Posted on 04/01/2010 7:27:57 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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[I]t’s now becoming clear that [Mitt Romney is] the man we have to thank for our new national health care law.
“I mean, a lot of commentators have said this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts,” President Obama told Matt Lauer recently on the “Today” show.
Good work leading the way, Mitt!
We did not actually hear a whole lot about how Obama’s health care bill was similar to Romney’s during its long, torturous struggle through Congress. Particularly not during the parts that involved placating the Democratic left wing. Do you think Obama mentioned it during his Air Force One courtship of Dennis Kucinich? Possibly not.
But it really does seem as though the two plans are a whole lot alike, and Romney deserves credit for working with the Massachusetts Democrats to get such an ambitious, sweeping reform enacted. However, since most of his party is currently crouched in the basement, waiting for the health care apocalypse to split the earth into smithereens, they’re probably not going to be all that impressed.
The Republicans are dying for a disaster, and to be honest, even people who like the new law a lot have been worried that something really strange might be hidden in 2,000 pages of verbiage. (Did you know somebody stuck financing for abstinence education in there?)
This week there was an alarming report that AT&T was going to have to reduce its long-term profit estimates by about $1 billion because of the new law — or, as the House minority leader, John Boehner, put it, the newly enacted “job-killing tax increases.” The AT&T charge was for accounting purposes, which is not as much real money as currency-based theology.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Exactly right. The following will run 24/7 on the nightly news ...
Romney Gives Mass. Health Reform an 'A'
"The portrait depicts the governor seated at the front edge of his desk wearing his trademark business suit. Beside him is a small framed photo of his wife, Ann, and ... [wait for it] ... a copy of the health care reform law he called his greatest achievement.
The people that go utterly insane and have seizures over the mention of his name should chill, because Mittens ain't going anywhere.
I seem to hear more and more Republicans saying it cannot be overturned so they won’t run on that. I guess in that case, putting a liberal Republican, associated with the health care debacle, at the top of the ticket won’t make the catastrophic loss in 2012 any worse.
Don’t listen to the Marxist Media and who THEY want as the Rep nominee. Sheeeesh, man-up!
But it is an idiotic stretch to blame him for ObamaCare. The Dumbocrats were determined from the get-go to heap that steaming pile of dog poop on the public, Mitt or no Mitt.
If Romney had any sense, he would have used the fuster cluck in Massachusetts as a reason not to take an even worse version nationwide.
I must have stated this badly. I was saying that if the GOP does not run on repeal, the disaster it will create cannot be made worse even by adding Romney to the top of the ticket. Only the Stupid Party could misread public sentiment so badly.
I seem to hear more and more Republicans saying it cannot be overturned so they won’t run on that. I guess in that case, putting a liberal Republican, associated with the health care debacle, at the top of the ticket won’t make the catastrophic loss in 2012 any worse.
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The Republican and Democrat parties will eventually merge as a welfare/statist coalition.
They will be opposed by those who still treasure the rule of law, personal liberty and states’ rights.
Romney has proven to be a political whore, as most politicians are. Romney has just chosen Republican as his brand. I don’t think he has conviction of beliefs, and would adopt whatever stance got him elected.
I’m tired of that type of politician. There’s a big difference between listening to the public, and pandering.
Hmmm, I don’t know...Reagan was a Democrat for decades, and that didn’t hang around his neck to the point he didn’t become the greatest American and Republican President of my lifetime.
And I’m not comparing the two men, to be crystal clear. Just noting compared to Romneycare - which is a huge problem for Romney - doesn’t seem impossible to overcome.
If Romney doesn’t disavow it as Reagan disavowed the Democratic Party with his ‘I didn’t leave the party, the party left me’ classic line, then I agree, we can’t have him. Note this before you flame me: I AGREE.
If the economy continues this slide into the dustbin of history..and it will with another Owe-bama term, none of these complaints about Romeny will seem very important in hindsight. We simply can’t afford a POTUS that doesn’t have a clue about economic issues, ala McCain or Owe-bama from the 2008 election cycle.
I know many hate Romney with a passion here, and elsewhere. Fine. Lets find somebody that understands economics as well as he clearly does, and back him or her to the hilt.
Any suggestions as to who he or she is within the GOP? Paul Ryan, perhaps?
“I seem to hear more and more Republicans saying it cannot be overturned so they won’t run on that. “
It can’t be overturned because it would cost political power to both parties. While it’s a Democrat creation, there will be plenty of political loot to be gained in administering this gigantic bureaucracy.
The Republicans can pretend to hate it, while enjoying the benefits of the new healthcare scam.
Short and sweet!
I’m not a Romneybot, but I think there is some difference in a state health program and federal Obamacare takeover of one-sixth of the economy.
Mitt Romney, Liberal Icon
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yes indeedy
Sadly, we don’t seem to have any decent potential candidates and Pawlenty is looking like the best option out of those who currently seem to be working on a run. Hopefully someone more acceptable will enter the mix.
“I’m not a Romneybot, but I think there is some difference in a state health program and federal Obamacare takeover of one-sixth of the economy.”
There is a difference, but it is one of degree and not of substance. Just as there is a difference of degree but not substance between the two dominant - and statist - parties.
If you see Pawlenty as a viable option, how can you not see ... DeMint, Palin, Pence and Ryan (to name several) ... as ‘decent potential candidates’?
Palin has no chance in a general election. The others are certainly more desirable than Pawlenty, but none of them have made any indication that they intend to run. The only potential candidates that have been making the Iowa rounds are Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich, and Palin. Out of those four, Pawlenty is the more desirable. DeMint would be my first choice right now out of everyone, but he doesn’t appear to be running.
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