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have health insurance. i don t think there s anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record. john heilemann, shining a light now on his record on health care in massachusetts. remarkable. and offering a tacit endorsement of obamacare in the process. look, governor romney is one of the great stories i think over the last two years that he s been running, at bottom, at heart, he is proud of the law. and he tried to find a way in the primaries to be for his own law, not give that up and say, i m proud of what we did in massachusetts, but he knew that he couldn t be he had to figure out a way to also be against obamacare. he found himself in this ridiculous position of saying i love my own law, but it s not good law for the rest of the country, even though i said that in an op-ed two years ago, i now just claim that in order to get through the republican primaries. it s always been an impossible straddle, one that maybe he had to
louisiana. that s a true statement. ireland s a better fit for him, though, i think. although they love him in france. he s a lover. we ll move past that. joe, you re just joining us. i want to play a clip for you that we played last hour. mitt romney talking to nbc news yesterday. and now bringing up the massachusetts health care law he championed and helped pass as support for his campaign. throughout this campaign as well, we ve talked about my record in massachusetts. don t forget, i got everybody in my state insured. 100% of the kids in our state have health insurance. i don t think there s anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record. joe klein, now coming back and using the health care law that he s avoided for months on end. i m sure that daniel henninger and the folks at the wall street journal really love that. empathy and care are the two words. i was in favor of the romney health care law when it cam
still confusion, there is still chaos in the white house over exactly what happened in benghazi, exactly why a u.s. ambassador was killed, and yet he stepped in front of that story when i suspect the more we look at the situation, willie, the worse it s going to look for the president. they looked at it in the short term as a political moment of opportunity and didn t think about the long-term impact of it. another interesting thing yesterday, joe, is the raising of the massachusetts health care by mitt romney, by his campaign, bringing this back up, he s had sustained attacks, of course, over what he s called obamacare. the president s health care law. in an interview with nbc news, romney highlighted his own massachusetts health care reform as proof that he does, in fact, care about 100% of americans. throughout this campaign as well, we ve talked about my record in massachusetts. don t forget, i got everybody in my state insured. 100% of the kids in my state
mitt romney did his very best to correct the record on whether he believes the health care mandate is a tax or a penalty. but this is mitt romney we re talking about so it came out like this. the supreme court has the final word and their final word arat oba so it s a tax. they decided it was constitutional. so it is a tax and it s constitutional. that s the final word. okay. so that s not exactly the final word. on monday, your campaign spokesman said that you, mitt romney, believe that it s not a tax, it s a penalty. and now you re saying that the final word is that it s a tax. the mandate is a tax. so that must mean when you created health care in massachusetts, you created a tax.
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