Posted on 07/18/2009 11:42:46 PM PDT by Nachum
In his most recent remarks, President Obama has stopped mentioning what had been his mantra — that the House and Senate finish their health-care bills by the August recess — and switched to a less specific call to fast action.
The increased flexibility follows resistance by key senators in both parties to what they have called an "artificial deadline."
A White House aide said the president isn't letting up.
"No change in the timeline," said the aide
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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If we’re lucky, there won’t be a vote till the bums come back from summer vacation. Maybe by then, we can persuade them to abandon this krap.
I can dream; can’t I?
The truth is he ticked them off breathing down their necks and they told him to back the heck off... he knows he needs Snowe and she was balking...... we have to hold this off until August vacations and then tea party the heck out of our representatives — who I bet all head to Europe to get away from the heat — voter-led heat.
Back in March, this was a guaranteed thing. They would have been done on time...with no one doubting that. Now? With most of the plan in the open...the taxes laid out....and the 1000 pages which will likely never be read....I think there isn’t quiet the same amount of enthusiasm. I’m doubting it will be done this year...and if it’s allowed to simmer in public view for three months...some folks will read the entire document.
Not a dream. People are VERY angry.
Blood in the water.
Time for more attacks!
I want to see him have a “Captain Queeg” nervous breakdown on national TV.
“I want to see him have a “Captain Queeg” nervous breakdown on national TV.”
I’ll bet it happens on MSNBC. They all play with their balls over there. Some times they even share.
People are VERY angry.
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Which may account for the slowdown. Congressmen heard an earful from their constituents when they didn’t read the last few bills (stimulus, bailouts, etc.) before voting on them. They can sense that if they don’t take their time over this, the citizenry will become angry, and they, Congress, will lose their jobs.
The “Captain Queeg” nervous breakdown on national TV is likely, imo...I’d just like to see him resign without any more pontificating.
I know next to nothing about O’s healthcare plan. All I can be certain of is that it stinks just like Cap and Trade because it came from his adminstration.
One thing is for sure, we do need some kind of reform. IMHO, however, it all has to do with medicare, and state funded programs like MediCal. That is where the government needs to streamline and seek savings. Clean up the existing wastful programs, and there would be more than enough to cover the “legitimate” uninsured.
I say legitimate, because the 46 million “uninsured” number that is bantered about is a lie. Many are illegals, many are simply not willing to pay a healthcare premium even if they can afford it. If we filtered all of this down to those rare souls who litterally cannot provide for themselves, it would be a handful, figuratively speaking. Also, we’d probably find that there is an existing program for the legitimate ones, but they are either too dumb or do not have the mental capcity to ask for it.
No, it all comes down to control. Control over vast numbers of the electorate. Obama’s plan is yet another vote buying scheme using our tax dollars. If you don’t vote his way, he’ll target your particular group for punishment, in the same manner that his administration has leveled stimulus withholding threats against Arizona because of Sen Kyle’s defiance to this adminsitration’s spending frenzy.
It would be best if AZ could just tell Washington D.C to shove thier stupid stimulus money. We’d all be cleaner as a result.
The momentum has tipped our way slightly, we must keep the pressure on.
I believe the Repubs went easy on Sotomayor partly because they know the real battle is government takeover of health care.
Delay, Delay, Delay....
Time out benefits us as the American people start to freak out at Bill provisions and members of Congress learn how to read. This beast has to be stopped.
Study NPD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Some type of public melt down is virtually guaranteed, at some point.
“I know next to nothing about O’s healthcare plan.”
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What I know for sure is that under this so-called “health care,” people will die. That’s not all, but it’s more than enough for me.
The Commission I receive, for a Medicare Advantage plan, was cut from $500 to $400, even against insurance companies objections.
Then, that cut was made retroactive to 15 November 2009.
Then, the definition of “renewal” was changed.
That cut most of our commissions, on Medicare Advantage plans, for $400 to $200.
This change was also made retroactive, back to the 15 November 2009 enrollment date for the 2009 plan year.
I know agents who are in the red, on their commission runs, by over $10,000.00.
There are appeals pending, and CMS claims that they are trying to respond to concerns about “first year” vs “renewal” definitions -—
But, the fact remains that the vast majority of insurance agents are conservative Republicans, and Obama has done every thing he can think of to try and get the “senior markets” agents mad at insurance companies and not him.
Most of us are smarter than that.
Most of us realize that Obama was behind these cuts and that Obama is trying to drive us “enemies of the state” out of business, and he is trying to dry up part of the financial opposition to his plans.
Dr. Josef Mengele (16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He held two earned doctorates, one in anthropology from Munich University and one in medicine from Frankfurt University. He gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, and for performing human experiments on camp inmates, amongst whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death.
The peanut farmer's inflation gave us Reagan and the Senate.
But Klintoon's socialized medicine gave us the House for the first time in 40 years and the Senate.
The Democrats know this.
At the recess, the pols are going to be inundated with personal constituent animosity over this Socialized Medicine. And they face losing the House and the power of the purse in 2010.
yitbos
We’ve seen this act a couple of times now, most recently with Cap and Trade. He stops talking about a deadline, but keeps pushing one behind the scenes. It’s a tactic to keep the opposition from timing their response.
Are these the 600 gazillion jobs "saved"?
What a way to make a living!
Don’t worry. They’ll be back even if this particular bill gets canned.
Watch for the incremental take-away. Drip, drip, drip. Our job is to keep them from voting on any bill at any time, ever. The lot of them need to go now. Hammer away, never let up, and maybe the tidal wave of fascism can be lessened.
The only true solution in the long run is allowing lawmakers only 2 months in Washington a year. The rest of the time they should be back in their communities and living under the condescending tyranny, they are so willing to have us live under. (I know, but I can dream can’t I?)
This administration, Democrat minions and RINOs are determined to get what they want. Unfortunately, it’s so easily done with a majority of the population incapable of critical thought and generations of trained up Marxist government policy-makers and little worker bees.
Hopefully they’ll spend a few of those days back in their state and see first hand what is going on. Oh, what am I saying, they are too far removed from the common man to see what’s happening under their noses.
I gave AARP an earful about their support of zero's plan.
AARP unfortunately is a left wing organization full of Obama true believers. I used to belong to that organization for a few years, but I left because of that constant entitlement mentality, among other things. Besides, their benefits (e.g. travel) were not all that great; often with travel you can get a better deal on your own.
Our presure is having some impact. LET’S TURN UP THE HEAT!!
Everybody who can MUST go to the 9/12 Tea Party in DC.
<>p> I beg to differ politely. Souter was actually a close friend of Kennedy's who had Kennedy's respect. Thus, he was able to exert substantial, quiet influence on Kennedy, possibly moving Kennedy farther to the left than otherwise would have happened. Sotomayor, from all we have seen of her is a not very articulate, not very smart AA judge who can be quite personally abrasive; indeed, one who might well antagonize Kennedy. In Ricci she didn't even analyze he case he way all the justices did, although the justices came to different conclusions. Hence, I think she might be the least destructive pick the Illegal Alien could have made because she might well push Kennedy to the right.
The moderate defectors took a LOT heat for voting yes on Tax and Trade bill. They’re not in a hurry to repeat the grilling they took by voting yes on health scam.
Perfect!!
Great job, PL !!! :^D
I saw some commercial talking about how we need government healthcare — where are the counterpoint commercials? This is so easy, the “prioritization of care” thing is incredibly scary. Just have a video of a wife asking for her husband (in a hospital bed) to receive treatment and being told that there is nothing more that the hospital WILL do. Not could do, but will do.
“I saw some commercial talking about how we need government healthcare — where are the counterpoint commercials?”
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Those commercials are out there. One in particular I know has a Canadian woman who tells a horror tale of being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Had she not come to the States to get treatment, she would be dead by now.
My only complaint about those commercials is that they are not run often enough.
Lol, whatta look on his face!
Thank you Meek.
Ya done GOOD. Thank YOU! :)
That is one scary dude there I tell ya !!
Translation. Obama knows it is a gonner.
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Toll free capital switchboard numbers are:
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Congress critter ping!
Mandating Abortion Coverage in Health Care Plan (Jay Sekulow's Trial Notebook)
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Freep a POll! (AOL. Obozo-care, overall)
ABORTION IS NOT HEALTH CARE (Oregon Action Alert)
Obama Admin Won't Rule Out Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill
Abortion Debate May Complicate Efforts to Overhaul Health Care
Taxpayer Funding for Abortion: Another Sleeper Issue in Health Care Reform?
Rep. Tiahrt: With Tax-Funded Abortions Obama Might Not Have Been Born
National Right to Life: Condition Red, The Obama Abortion Agenda (in Obamacare)
Obama: The Mayo Clinic is a beacon on health care; Mayo Clinic: ObamaCare stinks
Obama's Health Care Desperation
Kristol Tells Republicans to Go for the Kill on Obama Healthcare Reform
FREEP THIS POLL ON HEALTH CARE NOW!
On abortion, don't ask, don't tell
STOP THE ABORTION MANDATE (that got slipped into the Obamacare bill)
Do you support Obama's health care plan?
Why The Getting Obamacare Passed Before The August Recess Is Critically Important to TOTUS
Health Bill Might Direct Tax Money to Abortion
Obama no longer stressing August deadline for passing health reform bill
BLUE DOG DEMS CAN KILL OBAMA HEALTH CARE REFORM (from Laura Ingraham)
The Silent FOCA: Vast Abortion Expansion Slowly Coming to Light in Healthcare Package
Go to this page
http://tiny.pl/hh9qz
there are tweets about the whole bill and the BS (not Bush Syndrome this time) that is in it.
There is so much stuff that you can get lost in this massive piece of crap and be mind cramped in 10 minutes from it.
Pass the link on!
From the page:
“The First 500 Pages of the HC Monstrosity
Since Congress doesn’t want to read the Health Care Bill and Obama, ACORN, Unions, Lawyers, & Special Interest Groups don’t want you to know whats in this monstrosity, I decided to do it myself. I’ve taken all my tweets on the HC bill and put them into one single place for your enjoyment. Additionally here is the link to the full bill – Health Care Bill”
http://www.saveourcountrynow.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=1460
thank you very much!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/racial_preferences_in_the_demo_1.html
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