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STERLING, Va. -- Mitt Romney reserved some of his harshest criticism of President Barack Obama's health care reform law for the eve of the Supreme Court ruling that will decide its fate, labeling the law as "moral failure" by a president who chose to focus on healthcare, rather than jobs, at a time of national economic crisis.
"His policies were not focused on creating jobs. They were focused on implementing his liberal agenda. There’s nothing wrong with people having an agenda, but when the country’s in crisis, you have a moral responsibility to focus on helping people come out of that crisis," Romney said at a rally here Wednesday evening. "It was not just bad policy; it was a moral failure to put forward a piece of legislation that wouldn’t help Americans get back to work, and to focus the energy of the White House on Obamacare."
With the Supreme Court expected to rule on the constitutionality of the law – which includes the individual mandate -- on Thursday morning, Romney took the opportunity to batter the controversial law before a friendly, energetic audience, suggesting that Obama will spend a sleepless night tonight fretting about the future of the legislation.
"My guess is they're not sleeping real well at the White House tonight. That's the way it ought to be," Romney said. "And this is a decision, by the way, about whether or not Obamacare is constitutional, whether it passes constitutional muster. So we're all waiting to see how the court will decide, one thing we already know however -- we already know it's bad policy and it's got to go."
Romney went on to preview, as he did at a campaign stop in southern Virginia on Tuesday, his response to the court's possible action on the law. The former Massachusetts governor said that if the law is upheld, he would work to repeal it as president, and if it gets struck down, he would replace it with "real reform." Romney did not specify what such reforms would entail.
Democrats quickly pounced on Romney's critique of the law, pointing out that the federal law was inspired by Massachusetts’s health care law that Romney helped to enact, complete with an individual mandate similar to the one he now assails.
“In Virginia today, Mitt Romney cheered for a repeal of Obamacare, which was modeled after Romney’s own health care law in Massachusetts that he now runs away from," Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said in the statement. "But Americans won’t be cheering for Mitt Romney after they learn that his plan for health care would allow insurance companies to discriminate against them if they have a pre-existing condition, kick their kids off their parents’ plans when they graduate, and charge women higher premiums than they charge men for the same coverage."
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Romney calls the Affordable Health Care Act a "moral failure"?
What does Mitt Romney know about morals? He has none. He is a serial liar. Every other word out of his mealy mouth is a lie. He is a hideous hypocrite without a shred of dignity who will say anything to anyone if he thinks the person is stupid enough to vote for him.
In short, he is a Republican.
What is the def of someone who preaches hate and fear? When was this a mormon belief?
How does the Republican look at themselve in the mirror when they say this guy is the leader?
THE CRITIC
“ It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs the man who is actually in the arena, whose face marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs, and comes up short again and again…. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at his best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
In a speech at the Paris Sorbonne
Freaky fire bush are you here or have you run off already "just sayin in your language,
Vote aca rt---->out
I guess many here are not aware of the the next big thing coming to a economy close to you.
Shall, I share a bit of my crystal clear future with you?
If you take it to heart you can all take advantage of the opportunity to enrich your life and pocketbook.
The inevitable Domestic energy boom is upon us in order of succession:
Oil & Natural gas,Coal first Wind, Hydroelectric, Nuclear,secondary, Thirdly biomass, Solar distant last not until 2020 will solar play a viable part in global economic impact.
Therefore, Those who choose too, can and will profit and sustain a equitable living from the economic impact of the domestic energy boom. (all industries will be impacted favorably) From Arby's to xylophones
Barrack Hussein Obama mmm mmM MMM will share in this fortune also, however only from the side lines, Sorry he had his Half at Quarterback now he is injured and has to sit out the rest of the game. He knows this is inevitable if you could ask him and he told you the truth he would agree, One-n-done ...
President Romney Is the Man best equipped & available to lead the US in to this Prosperous endeavor. With his background in business and connections with financial leaders world wide. He will do a good job leading America down the track that South Dakota & Canada have already started on.
It is a pity, that some of you will have to be dragged kicking and screaming and some will choose to be left behind, Too bad for that really. I say get with the program, align with the future, be productive.
I have to laugh at you poor liberal "sycoo-phants" . Your erudite deity god-man is imploding his own campaign. His landslide moment is scheduled for November 6th 2012. Sorry if the liberal loss of the house in 2010 and the up and coming loss of the Senate majority & the change in the Executive dept. in January causes you any mental distress or anguish. However our country Can not and will not allow this Falsehood & Destruction of the Great American Dream to continue. Not to worry though there will be programs in place to help you mitigate the feeling of betrayal that you will inevitably experience from the realization of how you have allowed yourself to be deceived GooDBYE brrack hussein obama MMm mmm nnno Thank You !!!
Maybe one of his buddies in Hollywood will help him out with a TV reality show, they can name it One & Done in Chicago. lol----> i'll watch it !
vote no obama m m m
convenientliesyoubelieve
Stupid is as stupid says.
you voted for obama m m mmm the first time around and you should do it proudly again pippy long stockings
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Obama made a choice to make healthcare affordable to all-get it- to ALL. That means for all the people who are not affluent. All is the rest of us who are well outside of a six figure income. We don't have the luxury of sending out a check each month(That can pay our rent or home mortgage) like its no big deal-To pay for healthcare, so we are greatful for a President like Obama who cares about the rest of us to do what he did for us! To the few of you suck it up and deal with it cause in the end everyone will benifit from Obamacare. If you don't agree then move to another country and get out of my face sucker!
I do not agree and I thank God that the Framers put together three seperate but equal branches of government. One of which will stand up for America tomorrow and strike down this abomination.
Obamanation - you are welcome for the correction. LOL
Yes, Obama is a moral failure. We are the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't provide SOME form of universal health care coverage -- coverage which is, of course, immoral.
That makes us the only moral nation on the entire planet. And, following Mitt Romney's advice on college loans and THEIR immorality, if I get terribly sick, I can always borrow money from my parents and shop around for the cheapest oncologist.
If this guy and his "sky is falling" psychological set is ever put into the White House, we can all sit back, watch the corporations and the extremely wealthy rule the country, and blame the Democrats for their immorality. Due to Citizens United and the NRA, there may BE no more Democrats. In that case, we'll have to invent one.
How about Olympia Snowe?
I think maybe someone should tell Romney that every time he opens his mouth he utters a contradiction. Most Americans (i.e. more than 50%) know that he's a walking dichotomy. If I were him, I'd be completely embarrassed to say some of the stupid things that he says.
Romney is just keeping the "big lie" about the ACA going. In a way, I hope the SC strikes it down, so then the dumb American public can really appreciate what they lost.
The Moral high ground regarding health care of those who cannot afford the high price and demonizing of the health care industry belongs to the Dems. Clinton and Obama both went into the moral fabric of acting as a steward for its citizens: those that have been reduced to lower than middle class.
Romney's moral statement is a joke, a farce and a slap in the face of those int his country who now working until age 70 and beyond, faced with a GOP agenda to end SS and Medicare and all entitlements, and leave the country in the hands of those who caused this recession - Wall Street, Hedge fund managers, corporations and all the remaining jackals who support the Super Pacs.
The Moral ground was attempted when the POTUS attempted to do something for our country and was met by opposition in the manner of the Nazis - who will end up shooting themselves in the foot.
Disgraceful Opposition party of cowards and rocks in the middle of the river.
Obama/Biden 2012
Hey Moneyos1,
You're an idiot who knows nothing about the affordable care act. The fact that it saves money, provides more people with healthcare, eliminates the donut hole for seniors and requires people to pay for their own healthcare is appealing to a majority of Americans. The fact that it originated as a Republican Idea illustrates what a bunch of hypocritical, dare I say racist, losers the Republican party has become.
bbbbbbbbbssssssss so much bovine excrement, the race card b/s whine & sob liar
vote no obama
Why do folks separate healthcare reform from economics? They are in direct correration to each other. Now for those on this board who think this will be struck down, don't get a woody, because something tell me you will very disappointed with tomorrow's decision. As for romney, money talks and bullsh*t walks. Another empty day for the shape shifting, unemployed billionaire.
I'm sure the Supreme Court will realize that the healthcare reform is good for America right now. If and when the economy turns around maybe private insurance complement can be afforded. Right now this Supreme Court ought to help sustain America.
@save the envyronment
The SCOTUS is not supposed to consider the will of the people, their # 1 purpose is to consider the constitutionality of laws passed by the other two branches of Gov't Secondly decide court cases that flow up to the court thru the department of justice accordingly
The individual mandate in the aca is unconstitional the law has no severabilty clause contained with in it therefore good bye ACA today And so long barrack hussein obama M M M January 20th 2013
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What a guy ole Romney is, here's a guy who has no morals. God should strike him down for being nothing but a LIAR. He's good at throwing in his worthless 2 cents. His puppeteers must be working overtime to keep up with his great rebuttals about everthing Obama does and says. We all know Romney never comes up with anything on his own, well except for his bald faced lies. Let's get rid of all the republicans from public office.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I always laugh at Romney when he mentions Obama care. Since he is the inventor of this program. Both obama and Romney are clowns. Neither of those 2 know how to run a country. People want personal freedom and liberty. Something neither of them understand. They think by giving Americans free medical and food stamps we will shut up and follow. They are setting to send drones over America and they are complaining about immigration, obama care, pro choice, and pro life. What about the freedom no one discusses. It seems as if government is conditioning us into followers like sheep. NDAA, CISPA, HR 347, patriot act, the fed, and many more bills stripping are freedom. I think you liberals, and so-called conservatives need to wake up and smell the coffee. You have be MSM to death. Get off you couch and ban msnbc, foxnews, and cnn. Yes you might have withdraw at first. Once you are FREE. You will see that they are nothing but liars and half truths.
Romney and the T/GOP are the moral failures. Plain and simple.
While the mega-rich Romney and his wife have a horse competing in the Olympics we little people are waiting a few years until we are 65 to have a colonoscopy or similar procedures because we can't afford the $600. out of pocket expense to have one. Romney is out of touch with the middle class and the poor. We can't afford to have a horse to soothe our illness as his wife can. We poor and middle citizens need Obamacare!!
Yep something a liberal would say. Its want, want, and more want. How about we strike most of the law down. Only thing in it that is good is the part about not denying people medical for past problems. Also congress needs to allow people to buy across states lines. That would drop the price to being affordable again. Take away the monopoly in states would lower the prices. You think if something is given to you its your god given right. Well its not yours. It is the American tax payers. This was a very unconstitutional bill to begin with. Wait I forgot liberals and Romney don't know what we were founded on. Yes I said Romney because he was the inventor , liberal governor and pro choice till he decided to run for president. As a republican for 25 years I will be voting Gary Johnson. At least he read the constitution.
Moral failure? Yes, Mitt, I can see how a religious person like you could equate helping those in need get the health care that they deserve as human beings as a moral failure. After all, Jesus would have been appaled at healing people unless they had the money to buy his services, right? That's a little bit of republican revisionism, which you're good at. Here's what's a moral failure.....someone who professes to be religious and then wants to deny unfortunate people the right to life saving health care.
To the clueless, including Romney: yes, there was an economic crisis which proved deeper and more problematic than anyone thought in the spring and summer of 2009. But, Progressives (and even Nixon) have been working on health care reform since 1948 (if you don't count Teddy Roosevelt's early attempts), and the legislative majorities that Obama seemingly had only come alone once in a generation or more (Reagan never had these majorities). Working on health care reform wasn't squandered time. Who could have anticipated that the GOP would block the seating of Sen. Franken for 8 months. Who could have foreseen Ted Kennedy's death. And no one expected the GOP to gum up the legislative system at every turn for 13 months including masquerading town hall meetings to whip up opposition. No, I don't think it was Obama wasting time. After all he practically rammed the bill through.
There wouldn't be an "moral failure" on the part of the right-wing smear, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, would there, Mittnik?
It twists my shorts to listen and read the attacks on this country and good people from the most immoral mob of hoodlums in United States history - the gopers and other anti-American arseholes.
I hate to say it Mitt, but our entire political system is a moral failure. Everything politicians say is designed to appear that they care about what happens to us, not to actually commit to any action. So I ask both would be candidates, what solutions do you have, that you will actually keep your word on? Maybe we should be asking the Council on Foreign Relations or the Bilderberger Group, what you're allowed to do.
moneyos1
How do you come to that conclusion when much of the plan has not been activated? Want to outline what parts of it are a failure? The same plan activated in Massecusets singed on by Mitt Romney is working very well. Romney once said that plan would be the model for the country.
Having said that, I don't like the plan for other reasons. The smart way to go is Medicare for everyone. That system is up and running so we will not have to create another beauracracy and be forced to hire more government workers.
What we have as problems all stem from money matters. We are engaged in serious empire building, what with a thousand bases around the world and taking what we want from countires like Iraq, not for Americans, but for the International Oil companies. Check it out. The oil that Cheney said would pay for the war is not ever going to do that as the contracts for the oil, at American gun-point, have all gone to the world wide oil industry and so we pay for the war with our taxes and we pay for it at the pump.
Then there is, connected to all that, the Military Industrial Complex that sucks up so much cash we literally can't find out what it all is. Many expenditures are off budget and not counted as military spending.
We don't need that crap. What we need is for Americans to be for America. If we are going to have foreign relations such as trade, we have to make sure those deals are good for us and not yet another vacuum cleaner to suck away our wealth
All that ails this country is not so much about spending, even as I would agree it's excessive, it is about where and how it is spent. Going to war all over the world does not protect your ass but a decent health care system will.
The Affordable Healthcare Act a "A Moral Failure"????????????
Romney is an idiot He lies, twists, manipulates, like no other! During the Primaries he was bragging that the AHA was patterned after his Mass. plan. "It was right for Massachusetts" -- just not for the country. Was that a moral failure too?
This fool (Romney) is constantly harping his anti-Obama rhetoric without taking any responsibility himself for anything. He switches sides almost every day on every issue of any importance. The man is worthless. He loves to cast stones while being filled with sins of his own. Rom now says that Obama has done nothing to focus on creating jobs. This accusation is totally laughable coming from the creator of Bain and one who is totally responsible for shipping American jobs overseas to China and India for cheap labor. And, under Bain, he bought a company, made promises to employees, took a government bailout making himself lots of money and then his high morality demonstrated itself when he closed the company down breaking every promise he had made to the employees and leaving them and their families destitute. He says he's not concerned about the poor and he's definitely proven that to be true. And, he has off-shore bank accounts which he uses to avoid paying legitimate taxes. Oh man, I love this paragon of virtue, truthfulness and compassion. Yep, he is definitely the guy we need to become President and leader of the free world. Well, he's the guy if you're super-wealthy, don't give a sh*t for ordinary Americans and could care less about democracy because you worship the almighty dollar. Talk about a moral failure, Rom is definitely our boy.