OK, these are the guys some people want running health care....

You can't make this one up.

14,000 draft notices mistakenly sent to men born in 1800s

No, the United States isn’t trying to build a military force of centenarians.

It just seems that way after the Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation’s military draft and warning that failure to do so is “punishable by a fine and imprisonment.”

The agency realized the error when it began receiving calls from bewildered relatives last week.

Chuck Huey, 73, of Kingston, Pa., said he got a notice addressed to his late grandfather Bert Huey, a World War I veteran who was born in 1894 and died in 1995 at age 100.

“I said, ‘Geez, what the hell is this about?’ It said he was subject to heavy fines and imprisonment if he didn’t sign up for the draft board,” he said. “We were just totally dumbfounded.”

Huey said he tried calling the Selective Service but couldn’t get a live person on the line. That frustrated him even more because he wanted to make sure the agency knew there had been a mistake.

“You just never know. You don’t want to mess around with the federal government,” he said...

Such a screw up, what can be said but Yes We can!

This was not supposed to happen.....

Obamacare is increasing cost....and costing people jobs and hours.

Businesses seek cure for health care cost surge | savannahnow.com

NEW YORK — A year ago, Teresa Hartnett was on the verge of expanding her small business. The company had hit $1 million in sales, and requests from clients were flowing in. She planned to transition from nearly 30 freelancers to a full-time staff of 60 by 2014.

Then the reality of the Affordable Health Care Act hit. Hartnett realized she might not be able to afford to carry out her plan.

“At the end of that marathon of effort and sweat and stress, I’d face the impact of the ACA. I decided against it,” says Hartnett, whose company, Hartnett Inc., transforms printed documents into digital content.

The expected surge in health insurance costs under the ACA has many small business owners changing the way they operate. For many like Hartnett, hiring and expanding is going on the back burner. Others expect to cut back on some of the services their companies provide, raise prices or cut employees’ hours and bonuses.

The ACA requires that companies with 50 or more workers provide affordable health coverage for their workers. For many companies, that could mean higher insurance costs. And while the government has put off enforcement of the law until 2015, premiums for 2014 are expected to rise sharply because of the law’s requirements.

A survey of owners taken last month by the advocacy group National Small Business Association found that 20 percent have held off on implementing a growth strategy because of rising health care costs. Thirty-six percent said they had refrained from raising salaries and 26 percent have held back on hiring....

That can't be true. Increased cost?! B Hussein Obama said it would lower everyone's health insurance premium to as much as 2500 a year.
Well at least people are not getting their hours/pay cut. Oh, you mean.....

Businesses claim Obamacare has forced them to cut employee hours

Employers around the country, from fast-food franchises to colleges, have told NBC News that they will be cutting workers’ hours below 30 a week because they can’t afford to offer the health insurance mandated by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

“To tell somebody that you’ve got to decrease their hours because of a law passed in Washington is very frustrating to me,” said Loren Goodridge, who owns 21 Subway franchises, including a restaurant in Kennebunk. “I know the impact I’m having on some of my employees.”

Goodridge said he’s cutting the hours of 50 workers to no more than 29 a week so he won’t trigger the provision in the new health care law that requires employers to offer coverage to employees who work 30 hours or more per week. The provision takes effect in 16 months.

Luke Perfect, who has worked at Goodridge’s Kennebunk Subway for more than a decade, said it was “horrible” to learn he was among the employees whose hours would be limited, and that it would be a financial hardship. “I’m barely scraping by with overtime,” he said.

The White House dismisses such examples as "anecdotal." Jason Furman, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors, said, “We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act is having an adverse impact on job growth or the number of hours employees are working. … [S]ince the ACA became law, nearly 90 percent of the gain in employment has been in full-time positions.”

But the president of an influential union that supports Obamacare said the White House is wrong.

"It IS happening," insisted Joseph Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has 1.2 million members. "Wait a year. You'll see tremendous impact as workers have their hours reduced and their incomes reduced. The facts are already starting to show up. Their statistics, I think, are a little behind the time."...

Facing the prospect of my HMO fees skyrocketing next year, I have to say to this leech who pushed B Hussein on his members and the county, good for you. Misery loves company. Another case in point.

At St. Petersburg College, a public university in Florida where most of the faculty is part-time, 250 have had their hours reduced for the fall term because the college said it can’t afford to offer them health insurance.

St Petersburg’s president, Dr. Bill Law, said providing health care for the 250 adjunct professors would cost more than $777,000 dollars a year. "The cost associated with making a part-timer benefits-eligible really is not available to us as a public college,” said Law.

"I don't think anyone [passed the law] so they could make our life worse,” said Law. “They did it because people need access to health care."

Part-time math professor Tracey Sullivan said she will lose half her income because of the cuts.

"I never thought it would impact me directly,” said Sullivan. “I was stunned when I got the email...I love teaching at St. Pete College but that is a significant cut..."

Cost increase/ That's can't be right. B Hussein said if you like your plan, your doctor, you can keep them. Rihgt?
I don't know what is worse, the fact educated idiots (if you need an example of why you should not confuse intelligence and education) bought B Hussein's snake oil or the fact these idiots are educating impressionable young students. Hey guys, welcome to reality. Hope it's bitter. And speaking for millionose who didn't want this, it's a bit of revenge for the American people. And revenge is a dish best served cold.

Right now we have two Hail Mary's running to kill this off. A case is in the courts saying if this is a tax it is illegal because it didn't originate in the House. And some Republicans are actually working to defund this. Let up pray.

We've been defamed by Amnesty International again!

Amnesty International in such a worthless group it make the ACLU look mainstream. But every year we get rated by this group and again, this year, we got called bad names. Really cool.

I won't go through the whole thing. If drugs ain't helping you sleep, this will. Here are some highlights and commentary:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Head of state and government: Barack H. Obama

Forty-three men were executed during the year, and concerns about cruel prison conditions continued. Scores of detainees remained in indefinite military detention at Guantánamo. Pre-trial proceedings continued in six cases in which the administration was intending to seek the death penalty following trials by military commission. Use of lethal force in the counter-terrorism context continued to raise
serious concerns, as did continuing reports of the use of excessive force in domestic law enforcement.

Well we tried to change the head of state and government but that didn't work out. Oh well. And I'm proud to say my state, Texas, was again number on in executions in both total and per capital basis.

Counter-terror and security

Detentions at Guantánamo

At the end of 2012, nearly three years after President Obama’s deadline for closure of the Guantánamo detention facility, 166 men were still held at the base,the vast majority without charge or criminal trial....

And you believed him. You're dumber than you look!

Use of lethal force

...At least 42 people across 20 states died after being struck by police Tasers, bringing the total number of such deaths since 2001 to 540. Tasers have been listed as a cause or contributory factor in more than 60 deaths. Most of those who died after being struck with a Taser were not armed and did not appear to pose a serious threat when the Taser was deployed.

In May the American Heart Association published a report which presented the first scientific, peer reviewed evidence concluding that Tasers can cause cardiac arrest and death. The study analyzed information including autopsy reports, medical records and police data from eight cases in which individuals had lost consciousness after being shocked with a Taser X26 weapon.

On 20 June, 39-year-old Macadam Mason died outside his home in Thetford, Vermont, after being struck with a Taser deployed by a state trooper. In September the New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that Macadam Mason had suffered “sudden cardiac arrest due to the conducted electricalweapon discharge”.

In October, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General reported that it was reviewing US Border Patrol policies on the use of lethal force. The review, which remained ongoing at the end of the year, followed a series of deadly shootings by Border Patrol agents along the US border with Mexico. In October, 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez died of gunshot wounds. The US authorities said that a Border Patrol agent from Nogales, Arizona, had opened fire after two individuals suspected of drug smuggling had fled across the border and begun throwing rocks. The case was under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Mexican officials at the end of the year...

The propaganda is slanted to make one believe a Taser is a use of deadly force. No, it's intermediate force. But like other intermediate weapons it can lead to more serious injuries. Pepper spray is designed to disable someone but it can, in limited cases, cause serious breathing cases or death. An officer using a baton my be striking at the thigh but hit the knee or head (suspect lunches forward). That's legitimate use of intermediate force, but more serious injuries or death can occur. If you don't like it, I have a suggestion. Don't break the law!

Prison conditions

Incarceration rates remained at historically high levels.

Thousands of prisoners across the USA remained in isolation in “super-maximum security” prisons. They were confined to cells for 22-24 hours a day, without adequate access to natural light, exercise or rehabilitation programmes. Conditions in such facilities violated international standards and in some cases amounted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...

You know, the people they murdered, injured or raped may not think of three hots and a cot for the rest of their lives at no cost is not cruel, inhuman or degrading. The purpose of incarceration is to separate theses animals from the general public, the prison staff and the other prisoners. Again, don't like it, don't break the law.

Right to health

In June, the US Supreme Court upheld The Affordable Health Care Act, passed in 2010, which would expand health care coverage by 2014 to more
than 30 million people in the USA who lack medical insurance...

I don't know what is more pathetic. They actually believe in a right to health care or that Obamacare will actually expand health care to millions. Enough said.

Death penalty

Forty-three prisoners – all of them men – were executed in the USA during the year, all by lethal injection. Fifteen of the executions were carried out in Texas. By the end of 2012, Texas accounted for 492 of the 1,320 executions in the USA since 1976, when the US Supreme Court approved new capital laws. In April, Connecticut became the 17th abolitionist state in the USA. In November, the California electorate, by a vote of about 53% to 47%, rejected “Proposition 34”, an initiative that would have abolished the state’s death penalty and commuted over 700 death sentences to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Again, Texas is number one. We permanently rehabilitate more waste of sperm than any state. And 53% of the electorate give me hope for the People's Republic of California.

All in all a waste of electrons but it's good to know we can annoy the right people. Amnesty International, if you want to impress me, go and say this crap to the Mullahs' in Tehran or the big boys of China.

Amnesty, Obamacare and history

As someone who opposed Obamacare and amenity, excuse me, the Affordable Care Act and Comprehensive Immigration Reform, there is simply history to show why they never work. Single payer systems (Canada) and socalized medicine (United Kingdom) have shown how to not maintian helath care, much less improved it. With that said, I found this in STRATFOR interesting. From an article this mooring, The Crisis of the European Common Market:

...The free movement of people is the principle that allows EU citizens to travel to or live and work in any member country. It has come under threat from several governments and political parties in Europe. In the United Kingdom, the conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron is analyzing ways to prevent the arrival of Romanian and Bulgarian workers, who will be allowed to work legally in the United Kingdom starting next year. According to the British government, those workers would collapse the British healthcare system. In countries such as France, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, parties that reject immigration are gaining ground...

OK. Bringing in a large number of immigrants into a county will collapse the health care system. Would that happen here? Naa. It's not like we're about to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens...oh, yea, we are. But they won't get access to Obamacare's free health care...well, I think they will.

Gotta love this. And you wonder why the Congress is held in utter contempt.

The end of the American Republic.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

I was drawn to this Reagan quote as I contemplated the death of the American Republic.

This morning started out pretty crappy. I really didn’t want to get up early but I had to get to the pistol range to practice on my 40 cal, to get my old Taurus 357 on my card and then get to the rifle range. Well....the month sitting in the library didn’t help. I scared the hell out of the target but at least I got the Taurus as a registered off duty weapon.

Totally screwed up on the rifle range so I get to go back...this sucks. And as I was getting pissed off in the hot sun I checked Drudge and got the news of the Obamacare ruling. One of the instructors on the range was even more pissed off than me but we both agreed to stop thinking about this till after the range closed. We are armed men.

I haven’t read the full ruling but I will by this weekend. I am shocked Kennedy apparently wanted to pull the entire bill and the supposedly conservative original intent Chief Justice contort the Constitution like this. To have the leftists on the court twist the limits on federal power to meaninglessness is no surprise. To have a Republican nominated Chief Justice join them goes beyond belief. Hell, will George W Bush call Roberts his biggest mistake? Speaking of hell, Teddy Kennedy got one big grin oh his ugly face.


I could have listened to B Hussein Obama spike the football (I am an intelligence geek and I’m used to reading the propaganda of my country’s enemies) but I could’t bring myself to do it. It would be worse than listening to that gutless wonder John Boehner. In case you missed it with the ruling news the Republican leadership in the Congress again caved, dropping approval of the Keystone Pipeline from the new Transportation Bill. I hear they wanted to get it done before the 4th of July. So again, the question comes why the hell do we have them? And what do we do now?

Well I did one thing. I went to Romney’s website and set up for a monthly donation. Never in my worse nightmare would I think I would donate to a RINO’s RINO like Mitt but I have to so something and Romney sucks lightyears less than B Hussein Obama. And I’ll look at what I can do for Ted Cruz (donation, working on his campaign, etc). We don’t need a Brown in the Senate, especially from Texas.

At least the people who put Republicans the House are pissed off and will start taking actions.

Well I picked up some scotch on my way home and if there was a justification for drinking early, this was it. It has come to this. I thought is was as screwed up as the day is long our liberty was so dependent on the judgement of nine lawyers. Now it depends if a Republican Party leadership, infested with gutless idiots can repeal this early next year. If not, I hate to say it, this American Republic is finished.

UPDATE

A great end to a really screwed up day.

Around 700pm I got a phone call from a buddy, the initial test list came out and I'm at number 100 on the list. Now I just need to get through assessment in August.

Oh, Romney has raised three and a half million since the Obamacare ruling.

Time for some 15 year old!

You can't keep Darth down!

Cheney gives first speech since heart transplant

Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked onstage without any assistance and spoke for an hour and 15 minutes without seeming to tire in his first public engagement since he underwent a heart transplant three weeks ago.

Cheney even threw in a couple of political plugs amid much reminiscing at the Wyoming Republican Party state convention in Cheyenne on Saturday.

He said presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is going to do a "whale of a job" and that the party should unite behind him. He added that it's never been more important than now to defeat a sitting president.

"He has been an unmitigated disaster to the country," Cheney said of President Barack Obama.

Good to see you back in the game. You will not find with us a disturbing lack of faith!

Says it all....

No comment needed.

Let's hope they are ready for victory.

One of the great failures of the Republican Congress in 1995 was to not have a follow on issue after the budget. After winning the budget battle and forcing Bill Clinton to put in a balanced budget plan, the Gingrich led House was not ready to his something else right out the box (e.g. real health insurance reform, legal reform, tax reform, etc). They were not able to keep Clinton on his heals Slick was able to regain his momentum for the next year and the next election.

Now someone has a legit issue for the Republicans. Are you ready for winning?

On health care, are Republicans ready for victory?

Three days of oral arguments at the Supreme Court have given Republicans reason for optimism that President Obama’s health-care law could be heading for a legal defeat in a few months. But would such a victory for the GOP this summer mean political success for the party in November and beyond?

No one can say with any certainty what the justices will decide. But the individual mandate — the symbol of all that conservatives loathe about the new health-care law — appears to be in trouble, based on the give and take at the high court. And Justice Antonin Scalia argued that if the mandate is ruled unconstitutional, the entire law should fall with it.

Such a ruling would be a major win for opponents of the federal statute. But it could come with complications. First, a party that has built its health-care message on the phrase “repeal and replace” would immediately come under pressure to reach consensus on how to reform the health-care system. Second, Republicans, who benefited from a sizable enthusiasm gap in the 2010 midterm elections, could face a Democratic opposition deeply angered and newly motivated by its setback in the high court...

...For almost three years, health care has been the energizing force inside the conservative movement. It is arguable that the new legislation, as much as Obama’s stimulus spending, created the tea party movement that helped power Republicans to victory in 2010, and there’s no doubt that it has remained the most powerful organizing message for GOP candidates. The legal battle over the law has helped bind conservatives together in common cause at a time when the Republican presidential nominating contest has been a disappointment to many in the party.

Republicans have been far more united around the concept of repeal than replace, however. Coming together around a replacement for Obama’s comprehensive solution to rising costs and a lack of insurance among about 45 million Americans will be a major challenge. Up to now, Republicans have offered generalities, not a plan.

Wrong on this point. Representative Ryan has put out a serious Medicare reform plan out and reforms to allow the states to manage Medicaid. But on a general reform plan (e.g. legal reform, allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines, etc) their is not one out on the table. Not to say their may not be one in a drawer waiting for the ruling to come out. We just don't know now. And hopefully the people in charge of the Republican Party (e.g Romney) are ready for this. Hey guys, people want a choice, more than "It's not Obamacare."

That Obamacare...it's really working.

Again and again we ask why Obamacare is not good for the nation and the list of answers keep adding up. Here is another.

ObamaCare’s Victims: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals — And You

Among ObamaCare’s very early casualties were physician-owned specialty hospitals. These had long been targeted for extinction by the Big Hospital Lobby — i.e., the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals. With the sweeping health law, they finally succeeded in stopping any new ones from being built after 2010. Here’s an IBD article about the issue back in March, 2010.

In short, the Big Hospital Lobby tried for years to get politicians to deny physician-owned specialty centers access to Medicare, a major source of revenue. How that happened is the subject of an in-depth article I’ve written that has now been published by The New Individualist.

The struggle between The Big Hospital Lobby and physician-owned specialty hospitals is a classic case of big, politically connected businesses using government to squash the smaller competition. Expect to see more of that now that ObamaCare has put even more of our health care resources under government control. One effect is that you will see less innovation in health care as smaller, more-nimble competitors often come up with new and better treatments and care.

Patients will suffer from a lack of choice:

Ultimately, it is the patient who should decide what type of hospital he or she should use since it is the patient who will be paying the personal cost if the decision is the wrong one. The patient is the one who will endure an unpleasant recovery in the hospital, experience pain if there are surgical complications, suffer a readmission after being discharged or, ultimately, die. Politicians, the Big Hospital Lobby, physicians, hospital administrators — none of them pays those costs. It is the patient who has the best incentive to make the right decision as to whether a physician-owned specialty hospital, or a general hospital, or some other surgical facility is the best place to have surgery.

Unfortunately, powerful political interests use Medicare in ways that limit the ability of patients to make the health care choices that best suit them. And that’s a prescription for an enduring and growing health care crisis.

There are two sidebars to the article. The first is an inside look at the efficiencies and innovations of a physician-owned specialty hospital, McBride Orthopedic. The second is an examination of the bureaucratic inefficiencies of a general hospital.

Which would you prefer to be treated in? Doesn’t matter. That choice is being taken away from you by people who know how to manage your health care better than you do.

The last sentence says it all. Your authority to manage your health care decisions is being taken away from you and given to the bureaucracy. It can be argued that the advent of HMOs did something similar since the 1970s but a business (which health care is) can be held accountable. Appeals, taking your business elsewhere, lawsuits in civil court, etc. Once Obamacare goes to where it's planned (single payer health care) where will you appeal? Who will offer you a choice of providers? And do you really think we will be able to sue in court.

Again, let us pray SCOTUS rules right in the next few months.

Congress shall make no law...

Five of the most beautiful words written in the English language.

I've been out of it for the last few days and I found this article from Michelle Malkin interesting.

First, They Came for the Catholics

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

This weekend, Catholic bishops informed parishioners of the recent White House edict forcing religious hospitals, schools, charities and other health and social service providers to provide "free" abortifacient pills, sterilizations and contraception on demand in their insurance plans -- even if it violates their moral consciences and the teachings of their churches.

NARAL, NOW, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation all cheered the administration's abuse of the Obamacare law to ram abortion down pro-life medical professionals' throats. Femme dinosaur Eleanor Smeal gloated over the news that the administration had rejected church officials' pleas for compromises: "At last," she exulted, the left's goal of "no-cost birth control" for all had been achieved.

As always, tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. "Choice" is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

Like the rising number of states who have revolted against the individual health care mandate at the ballot box and in the courts, targeted Catholics have risen up against the Obamacare regime. Arlington (Va.) Bishop Paul Loverde didn't mince words, calling the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services order "a direct attack against religious liberty. This ill-considered policy comprises a truly radical break with the liberties that have underpinned our nation since its founding." Several bishops vowed publicly to fight the mandate.

Bishop Alexander Sample of Marquette, Mich., asserted plainly: "We cannot -- we will not -- comply with this unjust law."

...Hannah Smith, senior counsel at the nonprofit law firm The Becket Fund, which is representing the schools, boiled it down for Bloomberg News: "This is not really about access to contraception. The mandate is about forcing these religious groups to pay for it against their beliefs."...

Again I go back to the title of this post. Someone with a decent education should know it's the beginning of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I think it's in any simple reading of the document that the Congress (and therefore the bureaucracy or the President) cannot order a church institution to do something against their belief.

I would not hold my breath for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State to come to the aide of the church in this matter. You know, that wall of separation between church and state only goes one way, right? Or the ACLU...yea, right.

Hopefully the church finds a judge to slap the Secretary of HHS with an injunction. She cannot order a church to preform a procedure that they find repugnant. Hell, ordering any hospital or doctor to give away their property without due process of law may seem a bit quaint but again I pray a judge stops this crap.

Why I will never vote for Mitt Romney

I've often said if the choice this November is between B Hussein Obama and the kid on the eTrade commercial, I'll send in the kid. He is light years more qualified in terms of economics and budget.

But in all seriousness if the choice is between Santorum or Newt, I will give those men my vote plus money and other support. This election is just too damned serious not to sit out.

Now if the Republican Party nominates the former governor of Massachusetts, I will save some money in the short term He's not getting a donation from me and God knows I won't work a phone bank or anything else. Why you ask? If anything shows why this man belongs in the Democratic Party (alone with his buddy, Jon Huntsman) this is it. From Mother Jones:


First, anyone who praises the efforts of Ted Kennedy in health care is not a conservative or really a Republican. But the article puts it suscinctly:

It's no secret that Mitt Romney has an albatross around his neck: Romneycare, the Massachusetts health care overhaul he enacted while governor of the Bay State. The plan, which included a mandate compelling state residents to obtain health insurance, was a model in part for President Barack Obama's health care reform, which is much-despised by conservatives and Republican voters.

So far, Romney has deftly navigated this potential land mine of a campaign issue. Defending his health care program, he has argued that it was significantly different from Obama's measure—while calling for repeal of the Obama initiative. His foes in the GOP presidential primary have jabbed Romney for imposing a mandate on Massachusetts residents. But none of these blows have floored the candidate. That's partly due to his opponents' ineptitude.

At a September 12 debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry did exclaim that Romneycare is "the model for Obamacare." Yet Romney slyly replied, "I'd be careful about trusting what President Obama says as to what the source was to his plan." Perry's assault fizzled. But according to a story broken on Tuesday by NBC News' Michael Isikoff, White House visitors logs reveal that Romney's health care advisers and experts repeatedly met with senior Obama administration officials in 2009, while Obama's health care plan was being drafted...

Now Mother Jones is not a leftist rag like the NY Times, WP, USA Today, etc. Unlike those waste of paper this magazine is proudly leftist and I can respect that. And unlike those rags who are trying to push the weakest candidate (with the possible exception of Ron Paul) for the Republican nomination, Mother Jones has a good look at what this means.

This Ted Kennedy lovefest footage from the 2006 bill-signing ceremony for the health care law is probably not what Romney wants GOP primary voters to have in mind when they enter a polling place or caucus meeting. When he has discussed his health care law on the presidential campaign trail—in 2007 and this past year—Romney has occasionally noted that it demonstrated his ability to work with the opposition, including the late Sen. Kennedy. But in these settings he doesn't describe Kennedy as his "collaborator" whose work "behind the scenes" was "absolutely essential" for passage of the health care plan. Nor does he call Kennedy, whom Romney praised for winning crucial federal support for the Massachusetts bill, a "parent" of Romneycare.

Yet on the day his health care plan became state law, an excited Romney joyously shared credit with the liberal lion of the US Senate.

As of Tuesday, only 2,016 people have viewed this video, which was posted during Romney's 2007 presidential campaign. It would not be surprising if Romney's opponents in the current campaign find a way to direct a bit more traffic in its direction.

I asks anyone who sees this video to spread it to anyone who is thinking of voting for Romney in the Republican nomination fight. This is what you are supporting and he's not a conservative. I don't argue if Romney is nominated vote for him against Obama. But we have to do better than this. And lets keep this vetting process on till the convention.

And I know Governor Romney's campaign doesn't want this shown so I will do what I can to push it out. Thank you Mother Jones for putting this out and for Mark Levine for linking it up. Hopefully other campaigns are getting ready to show what the most electable candidate really stands for.