Massachusetts Treasurer Blasts RomneyCare and, Equivalently, ObamaCare

Carpetbagger Mitt RomneyCARE (D, or whatever you want):
“Who cares about the Democratic Massachusetts Treasurer?
And who cares about the Massachusetts people? I never let them vote anyway.
And I live in La Jolla, now. So, screw those stupid servants.
Let them play with their bananas.”

“Cahill bashes (MA) state -- and national -- health care reform law
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered
a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is
bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in
Congress.
"If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform
here in Massachusetts on a national level, they will threaten to wipe out the American
economy within four years,” Cahill said in a press conference in his office.
Echoing criticism leveled by Congressional Republicans in recent weeks, Cahill said, “It
is time for the president, the Democratic leadership, to go back to the drawing board and
come up with a new plan that does not threaten to bankrupt this country.”

“In his defense, Romney admitted to Fox that about half of the real costs of “extending
coverage to the uninsured” (aka forcing young, healthy people to buy expensive
insurance they don’t need) is covered by federal tax dollars. In other words, as expensive
as it is, without federal subsidies it would cost even more.
So when there’s a federal Obamacare plan, who do we taxpayers turn to for our
subsidies? China? The United Nations? Mr. Spock and the United Federation of Planets?”

“Mr. Romney's subsidized coverage is meanwhile doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.
So long as the former governor clings to these central points of his health plan, he's on
the wrong side of free-market policy and public opinion.

This isn't going away for Mr. Romney either, which is why he'd do better by writing off
his own plan as a mistake that Democrats have made worse, and replacing it with a
proposal that deregulates and reforms the private market to lower insurance costs
(thereby achieving greater coverage).”

From CATO (the whole article is worthwhile): “Before RomneyCare was enacted, estimates of the number of uninsured in
Massachusetts ranged from 372,000 to 618,000. Under the new program, about 219,000
previously uninsured residents have signed up for insurance. Of these, 133,000 are
receiving subsidized coverage, proving once again that people are all too happy to accept
something “for free,” and let others pay the bill. That is in addition to 56,000 people who
have been signed up for Medicaid. The bigger the subsidy, the faster people are signing
up. Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was
implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage.

“Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Now Without Health Insurance”
I'm a critic because what Washington is talking about doing
has made health insurance unaffordable in Massachusetts.

So repeal it fool.

GO TIM! Baker lost me when he picked Tisei.

Tim Cahill interview yesterday on the Howie Carr Show (WRKO)
http://audio.wrko.com/m/audio/29842073/howie-carr-and-tim-cahill-3-16-10.htm

Romenycare was the entire Massachusetts Government, not just Romney. Did it not have the State Democrats and Republicans originate and forward the bill. And we have Romneycare to thank that it is convincing Americans that Obamacare will not work. So instead of tearing Romney down, why don't we grow up and thank him. Building hate without reason is a sickness.

Call the local offices of Congresscritters. They are still answering the phone.

GO TIM! Baker lost me when he picked Tisei.

Cahill is the favorite for the governorship unless Deval quits his reelection bid (fat chance!)

MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

Building hate without reason is a sickness.

Proof that your screen name is a lie.

A. "Hate" has zilch, zero, nada, null, zip, to do with why I and others here aggressively reject Romney. That you think it does shows your LACK of logic.

B. Reasons for opposing and rejecting Mitt Romney abound -- real, strong, solid, meaty reasons that are documented and proveable in his own words, from:
-- his embrace of cap-and-trade ("Any carbon plan has to be worldwide in scope. Let's have a worldwide solution, not an American one," -- Mitt Romney, on a "solution" to an imaginary problem)
-- to his flip-flops on abortion
-- to his stance on "gay rights," which is not about bequeathing rights but about denying rights of free people to peacefully reject open homosexuality in their midst
-- to RomneyCare, which he recently described as "conservative" and considers one of his greatest accomplishments.

You need to rethink your emotional embrace of "hate" as being behind objections to Romney, you need to accept that indeed there are very good reasons for rejecting Romney from a conservative standpoint, and YOU NEED TO ABANDON YOUR SCREEN NAME BECAUSE IT IS FALSE ADVERTISING.

OK, you're right ................ we should thank him!

Thank you Mitt Romney for revealing yourself as a closet liberal who continually lies depending upon and when the situation is to your benefits.

How's that for a thank you?

And we have Romneycare to thank that it is convincing Americans that Obamacare will not work. So instead of tearing Romney down, why don't we grow up and thank him.

HUH????, because of his gross socialism should we merely let him campaign unchallenged by us for the Republican nomination, or would it be more "grown up" of us to actually lend him our support?

Not one Romney has ever worn a uniform since coming to American BEFORE the Civil War. Not one, not once.

Romneys. Weird. Not patriots. Not once.

I almost have to agree with the idea of thanking him for this. He has proven that Obama-care cannot work.

Romney has also proven that he won’t be a good president. So let’s thank him twice and vote against him twice.

He is a smart man, but plays to pandering too much for me.