Sen. Schumer says Romney "in a pickle" over health care

CBS News ^ | July 1, 2012 | Leigh Ann Caldwell

[presidio9]

Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "in a pickle" arguing against the president's health care bill because he passed a similar version in Massachusetts.

"He prescribed this. This was his bill," Schumer said on "Face the Nation." He noted Republicans "have ads saying it's a tax increase. Are they going to say, 'Mitt Romney had the biggest tax increase in Massachusetts?'"

"Mitt Romney is in a total pickle here," Schumer said, arguing that the Republican Party is in a tough position: As polls suggest the economy is the top priority of voters, he said Republicans are making health care a top issue in the election, while Democrats in Congress will be focused on job creation.

"The Republican Party's in a box, the Tea Party's pulling them over to just talk about repeal," he said. "They're going to vote on a repeal of health care, litigate a battle that has been going on for four years, and we are going to put on the floor a small business jobs tax cut."

But on the same program, Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said health care is very much a part of the economic discussion. "I think it's extremely intertwined with the economy. And I think it's an example of where Washington doesn't get it. One of the reasons we don't have significant job creation is the federal government itself," he said.

"We're approaching the health care problem the wrong way. As a practicing physician for over 25 years, the one thing you want to do is fix the real disease, not the symptoms, and the

[Ohioan]

Dems don’t see distinctions between States and the Fed.

The party that once honored Jefferson & Madison was corrupted in the days of the New Deal by a mass entrance of Marxists & Fabian Socialists. Chuck Schumer seems to lean a bit more to the Stalinist or Nazi variety of Socialism, at least to anyone who remembers how he endeavored to justify the Janet Reno directed massacre at Waco, when he was in the House.

But, then that is only one of the tendencies that Schumer exhibits. Another is highlighted by your remark, quoted above. Under the Constitutional formula, issues of health, safety & morals, were left to the States. Legally, they have always been referred to as the "Police Powers." Outside the District of Columbia & the Federal territories, the Federal Government was not given any role whatsoever with regard to civilian health care.

One can not say whether it is just that Chuck Schumer does not understand this, or that he simply does not care. A former Congressman who defended the Federal Government butchering scores of people, in an effort to take their guns away, has no more interest in legal niceties than did a Stalin or Hitler, in times not so far past.

Or does anyone think I am mischaracterizing the fellow?

William Flax

[Sirius Lee]

Romney is not in any pickle and since the Supreme Court has endorsed the public mandate

No, the Supremes endorsed the tax, not the mandate, hence all the scurrying around by the rats claiming that it is still a mandate and NOT a tax, despite Roberts saying that it is a tax.

So, let the mandate stand

Respectfully Ma'am, you can go stick that brainfeart back in the dark hole from whence it came.