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

[Libloather]

Repeal Commiecare™. Hold the pickle.

[NoLibZone]

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

Reagan as a Governor signed legislation in California that he never brought nationally.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Nice try. Stick your pickle where the sun don’t shine.

Your beloved Azzhole is on his way out. O.U.T.

[madison10]

There is a difference between what ONE state decided to do for healthcare and Obama shoving his Commiecare down the throats of the WHOLE nation. There is states’ rights, well there WERE states’ rights anyway, and what is done in one state does not make it good for the nation.

So Romney did this in Massachusetts...is that what the people of his state wanted? That was THEIR business. Doesn’t mean we would want it in “flyover country.”

[JohnD9207]

Lets see who do we vote for....someone who said he will repeal obamacare taxation, or Obama...gee? Guess Chuck never read the 10th admendment...

I might not agree with Massachusetts healthcare, but it is confined to Massachusetts.

What a smuck.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Is Schumer and Biden related?
Both are jokers.

[Viking2002]

Gee, Chucky, whatever Romney did in his state and walked it back makes it OK for your ilk to do a thousand-fold to the entire nation and embrace it? And Romney has the 'splaining to do? That BS didn't sell yesterday, it doesn't sell today, and it won't sell tomorrow. Your thousand variants of 'it's Bush's fault' is really getting to be grating. Putz.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[RaisingCain]

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

Reagan as a Governor signed legislation in California that he never brought nationally.”

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RomneyCare was an abomination to the spirit and sense of the Mass. constitution too, and it went on to not only redistribute the wealth of the citizens of Mass., but also served to suck money from the other states through federal government funding.

Mittens can’t wiggle himself out of this proclaiming State’s rights.

[RaisingCain]

“I might not agree with Massachusetts healthcare, but it is confined to Massachusetts.”

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No, actually, it wasn’t.

[albie]

STFU you old foolish communist!!! Stupid ass SOB.

[Jim Robinson]

Check the FR keyword: bondi:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bondi/index?tab=articles

Bondi’s already let it slip about her involvement with Romney’s new National Healthcare Task force which they plan on using to help states implement “good healthcare” systems a la RomneyCare:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839689/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839432/posts

ObamaCare bad. RomneyCare good. Ain’t socialism grand?

[Parmy]

Shumer lives in an alternate universe. Which one, I haven’t a clue.

[mongo141]

FK Schumer that self serving socialist ahole.

[Diogenesis]

Myth Romney IS the author of RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE. And he shamelessly
neither refutes it NOR acknowledges it.

Shame on the GOPe for stealing the election from the
people, as it did in 2008.

[presidio9]

Agreed, Mitt Romney sucks as a candidate. What is your solution?

[hecht]

70 does not equal 2700.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Not anymore. The pickle penalty is now a pickle tax around Chuckie’s painfully plugged head.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Romney is an idiot for implementing RomneyCare. So what does Obama do? He doubles Dow on the idiocy.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Romney is an idiot for implementing RomneyCare. So what does Obama do? He doubles down on the idiocy.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.