Posts tagged “obamacare”
Is this real life?
Mitt Romney told reporters today at a press stop in South Carolina that he pays “probably closer to the 15 percent rate” on taxes. This is way lower than what most middle-class families pay in taxes. Taking into account this cherry-on-top consideration, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post today decided to add up the equation that [...]
Promises Made, Promises Forgotten
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones makes a good point when talking about the GOP’s unfulfilled 2010 election mantra to “repeal and replace” Obamacare: I consider this a highly metaphysical question. Is something really a lie if no one was intended to believe it in the first place? Consider the various audiences. The Republican base certainly [...]
Same F—ing Bill
Leave it to an MIT Professor to be the first one to drop the F-bomb about Mitt Romney’s refusal to acknowledge he had anything to do with “Obamacare” and the conception of the individual mandate. Jonathan Gruber, who helped Romney craft his Massachusetts health care legislation in 2006, has not been too pleased with Romney’s [...]