Mitt Romney Tells Lib Media: Obamacare Is a Tax (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:57 AM
Mitt Romney told CBS today that Obamacare is a tax.
The title they chose for their video was “Romney sides with Supreme Court on health care law” which is completely inaccurate. Romney did not side with the Supreme Court on their decision he just agreed that this was the court’s ruling.
ABC-Yahoo reported:
Mitt Romney steered his campaign message back in line with other top Republicans today, insisting that the health care law’s individual mandate that requires most Americans to buy health insurance was “a tax.”
“The majority of the court said it is a tax, and therefore it is a tax,” Romney said in an interview with CBS Wednesday, citing the Supreme Court’s health law ruling last week that the individual mandate fell under the federal government’s authority to levy taxes and was therefore constitutional.
“They have spoken. There’s no way around that. You can try and say you wish they had decided a different way, but they didn’t.”
Romney’s comments came days after senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom rejected the notion that the individual mandate imposed a “tax,” saying instead that it was a “penalty.”
It’s not just a tax – It’s the largest tax in history. Something Democrats forgot to tell the American public when they were ramming their socialized medicine down our throats.
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katy commented:
Um…that was a clear cut and firm statement from Romney. I reeeeeally liked his attitude. Bucking his own handlers was a nice touch too.
*smiling*
katy commented:
This “so called journalist” is dumbfounded by the concept of states rights. WTF???
Why are the most ignorant among us the ones with the microphones? Un-freaking real!
And they call us stupid. LOL!
Alana commented:
Well, the stupider they are, the more certain they are that they are right; and the more certain they are that they are right, the louder they get. The loud, pushy ones get the microphones (and pretty much everything else).
Perfected democrat commented:
Mitt W. Romney to the rescue!
Ace commented:
Barack Milhous “Obama” on the defensive again!
AuntieMadder commented:
The title they chose for their video was “Romney sides with Supreme Court on health care law”…
The “Unofficial F***tard/Biden Campaign” is reunited and working just as hard for their candidate as they did in 2008. May they lie their way to Hell.
Tim in Cali commented:
I’m shocked that the media twisted the truth..
They should have gotten Andrea Mitchell (nnnN B C News ) to edit the video.
Glad we’re back on message Mitt.
Now hide the etch a sketch and microphones from Fehrnstrom.
jorgen commented:
The winning answer would have been: Who cares; what matters is that all of Obamacare will be repealed.
onbe commented:
The part I liked is Team Obama called in shortly after airing –LOL.
Remember
One wants to keep the obamacare Tax and expand on it
while the other wants to dump it day one. I’m going with dump it day one!
Militant conservative commented:
ABO!!!
Powder is dry
Gary commented:
I called this last week when people were upset about the surrogate mis-speaking.
Romney says it isn’t a tax, lib media says he sides with Obama
Romney says it is a tax, lib media says he sides with the court that it was constitutional all along.
The reason this works is the obvious doublespeak by the libs in getting this passed. As long as the media is willing to ignore the fact that they swore it wasn’t a tax to get it passed, argued it was a tax to get the SCOTUS to go along with it, and then immediately said it wasn’t a tax, then the Dems get to have it both ways and we get to have it neither way.
They can’t be wrong, we can’t be right. All we can do is continue to point out wherever possible that it’s doublespeak, but the problem with that, as always, is that the Dems assert something preposterous in a few words that we cannot refute in less than a paragraph.
Examples of that are things like “99%”, “fair share”, “women’s healthcare”, “undocumented workers”, “right thing to do”, and other liberal slogans.
It will always be an uphill battle for our side unless we flush liberalism out of the schools and out of the media, but not much chance of that anytime soon.
Gary commented:
Katy 2
You’re right. You can tell that she really thought she had a gotcha opportunity, but clearly did not understand the difference between states’ rights and federal rights. She also didn’t realize he was stating that the court’s conclusion is the law of the land, not stating his opinion on tax vs penalty.
Would have been nice if Romney had turned the tables and asked her if she understood the 10th amendment. But that wouldn’t have aired.
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