It’s all Romney’s fault!

I try to keep myself informed about current events, but it never ceases to amaze me how much I miss. I was taken aback recently to learn that a very important mover and shaper of public opinion — one Mark Halperin, editor at large for Time Magazine — has discovered the real culprit behind the Obamacare mess.

Think it’s Obama?

Wrong!

Pelosi?

No.

The real culprit is Mitt Romney. See, in Halperin’s mind, the reason Obamacare was not properly scrutinized by the fearless fact checkers in the MSM was that Romney didn’t make enough noise.

No seriously:

Mark Halperin, editor-at-large for Time Magazine has announced the “real” culprit responsible for the the media’s failure to scrutinize ObamaCare since it was voted into law. Mitt Romney. Yes, Mitt Romney.

During an appearance on The O’Reilly Factory, Halperin was pressed by guest host Laura Ingraham to explain why the media failed to do its job on ObamaCare for more than three years.

To Halperin’s credit, he agreed with Ingraham, but astonishingly blamed Romney and the Republicans for the failure.

Huh? Say what you will about Romney, but I remember the campaign quite well, and slamming Obamacare while warning about what would happen — and promising to block its implementation on Day One if elected — was front and center in his message, and why he did so well in the first debate.

But even if he had been a total nincompoop, since when does the MSM rely on Republican candidates to do their scrutinizing for them? I mean, what was Romney supposed to do to stop Obamacare? Win the election? What? With all that help he’d have gotten from the MSM had he only screamed louder about Obamacare?

Unbelievable.


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11 responses to “It’s all Romney’s fault!”

  1. Simon Avatar

    The trouble is I did not believe Romney because of RomneyCare in Massachusetts.

  2. George Avatar
    George

    So in 2010, when Obamacare was adopted it was the responsibility of someone, who was one of about 12 people seeking to become the nominee for 2012 to prevent the Democrats from adopting their plan?

  3. captain* arizona Avatar
    captain* arizona

    Same old same old conservative clap trap. When are you going to do a post on how you would insure the 40 million people who have no insurance instead of say don’t get sick if you can’t afford it! The democrats try you don’t even try but just whine about those who try to help! So lets see your plan so that the 40 million uninsured and there is another 15 million with worthless policys. No hospitalization or testing just a few bucks off the doctors vist. Remember the cancer patient who lost insurance because the person wasn’t able to read the bill and sent their check 2cents short! No wonder libertarians worry about force and violence! So where is your health plan ? PUT UP OR SHUT UP!

  4. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    There’ve been good plans for improving health care proposed for 30 years now. All of them involve increasing patient choices and reducing government control. Any of them would be better than what we had before Obamacare, and light years ahead of the ACA.

    Too bad people like cap* are incapable of understanding anything more complicated than a government agent saying “you do what I tell you or else”.

  5. Veeshir Avatar

    There have been a bunch of articles blaming everybody but Obama for the debacle.
    I’d say the reason for those articles is that our fine media betters in Minitrue are trying to start a “buzz” blaming it on anybody but the Democrats.

    People don’t pay attention, but when you see story after story and comment after comment defending Obama, people will start to think it’s not his fault.

    It’s the Big Lie, you just keep repeating it and it become accepted.

    Like when Ronnie Raygun tried to make ketchup a vegetable for school meals.

  6. captain* arizona Avatar
    captain* arizona

    As I said where is your plan for the 40 million uninsured besides don’t get sick! You don’t seem to understand what a plan is since you don’t have one besides don’t get sick if you can’t afford it! Laying down in the arena and wimpering obama care bad is not a plan!

  7. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    Cap,

    My plan is to implement some of the ideas out there for making insurance more affordable, so that more people can afford it. Your plan is to make insurance more expensive, then send men with guns to extract the premiums from our wallets.

  8. sarareilly Avatar
    sarareilly

    Lets see, the five counter-proposals in 2010 were:

    1) Extend the tax break companies get for purchasing employee health insurance to people who bought their own insurance.

    2) Tort reform, to reduce the amount insurance companies pay in frivolous malpractice suits. Thus lowering their overhead and lowering premium costs.

    3) Allowing people to buy policies across state lines, thus increasing competition and bringing down prices. Also lets you buy different types of coverage, without the mandates imposed by your state.

    4) Allow catastrophic coverage, so you can buy a policy with no mandates, dealing with only sudden medical issues. Would be a very cheap policy.

    5) Medical Savings accounts, allowing you to pay your deductible without dipping into your wallet.

    No one has said “Don’t get sick unless you can afford it”, cap, with or without superfluous exclamation points. And those 40 million uninsured fell into two categories, for the most part: those who can’t afford it, who were, oddly enough, already covered by something called “Medicaid” in most cases, and those who chose not to purchase it, because they were healthy and saw no need. Or wealthy enough to pay for care out of pocket.

  9. captain* arizona Avatar
    captain* arizona

    Medicade does not cover working poor thats most of the 40 million uninsured. sara if you went to get treatment and instead of giving them a insurance policy you gave them your 5 points they would tell you we want to be paid in cash money not libertarian dogma. So you have no plan again to get the 40 million insured! Come up with plan that doctors and hospitals will accept not telling them we will pay you with tort reform(except for big business who clog up the courts with their vendettas againt each other no conservatie plan to reform there) plans that pay money not b.s. dogma!

  10. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    Like I said, the only plan that cap* will accept is violence. Raise rates, bribe the politicians, pay off the insurance companies, and send a man with a gun to extract the premiums from our wallets.

  11. captain* arizona Avatar
    captain* arizona

    Wrong again niel I support medicare for all and you are not forced to sign up for it! When is the last time you refused to pay sales tax or the gasoline tax when you pump your gas huh?