Mitt Romney: My Mass. Healthcare Plan Is ‘Fundamentally Conservative’
December 29, 2011 | Filed Under 10th Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Health, Liberals, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, President, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
Romney did it again. On Fox News he linked Romneycare to conservative principles, an outrageous act in the eyes of any conservative. But hold the boat, people, because Romney didn’t exactly say that Romneycare itself is a conservative policy. And therein lies the weasel words that Romney has used to describe the Massachusetts healthcare plan he was so proud to pass when he was the Governor of the state.
To the video…
Transcript:
I’m happy to stand by the things I believe. I’m not going to change my positions by virtue of being in a presidential campaign. What we did was right for the people of Massachusetts. The plan is still favored there by 3:1 and it is fundamentally a conservative principle because the people take personal responsibility rather than turning to the government for free care.
Now, let’s look at what Romney said here. He didn’t exactly say that Romneycare itself is “fundamentally conservative.” He said the concept that people should take responsibility for their own healthcare is a fundamentally conservative idea.
Such as it is, he’s right. That IS a fundamentally conservative idea.
But as Romney has repeatedly done since he signed that disastrous, socialist, far from conservative piece of legislation, he has weasel worded his description of that law. As he’s done before, in this clip he illicitly linked conservative principles to Romneycare by focusing at a micro level on the single idea that we should take care of our own healthcare and linking that real conservative principle to his actions as if conservative principles are the guiding forces behind Romneycare. The problem with Romney’s characterization of the issue is that his legislation is fundamentally not conservative. It is big government, socialist, authoritarian nonsense. It’s not conservative at all. Romney tries to us that one tiny conservative idea buried under miles of socialist ideas as misdirection for the ills that Romneycare forces on the people of the Bay State.
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Romney Shoves RoBamneyCare in Our Faces, Slickly Hiding Behind the 10th Amendment
November 17, 2011 | Filed Under 10th Amendment, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Fox News, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, Regulation, Republicans, RightPundits.com, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Romneycare was “the right thing,” proclaimed Mitt “the flip flopper” Romney on a recent Fox News interview with Neil Cavuto. Wouldn’t you know it, the only thing conservatives want him to flip flop on he refuses to do so.
I guess we can’t expect Romney to own up that Romneycare is a disaster for Massachusetts and that it was a major mistake, one that makes him look exactly live Obama any time soon. He’s steadfastly refused to say that Romneycare was a mistake in the past and today he’s doubled down on that insistence…
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Dear Federal Gov’t, Who Do You Think You Are?
May 6, 2011 | Filed Under 10th Amendment, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Law, Liberals, Nanny State, President, Regulation, Republicans, Senate, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
One of the main forces behind the Tea Party movement and the disgust that many Americans have with the federal government is its supreme arrogance and its constant unwanted and unwarranted power grabs. This is one of the things that the American people really need to put their attention toward reversing.
Perhaps it is just beginning?
Alaska, for instance, has just thrown its weight behind the opposition to the federal government’s obscene persecution of an Alaskan citizen who was arrested for violating rules that the federal government has imposed on those Alaskan waterways flowing through national parks.
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An Interesting 10th Amendment Case That Doesn’t Seem Like One
December 28, 2010 | Filed Under 10th Amendment, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Law, Liberals, Nanny State, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Sometimes standing up for the Constitution seems a bit annoying, especially in the case of violent felon Mrs. Carol Bond. Fortunately, standing for the Constitution here doesn’t necessarily release a horrible woman into freedom, but it does help to spotlight some unconstitutional federal overreach. In this case, it also centers on the Tenth Amendment, or the reserved powers clause.
The violent felon in question, Mrs. Bond, was found guilty of using various chemicals to perpetrate an acid attack on her husband’s girlfriend. She was convicted of mixing several noxious chemicals and throwing them on her rival causing minor burns. Instead of just charging her on state charges of assault and battery or other such things, the federal government decided to step in and prosecute her for violating a treaty governing chemicals signed with foreign governments.
Mrs. Bond’s lawyers have brought this case before the Supreme Court of the United States claiming that due to the Tenth Amendment she cannot be tried for violating foreign treaties because the incident happened inside the borders of an American state and, therefore, her home state has jurisdiction and the federal government does not.
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Publius Podcast: Michigan to License Journalists?
June 1, 2010 | Filed Under 10th Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media, Michigan, Republicans, Rights, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
A fool of a Michigan State Senator has proposed a license for journalists. What could go wrong?
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