Posted on 02/27/2010 11:15:54 AM PST by opentalk
Barack Obama was in his element as he addressed the bipartisan health-care summit he had convened for the principal purpose of shaming the recalcitrant Republicans.
His preferred lectern had been taken away and he had been forced to agree to remain seated but it was nevertheless a cherished opportunity for him to scold, patronise and peevishly disdain his opponents – and to pontificate for nearly six hours.
To be fair, Obama spoke for a mere 119 minutes, as opposed to the 110 minutes he deigned to allocate to the Republicans and the 114 minutes he gave to his fellow Democrats. When challenged about the two-to-one imbalance between the parties, Mr Obama shot back: "I'm the President."
Again and again, he put Republicans down with sarcastic asides, berating them like naughty schoolboys for bringing in a copy of the 2,400-page Senate health bill as a "prop" and informing them of the need to "get our facts straight".
The televised event, dreamt up by the White House to create the desired "atmospherics" for an attempt to push his health-care bill through Congress by Easter, underlined the reality that Obama is not a leader or even really a politician – he is a professor.
Professor Obama is convinced of his own intellectual superiority. When his pupils fail to realise that he knows what is good for them, he simply repeats himself in the expectation that the simpletons will eventually understand.
...For almost three decades, he lived in liberal campus communities where he was insulated from the real world by comfortable consensus and shared assumptions.
Now that Obama inhabits the self-reinforcing cocoon of the White House, this background has become a dangerous liability – and could spell disaster for Democrats in the November midterm elections.
..the event was both a sham and a failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
You guys are probably right. It just irks me, but I guess as long as it irks the public too it’s a good thing.
pretty crazy--- they have been a good source covering Climate-gate also, when MSM here is still promoting man made warming.
Thanks for posting this article. It nails it.
Obama sat up an ambush..........And ended up shooting himself in the arse! He never fails to succeed at failure!
It wasn't only me that warned Republicans that the summit was a sham and to boycott it. Rush warned them, Michelle Malkin warned them, Steven Ertelt from LifeNews.com warned them, Connie Hair from HumanEvents.com and many more. I also made mention in my post that the Republican's did well, presented the facts, took the high road and turned the tables on Obama and the Democrats at that summit
Let's hope the Representatives of the American people in the House and the Senate heed the will of their constituents and vote against Obamacare.
Why is it necessary to go to Canada or England to read any kind of newspaper story like this?
Belief in congress and the news media is in the toilet, is it any wonder?
Yes, including Sean Hannity. But even Rush and Hannity werwe forced to admit that the Republicans brought their “A” game to the summit and ended up scoring major points amongst the American public. Hannity had to admit on his Fox program that he'd been wrong.
The bottom line is that in the 2 polling days after the summit, 0bama’s poll numbers have hit their lowest point ever in Rasmussen. That's what counts.
Obama and the Dems looked like petulant children.
following in the peanut farmers footsteps!
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460358/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
Snip
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
SmokingJoe, nobody *forced* me to admit anything, right up front, I posted that the Republicans did well. Same goes for Rush. Here's what he had to say:
From rushlimbaugh.com:
You know, folks, this is actually better than I thought it was going to be. The reason it’s better than I thought it was going to be is because it is illustrating what a bunch of mean, arrogant, petulant, just lousy people the Democrats are at this summit. Republicans are up there knocking this out of the park. They are announcing plans, they’re putting forth proposals to actually deal with the problem, and all the Democrats are doing is, (imitating Democrats) “I got this letter from somebody who lost half their face in an operation with a killer whale and, oh, can’t get any insurance, oh, it’s horrible,” and Obama is talking about his family problems and so forth. The whole thing is a sham anyway because on Monday the Democrats have a plan — it’s exclusive in The Politico — to go ahead and start ramming Big Health Care through with no Republican support whatsoever.
The Republicans showed some "stones" at the summit, something that they haven't shown much of since the election debacle of 11/4/2008. Perhaps there is hope that we can salvage our Republic.
“States requiring proof of eligibility may be a road block.”
I hope to see a lot of states get on this bandwagon. What will Obamao do?
The Obamabots were out in force on the comments to this article. Must be those White House hired disnformation sluts doing their job — badly, I might add.
The Republicans can make him a two term president and very possibly will with their It’s-His-Turn candidate Romney.Or, they can hive off an actual Conservative party to split the vote or the Democrats can put up a “Tea Party” to split the vote. Democrat sponsored Tea Parties are already registered in a couple of states.
I noticed that too. - This article hits on reality.
They are the Obama digital brown shirts. They've hit my blog as well. It's all orchestrated astro-turfing. If they hit your blogs, call them on it and accuse them of being Obama digital brown shirts and cut them off if you have to.
Hell, he's a ONE YEAR president.
why does that photo all of a sudden look photoshoped? odinga is all squares. Then there’s a black ‘shopped space under obama’s uplifted arm. I never noticed that before.
I understand that’s exactly what Dingy Harry is trying in NV. An old crony of his is declaring a Tea Party to put up a candidate against him to split the conservative vote.
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