Posted on 09/13/2009 9:21:51 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
In his 60 Minutes interview to be aired tonight, President Obama apparently says, "I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it....I'm the one who's going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to get this right."
No, Mr. President. It’s not about you. If legislation passes, you don’t own it.
We all own it. Any health care bill will become part of the U.S. Code, not simply an item on the Obama White House web site. We will all feel its effects. We are all responsible for the future of our country. Here the people rule.
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-- if the Democratic Congress jams this legislation down the people’s throat -- then the Republican party will have to say: We do not yield. We do not acquiesce. And we will take this issue to the country in 2010 and 2012, with the purpose of repealing this dangerous and damaging legislation.
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No, I never heard Bush or any other president say anything like that.
In Obama’s mind, it’s all about him.
Maybe the GOP and others will have the guts to do this. I think there’s going to be massive civil resistance to this “health care” garbage if they do enforce it. One of the reasons I think they’re giving it a fairly long lead-in is that they want to give people time to simmer down and mistakenly think it won’t really have any effect, and they also want to put the enforcement structures into place before they even try it.
The downfall of the arrogant is always their arrogance.
Poor Obummer doesn’t know the different between ruling and a representative republic.
I think you are dreaming..........time to wake up :)
Somebody please remind this guy that he’s an elected president, a temporary guardian of the country, and not a monarch.
Neither does just about anyone in congress, or the American people for that matter. All I ever hear is democracy bantered around. They have no concept of a democratic process in a representative republic form of government. The comment, we won, get over it, proves that point.
How about you, your family, and your mother-in-law go on this plan along with us? And if people are turned down for care and die because of that, you'll be responsible?
Obama, you will pass into history............just like the great ones did, but you will never be known as a great one.
Repulsive arrogance.
I fear that may be correct. Obama's "Civilian Defense Force" to be the enforcers?
I saw a sign yesterday that read, "We came unarmed THIS time"! I pray that the Thugrocracy administration does not ignite something that will pit Americans against each other with more than words.
Me either, that is rather creepy. He says that like we don't have a say in who stays and who goes.
I like the writer's take on it. WE pay for it so WE own it bozo.
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He means "for life".
His arrogance is breathtaking.
You are right, and the media and Obummer want it that way ... But then again, we are educating plenty and can continue to do so. First they come for the language ... Read Alinsky.
The democracy bit plays into the hands of the ones who want to use the downtrodden for their own nefarious ends. The problem always is the downtrodden are not reliable handmaidens.
He will pass through History like a bowell movement passes through a poop pipe.
LLS
To “own” something, you have to pay for it. He has no clue how this grandiose monument to himself will be paid for.
BO is so arrogant he doesn’t even know how outrageous this attitude is to the taxpayers who will, unfortunately, “own” the trillions of dollars of debt foisted on them by the Democrats if HellCare passes.
PLEASE send this to your list, thank you.
GIBBS: OBAMA WILLING TO BE ONE-TERM PRESIDENT TO PASS HEALTH CARE
Obama has an agenda.
Well, the IRS is already in place and will be given far more power with fines and levies against “dissidents”. Even if a doctor, or a large number of doctors, decide to go their own way, take cash payments, and not participate in the government plan, I can see them being heavily fined and maybe even imprisoned for “endangering” the citizenry.
You are right, there are as many pages of expanding the reach of the IRS in that bill as there are about health issues...
Who has studied that bill closely enough to recognize just what all is concealed in it? None of the so called Republicans, that is for sure.
I think we Conservatives need to have more than one prong in our attacks on the Administration by Zer0bama.
We need to produce FACTS about each of the bills the Democrats propose and we need to REPORT his “Executive Orders.”
Lots of letters to the editors and blog reports. ADVERTISE the FACTS.
Yep. The Clintons perfected the practice of using the IRS as a political weapon.
You own nothing you communist fool! You, with your Acorn, Soros, Illinois political machine, the criminal Democrat Party stole the election!
Where are you papers? Where's your school record? Why is your background so clouded and unknown?
You are an imposter that should get a one-way Trailways Bus ticket for you and your family to Chicago. Get back to that rat-hole of a city!
FR posters wanted anything but Hillary and liked Obama as the Nominee. Thinking McCain and Palin could easily beat Obama. Now look at the fine mess we are in.
Never thought to see the day.
That's because we've never before elected a petulant,
childish,
insufferable,
narcissistic,
amateurish,
classless,
effeminate,
under-educated,
racist traitor.
He didn’t write it. He hasn’t read it. But, it’s “mine.” I own it.
As I recall, HilaryCare would have imposed fines and criminal penalties (including imprisonment) on doctors who practiced outside the government system. Even if such provisions are not included initially in ObamaCare, they will soon be added.
That is pretty frightening - “I intend to be president for a while” - what the hell is a while? As far as I know he had 3 years and 3 months left. He’s talking like he plans to be there forever! I think people should be very frightened of that comment.
I do think the congress critters are waking up ~ slowly, but I think it’s coming. If they didn’t understand before, yesterday’s march out to have driven the point home. If you figure between 1 and 2 million turned out and for every one of those there were at the very least 10 people that wanted to go and couldn’t for various reasons....that’s a lot of people.
ASkheritage.org has GREAT info and to become a member is only $25 a year. The information is invaluable there ~ they dissect the bills, show what it’s going to cost, how it will be paid for, what it really means etc. I recommend it to everyone I know.
Does anybody have a photo of the “We came unarmed—this time” sign?
I'll try to take that phrase apart, bit by bit.
"I intend to be president"
Subtext: because he knows he's not legally, Constitutionally eligible to be president, he says his intention is sufficient. Sort of like the shoplifter caught walking out of the store with merchandise: "Oh Officer, I'm innocent, I intended to pay for this."
We all know what the road to hell is paved with, right?
"for a while"
Subtext: veiled threat of the period being indefinite in nature and not subject to any legal, Constitutional force. Immovability.
I've searched and searched...I saw it in a Twitter photo site, but it wasn't singled out.
Wanta bet?
But WE pay for it.
Sorry...Jeff posted that thread earlier in the day. I just found it.
There was a guy on FOX today that said that there will be doctors available, and already planning to offer good care for those that can pay.
My best guess is that there will be places offshore for those with money.
Sad part is for those who cannot afford it. This is what happens when the government sticks is nose where it does not belong. Help the poor, my ass, they are going to cause death to the poor. What does anyone expect for supposedly cheap healthcare?
People just cannot accept that Obama intends to create a crisis of such an enormous magnitude and to facilitate in any way shape or form discord with future viable candidates that by his accord he must “remain” in office because he “owns” America..
As long as he lives.
I really worry that the arrogance of the admin and the democrap reps and senators is a sign that they have been assured by the WH that no matter what, IF there is an election in 2010, it's already decided in their favor.
Factor in the deadly work already done by groups such as ACORN, SEIU, and the universities and colleges, THIS project is ongoing.
With Eric Holder in charge of the InJustice Dept. we will see more of the Black Panthers at the polling places with their weapons at the ready, assured that they will be untouched by the "law". ONE of them has already been certified as a "poll watcher".
Figures. Black Panther Who Threatened Voters In Philly Is a Credentialed Dem Poll Watcher
Hope I'm just giving in to my "tin foil hat" nature.
Does this mean we lost our right to VOTE!!!
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I know of one physician—a close family member—who is contemplating a move to Panama in case ObamaCare passes. No doubt he will not be the only one.
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