Now he says Obama Care is a tax...but only after GOP insiders lambasted him for not agreeing with the Supreme Court's notion of the President's plan.
Mitt Romney also emerged from his NH home yesterday to again claim that his own plan in neighboring Massachusetts was not a "tax" and instead a "penalty".
Mr. Romney implemented a mandate for health insurance while he was governor of the Bay State.
Candidate Romney's insistence that is own plan was different doesn't wash. It was pretty much the same thing. If he has changed his views, that's OK, but the fact is Mitt Romney is not that much different from Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney reverses course and calls ObamaCare mandate a “tax” - NYPOST.com
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Apes aren't that much different from people either. It only takes 2% difference to make all the difference in the world.
Mitt passed his law with both houses dominated by the opposing party, so it is not the best he could do. Obama passed his law while owning both houses.
Mitts law did not control the entire nation it only controlled on of 49 states in the nation leaving choice and competition in tact.
Mitts law did not take over the student loan program. The only thing that rises in price faster than medical costs and now they took the biggest feedback out of the loop.
Mitts law did not require billions in bribes to three other states.
Mitts plan did not require 16,000 new IRS agents.
Mitts plan did not mandate one thing and one thing only to be no copay.
Mitts plan does not tax tanning which is primarily used by whites but skip taxing ribs or whatever it is that blacks use primarily more than whites.
Mitt is different because he has held a job before and been very successful. Obama has never held a job other than the one he gets to daydream about the way our constitutions should read.
Romney on the SCOTUS decision:
“It’s a tax…”
“Hold on, wait a minute, did I say tax? Um, I meant penalty.”
“Uh, wait a second… I was right the first time… it’s a tax.”
“Wait scratch that… it is in fact a penalty.”
“Oh gosh, I’m sorry I meant tax.”
“Err… penalty”
Um no, tax…
Okay, okay I got it now… I was right the second time… it’s a penalty…
It’s a tax?
What did we call it in Massachusetts?
A penalty?
What’s a penalty?
“Okay then… it’s a tax.”
We forgot to mention Mitt didn't rob half a trillion form medicaid to pay for his either.
Mitts plan did not require 16,000 new IRS agents---
but you also accuse Obama of failing to create jobs....
Romney pivots (again) - shocking.. utterly shocking. Damn media coverage - stop it, stop it, I say.
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Jabberwocky
Ok...so let me get this straight. Obamacare isn't a penalty, it's a tax, and therefore legal, but Romneycare is not a tax, it's just a penalty? I see. And matter is anti-matter, and protons are neutrons, and black is white, and night is day. Now I get it! Mitt Romney is the Mad Hatter disguised as a candidate for President, and the Jabberwocky is his bible. He might as well just say it all at once, and be done with it. "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. ". There!
At least most Americans can understand that concept. Romney might as well be giving lectures on the "Higgs Boson" particle, as explaining his position on the Affordable Health Care Act. We really need a gifted translator to cipher through all of this doublespeak.
I guess the bottom line for Romney is that Truth doesn't matter, but the perception of it does. Go figure that one out. And while you're at it, maybe someone can explain how Romney really saved the auto industry by opposing the governments rescue of it a couple of years back too. Maybe it's just that a Ford is really a Chevy, and a Hudson Hornet is actually a Studebaker, and cars run on gas that doesn't come from oil. He might as well be selling us Edsels.
Methinks Romney has been listening to Frank Luntz, the Republican wordsmith sorcerer ,too much, or else he has been sniffing glue. Either way, Romney's view of things is like Alice Through the Looking glass on steroids.
Let's also remember that this is the same guy who said "Corporations are people,too, my friend", and contraception is perfectly ok unless you are using it to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Maybe it all just depends on your definition of what is , is. Did anyone actually have sex with that woman? Crystal clear, isn't it? Didn't this same guy also say, "I stand by my statement---whatever it was"?
I guess the ultimate question is whether all of this matters come November.Truth is, no matter what Romney says, the Obama haters will still vote for the Elephant in the room, even if he is the Emperor who would wear no clothes. But there may still just be a tiny fraction of our population, say the 10 per cent independent thinking faction, who might actually be paying attention to what is being said, be persuaded by the facts not the frivolous fulminating that passes for campaigning for office, and adjust their votes accordingly. After all, they are the group that will give the swing states their swing. Hope does spring eternal, and maybe they will be the ones who ultimately save us from going collectively down the rabbit hole of electoral history.
In the meantime, welcome to The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, posing as the 2102 Presidential Election campaign.
9:01's best point is the fact that Mitt has worked before. Obama has been nothing but a community organizer, one who owes all to affirmative action and white guilt. That, along with media complicity in all he does explains why a complete failure is even considered a viable candidate.
If we knew if it was a tax or not then it wouldn't take a supreme court to rule on it and the court wouldn't of been split down the middle on the answer.
The better question would have been if it is constitutional to tax an inactivity. It should not be. Thanks to the dumb ruling they could now pass a law to tax you for not voting democrat...oh wait they already do that.
With regard to implementing healthcare....implementing anything on the state level is not the same as doing it on the federal level.
Boy the Doheny people are writting today... Whats Matts stand today???
I wonder whos butt hes rubbing today Mary is old news by now...
Your choices are simple in the fall
You either vote Romney, Doheny or Obama, Owens.. Plain simple and to the point.. ENOUGH SAID...
Romney-Dohney: Romney/Rice - what deal. Who's next, Scooter Libby and John Yoo teaming up with Karl Rove, and "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job (New Orleans Katrina soundbyte)."
1:12 nailed it.
Enjoy your Obama "change."
Nobody read 1:12's post (as they couldn't get by the picture) so how would you know if he nailed it?
Romney and Rice would be a good ticket. I never even thought of that. She is a very well qualified lady. Another example of your War on Women, eh Dannie?
"All Republicans are Racist"
I second that... 1:12 definately "nailed it."
1:12 illustrates what I've said before. Democrats are master campiagners who could sell ice to an Eskimo and the Republicans are master bumblers who couldn't sell a bottle of water to a man in the desert dying of thirst.
10:38, well that explains why we just came off of 8 years of republican POTUS and they just took back the house too.
Truth is that 1:12 illustrates why republicans keep winning even though they have a grain of unappetizing extremism. Its because the left wing kookie wackos completely run the democrats as a wholly owned subsidiary.
11:09,
Yes the republicans usually win back what they have lost when things get so intolerable under the under the long eared equine crowd that the voters would vote for about anybody else. You have to admit that the dems total lack of any scruples makes it much easier for them to sell thier ice. The fact that the republicans do have a few scruples left (not many these days, but a few) when it comes to outright lying to get elected, and that common sense makes for less than attention-getting campaigning than sensationalistic balderdash, means the republicans are not very effective campaigners. In politics, when it comes to the old saying, "impress em with facts or baffle em with bulls#@T", the bulls#@t factor wins just about every time. I've been following politics since the John F. Kennedy days, and common sense very seldom factors into a voters choice for Pres. or Congress.
Newt and the republicans gained control of congress in 94 cause Clinton and his Congress's behavior had become intolerable.
GW came into office controlling the whole show. What did they do of significance? Passed the the "campaign finace reform" bill into law. The thing was clearly unconstitutional, and the two writers of the bill make no secret that the bill was written specifically as a stick in the eye of one praticular organization, but GW signed it anyway. They had controll of the whole show and could have addressed every problem we now face and done something about them before they reached crisis perportions, but they sat on their collective kiesters and did Doodley-Squat! And they lost controll of the senate and were hamstrung from there on out. Things are so bad right now that the republicans have chance of winning back the White House, but unless Romneys campaign style improves a whole lot between now and Nov., the win won't be because the republicans lit a fire under anybody, it will happen because the voters feel they have no other choice.
You are very astute 8:32 but don't underestimate Romney. Rest assured that he has a plan. Romney knows elections are won over the wrong reasons and will promote himself taking those reasons into consideration. But he is a good talented man at heart. He might not have had to pull himself up by the bootstraps but he put himself where he is and where he has been because he is a good guy.
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