Posted on 11/16/2014 6:53:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said Sunday that there are "more productive ways" to fight President Obama's immigration executive actions than shutting down the government.
Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Romney was asked about the possibility of shutting down the government to fight the actions.
"Well, I think there's got to be more productive ways for us to be able to impress on the president the need to work for a permanent solution, as opposed to a temporary stop-gap solution," Romney replied.
Obama should allow Congress a chance to pass legislation on immigration, Romney said.
"Let those people who were elected come together with a piece of legislation on this and other topics, and then he has a chance to veto them if he doesn't like them," he said. "But the idea of violating the principles of our Constitution, which is a balance of power, checks and balances, that is something which is wrong, and I think would not be to the president's benefit."
He said that after major Republican gains on Election Day, Obama needs to listen to voters.
"The president has got to learn that he lost this last election round," Romney said. "The American people spoke loud and clear."
Romney's name has been mentioned as a possible presidential contender in 2016, despite his denials, but he was not asked about the possibility on Sunday.
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ObamaCare Architect undermines ObamaCare foundation Youtube video 1:18Published on Jul 25, 2014
Voters got to know Jonathan Gruber in 2012 when the Obama campaign put the health care policy wonk forward to shut down ObamaCare attacks from Republican nominee Mitt Romney. President Obama was so eager to play up Gruber’s role as a chief architect of ObamaCare because Gruber had been a chief architect of Romney’s state-level health law. Elevating Gruber allowed the campaign to deliver his lines with greater crack: “The core of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare and what we did in Massachusetts are identical," says Gruber in one campaign ad. While Gruber may have helped neuter Romney’s ObamaCare attacks, he may end up helping to neuter the law itself thanks to a video unearthed by free-market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Gruber, an MIT professor who has become a Democratic health care talking head, also gets paid for talking to industry groups about ObamaCare. In one 2012 speech, Gruber talked about the provision in the law that has state governments administer enrollments, including subsidies. “I think what’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits,” said Gruber, a MIT professor, in a speech two years ago. Why is that problematic? Because it directly contradicts what the administration argued in court about a lawsuit that could be “devastating” to ObamaCare because it would end the subsidies paid to enrollees in the states that did not voluntarily comply.
The preferred talking point for pro-administration groups has been to dismiss the subsidy gap as a clerical error, not an intentional policy. It goes like this: Congress meant to provide a way to work around non-compliant states, but didn’t get the wording right. It was, in the words of one administration insider deployed to knock down the court decision, a typo. And who was that insider? You guessed it: Jonathan Gruber. This matters not because it is an embarrassing deception for an academic to be caught in, but because it suggests the falsity of the administration’s claim that this was a glitch and not a feature. The administration was eager to highlight Gruber’s role in order to shame Romney, making it hard now to suggest that he was some peripheral figure. Whether this matters in the expected Supreme Court decision is a matter for the legal eagles to consider, but from a messaging point of view this is a Krakatoa-sized eruption.
The plan pretty plainly was to do on subsidies what the administration has tried to do on Medicaid expansion: pressure governors who do not comply and create talking points for Democratic candidates. It’s just that so many states refused to set up their own ObamaCare shops, including those with supportive governors. The rest of the actual glitches in the law and technology made even some liberal governors opt out and kick the can back to Washington. If the White House can’t argue publicly that this is some silly technicality it goes straight to the heart of the main problem with ObamaCare and voters: they don’t think it works.
Anyone asked him about Gruber yet?
With GOP friends like Romney who needs enemas?
The Loser is giving advice. Who wants to listen to the Father of ObamaCare.
Did they aks him about Jonathan Gruber's involvement in passing RomneyCare in Massachusetts?
Shut up, go away. Please!!!!!
No Mas!
If somebody says something on Face The Nation, does anybody hear it?
Myth, you are the last person to offer advice on how to get this commie care expunged from our nation, this crap is of your making!!!
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Can this really be a surprise to anyone who pays attention to the GOP leadership?
We always knew they were going to cave on Amnesty and ObamaCare as soon as they were reelected.
Man. This guy was almost president!
How old is he now?
I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T!
Surrender is always good.
67.
He’ll be 69 come election day then. 70 by the time he takes office.
He’s ALWAYS available.
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