Posted on 12/16/2009 12:37:57 PM PST by Reaganesque
The Obama administration's support for an individual insurance mandate without a public option is triggering what appears to be a full-fledged liberal revolt against the Senate's healthcare compromise, and for the first time raises the realistic prospect that reform could die amidst internecine Democratic bickering.
An ominous sign resonant of the contentious 2007 standoff over immigration reform: The conservative right and the hardcore left are both beginning to attack the current proposal, terming it a "monstrosity" and lambasting its cost.
"Insurance companies win," DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas declared Tuesday. "Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate."
If healthcare reform ultimately crashes and burns – which most experts still consider unlikely -- it will ironically stem not from Republican opposition but rather Democrats' inability to stave off an insurgency within their own caucus.
"What I find to be amusing and curious about this whole situation," GOP insider Ken Blackwell tells Newsmax, "is that Obama's call for the end of partisanship probably should have started at home. The schizophrenic nature of the new Democratic Party has never been so evident as in this situation.
"It will be fascinating to see," he adds. "This is a make it or break it issue for the Obama administration. He's put all the chips on the table on this one."
As Blackwell suggests, for the first time in the year-long healthcare reform debate, Republican leaders see a realistic scenario whereby a goal-line stand stops healthcare reform on the one-yard line....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Yo Ho Ho! And a bottle of RUM! Tea Partiers did it. Not anyone but them. We owe these people. The Crats ran like Rabbits when confronted by actual TAXPAYERS!
The Liberal world is falling appart! Hold on people it just keeps getting better!!!
I agree. Liberals ARE revolting.
awesome!
Liberal morons on Twitter are retweeting Kos and Dean so yes the worm is turning.
They are “true believers”. Zero, on the other hand, just wants “something” passed that he can take credit for “Health Care Reform” in his first “State of the Union” address this January.
He really doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself!
Should be “dems ARE revolting”...
What is best in life?
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the liberals”
Dems rule with fear and crisis - and the boys aren't happy with some of Obama's more conservatives moves - Iraq etc. I fear if Obama doesn't bow to his handlers, they'll have the Secret Service let some monster get past security... It could happen - it's a Chicago Way tactic... If something happened to Obama it would cause a race war. Or worse.
Would conservatives be blamed? Would the lies about the 'vast right wing conspiracy' be played up in a strong totalitarian fashion destroying any chance of Republicans ever taking control back? The Chicago Way is rough...
Liberals feel the ends justify the means - how far would they go?
It would be a crisis the Ralm's of the world wouldn't let go to waste. The couple that got into the White House? They're not a joke or a punch line. They could have been a "test" to see if it could be done. Obama's our President - and as President of the United States he needs to be protected by the best, brightest and bravest. Conservatives need to stress that... The fact that the press wasn't all over the story about the party crashers at the White House (in a serious way) means the Dems didn't want it covered in a serious way... That's odd and worth a little tin foil...
Guys, don’t get giddy here. Wait for it. If they sense we are celebrating they will swallow the bill as is and pass it just to deprive us of a celebration. Just wait for it. My personal wish is to see the bill go down in flames while bammy is trying to land in Copehagen but can’t due to heavy snowstorms. Lets see if I get what I want for Christmas.
Remember, the RATS march in lockstep.
Any GOPer hoping to get elected or re-elected that does not make repealing this garbage his/her top priority if it becomes law should be run out of town on a rail.
I just want to know if anyone will ever be brave enough to say the word “impeach”.
Red on red can be a beautiful thing.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Many of the true-believers on the left are now looking at this bill as nothing but a back-door corporate welfare payoff to Big Insurance and Big Pharma. And it does not deliver universal coverage OR cost savings which were promised throughout the entire Obama campaign. As one of them so eloquently put it on their blog:
“When Rush Limbaugh starts telling the public that this bill provides for long jail sentences if you don’t buy insurance, and we are going to counter him and say no, you are not going to get a jail sentence, just a whopping big fine....THAT is going to be our defense??”
The more savvy people on the left are starting to figure out how dangerous this bill really is for them.
We can take help anywhere we can get it to keep this monstrosity from passing. While I know the libs want the government to have more control and see this bill as lacking they just don’t seem to understand that what they want is not what the American people are willing to finance for them.
You forgot to add "as his stimulus created job holding SEIU members took their cigarette breaks inside the terminal"
:-)
Us Teabaggers did carry the battle to them, but their side gets to slide the knife in.
I'm angry, WE should have that honor.
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