Tom Daschle was most instrumental in the establishment of what today is known as Obamacare IIRC.
We must be careful NOT to believe everything going on right now as there are some desperate people out there in campaigning land. This could be some more lies to further slime Romney, but then who cares really. I don’t. He’s a RINO of the first order I don’t even want to see as POTUS.
I might go along with a scenario that because Romney was first with establishing the plan, that his people were consulted, or absorbed into the Obama system due their early experience, but I still believe Tom Daschle was the critical element in establishing the details of the plan.
As far as I knew to now Tom Daschle was supposed to head up the program for Obama, but due a scandal he could not be confirmed by Congress to the position he was destined to head up by Obama, and as far as I know he is working in the background, very quietly, and totally out of sight.
For what it’s worth.
I think Rush has a good take ... BHO White House purposely leaked this and the Beltway invested establishment Pubbies are pushing Mitt, and both sides are devious and cunning and gunning for their personal outcomes.
~~~~~~~~~~~
“Okay, so obviously now somebody is leaking this; and it’s curious to me because I’m convinced the White House wants to run against Romney for this very reason. They hope to be able to discredit and destroy Romney by simply tying him to Obamacare, but leaking this story is gonna give some problems to Romney. Now, let’s put this in perspective. If you want the straight scoop, here you go, and listen up: Romney is gonna get this nomination if nothing changes as of today.
This chaos in the streets is distracting from the Republican nomination battle. That’s another thing I think that’s by design here. All this chaos, all these phony protests is taking the focus away from the Republican nomination fight.
Now, what’s happening, I think... Romney’s out there talking up Herman Cain. Romney’s up there saying, “Look, if you can’t vote for me, vote for Herman Cain,” and he’s doing that to defeat Perry. No question about it. Romney has decided he’d have an easier time against Cain. I’m convinced that he believes that.
I don’t necessarily agree with that, but that’s not the point. The establishment now is firmly behind Romney, and every other conservative that’s in this race is under attack.
Perry, Cain, Bachmann, you name it. The establishment is now... They’re trying to get this wrapped up next week. They want to move the primaries up, they want this done and over. The Republican establishment is trying to take full advantage of the chaos of these protests to just nail this down and end it.
Now, obviously this is the White House leaking to Isikoff, who’s no longer at Newsweek; he is at NBC. Now, it’s obvious that the regime wants to run against Romney, and I mentioned this last week. They think Romney would be the easiest candidate of these three to beat because he’s least conservative.
Don’t doubt me on this. There’s no question they want to run against Romney.
However, leaking this right now, to come out so close to this debate tonight is a rather curious thing, because, again, just to make this point again, folks, I think what’s happening, the Republican establishment is trying to get this wrapped up for Romney now. They are doing everything they can to smear, marginalize, take out people like Santorum, Bachmann, Herman Cain, you name it, any other conservative that is competing for the nomination.
Romney, for his part, is now pushing Herman Cain. “If you can’t vote for me, vote for Herman Cain. I like Herman Cain,” and the reason he’s doing this is to get rid of Perry. He wants Perry out of the equation. Because he’s decided he’ll have a much easier time against Herman Cain ‘cause Herman Cain doesn’t have any money.
Herman Cain has the least amount of money, although it’s changing a little bit but he still doesn’t have the money that Perry has and he’s nowhere near the money that Romney has. So what is happening here, Romney wants to swamp Cain or Perry wherever with money and organization in the early states: New Hampshire, Florida, and Nevada, and that is where he expects to be crowned the inevitable Republican nominee by the lib media.
Our guys are still out, the Republican establishment is still totally interested and focused on what the mainstream media says about them. It’s one of the big problems that we face. The Republican establishment still craves the approval, the relationship that they have with the mainstream media.
The Republican leadership in the House and Senate both still use the mainstream media as their primary means of disseminating information. They think that the mainstream media is still the power broker, still the power maker, and they’re gonna go through them.
Romney is also signaling that he will consider Cain for vice president. So he’s building Herman Cain up because he figures he can take Cain out. If Cain can supplant Romney and become number two, then Romney figures it’s over.
Cain doesn’t have much of an organization, he doesn’t have nearly as much money, he could get this thing wrapped up next week, figuratively speaking, which is the objective. That’s what’s taking place. Just my humble opinion.