Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:34:34 AM · by Colofornian · 3 replies · 40+ views
AP ^ | March 26, 2010 | Glen Johnson
Posted on 03/27/2010 9:05:34 AM PDT by PMAS
WASHINGTON Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it.
The obligation in the new health care law is a Republican idea that's been around at least two decades. It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and Hillary Clinton's failed health care overhaul in the 1990s. These days, Republicans call it government overreach.
Mitt Romney, weighing another run for the GOP presidential nomination, signed such a requirement into law at the state level as Massachusetts governor in 2006. At the time, Romney defended it as "a personal responsibility principle" and Massachusetts' newest GOP senator, Scott Brown, backed it. Romney now says Obama's plan is a federal takeover that bears little resemblance to what he did as governor and should be repealed.
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Yes.
Said it’s true.
(About this being a GOP idea)
Show me all the republicans who voted for it.
If Mitt could’ve, he would’ve!
Can’t blame republicans for a democrat disaster that a RINO would have voted for if he could have. It takes some serious liberal thinking to do so.
BTW, that troll?
I notice he has never posted even one reply.
I wonder if it is possible to get the zot without even posting?
lolololol
looooogiii
Guess king koopa stomped Mario.
Republican, Democrat, whatever, Nationalized Healthcare is a bad idea.
But hey AP, what do I know?
Bush’s Fault, LOL
Stupid. If it’s unconstitutional, it doesn’t matter who’s idea it was. IDIOTS!
It’s sure something we should keep in mind while Romney goes about trying to buy up a critical mass of influence for the presidential primary.
I remember when he introduced Romneycare in MA, all of the primping and preening he did in the press: oh, how hard he had worked applying his prodigious brain power and business acumen and moral clarity to this toughest of challenges and how brilliant and elegant the Solomon-like wisdom with which he had crafted what perhaps only he could have come up with!
All the hubris of the ultimate technocrat—not someone we should want near the presidential nomination.
They forgot to mention DOle is a retard.
Good I dont care whos idea it was it sucks.The democrats have implemented it so they will take the Fall for it as well. So tell your story walking PUTZ
PUTZ ?
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