Political Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds
See if you can follow this: As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney enacted a universal health-care plan, the centerpiece of which was mandatory coverage for those who can afford it and subsidies for those who can't. Later, Sen. Hillary Clinton offered a national health-care plan based on the same model -- and Romney denounced it as "socialized medicine."
Meanwhile, here in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has crafted a plan based on the same general idea. But the unions that have been supportive of Clinton are fighting Schwarzenegger's health-care efforts. They've even hired Chris Lehane -- a former (Bill) Clinton aide -- to lead their anti-Arnold battle.
I now find myself almost hoping for a Romney-Clinton general election, just for the sport of watching both sides twist themselves into knots trying to explain why one is evil and the other heroic for endorsing the same thing.
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