MAYBE, JUST MAYBE…
Maybe, just maybe, Romney will win the World’s Serious Election.
Minutes after the landmark SCOTUS decision, “Obamacare upheld. Elections have consequences” hit Romney’s website along with Tom Corbett’s comments: “Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court touphold President Obama’s healthcare law is disappointing. If implemented, we will be saddled with a nearly $2 trillion entitlement. The Supreme Court’s decision sets the stakes for the November election. Now the only way to save the country from this massive government takeover of healthcare is to elect a new President and lawmakers in Washington, D.C. We need a leader who understands that free markets and competition lead to better quality, greater access and lower costs for our healthcare. We need a leader who understands that real healthcare reform shouldn’t be a burden to taxpayers or come at the cost of American jobs. That leader is Mitt Romney.”
While Romney was responding to the decision and vowing once again to repeal Obama’s health care law, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul was tweeting that the Republican “received $1.5 million and more than 13,500 donations as of about 2:35 p.m. ET.” It’s up to $4.3 million this morning.
Hours later, she tweeted this: “Rs who want to challenge the constitutional health care law are showing they’re ‘handmaidens of the special interest.’”
Pelosi tweeted the day before the decision that she’d “be appearing on @MeetthePress this Sunday to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act.”
Speaker of the House John Boehner quickly chirped in after the announcement of the decision with his @John Boehner tweet: “Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court underscores the urgency of #fullrepeal of #ObamaCarehttp://t.co/PdLzCq4y #jobs.” Good job, John, on the last 51 characters and one space. Hope it was a cut and paste.
How quickly we’ve become a nation of followers of @ symbols and hashtags. But I digress…
In his response to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare, “translated” by Roll Call @ www.rollcall.com, Romney said, “As you might imagine, I disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision and I agree with the dissent.
“What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare.
“What the court did today was say that Obamacare does not violate the Constitution. What they did not do was say that Obamacare is good law or that it’s good policy.
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“Let me tell you why I say that.
“Obamacare also means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep.
“Obamacare is a job-killer. Businesses across the country have been asked what the impact is of Obamacare. Three-quarters of those surveyed by the Chamber of Commerce said Obamacare makes it less likely for them to hire people.
“And perhaps most troubling of all, Obamacare puts the federal government between you and your doctor.
“What are some of the things that we’ll keep in place and must be in place in a reform, a real reform of our health care system?
“Number two, got to make sure that those people who have pre-existing conditions know that they will be able to be insured and they will not lose their insurance.
“And something that Obamacare does not do that must be done in real reform is helping lower the cost of health care and health insurance. It’s becoming prohibitively expensive.
“This is a time of choice for the American people. Our mission is clear: If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we’re going to have to replace President Obama. My mission is to make sure we do exactly that: that we return to the American people the privilege they’ve always had to live their lives in the way they feel most appropriate, where we don’t pass on to coming generations massive deficits and debt, where we don’t have a setting where jobs are lost.
“That is my mission, that is our work, and I’m asking the people of America to join me. If you don’t want the course that President Obama has put us on, if you want, instead, a course that the founders envisioned, then join me in this effort. Help us. Help us defeat Obamacare. Help us defeat the liberal agenda that makes government too big, too intrusive, and that’s killing jobs across this great country.
The election campaign has hit the boiling point, Roberts’ Riddle needs to be to be solved and resolved, and there will be enough tweets, hashtags, and sound bites about the mystical Affordable Care Act from politicians, political pundits and the media to sicken us. Ironic, huh.