free-market, why does it use federal and state tax dollars and why does the state have to FORCE it down our throats?
A vote for Romney is a vote for the Socialist States of America!! Don’t let it happen!!
The tea party rose up to resist this tyranny!! The tea party says: Force SOCIALIST healthcare down our throats, we shove it up your DONKEYS next election!!
Now is the time. Just do it!!
But...but...as governor in a state like Massachusetts, Romney is the best of the best you can hope for in a conservative..... (SPIT)
It’d be nice if Limbaugh and Levin pointed this out, but rest assured, if Newt says anything remotely close to bashing capitalism, that is what Rush and Levin will spend the first hour of their shows addressing.
Bondi says she and Romney bot want to repeal ObamaCare, but on the other hand they both want to impose RomnyCare like programs on the states through the state legislatures, complete with individual mandates!! This is tyranny at any level!!
Just say NO to ObamneyCare!!
NO ROMNEY!!
TOTAL evasion and quibbling on the state mandated issue!
Smoke and mirrors .. might as well be an obot. She’s definitely a tool. FL voters, you have another pay to play atty general politician in your midst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ukrm7hxbAw
Thanks, maggie.
I saw this the other night, and my jaw just hit the floor.
Praying that the primary voters WAKE THE HECK UP!
Capitalism? This is top down government central planning and FORCE!! No capitalism here. It’s socialist fascism!!
“It’d be nice if Limbaugh and Levin pointed this out, ...”
Spread the word!
I get the feeling Romney is going to pull a Boehner when it come to repealing ObamaCare. Romney put up a front he is fighting hard to repeal it. He may even pretend to be furious with his rino puppets that they are resisting its repeal. In the end he will say, “I tried my best to stop it” as it gets passed.
edited version:
I get the feeling Romney is going to pull a Boehner when it come to repealing ObamaCare. Romney will put up a front he is fighting hard to repeal it.
He may even pretend to be furious with the Republicans (his rino puppets) that are inexpecably resisting its repeal. In the end he will say, “I tried my best to stop it” as it gets passed.
If Limbaugh wants to matter after the election of 2012, he better actually step up to the plate and eventaully endorse Gingrich. If he straddles the fence and lets Obamneycare get the nomination and then Romney goes on to lose to Obama; I’m done listening to Rush, because there will be nothing that Rush could say in a 2nd Obama term that would matter.
Rush sits up there in his ivory tower and says, his success isn’t based on who wins elections. Oh really? When Limbaugh was coming of age in the 80s, he didn’t have an intrusive govt. to get in the way of his $millions. He has enough money now that the govt. can’t effect him, but for us pulling in 45K a year, the govt. can kick our ass.
If we did not know it already, the Republican leadership wants Big Government just like their Democrat counterparts.
While Republican Big Government may look a little different than Democrat Big Government, at the heart is control of people.
Similarly, both Republican and Democrat Big Governments control people by putting them in debt—Fed, State, Local, Corp, and Self.
Thus far the Big Government Elites in the Republican Party has eliminated Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, Herman Cain, and Rich Perry from being a Conservative President. They only have to eliminate Gingrich and Santorum to make Romney the choice.
2010 was a fight to get rid of Democrats.
2012 will go down in history as the fight to get rid of RINO’s and Democrats.
... and Romney Czar hopeful ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839432/posts
Greta’s 1-27-2012 interview On The Record with Pam Bondi
GRETA: And he is certainly taking a lot of flak for it, but Gov Romney insists his healthcare law he signed in MASS s different from Pres. Obama’s healthcare law, but Rush Limbaugh says that’s not true.
Greta starts interview with RUSH LIMBAUGH show video clip:
Romney says, “92% of the people in my state had insurance before the plan went in place, nothing changes for them.” Obama: “If you like your plan, you get to keep your plan,” except that you don’t, but that’s what Obama said. “If you like your plan, you get to keep it, we’re not touching it. If you like your doctor, you get to keep it, we’re not changing it.” “For the 8% of the people who didn’t have insurance we said to them if you can afford it, buy it, and if you don’t want to buy insurance, then you gotta help pay for the cost.”
Obama: “You gotta buy insurance or pay a fine.”
[EDITED OUT OF THE RUSH VIDEO] This is Santorum’s point, it’s the same thing. Your option is to buy insurance required, or you pay a fine. Now, the way Obamacare is structured, the fine is much cheaper than the insurance, for a couple of years, by design. The idea is to get people paying the fine. They are the free riders. Romney is right, they pay the fine but if they show up at the emergency room, by law they have to be treated. They’re the free riders. So Santorum is saying, “See, it’s the same thing.
Obama’s doing the same thing. Romney doesn’t call his plan a fine. You don’t buy insurance, then you have to help pay for the cost; it’s the same thing. This is why people say there’s not much difference between the two plans.
And then Romney says, “Under federal law if somebody doesn’t have insurance then we have to care for them in the hospitals, give ‘em free care. So we said no more free riders.” So you’re paying a fine or you’re buying health insurance, which is what Obamacare is.
Source of video excerpt: Santorum Hammers Romney on Obamacare
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GRETA: FLA Attorney General Pam Bondi has spent the past year trying to get Pres Obama’s healthcare law overturned, but she’s also supporting Gov Mitt Romney for President. Is that a contradiction of not? Atty Gen Bondi joins us. Good evening Pam.
BONDI: Good evening Greta. Good to talk to you.
GRETA: Nice to talk to you. OK, How do you reconcile these two plans and your support for Gov Romney and the Mass Plan, and, of course, I assume you just heard what Rush Limbaugh just said.
BONDI: Oh, and I have so much respect for Rush Limbaugh, of course. But, oh, there is nothing to reconcile. These are two completely different plans. And I’m listening to Rush, taking notes. Let me tell you what I wrote:
ObamaCare raises taxes.
Mitt Romney’s plan would not.
ObamaCare has Medicare diversions.
Romney’s plan would not.
Pres Obama’s federal healthcare plan creates new federal bureaucracy.
Romney’s plan would not.
It [ObamaCare] reduces choice.
Mitt Romney’s plan would not.
It raises costs.
Mitt Romney’s Plan lowers costs.
I could keep going, but it’s about States Rights. From day one, Mitt Romney, and I’ll tell you along with Newt Gingrich, along with Rick Santorum, along with Ron Paul, all of our candidates have said, the first thing that they will try to do is get rid of the Federal government healthcare takeover. So all the candidates have said that.
And let me tell you, I have been asked to be on Gov Romney’s task force. I am going to be part of his healthcare policy team, um, when he’s president to undo this and to create good healthcare. So I wholeheartedly support him, and I don’t think he contradicts it at all. In fact, he is doing everything that we agree with.
GRETA: Ok, Let me ask you this. It is enormously complex, all these healthcare questions. Just one of them recently said it reduces costs, and I’m only quoting from what Politico has on 10/26/11 in which it says that even Gov Romney admits it does not reduce costs in Mass. That the whole idea in Mass was to expand coverage so people could be covered, but an admission that it didn’t reduce costs cause healthcare costs have been rising and, not in this article, doesn’t the Mass[ Healthcare] Plan get some Federal subsidy, so in some way we all sort of pick up the tab?
BONDI: Well, that’s in Mass, not in the entire country. He wants a plan where each state can decide what to do in their own state that wouldn’t raise costs. And let me tell you Greta, Of the majority of states... [Greta interrupts]
GRETA: Let me ask you about the mandate there. Just so the viewers understand. The national plan has a mandate. The state plan has a mandate. You argue that the national plan mandate is unconstitutional, but there is a distinction with the state plan, is there not?
BONDI: Yes, yes. Federal healthcare plan mandates that every person in this country buy insurance, and if not, we will be penalized or taxed. What we want is for each state to have the ability to regulate and create their own healthcare plans that best fit each state. That’s what we want. That’s what we mean when we talk about the mandate.
And of the 26 states that are involved in the lawsuit that FLA is leading, the majority of the states-—some are governors, some are Attys General-—but the majority of the states involved in that healthcare lawsuit have endorsed Mitt Romney, and we stand behind Mitt Romney for Governor as well as my fellow cabinet members Adam Putnam, Jeff Atwater and [black screen /no audio for a second or two] completely remaining neutral. He’s not helping anyone behind the scenes, as well as our Senate president and our speaker of the house.
GRETA: Alright. I’m going to take the last word. leaving this just so that I edit the other side ... Bill McCollum, who started the lawsuit, your predecessor in the state of FLA as the AG, he is one of the co-chair of Newt Gingrich’s campaign. You, of course, are part of endorsing Gov Romney, just to put some perspective on it.
But anyway, it is enormously complicated, and we are going to see what happens at the end of June in your national lawsuit challenging the national healthcare. Thank-you Pam. Nice to see you.
What stuck out to me when intially watching was, she not only was reading from her notes, but brought attention to it by mentioning she was. Her reading was very poor, it was not a Sarah reading a couple of key words and filling in the blank. They were obviously not a subject she knew or was familiar with, IOW they were given to her by her handlers.
Bondi is a whore......political whore.
And yes, I’d like to see a lawyer who knows the FEC’s rules to see which ones were violated. (Kristinn can you find someone who would know)
Notice last night after the Cain endorsement, Newt said he planned to ask him to serve, not that he already had.....
No Romney anything!
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