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Romney's Transition Leader Favors Implementing Obamacare
Richochet ^ | 06/04/2012 | Ben Domenech

Posted on 06/04/2012 6:43:58 AM PDT by izzatzo

One of the few Republicans in the country who's been tirelessly pushing for the implementation of Obamacare at the state level has been tapped to head Mitt Romney's transition team, should he become president.

Former HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt, and his consulting group Leavitt Partners, are the primary advocates within Republican circles for implementation of Obamacare's exchanges. It just so happens that his consultancy is one of the major beneficiaries of the taxpayer funded gold mine of hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange implementation grants. But that's a coincidence, of course.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: leavitt; obamacare4ever; obamacare4u; romney; romney4hillarycare; romney4illegals; romney4obama; romney4obamacare; romneyliesagain; socializedmedicine; transition
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To: ilovesarah2012

“How is Romney so much better than Obama???”

Romney’s not MUCH better than Obama, but he is better. Even though his religion/cult is whacky, it doesn’t spew American-hating vitriol, as Obama’s does. As a Mormon, it’s a goot bet that he isn’t a closet homosexual, as is Obama. As a capitalist, Romney doesn’t want to squelch and penalize high earners, as does Obama. He’s American, and Obama isn’t. I’m sure there’s more.

I’m worried that Romney doesn’t have the fire in the belly to work hard to win; his campaign has been pathetic so far. “Ya gotta wanna”, and it doesn’t seem that he does. It would be nice to have an excellent candidate, but we don’t. It’ll be the lesser of two evils.


41 posted on 07/09/2012 3:54:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Rome2000

This election is just a fight between which bunch of degenerate crooks liars and thieves gets to control the cash extorted from taxpayers by the IRS, nothing more, nothing less>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Agreed. It is also the reason for the as yet unpublished mass exodus of entreprenurial capital and retirees from the continental USA. The Obama response has been to gear up the IRS to tax those who are traceable abroad, after creating the conditions forcing that exodus.

Who wants to trade their last 20 years on this earth for the insufferable health care boondoggle with death panels? Look to Switzerland, Canada and Central/South America to see the growing , well populated communities of US ex pats.

Can’t really blame them much, seeing how the government is completely traduced by crooks, and the media keeps promoting liberal fascism.

This exodus reminds me of the Jews leaving Europe on the cusp of the rise of fascism in Europe in 1927/1928.

Explantion good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


42 posted on 07/09/2012 4:14:17 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Rome2000

This election is just a fight between which bunch of degenerate crooks liars and thieves gets to control the cash extorted from taxpayers by the IRS, nothing more, nothing less>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Agreed. It is also the reason for the as yet unpublished mass exodus of entreprenurial capital and retirees from the continental USA. The Obama response has been to gear up the IRS to tax those who are traceable abroad, after creating the conditions forcing that exodus.

Who wants to trade their last 20 years on this earth for the insufferable health care boondoggle with death panels? Look to Switzerland, Canada and Central/South America to see the growing , well populated communities of US ex pats.

Can’t really blame them much, seeing how the government is completely traduced by crooks, and the media keeps promoting liberal fascism.

This exodus reminds me of the Jews leaving Europe on the cusp of the rise of fascism in Europe in 1927/1928.

Explantion good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


43 posted on 07/09/2012 4:14:25 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: izzatzo
One of the few Republicans in the country who's been tirelessly pushing for the implementation of Obamacare at the state level has been tapped to head Mitt Romney's transition team, should WHEN he become(s) president.

--MormonDude(Come Lord Romney!)

44 posted on 07/09/2012 4:36:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ilovesarah2012
How is Romney so much better than Obama???

What?

Can't you SEE; man???

{----}


Whiter and more Delightsome!!

45 posted on 07/09/2012 4:42:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ilovesarah2012
How is Romney so much better than Obama???

What?

Uh...

He ain't BLACK???





"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.



Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'



August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."

"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."

"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)



1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."



We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.



Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."

(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).



When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."



When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."

(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)





Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

 

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

 

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

 



 

46 posted on 07/09/2012 4:43:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

Oh, now I see! Thanks.


47 posted on 07/09/2012 4:44:04 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012
How is Romney so much better than Obama???

What?

Uh...

Mitt evidently fervently believe the above until he was 32 years old. That's when his GOD changed his mind about BLACKS; so, being the good MORMON that he is, went along with the program.


Official Declaration—2

 

To Whom It May Concern:

On 30 September 1978, at the 148th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the following was presented by President N. Eldon Tanner, First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church:

In early June of this year, the First Presidency announced that a revelation had been received by President Spencer W. Kimball extending priesthood and temple blessings to all worthy male members of the Church. President Kimball has asked that I advise the conference that after he had received this revelation, which came to him after extended meditation and prayer in the sacred rooms of the holy temple, he presented it to his counselors, who accepted it and approved it. It was then presented to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who unanimously approved it, and was subsequently presented to all other General Authorities, who likewise approved it unanimously.

President Kimball has asked that I now read this letter:

June 8, 1978
To all general and local priesthood officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout the world:
Dear Brethren:

As we have witnessed the expansion of the work of the Lord over the earth, we have been grateful that people of many nations have responded to the message of the restored gospel, and have joined the Church in ever-increasing numbers. This, in turn, has inspired us with a desire to extend to every worthy member of the Church all of the privileges and blessings which the gospel affords.

Aware of the promises made by the prophets and presidents of the Church who have preceded us that at some time, in God’s eternal plan, all of our brethren who are worthy may receive the priesthood, and witnessing the faithfulness of those from whom the priesthood has been withheld, we have pleaded long and earnestly in behalf of these, our faithful brethren, spending many hours in the Upper Room of the Temple supplicating the Lord for divine guidance.

He has heard our prayers, and by revelation has confirmed that the long-promised day has come when every faithful, worthy man in the Church may receive the holy priesthood, with power to exercise its divine authority, and enjoy with his loved ones every blessing that flows therefrom, including the blessings of the temple. Accordingly, all worthy male members of the Church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color. Priesthood leaders are instructed to follow the policy of carefully interviewing all candidates for ordination to either the Aaronic or the Melchizedek Priesthood to insure that they meet the established standards for worthiness.

We declare with soberness that the Lord has now made known his will for the blessing of all his children throughout the earth who will hearken to the voice of his authorized servants, and prepare themselves to receive every blessing of the gospel.

Sincerely yours,
Spencer W. Kimball
N. Eldon Tanner
Marion G. Romney
The First Presidency

Recognizing Spencer W. Kimball as the prophet, seer, and revelator, and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is proposed that we as a constituent assembly accept this revelation as the word and will of the Lord. All in favor please signify by raising your right hand. Any opposed by the same sign.

The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous in the affirmative.

Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30, 1978.

48 posted on 07/09/2012 4:45:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
And if he isn't good enough after four years...Paul Ryan/Palin

He ain't 'good enough' NOW!!



Paul Ryan/Palin

49 posted on 07/09/2012 4:48:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Some folks seem to have forgotten: “Two steps forward; one back.”

(or never did learn it...)


50 posted on 07/09/2012 4:49:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: izzatzo

I wish someone would brief our candidate on what his core beliefs are so he can get his story straight and stick with it.


51 posted on 07/09/2012 4:51:48 AM PDT by rem_mitchell
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To: Elsie

America is so screwed.


52 posted on 07/09/2012 4:52:14 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: NoLibZone
“I am convinced that governor Romney, if he is our nominee and if he is elected president, he will know to surround himself with those that will inherently know to go right, to err on the side of smaller, smarter government and that gives me a lot of confidence.”

That gives me NO confidence!

Knowing sure as HELL ain't the same as DOING!!!



“I am convinced that governor Romney, if he is our nominee and if he is elected president, he will know to surround himself with those that will inherently know to go right, to err on the side of smaller, smarter government...

53 posted on 07/09/2012 4:53:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: NoLibZone

Do you have a phone book?


54 posted on 07/09/2012 4:54:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: MayflowerMadam
As a Mormon, it’s a goot bet that he isn’t a closet homosexual, as is Obama.

Don't assign TOO much money on that bet!


http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52486958-78/mayne-gay-lds-ward.html.csp


I'm a MORMON ...
 
 
 

http://www.affirmation.org/

55 posted on 07/09/2012 4:57:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
It was then presented to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who unanimously approved it, and was subsequently presented to all other General Authorities, who likewise approved it unanimously.

After the merger; a good business CEO would get rid of all this middle management excess.

56 posted on 07/09/2012 5:01:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ilovesarah2012
IF my people...
57 posted on 07/09/2012 5:02:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ilovesarah2012
 
They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.
Even while these people were worshiping the Lord, they were serving their idols.
To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
 
 2 Kings 17:40-41 


58 posted on 07/09/2012 5:05:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ilovesarah2012
 
They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.
Even while these people were worshiping the Lord, they were serving their idols.
To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
 
 2 Kings 17:40-41 


59 posted on 07/09/2012 5:05:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: ilovesarah2012
 
They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.
Even while these people were worshiping the Lord, they were serving their idols.
To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
 
 2 Kings 17:40-41 


60 posted on 07/09/2012 5:05:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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