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Top White House Aide: Romney ‘the Godfather’ of Obama Health Care

Senior White House adviser David Plouffe on Sunday called GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney “the godfather” of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

“Mitt Romney is the godfather of our health care plan,” Plouffe said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.“ ”If he is president, remarkably he is running away from that past, and he says he is going to try to throw all this away. We’re going to have a big fight about health care again.”

Romney has come under repeated attack on the campaign trail for the health care legislation he signed into law as the governor of Massachusetts. The state law included an individual mandate, which Obama’s Affordable Care Act put in place on a national level.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to begin hearing arguments about the Affordable Care Act Monday.

Plouffe, who managed Obama’s 2008 campaign, made the Sunday morning talk show rounds, also appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” CNN’s “State of the Union” and Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday.“ He repeated the ”godfather“ remark on ”This Week.”

Asked by NBC’s David Gregory whether Romney could be credited with the individual mandate if it turned out to be popular, Plouffe said, “Maybe in 2016 when he is a professor somewhere or whatever he is doing he can remark on that.”

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:04pm

    The problem with all this about Romneycare is the people of Mass. voted for it themselves. Romney didn’t shove it down their throats like Obama is doing to us. And that is all of it in a nutshell!

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:36pm

      Bingo.

      I’d like to add that Romney won the Massachusetts primary with 72% of the vote. Clearly, Romneycare isn’t a big issue for those who are actually affected by it.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:42pm

      Exactly!

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    • cosette
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:01pm

      I was waiting for Obozo to blame somebody else for this screw up too.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Romney says that it’s a model for the nation:

      —————–
      “During a speech in Baltimore on Feb. 2, 2007, Romney outlined his ambitions for the Massachusetts plan. “I‘m proud of what we’ve done,” he said. “If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation.”
      http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/04/15/if-the-mitt-fits.html

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:45pm

      @kidcharlagneman. Stop injecting truth into this
      discussion. See, we elect people in this country who
      make laws. Health care was promised by POTUS
      during election. People voted him in to do this.
      How was it forced down anyones throat I’ve never
      understood. Peeps don’t understand how our system
      actually works. Quite scary actually.

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    • Sicboy
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Romney said the only thing he had in common with the GOP is his voter registration. Not voting for Romney does not equal a vote for obama. Can’t do it, going to sit this one out.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:11pm

      ObamaLite… rejects the Shove down our throats approach… but goes for the Progressive Trickle Down, Water Boarding, approach. After all… if the people Want It… damn the Constitutionality!

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:13pm

      … The plot unfolds. Time for a brokered convention. Time to unleash Sarah Palin.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 6:25pm

      @SIC…
      Going with that… Consitutitional… 3/5ths Clause?

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 7:39pm

      @sicboy,

      Pay attention next time. His comment followed a question regarding his connections to the MASSACHUSETTS Republican Party. As in, “aren’t you just like every other republican in Massachusetts?” To which he replied his only tie in with them was that he was also a registered republican, otherwise he had his own vision. Quite frankly we need a better vision than the one Santorum had when he was Senator and voting to spend money like a “teenager with a brand new credit card.” You have got to try harder to pay actual attention to the context of Romney’s often repeated quotes. He is more often right (I mean that in every sense of the word) than he is mistaken.

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    • TruthSeeker11111
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:07pm

      You may be right. However, we don’t trust the guy. IF Romney get‘s the nomination and most of us are aware of the ’good ole boys club’ and what it means..He WILL NOT get our vote! We don’t know of one conservative voter that will be voting for Romney. Trusting him is like morons trusting barry the fraud..Nooo Thanks.

      Newt 2012*****

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:14pm

      @ kid

      His proposal was a model for the nation. A conservative answer to an actual state centered problem. What Obama has done with what was right about Romney care is unrecognizable. Romney care is 75 pages, Obama care is 1100 plus. Huge difference. Romney addressed one issue with Romney care, eliminating the cost of free loaders. His state government was already obligated to pay for their care (Thank you LBJ) and they determined it was better to help pay for everyone to be on some kind of insurance than to absorb the costs of those that took advantage of the system without insurance. (Preventative care costs less than emergency care.) Obamacare is a radical take over of the healthcare system. Quit confusing the two, their only similarity are the words mandate and care. Every state should take into consideration what was right and what may be wrong about Romney care.

      Romney may speak like a moderate, he may even call himself that ten years ago, but his actions as Governor and the results of his management are most definitely conservative. Santorum may preach conservatism, but his voting record is not. He spent money like a “teenager with a new credit card” and his current behaviors reveal him to be entitled and self centered. He is not our guy.

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:39pm

      There is nothing at all conservative about Romney or Romney care. There is nothing conservative about violating your natural rights to appropriate your property for the welfare of others, either at federal, state or local layers.

      It is simply immoral, wrong, to use the government to bully people into charity.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:29am

      READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:14pm

      @ kid

      His proposal was a model for the nation. A conservative answer to an actual state centered problem. What Obama has done with what was right about Romney care is unrecognizable. Romney care is 75 pages, Obama care is 1100 plus. Huge difference. Romney addressed one issue with Romney care, eliminating the cost of free loaders.
      ==================================

      As recently as last year, the federal taxpayer was picking up nearly 2/3 of the tab for RomneyCare:

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      “And those government programs are proving far more expensive than projected. Last year the program cost $2.12 billion, but Massachusetts only ended up picking up 18 percent of the tab. Thanks to waivers, special deals with the federal government, and stimulus dollars, the federal government picked up another 64 percent of the costs while private health insurance consumers picked up the rest of the tab (through higher premiums and co-pays passed on by hospitals and insurers). Looking ahead to next year, the state is expected to be almost $200 million short of paying for the program. Overall, total state health care spending has grown from 30 percent of the budget in 2006 to 40 percent today. The national average is 25 percent.”
      http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/beltway-confidential/2011/06/romneycare-has-not-%E2%80%9Cworked%E2%80%9D/146899

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 10:15am

      number-2. Why is the uber-left-W.H.&“O” feeding us all this continuous lie-streem about Romney? number-3. Why are they scared-outa-their minds he should get ellected? Ooooh, I wonder… .

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    • RJL
      Posted on March 26, 2012 at 10:57am

      If and when Mitt (my bill is better than your bill) Romney buys I mean wins the election and goes on and defeats his brother Obama. What will he do; if and when he repeals OboRomney care?

      My premiums are going up 12-15% a year. And so is everyone else’s premium.

      Soooo what specifically is he going to do?

      The typical response from all the candidates is they are going to repeal Obamacare. And continue and let the lawyers and crooked pill pushers run the industry.

      I still say this time next year we will have ObamRomney care, and in two years, and in three years…..etc….etc…etc…..

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:59pm

    ObamaCare…..RomneyCare…..

    6 of one….a half-dozen of the other:

    ————————————-
    “Romney in 2007: RomneyCare ‘will be a model for the nation’

    …During a speech in Baltimore on Feb. 2, 2007, Romney outlined his ambitions for the Massachusetts plan. “I’m proud of what we’ve done,” he said. “If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation.” Last month Romney’s dream came true. If Republicans knew what was good for them, they would stop treating it as a nightmare…
    http://www.redstate.com/rightwingnut2/2011/04/10/romney-in-2007-romneycare-will-be-a-model-for-the-nation/

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:53pm

    Obamacare FORCES EVERYONE TO BE INSURED…IF NOT….
    YOU WILL BE “FINED” FOR NOT HAVING IT…BUT

    THEY WON’T REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE AN ID FOR VOTING…
    WON’T YOU NEED TO SHOW IDENTIFICATION …
    AT THE TIME OF OBAMACARE COVERAGE?

    THIS is the type of LOGIC Obama AND this Administration posses.

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:27pm

    HEY MR. FLUFF…
    IF ROMNEY CARE WAS SO BAD….WHY DID MR. BRILLIANT TAKE IT UP AND MAKE IT
    HIS OWN? (ObamaCare)

    Can’t have it BOTH WAYS!

    Oh…I forgot…we’re talking about Obama…..WHO DOES BELIEVE HE CAN!

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:54pm

      MR FLUFF?
      who WROTE ObummerCare?
      who READ ObummerCare?
      who had to do kickbacks to get ObummerCare PASSED?

      OMG 2012

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:57pm

      Agree. Their “logic” seems to be : Mr Romney inspired Obama, so Vote for Obama ! Guess this must be why the Democrats are fomenting union riots, Occupies , class and race wars ! Amazing….

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:19pm

    They knew the plan failed long before Obama and his goon squad decided to force it onto the books. So what does that tell everyone in how they think about the people’s well being?

    Apple Bite  
    • Baddoggy
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Let’s see…I saw something that came out of the White House…Yes I remember…It was a lying turd.

      Baddoggy  
    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:38pm

      @ BADDOGGY

      OK…I’m off the floor now…
      THAT WAS HILLARIOUS!
      :)

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  • barber2
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:19pm

    So funny. So the Democrats call Romney the ” godfather of ObamaCare ?” Well, we can call Obama simply ” the Godfather !” wink, wink….

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  • Trubrewman
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:01pm

    Let’s see, who should I vote for? A successful executive like Romney or the guy who rammed Obamacare down our throats and is on the wrong side of every issue that crosses his desk? Who’s justice dept. is racially biased and is running from Fast and Furious. Who is selling our country out for the enviro-Nazis. Who takes over a private business to reward union voters and now taxpayer dollars are used to pay those workers bonuses and invest in foreign automakers. And who people like Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Durbin, Dodd, Frank, Biden, Wasserman Schultz, Kerry, et al. will vote for? Tough one… NOT!!

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:09pm

      Attention: Mitt Romney is NOT the republican nominee

      You may want to wait a few months before posting

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:23pm

      You know there are other options then those two. As far as Romney goes, he did create Romneycare the model for Obamacare and while running in 2007 he said there should be a national healthcare mandate.

      You speak of Romney as a successful business man, but did you know he used tax payer dollars to fund his businesses? Bain Capital received 44 million dollars of tax payer money.

      Romney is pro Patriot act, pro NDAA, pro bailouts, pro global warming, pro UN, pro asking lawyers what to do in reference to our military. We dont need another one of these guys. There are plenty.

      Our country is crisis. We need radical change. Ron Paul 2012.

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  • SituationalGravity
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:01pm

    This White House nobody playing with PEOPLE’s lives. Use Romney vs Romney to win votes.
    This White House nobody playing the part of the King’s court. Living the life of Royalty on our dime.
    Government has become a Ponzi-scheme; thus this White House nobody is a criminal.
    America is caught in the inertia of government overspending.
    Are too many PEOPLE dependent upon givernment subsidy?
    Sadly human nature and natural law suggest we are past of no return…we will have to take our medicine.
    PEOPLE ask how did this President become President?
    WE THE PEOPLE created him; our gluttony on SECURITY in exchange for our LIBERTY.
    Obamacare mandates will be checkmate; this is more-absolute as the sun in the sky.

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  • Blinda
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:57pm

    I take the Senior White House adviser at his word:

    If the election is between Romney and Obama (and it appears at this point that this is likely), everyone who opposes Obamacare should vote for Romney because he is the only one of the two who is vowing to get rid of Obamacare.

    And for those who like Obamacare, they should vote for Romney because all credit should go to him as he is the godfather of the bill (even though his plan was 75 pages and Obama‘s was thousands of pages so they can’t be equal).

    So no matter what you think about Obamacare, vote for Romney – not Obama. David Plouffe says to!

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:52pm

    Massachusetts has more waiting time to get to see doctor and pay a lot more for insurance. Romney won’t say or admit there is a problem yet. ..

    I have a friend in another country that it took her 7 month to get appointment to see a doctor for a problem and now has to wait 4 months for the results. We have heard about that in Canada and others that have Government in control so good luck people.Some doctors will stop seeing medicare patients. Government will say what procedures you can do and can’t. I want my doctor in control of my health not government.

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    • VII
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:01pm

      Turn to our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father God in all that you do! For it is written,
      “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
      Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
      Search yourself, your thoughts, your words, and your acts for the works of the flesh; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries. Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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    • VII
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:01pm

      Again I tell you it is written,
      in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
      You must put away pride to find such things in yourself! Nothing anyone else does will be accepted as a reason for such things in yourself.
      My brothers and sisters in Christ turn to your Lord with every free moment you have! Seek Him, praise Him, worship Him, drop to your knees and pray to him from the heart!

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    • VII
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:02pm

      Again it is written,
      “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
      All who believe in our Lord Jesus Christ turn to him! Do not be divided! Christian, Catholic, Mormon, even Muslim you all believe Jesus then turn to him, and learn from him! Do not allow this world to divide you!

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:50pm

    MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber (who originally contracted to work on RomneyCare) was also later contracted to work on ObamaCare at the federal level:

    —————————————
    “Ex-Romney adviser on Obamacare, Romneycare: ‘same f—ing bill’
    ALIYAH SHAHID
    Thursday, November 17, 2011

    An exasperated former Mitt Romney adviser is simply fed up that his old boss keeps denying that Romneycare and Obamacare are twins.

    “Basically, they’re the same f—ing bill,” Jonathan Gruber, a healthcare economist and MIT professor who helped shape Romney’s healthcare plan, told Capital New York this week.”
    http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-11-17/news/30412338_1_romneycare-romney-s-republican-individual-mandate

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    • Tigress1
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:53pm

      Just a 1925 page difference. No biggie though.

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    • SituationalGravity
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:05pm

      Romney is no savior…but,

      Romney’s regulation was a STATE bill. Obamacare is FEDERAL.

      Moreover, Romney vows to defeat Obamacare. Obama promises Utopia; just ignore the debt.

      Those who can’t tell the difference need to look at their math equations again.

      A Progressive has one common denominator; they always spend more than they earn.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:07pm

      @TI
      Operationally, they are the same. Romney people act like they arent possibly the same thing because of the pge difference – how stupid do you think we are??? The reason for the page difference is because it is the federal government we are talking about – they always through pork and political gimmicks in the bill.

      They also make it so big so that nobody has a chance to read it. In MASS, they dont have to worry about that because the entire state is certified socialist. Mitt’s biggest supported of romneycare was TED KENNEDY….Makes Newt sitting on the couch with nancy pelosi look like a tea party

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    • Tigress1
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:25pm

      @Soybomb315, Yes, again, the Devil is in the details! Those 1925 pages of details – AKA pork, etc.! Remember “You will find out what is in it when it is passed.”? Those things make a big difference! Plus, Romney was a governor of a liberal state, this is what people in that state WANTED! Romney even tried to veto some of the things that the liberals put into Romneycare, (ie: the employer and individual mandate) but the legislators removed his vetoes.

      http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/06/romneys-best-defense-the-truth.

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    • SituationalGravity
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:32pm

      “Operationally, they are same”.

      Romney isn’t Obama. Romney is a businessman more recognizable with the American ideal. Is he a Social-Darwinist; maybe a little more than we like.

      Obama is a Utopian; meaning he doesn’t recognize Natural Law. His ignorance is on par with his anger and his greed. Obama greedy? He relishes the life of a King.

      “They are the same”. Who are “they”? They are the Ruling Class; Left and Right. Good and Evil. Designing ways to spend the PEOPLE’s money. Always a so-called investment to be made.

      The debt/GDP and the spending/GDP (vs revenue/GDP) is their calling card. They write laws that protect themselves from losing money. They leave crumbs for the Dependent class in exchange for votes.

      “They” are on government welfare. By definition, government overspending is a welfare subsidy. Tax laws is their means to welfare.

      “They” are too dependent on government welfare to balance their budgets.

      Romney talks about balancing budgets. Obama, well he just doesn’t care; revenge has a price.

      The highest virtue in the Universe; spend within your means to create revenue, honestly. Only the human tries to spend dishonestly.

      Humans like to spend more than we earn. And now we are in a big hole. One man recognizes the hole; the other wants to keep digging.

      Romney is probably the best chance we have at President; only if because he won’t stand in the way of Congress.

      After all; it is Congress that controls

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:32pm

      @TI
      Romney supports the MASS individual mandate to this very day. “they made me do it” is an excuse you have created but Romney has never said it.

      Like a stubborn fool he clings to romneycare

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:53pm

      @SituationalGravity
      I was talking about romneycare v obamcare

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:25pm

      @ Soy,

      You can say that both Health Care laws look alike, or even that all health care laws look alike. But just like any other statement about things or people looking alike, it is rooted in bigotry (or in other words, personal bias, willful ignorance, or a lack of ability to read and perform simple math such as 1100-75 = HUMONGOUS difference.) Dolt.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:47pm

    A lot of people just don’t care about Obamacare, and they don’t even notice. You know, you’ve seen them, everyone has one or two…those neighbors who with the first mid-winter warm-up they are out there in the lawn. Brrrrrrrrrrrum, rrrrrrrrh, I don’t care about Obamacare, but just don’t touch my yard-care. And lets face it, they will be the dictator in the neighborhood saying: I’m cutting that grass whether it needs it or not. Scary people everywhere.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:55pm

      And then we all fall prey to that American Sharia-law, thinking, “Oh, geez, now I have to cut my lawn, or the lawn Nazi is going to gossip about me making everyone think I’m lowering property value.” Sometimes it sucks being an American.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:04pm

      Somehow I missed the Calling of The Lawn. I like what they did during the Victorian Era when people had less time to worry (like people now) about yard-care, they just planted some creeping low vines, threw down a stone walkway, and called it a yard.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:44pm

      You missed more than just ” the Calling of the Lawn.“ Know you get your junior high jollies by ”punking ” the Blaze, but we have noticed that you make no sense, have no real point to make and are about as useful to any conversation as an ACORN member with a bullhorn on a banker’s front yard. Too bad your weren’t held more as a baby. Your neediness is very apparent.

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Baloney, White House! The Democrats had Obamacare planned out for DECADES! Remember how soon Obamacare was introduced after Obama was inaugurated? Do you think they were able to come of with 2000 pages of healthcare legislation that quickly? Congress is usually tortuously slow. Romneycare was only 75 pages long. The Devil is in the details, and even if they did look at Romneycare as a model they bastardized it with 2000 pages of details. This is what happens when you get a bunch of attorneys together along with politicians who have to add their own “pet projects’ into a bill. There also is a HUGE difference between State laws and Federal laws. Tennessee has “Tenncare”, who says that wasn’t the model for Obamacare? What about other states that have their own healthcare bills? Romney is simply the scapegoat because he is running for President, and this is all the Democrats have against him.

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    • Tigress1
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:51pm

      A couple fun facts: Tenncare was introduced in 1994 and Romneycare was introduced in 2006.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:08pm

      Another fun fact:

      ——————————
      “Although some influential libertarians condemned Romney, most conservatives praised the plan. Robert Moffit, a policy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation, which helped write parts of the law, spoke at the ceremony. “The real trick is to retain what is best in American health care while correcting its deficiencies and expanding upon its indisputable benefits,” he said. “Massachusetts has done just that.”

      Romney signed the bill at a wooden desk using fourteen different pens, which he later distributed to the dignitaries on hand. “It’s law!” he shouted after the final stroke. On cue, the sounds of the fife-and-drum corps filled the hall with Colonial-era music. Behind Romney stood the people most responsible for passing the plan, among them Senator Ted Kennedy and Salvatore DiMasi, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In one photograph, the Governor is looking over his shoulder at DiMasi, laughing, and Kennedy is smiling at Romney. Kennedy died in 2009, and DiMasi is currently on trial for extortion and corruption and may go to jail.”
      http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/06/110606fa_fact_lizza

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:38pm

      Wow – that image of romney working with Ted Kennedy and a criminal would do some damage. Kinda makes that whole ‘newt on the couch with nancy pelosi’ look tiny. Beck went on and on about that newt/pelosi ad – why doesnt glenn talk about the romney/kennedy meeting?

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  • COFemale
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:33pm

    Oh, goody – they are getting paranoid now. This shows how much they are afraid of Romney.

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    • LongRange
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:31pm

      No it shows they want Romney so they can try to make the biggest issue go away!

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:31pm

    There is a great news article regarding Romneycare at
    Conservativesamisdat Sept 12 2011

    It explains the evolution of Romneycare all the way to the MASSholes in the DEMOCRAT legislature that added overwhelmingly to the costs of the laws. MITT vetoed the additions, but was overridden by the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS. Goes to show, NEVER compromise with DEMOCRATS. Crush them with Conservatism

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Conservative Samizdat

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:36pm

      That’s what we should do to the liberal heathen but it never works out that way,when we get true constitutional conservatives in government that’ll happen,until then don’t hold your breath.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:28pm

    If I didn‘t know better I’s swear the White House is blaming Romney for obamacare. Supposedly obamacare is one of obama’s (many) great achievements (second only to personally killing Bin Laden). Now it seems obama wants to at least share the glory of obamacare with Romney.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:33pm

      why do you think democrats want to go up against romney so bad?

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:14pm

    Oh…they are scared……………lolo

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:37pm

      Hair in fire…hair on fire…( priceless )

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:07pm

    1. Romney pushed to try State Wide run healthcare, not National…
    2. Romney now see’s it failed, its 3 times more costly then expected and it still doesn’t cover everyone.
    3. Romney simply has to go to the podium and his argument when he repeals “I was an advocate of State run healthcare in MA. and it failed, on a National level it is a failure of great proportions, given this, Obamacare must and will be repealed and replaced with a more aggressive and competitive set of Free Market solutions that will be more beneficial to all.”

    That’s it, end of argument.

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    • Charybdis
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:21pm

      But he won’t. He’s proud of Romneycare. And he’s already flip-flopped on so many things, he can’t afford to do so on this.

      And besides, whether socialism is tried at the state level or the national level, it’s still socialism. And the one who advocates for it is, by definition, a socialist.

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    • randy
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:30pm

      Any Massachusetts elected official is just a Commie with an “R” after his name.
      Romney is worse than a RINO.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:32pm

      @capitalismrocks
      Chary is correct. Your argument doesnt hold water because romney defends romneycare to this very day. Romney says there are some things he would do different – BUT HE HAS NEVER REGRETTED THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. That is some terrible judgement and leadership on romney’s part.

      Romney is DEAD IN THE WATER over this issue. The average american is so dumb – they would never understand what you just said – they would just see romney as a hypocrite

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:04pm

    A plan 80 years in the making was created by a right leaning republican governor 10 years ago.

    They wanted control of healthcare from the time of Woodrow Wilson and they did for a time but that was just the large hospital institutes. That us until industrialized healthcare insurance and the industrialized pharmaceuticals was created when anyone could get pills and did not have to go to the state hospital to be institutionalized and lobotomized.

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  • CatB
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:56pm

    This is why the White House wants Romney and not Santorum or Newt.

    OMG 2012!

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    • gottalovem
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:05pm

      No this is the reason they don’t want Romney because nobody knows this legislation better than any of the others. Romney knows more about the economy and job creation than all of the putters combined..

      Obamacare won’t be an issue probably because the Supreme Court will very likely declare the law unconstitutional next week. It will be a harder road to repeal it if they don’t.

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:06pm

      Think how weak the WH argument is..”He did ‘it’ too, so vote for Barry.”…Thats all they got? They think and act like children…Their failures are too big to hide and they use ‘that’ as an excuse…pathetic.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:39pm

      @gottalovem
      you crack me up with your nonsensical arguments. So you are saying the white house and media are rooting against romney? Thats a riot. Supreme court hears agruments next week but they dont decide until summer. That will give republicans plenty of time to vet romneycare

      If romney knows so much about the economy – why does he want to increase minimum wage and why does he support the progressive tax code?

      I will never understand how people like you could be passionate about someone like romney. oftentimes it is a fellow mormon but i’m not sure in your case

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:33pm

      SOY: Bottom line in 2012 : NoBama. Plain and simple.

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  • htnkd5
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:46pm

    But there is a difference- He wants to repeal it- he knows it does not work and besides- his did not go into controlling other businesses and telling them what to do or they would be fined!!

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:42pm

    Love how the O administration is deflecting from their failures. “Look,over there, a bright shiny object”, they say. We know about Mitt and ‘Mittcare’. We will let the Supreme Court decide the fate of Obamacare starting this week… ALL politicians are shady, even cartoon characters know that.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:31pm

      Wait until the SCOTUS “rains on their parade !” The Obama Far Lefties will pull an Occupy the Courts! A repeat of the Wisconsin fiasco ! Maybe all of there Democrats in congress will run away to Illinois like the ones from Wisconsin. These Democrats are sooooo transparent : Bullies, thugs and Marxists !

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:49pm

      @BARBER2…your spot on as usual…‘they’ will rampage, destroy and ‘Occupy’ all over the place for a ‘perceived injustice’..all part of Barry O’s plan. It is so transparent it is glaringly obvious now. The curtain has been pulled back and they don’t care who sees their actions…brazen treason.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 8:02pm

      NARK: I think Obama / Sharpton/ The “New” Black Panthers / all chiming in to create a “ march” in several cities ( Florida is an important state for the election which is another reason for the unified outrage ) pretty much shows where this is going !

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:40pm

    Difference between Mitt and Obama,Mitt is completely white.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:21pm

      and Mitt is so non-completely a Marxist like Mr. Non-Transparency Man, Obama !

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:33pm

      Mitt’s a big government progressive and how many departments and trillions of dollars did ole Mittens say he would slash? Oh that’s right none.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:38pm

    Sad but true. Romney is a disaster.

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  • godlovinmom
    Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:34pm

    Keep talking White House…Let the America people know who Mitt Romney is!…like we don’t know already :(

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