Flipping & Flopping With Mitt

Earlier this week we learned that Mitt agreed with BO that in both of their opinions the new healthcare-insurance mandate was not a tax as the Supreme Court (i.e., Roberts) had ruled but rather was a penalty.  The political problem on Monday was that the establishment Republican leaders had already started to make their stand to the voters that ObamaCare imposed a large tax increase on the middle class thereby breaking BO's pledge to not raise taxes on singles making under $200,000 per year or couples making under $250,000 per year.  This meant that Mitt was in disagreement with the establishment Republican leaders like Boehner & McConnell – hardly a unified stance on the matter going into a presidential election. 

 

The CBO calculates that three quarters of the people who will pay the mandate (penalty or tax) will have an income of less than $120,000 per year – so what else is new for working America? 

 

To hear Romney senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom make clear that Mitt's position on Monday was that the government was imposing a penalty & not a tax please click here. 

 

Unfortunately by Wednesday Mitt had abandoned advisor Fehrnstrom & had rejoined the establishment Republicans proclaiming that the enforcement of the ObamaCare mandate was indeed a tax as the Supreme Court had ruled.

 

Now it gets worse.  In both a 2008 debate & a 2009 op-ed in USA Today Mitt called enforcement of the RomneyCare mandate a "tax penalty" so on Monday we had the flip.  By Wednesday we had the flop.  On Monday Mitt flipped his own previous position & disagreed with his party's leadership & by Wednesday he had flopped his senior advisor's defense of his position & agreed with the party establishment.  Wonder what you'll get if you vote for Mitt?

 

Now there is plenty of political dumbness to go around.  Click here to hear VP Biden explain the jobs situation almost four years into BO's term.

 

Does any one else feel it is insulting what the one Big Government Party offers as their presidential & vice presidential candidates in the Republican & Democrat wings?

 

BTW – Mitt's capitulating comment that "the majority of the court said it's a tax &, therefore, it's a tax" goes right along with the status quo mindset & against the mindset change that is so desperately needed in America if we are going to turn things around for the better.  The Founders never envisioned nine unelected people overruling the work of the elected branches.  Accordingly, Mitt's mealy mouthed statement putting all final power in the Supreme Court's hands goes against the pledge he hopes to take "to preserve, protect, & defend the Constitution of the United States."