Obamacare Exposed as GOP Plot
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEY CAN’T HIDE HIS MOST INSIDIOUS FLIP-FLOP
Mitt Romney is such a liar. The contradictory garbage spewing out of this hack on healthcare has set a new standard for deception even for a power-hungry politician desperate to be President. Whatever you think about healthcare policy—and I for one am opposed to the stated plans of both Barack Obama and his Republican challenger because they do nothing to control costs while forcing consumers to buy coverage at inflated rates—it is Romney’s willingness to outright lie over his flip-flops on this issue that is most troubling in considering whether or not he merits being President.
Mitt thought he could get away with those lies concerning his sorry record as governor of Massachusetts because he had his staff destroy electronic messages and other key information documenting it. “When Mitt Romney left office as Massachusetts governor,” the Wall Street Journal reported, “his aides removed all e-mails from a server computer in the governor’s office, and purchased and carted off hard drives from 17 stateowned personal computers.”
But in June of this year, the newspaper obtained a treasure trove of incriminating evidence that had survived the purge. The Wall Street Journal proceeded to publish a devastating exposé based on e-mails that proved it was Mitt Romney who on the state level pioneered the identical healthcare reforms he now blasts Barack Obama for having signed into federal law. The same provision for an individual mandate requiring everyone to purchase health insurance coverage from private insurers, which is the source of controversy over what Republicans have attempted to denigrate as “socialistic Obamacare,” originated with Mitt Romney.
As the e-mails prove, it was then- Governor Romney who first championed this idea as an alternative to the public option being pushed by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), which was based on an expansion of the government-sponsored Medicare program to supplement private coverage. Romney’s idea that everyone in Massachusetts be forced to purchase healthcare insurance from private insurance companies came out of the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank as a way of killing any expansion of a public option.
The e-mails confirm that the Democrats in Massachusetts, led by Kennedy, were cool to the idea of forcing people to buy health insurance from private companies, but Romney pushed it through. Yet when President Obama abandoned the public option and modeled his national healthcare plan on the one Romney had developed for Massachusetts, Mitt denounced it as socialist.
Yes, his deceit is that blatant, as was revealed in the aforementioned Wall Street Journal exposé: “In Massachusetts, Mr. Romney didn’t include an individual mandate in his original proposal, but soon adopted the idea. The e-mails show his aides later came to champion it, even amid uncertainty from some Democrats. At the time, the mandate was a favored policy of the right, with the left instead pushing for government-run insurance programs.
“‘We must have an individual mandate for any plan to work,’ Tim Murphy, Mr. Romney’s health secretary, wrote the governor and several aides on February 16, 2006, in an e-mail analyzing the latest confidential Democratic proposal, which he wrote was ‘unclear’ about that requirement.
That Democratic proposal, obtained by the Journal, didn’t include such a mandate, and instead focused on ‘individual responsibility’ aiming to ‘encourage individuals to buy health insurance, not go uninsured.’”
There you have it. Led by Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrats favored a voluntary plan, leaving it up to the individual to make the decision. Meanwhile, the Republicans—led by Romney—wanted to use the power of the state and the threat of fines to force the individual to sign up. So it was Romney who was the socialist. The only thing he can properly accuse Obama of doing is adopting the Mitt Romney, Republican “socialist” healthcare plan and betraying the legacy of Ted Kennedy.
The requirement that all Americans be required to obtain health insurance—the so-called individual mandate—has, as a result of Mitt’s attack ads, become the defining issue of the 2012 Presidential election. Not because it is the most important substantive issue we face or that lining up behind such a mandate is the only valid choice, but rather because it leaves Mitt Romney exposed as a flagrant liar whose word can never be trusted.
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Before serving almost 30 years as a Los Angeles Times columnist and editor, Robert Scheer spent the late 1960s as Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. Now editor of TruthDig.com, Scheer has written such hardhitting books as The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and
Weakened America and his latest, The Great American Stick-Up: Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them.
Tags: Mitt Romney liar, Obamacare
October 12th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
“The requirment that all Americans be required to obtain Health insurance.” Put in my logic. If & when the Cattle public support my Union & give me $25 a week. One pedastal of trust I will embark on. Is all Members, say America! Take part in obtaining a Y.M.C.A. membership & have a Trainer assigned to them to take them to the Gym 3 times a week, creating true Healthy Job’s. Weight lifting is the most important Health regimen people over 40 must indulge in. Not Bowling, Zuma dance etc… Grunt lifting weights, stregnthen bones, circulation, heart etc….Then offer subsidiesed Health Vitamins like Co-Q10 & Vitamin D-3 & a few others.. Medical care is nothing but Economic care, creating jobs..With poor results for actual Health care.. Wake up Cattle! They’re is only Profit care in America.. & the cattle said… Mooooooo Bahhhhh… nothing
October 16th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
The end is near you pathetic scum of America.. Every Town, City, etc. Must begin a Co-oP support & sponser an independant citizenry. Create the Fuels you’ll need, diesel etc… The Rich get richer the poor get poorer. We must make them obsolete. The 3 fundamentals are Food, Housing & Transportation. This a co-op’d citizenry can support & encourage naeghborring Town to join & do like wise.. Start with building community Green House with a Jaccuzzi in the Middle & surrounded by Massage therapy tables.. A Love for Nature comes when Nature indwells in us, you freaken stupid Tv, soda pop scum/distraction addicts… Plant some seads & support free speach avanues. Scum, pusss, rats vermon, loathsum weaklings…Now go eat your Mc.Dumpster meal.
October 17th, 2012 at 1:09 am
You shallow zits on the ass of life. You (the 5% real people) show up at parks etc. & proclain the 99% movement against wallstreet Hustlers & beleive your message will change them, by your groans & stagnant foil to stay upfront & be noticed as participants in a movement designed to sway more of the public to support you & by such denegration force the Elite Maggots to surrender their diabolical plots to scrape you dry of any useless moneys they can glean from your desperate acking fists… Screw the pooch, ever heard that one… They are Dogs!!! Dogs can’t talk, but can be taught a trick or two.. When the public (the 5% real people) use their imagination & create a wave of change & defurr Moneys to theyre own community activity, with zest & assertion it is for the greater good & be dammed with the social media propaganda lie machine… Health care is Diet, physical activity & mood, beleif system & habit,, the good ones preferably.. Not Pharmacutical Dog shit. Synthetic molecular puzzle peices at inflated prices…Why don’t people get that????? oh, because they trust the liers & embrace (EXCUSES) to allow them to sink into the abbyss un-obtruded.. Because by nature they are scum, pathetic, shallow zits on the ass of Barking Dogs! Lembau Rush for 1.
October 19th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
I take great issue with Political Candidates that only sell us there shopping list, but in no way dispell there agenda, what the Fuck they’re going to make, the order of the ingrediants & how this Cake appears after making, & how it was made…. So here is my Cake. A large Dome building 3 stories tall, the center is open to the ceiling, like a donut hole. The first 2 floors have rooms, for schooling or housing later on, even apartments for assisted living facility.. On the first floor thare is stain glass window purple or violet, this hue is a tremendous compliment for meditation, as a painter in a church discovered. The second floor would have Yellow stain glass to cast this transfused sun light on students. Yellow aids in focused attention for reading & learning. Pink works fabulously to lessen agressive nature.. These Dome buildings are a wave for future rebuilding sites devastated by Hurricanes & Tornadoes. The physicality of a Dome makes it sound building practice in hi wind neighborhoods.(Dah!!) These are also my plan of Buildings surrounding my Mall of America styled retirment Home for 10,000 residents than can become a Global fenomina & offer exchange program vacation & so forth.. My ideas here are free for the taking. Sept you need a moderator speaker to inspire the swine cattle to take supportive issue & trust. I feel I can bring that on!!!!!!!!! Now go consume more flouride, aluminum, emf microwave cell tower & chemtrails you diseased vermon pests…Yes I need to go You-Tube & Huffington Post. Or an office at Hustler inc. words can inspire. I hope mine do.Sincerely!
October 23rd, 2012 at 2:42 am
My mistake. I confused lye, with lime.. Lime can be good for Lawn care.. I was listening to late night AM Radio last night. & they were discussing the theraputic bennafits of Resvaritrol from Grapes. A condition called wet macular degeneration, I think & this stuff/nutrient is helping. How the F.D.A. works to only support Drug companies & Jobs etc…. So whats the deal Public??? You listen to such crap all day & the real news is on coast to coast AM Radio. There for any & all sheaple to avail them self.. Yet Americans seam drawn to be hoodwinked, scammed & plain taken advantage of. Isn’t that the same as a cracked out whore???? That must be who the Statue of Liberty represents, & that’s true. I have suggested that there must be a show like American Idol, where instead of singers, potential Presidential candidates, deal with question & scenariose, & let the audiance Vote them on, or out. That’s Democracy.. Now you get only 3 debates, orchestrated questions, not to deep. Like support for Unions! Oh well cattle, you eat where you sleep..Do like Turkeys, go outside head faced up & suck down the chemtrails, fukushema acid rain & emf microwave Brain tumor infertility..You really should just Boo the entire debate… There clowns telling bad jokes..Go drink some cool-aid.
October 23rd, 2012 at 12:17 pm
I know Americans have zero imagination.. But I attend if you practice self sacriffice for the greater good & Children see & observe the frequent acts of Love & kindness. This internal mind nurturing WILL coltevate imagination & ideas that flurish in science, comming from naive right brain daydreaming childs mind mentality.. As a GIFT from the clarity.. This is what the elite strive for dillegently. Every day things to rung our hands in despair & dampen mental spiritual expretion. My point IS. Activly House & care for our elderly Fathers & Mothers & laugh with children, then give them the tools & tell them go create free electricity, harness the wheels of vital force & we shall go to other planets, above & bellow the ground & infest them as we have the Earth… Imagination & the heart that pumps it, is a vital resource.. Massage as I have noted is a VITAL tool in total Health parradagim, essential, needed A MUST.. So try massaging some ones hand with lotion & speak nurturing words.. Then check back & see if they have had any new ideas or thought provoking insights????? See!!
October 24th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
What whores we are! If Gas prices come down some, we the cattle are sure to support the candidate that did that for us. Yeah!!! Barok Osama Huesainy!! We bow too your act of self indulgence,, feed us the Cattle of want & need. Moooo- Bahhhhhh… It’s so easy being a Dictator, to & for the Cattle scum Americans.. Whores for the taking.. The Cattle always take the road of leist resistance… Following the kernals of poverty handout… Republican are Horses with blinders chasing the carrat on a pole… MONEY, as in a Mit full of Romey/Money!!!! oh yeah fake fed Monopoly Money!!!! Get that Carrat you delusional Mirage addicts, shallow ,Pathetic cunts!
October 25th, 2012 at 1:02 am
Insinuating what! what? Our President on Jay Leno,,, wow seeing Jay slap him 5 might come off as a good time? Then at the end had Jay said;”I like Sponge Bob & Square pants!!” & the Pres dictating. uh i do to. Then on free speach a nice rap song, thrashing G.M.O.s(democracy now) Fighting the fight for food handling… My idea to make Produce our money & our Money produce. For starters.. The Carnival has come to town, now each Family must plant a stake & swear to support the Circus.. Thru Agriculture..Hmmmm 4 years of we each eat from our own Box Gardens & in trice we view our sanctioned plot to comercial revue..channel fofo
October 25th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
You know guests. Lowering Gas costs is a ploy for Votes by President Obama.. How about he offers a Heating cost reduction tool like the UFO space Heater you can find on line. It heats the water with spacific infrared frequency LIGHT. So have a good Humidifier & use this electric heater. Purchase it at a discounted price & thank your President for it.. This is my idea for new, I guess socialist Government, supporting Consumers Digest. Top rated items get discounted via Tax dollar subsidies & past on to we the consumers. Giving the company a reward for being a brilliant Manufacturer.. Simple & better thought out than a few dimes reduction in gas cost till election/ Think about it!
January 25th, 2013 at 9:22 pm
Good article. I will be dealing with many of these issues as well.
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