No amount of doublespeak will free Mitt Romney from the spot Obama has put him in:
“I think that the Republican Party made a calculated decision, a political decision, that they would not support whatever we did,” Obama told Matt Lauer in an interview. “And I think that’s unfortunate because when you actually look at the bill itself, it incorporates all sorts of Republican ideas. I mean, a lot of commentators have said, you know, this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney passed in Massachusetts.”
Also: Does the Democrats’ health-care bill contain Republican ideas besides those that Romney implemented in Massachusetts? I’d love to see someone parse that off-the-cuff argument.