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A 2006 memo penned by Newt Gingrich praised the health reform law Mitt Romney piloted as governor of Massachusetts, and threatens to undercut the former House speaker's criticism of that plan.
A memo (first unearthed Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal) distributed through Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation credits Romney and his state's health reform law as a positive development.
"The most exciting development of the past few weeks is what has been happening up in Massachusetts. The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system," Gingrich wrote. "We agree entirely with Governor Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100 percent insurance coverage for all Americans."
That would seemingly temper Gingrich's criticism of the Massachusetts plan as the "forerunner of Obamacare."
Gingrich has similarly criticized the individual mandate contained both in Romney and President Obama's health reforms, despite having supported a similar model for health reform in the 1990s. He's since disavowed such a plan.
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Take the Republican Pledge: I, as a steadfast Republican, am pro-war, pro-death penalty, and against health care, which is how I define being pro-life. I pledge to force a woman to stay pregnant who is unwilling or unable to raise a kid, which is my definition of small government staying out of health care. If the unwanted child gets in trouble, I'll pay to execute it, but I won't pay to take care of it. And by the way, if elected, I promise to have a sex scandal to prove I'm a God fearing person. If I'm really good, I'll cheat with someone my same sex after fighting to ban gay marriage. God bless the USA, and death to all of God's children everywhere else. Amen. Christine O'Donnell for head of science and witchcraft, Eye of Newt for President!
If the GOP Presidential Campaign isn't nominated for Best Comedy at the EMMY's then I hope the Mayans are right!
Newty is talking out the side of his neck.....who would've thunk that
Okay, so what is boils down to is that both Republican candidates were for National Health Care Reform and the individaul manadate before they knew that the Obama Administration would signed into law and now they are against it.
If you can call giving insurance companies another way to rape and pillage the American people Health Care Reform...
So basically this is how it goes.....HEY NEWT WHY DON'T YOU JUST KISS MY HAIRY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!
next we'll find out he used the IOWA state flage for toilet paper
who's slimier, the slimy or the one pointing it out?
and we let these politician jerks run our country
If you want to see flip-flopping, just wait until someone is actually nominated. Then, whoever it is will be rushing back toward the center as hard as he can, trying to pick up votes from the non-extremist majority.
dammit...back to flippin' a coin
The problem with Gingrich and Romney is that they are intelligent men, and intelligent men will come to the same conclusions as the intelligent man who is currently President. Unfortunately, you don't win the GOP nomination in 2012 by being intelligent. You have to be nuts...kind of a Palin/Bachmann/Cain/Perry type of nuts. Gingrich and Romney are working on it, but they just aren't very convincing.
Never thought I'd see the day when "Gingrich", "Romney" and "intelligent" would be used in the same sentence.
I'm always fascinated by the sole focus on the expenditure side of the problem and not on true cost cutting means. Tort reform, lowering liability rates for healthcare providers, Doctors, etc. would be a start.
Having the fox run the henhouse (lawyers dominate congress) guess I'm asking for too much.
Tort reform is code for - let the doctors and medical lobby give unlimited money to the GOP so that they can do anything they want to their victims, I mean customers and not have to risk facing the music later. That's not a start. Neither is turning Congress over to big business and in particular Big Oil and the Military Industrial Complex. If you're looking for real solutions then take care of THOSE influences first.
Lawyers dominate Congress because you can love them or hate them but they aren't stupid (they know where the power and $ are located)
Maybe we should consider limiting the amount of lawyers that can serve in Congress at 1 time.....it is the holiday season so one can only hope
Stop - you show your ignorance with your comment about not facing the music. Tort reform is not to limit compensatory damages: it is to limit punitive damage. No one is saying a person should not be made whole if there is malpractice. What is being said is that there should not be million dollar awards to "punish" a mistake.
Ron Paul looks better every minute.....if he ever takes the lead we'll find out he had an afffair with Mother Teresa
OMG that's sacrilege, but LMAO. HAHAHAHAHA
This is why the entire republican field are a pack of racist hypocrites. Obama gave us the best we could get which was the REPUBLICAN's own health plan. Now that that's in place all of a sudden they don't want it. Newt, Mitt, the whole lot of yuh's. You just can't stand the idea of a black man as president. So while you guys were up on K street eating 100 dollar plus lunches the world changed. I am looking forward to a democratic house, senate and presidency in 2012. Serves you right.
it all gets down to the race card eventually.......obama isn't a failure...he's black
that all democrat world you're wishing for probably won't happen
Actually, there were many republicans who did want a black man as president: Herman Cain. If he wasn't so stupid as to try to hide his affair(s), he would have had a good chance.
Gingrich is a piece of Shiat.
If you're dumb enough to believe that 10 years of the largest tax cut in history for the rich has actually created a single job.........you may be a GOP voter.
If your bank is cheating you out of every dime of your deposit and you blame Obama.....you may be a GOP voter.
If you actually think Iraq was about anything but Halliburton/Oil profits....you may be a GOP voter.
If you're ignorant enough to claim Obama has doubled the national debt when Bush II was actually the worst spender in the history of America and left this country in shambles (with a full 70% of Obama deficits being Bush II carryover)....they you ARE a GOP voter.
If you believe any of the above as truth then you are a jackass voter.
SOMEbody can't handle the truth!!
Robert
Your in denial, go get some professional help.
If you believe that obama isn't the worst president in US History your probably ____________.
well, historians have already started evaluating his presidency, along with the others, and according to their rankings, he's nowhere near the worst. He's well above bush, for example, who is destined to be at the bottom for a long, long time.
I guess the question is whether to believe knowledgeable people or random anonymous posters here..hmmm..tough choice. :)
1st their for the plan than a democrat proposes the same thing and then they are against it. It proves that the GOP
thinks all americans are idiots and and they count on their ignorance to win elections in the hopes that we forget
whatever they did in the past. @#$%*&g @!$%#s.
The Republicans are making Obama look better and better each day.
that would take far more talent than they have
Jimmy Carter wouldn't make obama look better
More proof (as if we needed it) of the intellectual dishonesty of the despicable teabagger gang. "We were for the health care mandate until we were against it". Only Huntsman & Paul have any credibility left - and I'm beginning to wonder about them.
"In order to make coverage more accessible, Congress must do more, including passing legislation to: establish a national health insurance marketplace by giving individuals the freedom to shop for insurance plans across state lines; provide low-income families with $1,000 in direct contributions to a health savings account, along with a $2,000 advanced tax credit to purchase an HSA-eligible high-deductible health plan; make premiums for these plans tax deductible; provide tax rebates to small businesses that contribute to their employees’ HSAs; extend and expand grant funding to high-risk pools across the country; and require anyone who earns more than $50,000 a year to purchase health insurance or post a bond. " - Newt Gingrich
Lovely. One TGOP "contender" is busy defending his "latent racist side." Two of the others are going to be arguing over whose memo supported whose awful "public health care plan." And forget about Bachmann, Santorum, and the rest (whatever their names are.) Is it time for the Wasilla Witch to step in and run with Trump the Chump? I have to thank you right wingers, you're more entertaining than anything TV has to offer, and you're free, as long as you stay out of office......
How is this a surprise? Gingrich might like it, but he can't publicly say so, because he's got to both A) stay in line with the party line like a good little drone and B) do whatever it takes to win, including trashing his fellow party members.
Those who oppose Obamacare are themselves getting health care at the taxpayers expense. Every government official, local, state, federal, gets free healthcare at the taxpayers expense. Can anybody disagree with that?
You dang right I'm getting health care and I'm paying over $400 per month for it too. Do you idiots think just because I worked for the Government that health care was free?
Zaruski
Why don't the media just come out and say they are in love with Obama and eat a mile of his sh*t just to get to smell of his a**. I don't care what Republican it is they are going to dig until they find fault.
It is amazing that the supporters of the Republican party still fall for the lies their "leaders" have been uttering for the past 40 years.Today's members of the GOP are either in on the scams these politicians are involved in or they have buried their heads in the sand so they don't hear or see what the criminals they have elected have done to this country.
Even now, with our great country in serious economic trouble, the Republican controlled Congress will not do anything to help it's citizens.
Need a few votes from the bible belt south? Just trot out the abortion issue again then do nothing more about it once in office as usual.
Need votes from the anti-obamacare crowd? Just make a speech against it and leave out the part where you supported a very similiar plan a short time ago. Then sit back and watch your campaign fund grow with donations from your pharmaceutical industry backers.
Need a few votes from the ultra-conservative crowd? No problem. Tell your followers just how much of a stand-up guy you are. Leave out the part where you left your first wife dieing of cancer to hook up with your pretty secretary.
GOP = GAINING ON PATHETIC
Newt is a discriminating and racist bigot.
Jason plays the race card. He must be losing his argument.
Which is what, exactly?
I would imagine Love and Politics has a difficult time seeing reality with those rose colored glasses staining the landscape of reality.