tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post2627535638750175325..comments2024-01-23T17:14:04.067-05:00Comments on Jaltcoh: Live-blogging the Republican presidential primary debate on FoxNews, September 22John Althouse Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-21956976238884897262011-09-22T21:59:01.617-04:002011-09-22T21:59:01.617-04:00Yeah, I noticed. Romney addressed this in a recent...Yeah, I noticed. Romney addressed this in a <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/15/sitroom.02.html" rel="nofollow">recent interview</a>:<br /><br /><i>BLITZER: I know you stand by the health care reform you passed, you got enacted when you were the governor of Massachusetts, and you differentiate between who what you did in Massachusetts as opposed to what President Obama did on a national scale. But some other news organizations have done some research, and I'll give you a chance to respond to this. <br /><br />They have taken a look at your book, the book entitled "No Apology," the hard-cover version, in that book you this, you wrote, "It's portable, affordable health insurance -- something people have been talking about for decades," referring to your plan. "We can accomplish the same thing for everyone in the country, and it can be done without letting government take over health care." <br /><br />Now in the paperback, more recent version, it was changed to say, "It's portable, affordable health insurance -- something people have been talking about for decades. And it was done without government taking over health care." The line, "we can accomplish the same thing for everyone in the country," was taken out. <br /><br />Explain why. <br /><br />ROMNEY: You know, Wolf, we updated the book because it came out almost a year after the first book, and, of course, the president's plan was then put in place. <br /><br />I was in asked when we put our plan together by Dan Balz of "The Washington Post," is the plan in Massachusetts something that, if you are president, you'd have the entire country adopt. And I said no. I said that very clearly. I've said it throughout the campaign in 2008. The Massachusetts plan was crafted for Massachusetts, for the needs of 8 percent of our population that didn't have insurance, not for the 92 percent that did. Obamacare is a plan that takes over 100 percent of the people in the country and their health care, and that's one of the reasons why people don't want it. <br /><br />So our plan was a model for other states to copy, some states have copied parts of it, others say no way, they'll do something else, that's their right. But it is not a plan to have a one-size-fits -all approach, I said that from the beginning, continue to say it. <br /><br />By the way, it works pretty well in Massachusetts, but there's some flaws in it, I'd like to see them changed.</i>John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-75387737255044257652011-09-22T21:47:53.009-04:002011-09-22T21:47:53.009-04:00And Romney said, defending himself, that he wasn&#...And Romney said, defending himself, that he wasn't taking back anything he said in his book. He's denying the documented evidence!Jason (the commenter)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16045360562791361484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-90829370480161642312011-09-22T21:45:52.474-04:002011-09-22T21:45:52.474-04:00Did you notice that Perry brought up the change in...Did you notice that Perry brought up the change in Romney's book that you blogged about?<br /><br />Maybe he's a fan.Jason (the commenter)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16045360562791361484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-40880855544023377272011-09-22T21:45:37.134-04:002011-09-22T21:45:37.134-04:00As Romney said in a previous debate, if you believ...As Romney said in a previous debate, if you believe Perry created everything great about Texas, that's like believing Al Gore invented the internet.John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-59910013664289036332011-09-22T21:44:31.662-04:002011-09-22T21:44:31.662-04:009:04 - Perry, where's your specific jobs plan?...<i>9:04 - Perry, where's your specific jobs plan? Perry says he'll show it to us . . . eventually. In other words, he doesn't have a specific jobs plan.<br /><br /></i>Perry doesn't have a written jobs plan, he has Texas.Jason (the commenter)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16045360562791361484noreply@blogger.com