Posted on 06/04/2012 6:47:29 AM PDT by C19fan
One of the few Republicans in the country who's been tirelessly pushing for the implementation of Obamacare at the state level has been tapped to head Mitt Romney's transition team, should he become president.
Former HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt, and his consulting group Leavitt Partners, are the primary advocates within Republican circles for implementation of Obamacare's exchanges. It just so happens that his consultancy is one of the major beneficiaries of the taxpayer funded gold mine of hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange implementation grants.
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I've had that feeling since last October, when Sarah announced she wasn't running.
Personnel IS policy.
As I’ve been saying all along: Mitt Romney’s only role, should he be elected, is to consolidate the socialist gains of Barack Obama.
Romney doesn’t oppose socialism. He simply thinks he can do it better than Obama. And he’s probably correct about that.
To mitt’s supporters - what did expect from believing a KNOWN LIAR - truth? IDIOTS! He is a godless warped to the core creature!
Cult blood is thicker than red/white/blue blood. That's why he spent millions LYING about Newt. FUMR.
OMG!! Romneycare is the father of obamacare, for one and secondly how could you possibly believe a KNOWN LIAR!
NEWT!! is the ONE WHO SAID on DAY ONE, before barry was back in Chicago, he would repeal it.
LOL!! HE is a KNOWN flip flopper for years and it didn't hurt him with idiot voters.
Romney was NEVER a WeThePeople Candidate. What part of that don't you understand? He gave one state socialized medicine when he had authority in one state - now he wants to do it to the nation. You rejected the WeThePeople Candidate - so live with the KNOWN LIAR CULT LEADER. Nothing good comes from evil!
And that Sir Mittens of Romney, The Unprincipled, is particularly found of these sorts of parasitic, government-teat-feeding RINOs because, shock and surprise, he is one himself?
No, I can't believe that for one second. /s
That is it - right down to his evil smug smuck smirk that voters saw during the debates and ignored it. Stupid is as stupid does.
Instead had their daggers out for NEWT. God bless Newt for his Patriotism and strength in his fight against GOP E VIL!!
It’s time to quit crying in your beer. We lost, good or not, fair or not. It’s time to start working on prepping the next battlefield.
Who gives a f about him - it's AMERICA that you should be more concerned about. NEWT was that Candidate!!!
NOT WE, YOU did more than lose, you bowed to evil. There is no more counting on you for anything good.
It's more likely he's a starch white Mormon conservative who will feel right at home in a right-center nation, and may indeed flourish in this environment. It remains to be seen if he'll buckle under to the liberal beltway media, but so far indications are he won't.
As for this Obamacare loving associate in charge of transition; it's nothing but a bone for a trusted competent employee who has no real influence on policy.
Why bother, if you are just going to capitulate?
Doesn’t matter to me....I’m not voting for Romney or any other non-conservative.
I respect the thought you put into your response. However, I do not think it helps your case to rely on the WWII Soviet-American Alliance as a model for what to do now.
First, on general principle, wars are not fought in the context of an overarching constitutional government. The Civil War would be an exception, and a horrific one at that. But as a rule, we make international alliances based on shared geopolitical interests. There is no particular obligation between members of an alliance other than the temporary agreement of purpose that binds them.
But here, under our Constitution, every citizen has a unique obligation both to uphold our form of government and to exercise their individual right to vote under a principle of freedom that supports that form of government. Some of us also have more than a general obligation as an ordinary citizen, and have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Under such a scenario, every voter, and those in particular sworn to that oath, must weigh the cost of each vote carefully. If we voluntarily grant power to those we believe will not uphold our Constitution, we are in breach of our duty to our country. God helping me, I will not break my oath. Neither Mitt nor Obama can be trusted to defend either our Constitution or the freedoms it is designed to protect. I cannot vote for either.
Second, the example you gave of the Soviet-American Alliance actually provides good reasons why we should not compromise with a lesser evil on the smaller scale of domestic politics. Keep in mind that the “Grand Alliance,” as it was called, was FDR’s brainchild, and it was deeply rooted in a profound misconception of the seriousness of the communist threat. FDR actually believed that the cooperation would continue after the war and could be enforced through the UN. He believed he could “handle” Stalin. What hubris.
But as you know things disintegrated quickly after the war. The Soviets had betrayed the Poles and allowed many tens of thousands of Poland’s finest freedom fighters to die at the hands of the Germans, apparently believing that the advance of Communism would be aided by the demise of the most stubborn lovers of freedom. Truman and Marshall began to open their eyes and stiffen the American resolve. But the genie was out of the bottle. Joe Stalin’s communism had survived Hitler with our help.
And that is why God gave us morality. God knows everything. All possible consequences to all possible actions. Faith is agreeing with God that we can trust his sense of direction even when we lose our own.
He tells us as individuals to not lift even a finger in support false teachers, false deities, and other such aberrations, and so by faith we do that, and let Him worry about the ultimate consequences that flow from doing the right thing. We have no control over that. He does.
He tells us to keep our promises and our obligations under human law to the extent they do not conflict with divine law. We are obligated under our Constitution to not give power to those who would undermine our Republic. So by faith we stand pat and hold to our duty, and let God worry about who gets to the WH and what they do with it. We can vote, but we can’t control the ultimate outcome. No one can but God. He sets up kings, and he takes them down.
But we do answer to Him for how we live up to our individual obligations. So he gives us morality to guide us. He gives us conscience to light our path when the choices seem impossible. If we refuse the light we are given, if we give in to fear, and throw away faith for “practical outcomes,” we will be left to grope about aimlessly in the dark. If we receive the light we are given, we will be given more light, and we will always be able to find our way home, no matter how long the road.
Who gives a cr*p what you are ready for, it's already known - you are just hell bent to learn the hard way. Romney IS a liberal, pro same sex marriage and $50 a clip abortions under HIS ROMNEYCARE.
finally seeing the light
EVIL hates light! Strange how you think he's seeing it - you just believe LIARS. His records proves otherwise.
Romney is a CULT LEADER - who has bought and lied his way through. And satan is the master of lies - and that is who he serves. His supporters do not value America - one nation under God as under barry/romney it will be under evil.
20 days ago Romney donor pulls support, backs Obama, over same-sex marriage Posted by CNN Political Reporter Shannon Travis (CNN) – A well-known, openly gay supporter of Mitt Romney in New York has decided to withdraw his support for Romney and back President Barack Obama instead. The clincher: Romney's stance on same-sex marriage.
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