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Originally Posted by Bucco
Today on this board the President has been called a "breath of fresh air"....he has been called a great leader and manager.....I happen to agree with this statement from Mitt Romney today...
"A Campaign Begins Today [Mitt Romney]
America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends. He promised better; we deserved better.
He calls his accomplishment “historic” — in this he is correct, although not for the reason he intends. Rather, it is an historic usurpation of the legislative process — he unleashed the nuclear option, enlisted not a single Republican vote in either chamber, bribed reluctant members of his own party, paid-off his union backers, scapegoated insurers, and justified his act with patently fraudulent accounting. What Barack Obama has ushered into the American political landscape is not good for our country; in the words of an ancient maxim, “what starts twisted, ends twisted.”
His health-care bill is unhealthy for America. It raises taxes, slashes the more private side of Medicare, installs price controls, and puts a new federal bureaucracy in charge of health care. It will create a new entitlement even as the ones we already have are bankrupt. For these reasons and more, the act should be repealed. That campaign begins today."
http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...zQyOTM1ZmIzNTI
This was a politial act that has no equal in history, at least none that I recall. How can people ignore how he got here....in the smoke filled back rooms (and that is literal), the payoffs and we applaud him
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Gee, isn't that the same Mitt Romney who -- as Mass. governor -- sponsored almost identical legislation that the state legislature approved by a majority of members (including now U.S. Senator Scott Brown) and then signed into law?
I'm aghast...another political flip-flop!