Posted on 12/12/2006 12:55:40 PM PST by PDR
Pretty much all I need to know.
Romney isn't going to win any FR straw polls. Fortunately for him, FR opinion represents a tiny and shrinking minority of Republican voters.
Romney may be the first person who'll take on entitlement programs.
Do you write headlines for newspapers?
"Experts agree...", "Many people...", "Some say..."
I didn't write that part.
Can't think of anyone more competent to do it.
"Romney may be the first person who'll take on entitlement programs."
He's competent enough, but why do you think he would?
The Mass health care bill he wrote, or claims to have had a major hand in, is a big entitlement plan.
Duh.
"He's competent enough, but why do you think he would?
The Mass health care bill he wrote, or claims to have had a major hand in, is a big entitlement plan."
I'd characterize Romney's plan as an attempt to reform a broken entitlement plan. The entitlement plan that says everyone is entitled to free, extraordinarily expensive emergency care. Oh, and by the way, everyone gets to define what an emergency is individually. That's entitlement.
I think we believe Romney will tackle these issues because he's been, in the face of squishyness and evolution in some social areas, remarkably consistent here. Even in 1994, part of his platform (though little talked about), included the abolition of the department of education. He fought hard to prevent the moratorium that the legislature tried to push through on the flourishing charter school system in Massachusetts. He's in favor of school choice. And everything in his record indicates, that he's precisely the type of policy wonk ideally suited for implementing these types of reforms. As the article notes, his favorite thing is to "bathe in data". And best of all, he can sell reform, something the current president couldn't manage even if he cared to (what ever happened to social security reform??).
Thanks for this piece. I'm glad to see something more positive for a change. Very impressive qualifications, and a nice change from the days of BushI not knowing about the cost of milk, or how grocery stores operate with scanners.
"how grocery stores operate with scanners."
Media propaganda. Bush was told things about scanners that the general public just does not know.
For instance, the window on top- do you know what it's made of?
I didn't realize you ever shopped anywhere besides Neiman-Marcus
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