Mitt Romney’s changing position on whether the individual mandate constitutes a tax came from pressure on the right, Obama campaign’s traveling press secretary Jennifer Psaki said on Thursday. Psaki said Romney has been calling his mandate in Massachusetts a penalty “for years,” according to a White House pool report from Obama’s campaign trip to Ohio.
“It is clear that he is being impacted by the push from the right, the Rush Limbaughs of the world, Congressional Republicans, pushing him to go back on a decision and a defense that he’s had in place for years,” she said
White House Press Secreatry Jay Carney added: “it is simply a fallacy to say this is a broad-based tax.”
