I can’t believe that Obama wasn’t tweaking Mitt Romney this morning when he told NBC that his health care plan is an awful lot like Mitt’s:
When you actually look at the bill itself, it incorporates all sorts of Republican ideas. I mean a lot of commentators have said this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican Governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts.
Romney has been scrambling to distance himself from Obama’s plan and not get stuck on the wrong side of a litmus test issue for conservatives, so Obama’s helpful reminder that the two plans are similar is like throwing a drowning man an anchor.
David Kurtz
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