Slippery Mitt

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"As to what to do for the housing industry specifically and are there things that you can do to encourage housing: One is, don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom," Romney told the editorial board of the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Slippery Mitt at tonight's debate:

"You have to let the market work and get people in homes, and the best thing to do is to allow this economy to reboot," Romney said.

"What would you do instead? Would you like to have the federal government go around and buy all the homes in America" he asked. The reason we have the housing crisis we have is that the federal government played too heavy a role in our markets."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/192775-romney-doubles-down-on-staying-out-of-foreclosures


Mitt Romney joked his way past a mention of the Massachusetts health care reform that conservatives loathe, responding to a moderator’s reference to the law by cracking: “Thanks for reminding everybody.”

But noting that in Massachusetts he had to work with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature, Romney pivoted to call for a bipartisan moment in Washington.

“America faces a crisis,” he said. “There are enough good Democrats and good Republicans willing to put aside partisanship and do what’s right for the country, in my view, if they’re led by someone” who’s not focused on the next election.

read: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68024.html


When asked (Down the line, 30 seconds, if you repeal Obamacare, what’s the answer?), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said, “Health care in 30 seconds is a little tough. But let me try.”

Romney called for sending Medicaid money back to the states “so they can craft their own programs” and letting “individuals purchase their own insurance.”

“Number three, you do exactly what Ron Paul said. I don’t always say that,” Romney said to laughter.

“But I have got to say it right now. And that is, you have to get health care to start working more like a market. And for that to happen, people have to have a stake in what the cost and the quality as well as of their health care. And so health savings account, or something called co- insurance, that’s the way to help make that happen. And finally, our malpractice system in this country is nuts. We have got to take that over and make sure we don’t burden our system with it,” Romney said.

read: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/09/gop-candidates-asked-how-theyd-replace-obamacare-in-30-seconds/


Mitt Romney discussed his reputation as a flip-flopper at Wednesday night’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, disputing the characterization and calling himself “a man of steadiness and constancy.”

“I think people know me pretty well … People understand I’m a man of steadiness and constancy,” Romney said. “I don’t think you are going the find somebody who has more of those attributes than do I. I have been married to the same woman for 25 — excuse me — I will get in trouble. For 42 years. I have been in the same church my entire life. I worked at one company for 25 years. And I left that to go off and help save the Olympic Games.

“I think it is outrageous the Obama campaign continues to push this idea when you have in the Obama administration the most political presidency we have seen in modern history,” Romney continued. “They decided when to pull out of Afghanistan based on politics. If I’m President of the United States, I will be true to my family, faith and our country, and I will never apologize for the United States of America.”

read: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/09/romney-says-hes-not-a-flip-flopper-but-a-man-of-steadiness-and-constancy/


"It’s not a housing plan, it’s a jobs plan.” – Romney on his economic plan's lack of housing initiative.

"Look, look, Herman Cain is the person to respond to this question. The people in this room and across the country can make their own assessments." – Romney after being asked by the moderators for his opinion about the sexual harassment accusations against Cain.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gop-debate-quotes-herman-cain-perry-mitt-romney-cnbc-259584

[kenny blankenship]

1. The Romney/Obamacare delusion in stark relief here:

"...you have to get health care to start working more like a market. And for that to happen, people have to have a stake in what the cost... of their health care. (What the cost is he means, presumably)

Um, like they don't notice how much their health insurance is costing them???

Do we see now how this neoliberal, "make it work like a market" mythology displaces blame for the brokenness of the current non-system onto individual consumers? The man who devised the plan you are all chained to starting in 2014 and until you die or age out believes that YOU, the worker slaving to pay your insurance premiums, are what is wrong with health care in this country. You fucked it all up. Because you are a lazy consumer as well as a lazy worker. And you don't feel the sting of the lash quite enough yet to get up off your ass and 'shop around' for insurers, and thus drive the cost of health insurance down. It was YOU the whole time.