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Florida AG Pam Bondi lets the cat out of the bag regarding Romney's National Healthcare plans
From a segment on Greta ^ | Jan 27, 2012 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 01/27/2012 9:52:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi who's fighting to repeal ObamaCare appeared on Greta, tonight, defending RomneyCare. She says Romney’s health care plan is not the same as ObamaCare and, in fact, Romney's plan reduces costs. She goes on to say that Romney wants all states to impose similar laws (including mandates) and that she and is all for it.

She went on to explain that she's going to be on Romney’s Health Care Advisory Team when he’s president!

What this means is that while Romney may say he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he actually agrees with it. He believes that RomneyCare, ie, ObamaCare is a model health care plan and all states should impose similar plans.

RomneyCare and ObamaCare are the same thing. The only difference is that Romney's was imposed at the state level where Obama's was imposed nationally.

RomneyCare = ObamaCare = taxpayer funded abortion = death panels = socialism = government force = fascism = tyranny!!

So Romney and his co-conspirators in the GOP establishment are now planning a National Healthcare Task Force to impose top-down government run national healthcare on all 50 states!!

We all know what Reagan said about government by a group of elites and that socialism would be imposed on America through socialized health care. Well, welcome to the Socialist States Of America if Romney is elected.

If the GOP does this then the hell with them!!

This is tyranny!!

We are the resistance!!

Rebellion is on!!

Go, Tea Party!!

Go, Newt!!

Live free or die!!


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bondi; elections; fascism; florida; healthcare; obamacare; romney; romneycare; sellout; socialism; tyranny
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To: Alamo-Girl

Bumping again.


161 posted on 01/28/2012 10:27:47 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (..................go Giants!!!.....)
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To: upsdriver
I heard that interview. My impression was that she sold herself to the Romney camp for political considerations, the very thing many of us are fighting against.

I thought that same thing when I saw the interview yesterday.

162 posted on 01/28/2012 12:07:20 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Jim Robinson

The vision of what they ALL want to do to us is perfectly clear! Unless folks are looking thru rose colored glasses and trippin’, we are so screwed. I wish I felt that even Newt hasn’t got an agenda that frightens me. How do we find ourselves in this position? It is a mess. One thing is certain, we must stop Romney from getting the nomination.


163 posted on 01/28/2012 12:15:19 PM PST by marygam ((Hurry November 2012, we might not make it))
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To: Jim Robinson

Bump!


164 posted on 01/28/2012 12:19:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Mitt Romney will never be President.


165 posted on 01/28/2012 12:40:48 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Jim Robinson; onyx; hoosiermama; LucyT
Jim: Thanks for the thread. Great catch! If not for you, this interview would have gone entirely unnoticed---overshadowed by Greta's bus interview with Newt.

No doubt Romney's team will try to clean up this Bondi interview, but conservative candidates and leaders need to get in front of this and TAKE CHARGE!

Has it been pointed out that Gateway Pundit Jim Holt's entire blog piece consists of your thread comments, attributed to you---plus a partial video? This Gateway Pundit article has been linked on at least ten other blogs.

FR Thread: We’re Screwed… Florida AG Pam Bondi Says Mitt Wants Romneycare In Every State (Video)

I have not been able to find the entire On The Record Bondi interview, either in video OR professional transcript, so I transcribed it myself. Hopefully the full segment video, with transcript, will become available, so any mistakes I may have made can be corrected.

Below is the transcription of Greta's Pam Bondi interview, transcribed directly from the TV segment [the later rebroadcast]. (Note: In the rebroadcast, there was a second or two in which there was a loss of audio and a black screen; I have noted it in the transcript]

Greta's 1-27-2012 interview On The Record with Pam Bondi

GRETA: And he is certainly taking a lot of flak for it, but Gov Romney insists his healthcare law he signed in MASS s different from Pres. Obama's healthcare law, but Rush Limbaugh says that's not true.

Greta starts interview with RUSH LIMBAUGH show video clip:

Romney says, "92% of the people in my state had insurance before the plan went in place, nothing changes for them." Obama: "If you like your plan, you get to keep your plan," except that you don't, but that's what Obama said. "If you like your plan, you get to keep it, we're not touching it. If you like your doctor, you get to keep it, we're not changing it." "For the 8% of the people who didn't have insurance we said to them if you can afford it, buy it, and if you don't want to buy insurance, then you gotta help pay for the cost."

Obama: "You gotta buy insurance or pay a fine."

[EDITED OUT OF THE RUSH VIDEO] This is Santorum's point, it's the same thing. Your option is to buy insurance required, or you pay a fine. Now, the way Obamacare is structured, the fine is much cheaper than the insurance, for a couple of years, by design. The idea is to get people paying the fine. They are the free riders. Romney is right, they pay the fine but if they show up at the emergency room, by law they have to be treated. They're the free riders. So Santorum is saying, "See, it's the same thing.

Obama's doing the same thing. Romney doesn't call his plan a fine. You don't buy insurance, then you have to help pay for the cost; it's the same thing. This is why people say there's not much difference between the two plans.

And then Romney says, "Under federal law if somebody doesn't have insurance then we have to care for them in the hospitals, give 'em free care. So we said no more free riders." So you're paying a fine or you're buying health insurance, which is what Obamacare is.

Source of video excerpt: Santorum Hammers Romney on Obamacare
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GRETA: FLA Attorney General Pam Bondi has spent the past year trying to get Pres Obama's healthcare law overturned, but she's also supporting Gov Mitt Romney for President. Is that a contradiction of not? Atty Gen Bondi joins us. Good evening Pam.

BONDI: Good evening Greta. Good to talk to you.

GRETA: Nice to talk to you. OK, How do you reconcile these two plans and your support for Gov Romney and the Mass Plan, and, of course, I assume you just heard what Rush Limbaugh just said.

BONDI: Oh, and I have so much respect for Rush Limbaugh, of course. But, oh, there is nothing to reconcile. These are two completely different plans. And I'm listening to Rush, taking notes. Let me tell you what I wrote:

ObamaCare raises taxes.
Mitt Romney's plan would not.

ObamaCare has Medicare diversions.
Romney's plan would not.

Pres Obama's federal healthcare plan creates new federal bureaucracy.
Romney's plan would not.

It [ObamaCare] reduces choice.
Mitt Romney's plan would not.

It raises costs.
Mitt Romney's Plan lowers costs.

I could keep going, but it's about States Rights. From day one, Mitt Romney, and I'll tell you along with Newt Gingrich, along with Rick Santorum, along with Ron Paul, all of our candidates have said, the first thing that they will try to do is get rid of the Federal government healthcare takeover. So all the candidates have said that.

And let me tell you, I have been asked to be on Gov Romney's task force. I am going to be part of his healthcare policy team, um, when he's president to undo this and to create good healthcare. So I wholeheartedly support him, and I don't think he contradicts it at all. In fact, he is doing everything that we agree with.

GRETA: Ok, Let me ask you this. It is enormously complex, all these healthcare questions. Just one of them recently said it reduces costs, and I'm only quoting from what Politico has on 10/26/11 in which it says that even Gov Romney admits it does not reduce costs in Mass. That the whole idea in Mass was to expand coverage so people could be covered, but an admission that it didn't reduce costs cause healthcare costs have been rising and, not in this article, doesn't the Mass[ Healthcare] Plan get some Federal subsidy, so in some way we all sort of pick up the tab?

BONDI: Well, that's in Mass, not in the entire country. He wants a plan where each state can decide what to do in their own state that wouldn't raise costs. And let me tell you Greta, Of the majority of states... [Greta interrupts]

GRETA: Let me ask you about the mandate there. Just so the viewers understand. The national plan has a mandate. The state plan has a mandate. You argue that the national plan mandate is unconstitutional, but there is a distinction with the state plan, is there not?

BONDI: Yes, yes. Federal healthcare plan mandates that every person in this country buy insurance, and if not, we will be penalized or taxed. What we want is for each state to have the ability to regulate and create their own healthcare plans that best fit each state. That's what we want. That's what we mean when we talk about the mandate.

And of the 26 states that are involved in the lawsuit that FLA is leading, the majority of the states---some are governors, some are Attys General---but the majority of the states involved in that healthcare lawsuit have endorsed Mitt Romney, and we stand behind Mitt Romney for Governor as well as my fellow cabinet members Adam Putnam, Jeff Atwater and [black screen /no audio for a second or two] completely remaining neutral. He's not helping anyone behind the scenes, as well as our Senate president and our speaker of the house.

GRETA: Alright. I'm going to take the last word. leaving this just so that I edit the other side ... Bill McCollum, who started the lawsuit, your predecessor in the state of FLA as the AG, he is one of the co-chair of Newt Gingrich's campaign. You, of course, are part of endorsing Gov Romney, just to put some perspective on it.

But anyway, it is enormously complicated, and we are going to see what happens at the end of June in your national lawsuit challenging the national healthcare. Thank-you Pam. Nice to see you.

166 posted on 01/28/2012 2:52:09 PM PST by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm; Jim Robinson; hoosiermama; STARWISE; LucyT; RedMDer; musicman; Matchett-PI; SunkenCiv; ...

God bles you, dearest ((((thousworm))))

My goodness, gracious and bless your sweetest heart for real. You transcribed it, yourself!


167 posted on 01/28/2012 3:01:40 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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To: thouworm

Woo hoo!! Thank you very much, thouworm!! Will repost this afternoon in a new thread.


168 posted on 01/28/2012 3:05:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is not just brewing, rebellion is here!!)
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To: thouworm; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; ...
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conservative candidates and leaders need to get in front of this and TAKE CHARGE!

Important post at # 166.

Good work, thouworm. Thank you.

169 posted on 01/28/2012 4:11:42 PM PST by LucyT ( NB. ~ Pakistan was NOT on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list in 1981. ~)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bump


170 posted on 01/28/2012 4:14:00 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Romney=Gun Grabber.)
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To: Jim Robinson
RMNEY
171 posted on 01/28/2012 4:21:38 PM PST by null and void (Day 1103 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: thouworm

Do you happen to have a link to the Gateway Pundent article?


172 posted on 01/28/2012 4:31:04 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: hoosiermama

“Do you happen to have a link to the Gateway Pundit” article?

Article (actually, JR’s thread comments):

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/were-screwed-florida-ag-pam-bondi-claims-mitt-wants-romneycare-in-every-state-video/

Thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839298/posts


173 posted on 01/28/2012 4:41:39 PM PST by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm

Thanks


174 posted on 01/28/2012 4:50:45 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: ngat
That [individual states can establish state religions] is a true comment about the Constitution.

Explain yourself.

175 posted on 01/28/2012 4:55:14 PM PST by null and void (Day 1103 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: BuckeyeTexan
You’re not wrong. She who cannot be named telegraphed the GOP Elites’ plan last night with a tweet that said:

States can establish a religion, fed govt can’t. states can require health insurance, fed govt can’t.”

SAY WHAT???

Source please?

176 posted on 01/28/2012 5:00:11 PM PST by null and void (Day 1103 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: txrangerette

Newt only entertained the mandate as a way to fight Hillary’s single payer commie care.


177 posted on 01/28/2012 5:00:53 PM PST by freemarketsfreeminds
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To: LucyT; All
JR put up a new thread with Pam Bondi interview transcript:

New Romney Healthcare Czar, Pam Bondi, on Greta defending RomneyCare and his Healthcare Task Force

178 posted on 01/28/2012 5:06:02 PM PST by thouworm (.)
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To: null and void

Ann Coulter on Twitter.


179 posted on 01/28/2012 5:09:35 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
You know the rules...


180 posted on 01/28/2012 5:14:53 PM PST by null and void (Day 1103 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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