Newt Gingrich needs to go sing this from the roof tops.
Norm Coleman, a former Minnesota Senator and adviser to Mitt Romney, has declared that a Republican President will probably not completely repeal ObamaCare:
“You will not repeal the act in its entirety, but you will see major changes, particularly if there is a Republican president,” Coleman told BioCentury This Week television in an interview that aired on Sunday. “You can’t whole-cloth throw it out. But you can substantially change what’s been done.”
The article does go on to say that Romney is distancing himself from Coleman:
“With all due respect to Sen. Coleman, he’s wrong,” campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said via e-mail. “Gov. Romney can and will repeal Obamacare and is committed to doing so.”
Good. But this is just another example of an adviser and surrogate Mitt Romney choosing to surround himself with making wimpy arguments. Let’s not forget that former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu blasted Gingrich for attempting to block former President George H. W. Bush’s tax increase. Sununu said Gingrich’s stand may have been a contribution to President Bush’s loss. (Memo to Sununu and other establishment GOP: your actions are the reason for your losses)
A Romney operative has said that if Romney looses Florida, the establishment will look for an alternative. Why don’t we speed that process up?
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I doubt even Romney would keep the thing
sulmak (Diary) Tuesday, January 24th at 6:49PM EST (link)especially since it has proved so unpopular, but think if a republican president didn’t repeal it. The republican party would go the way of the Whig party for sure. Lord knows where the country would go.
Sometimes, for practical reasons, the right thing cannot
Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, January 24th at 11:21PM EST (link)be done. This isn’t one of those times.
In fact, if there will be truly serious problems with a straight repeal of Obamacare, that is all the more reason for it to be done with both alacrity and fanfare.
If Republicans can win a majority, it will be a sure sign that the electorate wants it repealed and the devil take the hindmost. Woe be unto any Republican who tries to drag his feet to slow the process down, to “deliberate,” while the geniuses that gave us Obama decide just how much of his care can be kept.
The answer is NONE OF IT. If it brings some problems, that’s a small price to pay for the transfer to the smaller-government path.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964