I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Oh Mary...I just wanted to a walk a minute in their shoes....to see what it feels like to post creepy pictures and half-baked stories.  It felt strange, so had to caveat it at the bottom.....but you know what, it is so darn easy to just do it!  I just searched for the most egregious picture and story I could find and posted it....1-2-3- blasphemy!  (Darn, not on one of those Republican like mass mailer email lists sending out Obama lies and pics...do Democrats even do those?)

Well, it was actually true, what he said...one "n" missing....he really needs to be more careful with his slogans though. 

That BLS crap is just that and speaking for civil servents, how incredibly insulting to federal employees.  I will also say something about the old time federal pensions.....the kind one can't take with them from federal job to non-federal job.  The good thing about a federal pension, besides providing for one in their old age, very few employees would jeopardize this pension by doing something that underhanded.....it just wouldn't happen.  Also, before they got to this type of job, they would have proven their mettle.  I can't even imagine how the employees must feel at BLS after hearing this crap. 

There.  Figured out how to make it smaller.  It pretty much lays it right out there.

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HL, that is the best commentary I've seen lately.

"Romney Health Care Debate Claim Gets Corrected By His Own Staff"

"Independent fact checkers have not been particularly kind to Mitt Romney since Wednesday's first presidential debate in Denver. But one of the candidate's claims turned out to be so far off the mark that he had to be corrected by his own aides - a fact not unnoticed by the Obama campaign.

Romney's claim was this, part of what turned out to be a highly detailed discussion of health care: "No. 1, pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan."

By pre-existing conditions, Romney was talking about the ability for people who already have medical problems - diabetes, for example, or even things like allergies - to buy health insurance. Starting in 2014, the federal Affordable Care Act says insurance companies can no longer reject people with bad health histories - nor can they charge them more.

That's already true in Massachusetts under the law Romney signed as governor. But Romney's current plan for the nation, should he be elected president, wouldn't necessarily guarantee that same protection.

"Actually, governor, that isn't what your plan does," President Obama told Romney at the debate Wednesday. "What your plan does is to duplicate what's already the law."

The president was referring to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. It's a 1996 law that says, among other things, that once you have health insurance you can continue to purchase it, as long as there's no interruption in your coverage of more than 63 days.

But Romney's plan wouldn't guarantee that people who don't have coverage now will be able to buy it. Top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said as much in the so-called spin room to several reporters right after the debate, and again on Thursday on CNN.

"The governor will repeal Obamacare and he will return to the states the power to control their own health care futures," Fehrnstrom told Wolf Blitzer. "Look, what works in Massachusetts may not work in Texas. It was wrong for the president to take the broad outlines of the Massachusetts plan and impose it as a dictate from Washington on every state in the nation."

That correction was gladly picked up by the Obama forces. At a rally Friday in Northern Virginia, Obama took credit for one of the few times he actually called Romney out during the debate.

"Gov. Romney was fact checked by his own campaign. That's rough," the president told a cheering crowd at George Mason University. "Even they know his plan would take away coverage for tens of millions of Americans."

This isn't the first time a Romney statement has had to be walked back by his staff when it comes to health care. In recent weeks he's misstated or switched positions on abortion and on Medicaid. But at 67 million viewers, this was by far the largest audience that's heard something different from what the candidate's position actually is."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/10/06/162404662/romney-health-care-debate-claim-gets-corrected-by-his-own-staff

By Jove, I think I've got it!

^ Love it!!

Sad to say, as much as I've read, watched, and listened, I still don't know what Romney stands for. Other than the standard "Freedom!" answer, I mean.

But shouldn't he pretend to have a plan? Even W had one.

If he doesn't lie about something, he gets it all wrong.  I was listening to an analysis of his comments in the debate about Dodd-Frank - such a snow job.  He just counts on American's not getting it.

The Truth About Too Big To Fail: How Romney Got It All Wrong On Wall Street ReformBy Pat Garofalo on Oct 4, 2012 at 9:41 amDuring last night’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney tried to situate himself as the adversary of big Wall Street banks. He repeatedly invoked the necessity of regulations and criticized the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which he wants to repeal, as a “kiss” to “New York banks.”Romney singled out one provision of Dodd-Frank in particular — the ability of regulators to designate certain firms as “systemically signficant” — saying that it means the big banks are “effectively guaranteed by the federal government“:

Dodd-Frank was passed. And it includes within it a number of provisions that I think has some unintended consequences that are harmful to the economy. One is it designates a number of banks as too big to fail, and they’re effectively guaranteed by the federal government. This is the biggest kiss that’s been given to — to New York banks I’ve ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them. There’ve been 122 community and small banks have closed since Dodd- Frank…Look, we have to have regulation on Wall Street. That’s why I’d have regulation. But I wouldn’t designate five banks as too big to fail and give them a blank check. That’s one of the unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank. It wasn’t thought through properly. We need to get rid of that provision because it’s killing regional and small banks. They’re getting hurt.

I could not believe my ears when Romney resurrected the death panel myth. He KNOWS that's a bunch of hogwash and yet he inserts it and other lies into the debate.



The ACA has no death panels. The IPAB does not determine treatment. Read the law, people!

A Mad Tea Party will keep you spinning FlippityFlopperRomney.  Romnesia is a problem....