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THREE CHEERS FOR ROMNEYCARE!

February 1, 2012
If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles -- as it was at the time.

It's not as if we had a beautifully functioning free market in health care until Gov. Mitt Romney came along and wrecked it by requiring that Massachusetts residents purchase their own health insurance. In 2007, when Romneycare became law, the federal government alone was already picking up the tab for 45.4 percent of all health care expenditures in the country.

Until Obamacare, mandatory private health insurance was considered the free-market alternative to the Democrats' piecemeal socialization of the entire medical industry.

In November 2004, for example, libertarian Ronald Bailey praised mandated private health insurance in Reason magazine, saying that it "could preserve and extend the advantages of a free market with a minimal amount of coercion."

A leading conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, helped design Romneycare, and its health care analyst, Bob Moffit, flew to Boston for the bill signing.

Romneycare was also supported by Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and health policy analyst for the conservative Manhattan Institute. Herzlinger praised Romneycare for making consumers, not business or government, the primary purchasers of health care.

The bill passed by 154-2 in the Massachusetts House and unanimously, 37-0, in the Massachusetts Senate -- including the vote of Sen. Scott Brown, who won Teddy Kennedy's seat in the U.S. Senate in January 2010 by pledging to be the "41st vote against Obamacare."

But because both Obamacare and Romneycare concern the same general topic area -- health care -- and can be nicknamed (politician's name plus "care"), Romney's health care bill is suddenly perceived as virtually the same thing as the widely detested Obamacare. (How about "Romneycare-gate"?) Read More »

Quotations from Chairman Ann

February 4, 2012, 4:38 PM
UPCOMING TV ... -

Friday, 1/3, 3am (Sat morning): RED EYE!

Saturday, 1/4, 10pm: Fox New's Nevada Returns Coverage

Sunday, 1/5 9:15am: Fox & Friends

Monday, 1/6, 9pm: FNC's Hannity

February 3, 2012, 2:01 AM
Excerpt from Coulter on Hannity Radio - DC: Coulter to Romney: ‘You owe me'
February 1, 2012, 1:16 AM
Seen on David Feldman's Facebook Page - To give you an idea how dead Gingrich's campaign is, Romney just had it baptized in the Mormon church without Newt's permission.
January 30, 2012, 10:55 AM
NEWT PRAISED HEALTHY, OPEN PROCESS USED TO PASS OBAMACARE - Gingrich Was For ObamaCare Before He Was Against It?
January 29, 2012, 9:39 PM
That's if you don't count losing China to communism - VIDEO: Gingrich calls Reagan a failure in fighting communism, while praising Truman
January 29, 2012, 3:54 PM
NYT Not as Nutty as Erin Brockovich on Upstate NY Twitching Case - NYT: Hysteria and the Teenage Girl
January 29, 2012, 12:48 PM
Pat Buchanan: Newt Has No Ideological Core - Pat Buchanan: Reagan White House saw Newt as ‘something of a political opportunist
January 29, 2012, 12:40 PM
If you want a border, you don’t want Newt - Kausfiles: Newt's Weakest Spot
January 29, 2012, 12:05 PM
This is the kind of corruption Romney cleaned up at the Olympics - ABC: Bribes, Chinese Mob Ties Alleged at Casino of Gingrich Money Man, Sheldon Adelson
January 27, 2012, 6:19 PM
I can kiss that ambassadorship to the moon goodbye! - FOX VIDEO: Gingrich Strikes Back at Ann Coulter
January 27, 2012, 1:34 PM
The New Laid Back North Korean Govt - CNET: North Korean government labels cell phone users as war criminals
January 26, 2012, 10:32 AM
Newt Gingrich told House Republicans to vote for statehood for Puerto Rico to win over the Mexican vote. - Sailer: Do Florida Hispanic voters care much about immigration?
January 26, 2012, 2:10 AM
FL: ROMNEY LEADS OBAMA, 47%-42%; GINGRICH LOSES TO OBAMA, 47%-40% - Suffolk University Poll on Candidates' Electability
January 25, 2012, 5:20 PM
Romney's Abortion Position - Mitt Romney is “Consistently” Pro-Life, Mass Activist Says
January 25, 2012, 2:51 PM
"Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm." - TYRRELL: WILLIAM JEFFERSON GINGRICH
January 24, 2012, 11:37 AM
Jon Stewart on Gingrich's Family Values & Outsider Status - Mediaite VIDEO: Jon Stewart Flips Out At Gingrich’s Nerve In Attacking John King’s ‘Open Marriage' Question
January 24, 2012, 10:02 AM
In a strange development, the MSM is lying about Romney's tax rate - Newsbusters: Beware False Claims: 'Romney's Tax Rate Is Below That of Most Wage-Earning Americans'
January 24, 2012, 12:36 AM
GOVT UNIONS SPENDING MONEY TO AFFECT GOP PRIMARY - Wash Times: Public employees union heaps cash into GOP ad attacks on Romney
January 23, 2012, 10:06 AM
0.00014 percent of Fla concealed carry permit have been revoked for a firearms related violation - Lott: The rate that concealed carry permit holders are now losing their permits for gun related violations
January 23, 2012, 9:31 AM
I'm beginning to think you can't trust an adulterer - WSJ: Gingrich of Freddie Mac
January 23, 2012, 12:32 AM
Plus, the Taxpayer Doesn't Pay for These Jobs! - NB: Media Myth Debunked: 21% of GDP and 11% of Private Sector Jobs Come From Venture Capital
January 22, 2012, 1:15 PM
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT (Coulter on Fox & Friends) - Coulter: ‘With Newt Gingrich you throw out the baby and keep the bath water
January 22, 2012, 2:41 AM
Degrees in Phys Ed and Women's Studies Aren't Cutting It -

NYT: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

[Apple] relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

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Though Americans are among the most educated workers in the world, the nation has stopped training enough people in the mid-level skills that factories need, executives say.

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Companies like Apple “say the challenge in setting up U.S. plants is finding a technical work force,” said Martin Schmidt, associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

January 21, 2012, 3:42 PM
Newt's Immigration Stand a Character Issue! - Kausfiles: Newt's weakest spot
January 21, 2012, 5:14 AM
Obama staffer caught stealing Republican official's identity - Man Charged with Identity Theft after Falsely Implicating Secretary of State in Illegal Activity

"Zach Edwards’ bio on Link Strategies website says he joined the Obama campaign in early 2007 as an intern in Nevada. He was the Iowa Director of New Media for Barack Obama’s general election campaign."

January 20, 2012, 11:58 PM
Gingrich "unfavorable" to majority of Americans - DC Examiner: America hates Newt Gingrich
January 20, 2012, 2:31 AM
Class Warfare Given Life by Gingrich and Perry - Krauthammer: The GOP’s suicide march
January 19, 2012, 5:47 PM
No word yet on whether they lived here for 25 years or were members of the local church. - Expert Says Beheadings in U.S. Look Like Work of Cartels
January 19, 2012, 5:41 PM
How America Saved Itself From What Europe is Now - WSJ's Daniel Henninger: Bain Capital Saved America
January 19, 2012, 5:39 PM
If the Cayman Islands are showing up on Romney's tax return, then it's not a tax haven - The Atlantic's Megan McArdle: So What About Romney's Offshore Tax Havens?
January 18, 2012, 7:28 PM
Excellent, short explanation of what Bain Capital does - DICK MORRIS VIDEO: THE TRUTH ABOUT BAIN CAPITAL
January 18, 2012, 5:10 PM
Gingrich op-ed supporting Harriet Miers for the S. Ct. - "Conservatives should feel confident with the selection of Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court for a simple reason: George W. Bush selected her."

Newt Gingrich: Conservatives can trust in Miers

January 17, 2012, 3:37 PM
Attacking Bain - WSJ: The Truth About Bain and Jobs

National Journal: Private Equity Industry Has Given $17M to Lawmakers Since '07 (mostly Democrats)

Top Ten Recipients of Private Equity Campaign Contributions Since 2001:

*Barack Obama- D*
John McCain -R
Hillary Clinton- D
Chuck Schumer- D
John Kerry- D
Kirsten Gillibrand- D
Chris Dodd- D
Harry Reid- D
Mark Kirk- R
Michael Bennet- D
January 17, 2012, 12:07 PM
GOLDWATER BEATING ROCKEFELLER WASN'T ALL SUNSHINE AND SONG - American Thinker: Romney Denialists

[W]e all know what happened: Goldwater got creamed ... . It also enabled LBJ to enact Medicare and Medicaid. Those contemplating staying home on Election Day rather than vote for Romney might want to consider the virtual impossibility of repealing either program today and then decide how much they relish the prospect of trying to repeal ObamaCare if Obama is reelected and his signature "achievement" becomes equally entrenched.

Bingo.

January 17, 2012, 9:16 AM
Why is this considered a great zinger? -

Newt in debate last night: “This is typical of what ... I have complained about with Governor Romney’s Super PAC over which he apparently has no influence - which makes you wonder how much influence he’d have if he were President.”

 It's not illegal for a president to have influence -- as it is for a candidate to have influence on Super Pacs supporting him. Newt's answer is the sort of glib, meaningless wordplay we have come to expect from brainless liberals, not conservatives.

January 13, 2012, 3:09 PM
I DEFEND MITT ROMNEY FROM THE HORDES! - Ricochet Podcast #101: Get Your Mitts Up