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.
I think you must have totally missed the lesson from the cloture vote. RINO’s are Democrats, they vote with Democrats, they want the Democrats to win. They only pretend to oppose them for public consumption.
and then you tell us not to complain if we don’t support the RINO’s.
That is just contrary to common sense.
Okay, keep complaining about the guy you helped win by not supporting his Opponent in the General. Then you can keep complaining about the guy who didn’t win to make it fair.
Meanwhile, I’ll watch my Dog chase her tail.
I was not attacking your First Amendment Right to Free Speech, so you can stop attacking mine.
To each his own. It really doesn’t matter, we are screwed.
I’ll be long gone before the Ship hits the Iceberg.
It makes sense because the guy who didn’t win spouts nonsense and continues to influence the party in negative directions.
I didn’t miss the point. I agree with you, but I wasn’t talking about the RINOS. I was talking about the silliness of harping on the guy that LOST the General Election to Obama. Romney is yesterday’s news, too bad McCain isn’t.
As I have stated numerous times, Democrats are Communists and RINOS are Communist Sympathizers. Recent events prove that point.
The fact is the Sheeple love Obama. I will never understand it. The Republic as founded is gone, probably forever.
I almost changed to an Independent, but I still wanted to be able to Vote in the Primary for my choice of Candidates that would have a chance against whatever Democrat Communist ended up on the General Election Ballot.
As far as the guy who lost, I give his opinion as much credence as McCain's inane ramblings. Even President Bush has made some stupid comments supporting Obama. I give up.
We have very few people in power on our side, and they will be the ones I support. That being said, I will continue to follow the Levin Rule, which is my prerogative.
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