Posted on 09/27/2013 4:39:34 PM PDT by cotton1706
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke out Friday against Congressional Republicans’ strategy to defund Obamacare, holding that it is not “effective.”
“We’re more effective tactically not to use a shutdown of some kind to pursue the … anti-Obamacare objective,” Romney told CNN. “I don’t think that will be as effective.”
Romney’s comments are scheduled to appear on Friday’s episode of CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper”.
(Also on POLITICO: Viewers guide to shutdown drama)
Both chambers of Congress must pass a continuing resolution, or CR, by Sept. 30 to keep the government from shutting down.
Earlier this week, the Republican-held House passed a CR that would defund the President’s signature health law, the Affordable Care Act, in an effort to force a vote on defunding Obamacare in the Senate. The strategy has resulted in divisions within the Republican Party, with one faction aggressively pursuing Obamacare defunding through the CR and others decrying the tactic as irresponsible.
On Friday, a version of the continuing resolution was passed in the Senate with the defunding language stripped, essentially putting the onus of a government shutdown back on the House and preventing interference with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
“I think there’s a better way of getting rid of Obamacare,” Romney said. “[D]elaying it by at least a year. That was Senator Manchin’s idea, the Democrats’ idea.”
“The other [option] would be potentially working hard to get Republicans elected to the House and Senate and they’d be able to do in a traditional way,” Romney said.
So I posted this just so we could all publicly deride him!!
So have at it!
Well, if a true conservative like Mitt is against it, I guess I’ll just change my mind.
he agrees with democratCare in principle. He brought it to Mass.
Mitt, for the love of God, just shut up and go away.
RINO cant get no love.
Opps, that ship sailed and was sunk last November.
If you want a winning strategy he’s the guy to ask.
Pray America is Waking Up
Kerry says, you can stop a tank with a crowbar but
it might be dangerous, better to just ask them to stop.
I think that clown oughta just go get himself another bottle and STFU
Ok, I’ll have at it. Lets take all these transgender males that want to be females, do the snip job and transplant those to the vacancy in Mitt’s anatomy.
I feel better now. Thanks for the invite.
“Mitt, for the love of God, just shut up and go away.”
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And please take McCain and the rest of the liberal republicans with you.
Make no mistake, the 2012 election was between a big government, anti liberty, dyed in the wool nanny statist - and Barack Obama.
Kerry says, you can stop a tank with a crowbar but
it might be dangerous, better to just ask them to stop.
Even if true, we need to keep in mind that every piece of crap published by the politico Nazis is designed to attack and depress conservatives.
We need to drill holes in the heads of every Politico writer to determine how much vacuum they carry and did they pay for the space?
More Mush from Mitt
No Republican proposed a shutdown Stupid RINO
Just bugger off, Romney.
Mitt pokes his head out from behind the GOPe curtain...
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