Romney on ObamaCare: I Did Build That

      In many ways, I think this is the news of the week or would be if it weren't for all the other bombshells.

      "After mentioning his own healthcare-reform credentials, Romney continued: “Now and then the president says I’m the grandfather of ObamaCare. I don’t think he meant that as a compliment but I’ll take it.”

     "Romney had a bit of a smile on his face, as if he were saying that in jest. Yet the next words out of his mouth indicated otherwise: “This was during my primary; we thought it might not be helpful.” In other words, when he had to win the votes of the conservative base of the Republican Party, he felt obliged to pretend that he had nothing at all to do with ObamaCare and, in fact, loathed it. Now that the GOP is stuck with him, he can admit that he really is honored to have had a hand in foisting that unconstitutional monstrosity on the country — no great shock considering he once declared that RomneyCare should be “a model for the nation” and later urged Obama to use the Massachusetts law as a template for his own."

     http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/12922-romney-it%E2%80%99s-a-%E2%80%9Ccompliment%E2%80%9D-to-be-called-%E2%80%9Cgrandfather-of-obamacare%E2%80%9D

    I mean this should be huge news. And shouldn't the Right wing be outraged by this? I mean we've been hearing for 3 years what a monstrosity this law is. It's been pointed out many times that there's no difference between RomneyCare and ObamaCare.

    Romney has tried to draw all these tendentious distinctions like that he only did it at the state level, etc. He's run on repealing it his first day in office-of course in that first day he's also supposed to be shutting down Planned Parenthood and declaring China a currency manipulator.

    Now he says he takes pride in being the grandfather of the law he will replace on the first day? We already have him saying he likes certain parts of the law-the parts that are already very popular. Then we also have him admitting that, yeah, the reason he didn't admit it before was because it wasn't helpful during the Republican primary. So which Romney does he think we're supposed to believe?

    Yet in this same speech he also tried to still claim he will end ObamaCare immediately:

     "Here Romney obliquely hinted at the fact that the Massachusetts plan was financed by Medicaid. More importantly, he laid out at least part of his plan to replace ObamaCare: Increase federal healthcare spending and force states to get their citizens insured. Unlike ObamaCare, this, he would have us believe, is constitutional and indeed the very essence of federalism:

The idea of a federal government stepping in, and telling people, here’s the kind of insurance you have to have. You don’t get the choice of whether you want comprehensive or whether you want catastrophic. The government is going to tell you what you have to have. The government is going to ultimately have a board that tells you what kind of care you can receive. That in my opinion is not the right way to go on healthcare.

The approach that I would propose is one that would give individuals choice as opposed to government choice. That’s going to get our people insured and will keep the cost of healthcare from going through the roof as it has been, and I believe it will allow people to continue to have the relationship with their doctor and their provider that they want.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/12922-romney-it%E2%80%99s-a-%E2%80%9Ccompliment%E2%80%9D-to-be-called-%E2%80%9Cgrandfather-of-obamacare%E2%80%9D

Wow. Romney may not be qualified to be President but he sure does does meet the qualification threshold to be Gymnast in Chief.