Romney just looked like a tightwad executive promising to end Obamacare after the court ruled
Instead of focusing his attention on the millions of Americans benefiting from the Act, Romney treated the moment like he was contemplating dismantling one of his Bain acquisitions.
Aside from the fact that Romney wouldn't have any power to repeal the law on his own, the folks who are now benefiting from the act aren't his employees or wards and deserve to have the ultimate say in deciding whether he gets to carry out his vicious and petty scheme to stomp all over their hope and progress. He's assuming a lot when he steps up on the national stage and declares that he's going to dismantle our national health initiative. It may be unpopular as a concept, but its provisions draw a great deal of support from Americans experiencing their own health crises.
Romney was correct that the Court didn't say Obamacare was 'good policy.' That wasn't what they were there to do. They were sitting in judgment of this law because opponents thought they could score an easy kill by throwing it up against their decidedly conservative membership. Romney needs to stop and recognize that his republican and conservative partners' phony argument against its unconstitutionality has been shot to hell. Now, instead of being able to rely on wild speculation and cynicism that the Court would do his dirty work for him -- shake and erase his etch-a-sketch -- and invalidate the entire thing, Romney will be forced to show where he differs on each and every provision he's bent on repealing.
He's off to a typical, vacuous start, by claiming today in his staged rebuttal to the expected acknowledgment by the President, that Obamacare is 'killing jobs' and making government 'too big . . . '
"Let's make clear that we understand what the Court did, and did not do," Romney said. "What the Court did today was say that Obamacare does not violate the Constitution. What they did not do was say that Obamacare is good law or that it's good policy."
"Obamacare was bad policy yesterday," he said. "It's bad policy today. Obamacare was bad law yesterday. It's bad law today."
This presidential election is "a choice," Romney said. "You can choose whether you want to have a larger and larger government, more and more intrusive in your life, separating you and your doctor, whether you're comfortable with more deficits, higher debt that we will pass onto the coming generations. Or whether you're willing to have the government put in place a plan that potentially causes you to lose the insurance that you like or whether instead you want to return to a time when the American people will have their own choice in health care, where consumers will be able to make share choices as to what kind of health insurance they want."
"This is the time of choice for the American people," Romney said . . . "Help us. Help us defeat Obamacare. Help us defeat the liberal agenda that makes government too big, too intrusive and is killing jobs across this great country."
And, with that calculated grandstanding, Mitt Romney demonstrated to a wider national audience that his corporate raider roots run deep. Elect Romney to run the country and he'll run up our debt with a huge tax giveaway to his wealthy buddies; then he'll cry poor and bankrupt when it comes to providing for the needs of the folks who actually make up this enterprise, America.
Look at that tightwad, tight-fisting our hard-earned contributions to government when it comes to the average citizen; swinging open wide the doors of the Treasury for his 1% cadre of industrialists, corporatists, and speculators.
This is the time of choice for the American people," Romney said. That's one of the first true things he's said, so far.
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