◼ Remember the days in 2009 and 2010 when President Obama planned to "pivot" to the issue of jobs and the economy? - Byron York/Washington Examiner
Preoccupied with passing his sprawling national health care plan, but faced with a public deeply worried about 10 percent unemployment, Obama found himself under increasing pressure to devote more attention to job creation. So on a number of occasions the president and his aides promised the long-awaited "pivot" was on the way -- just as soon as health care was done.
...Now, Mitt Romney has decided to remind voters of those days. In a campaign appearance in Texas last week, Romney said Obama "knowingly slowed down the recovery in this country ... in order to put in place Obamacare." The president's decision, Romney continued, "deserves a lot of explaining."
...Obamacare is the president's signature achievement. He put aside other things, including economic recovery, to pursue it. He made a choice. And now, Mitt Romney and the voters are perfectly entitled to hold him accountable.
