Posted on 01/27/2010 12:50:07 PM PST by Steelfish
January 27, 2010 Obama to Reaffirm Commitment to an Overhaul By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN In a conference call today with Congressional staff, the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, said that President Obama would reiterate his commitment to a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s health care system in his State of the Union address on Wednesday night.
Mr. Pfeiffer said that the president will share “additional details” but that the thrust of his message would be that he remains as resolute and committed to revamping the health care system as he was when he gave a speech to a joint session of Congress in early September.
Mr. Obama’s speech could not come at a more critical time for the health care legislation, which is effectively stalled in Congress as the White House and legislative leaders try to figure out a way forward.
Centrist Democrats in the Senate are resisting a plan to use a procedural maneuver called budget reconciliation to make changes to the health care bill with a simple majority rather than the 60-vote supermajority normally required to surmount filibusters and advance controversial legislation.
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Make your one-term President statement a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tell the President to wich in one hand and crap in the other and see which gets filled.
My take on this is that Obama will make a big pitch for nationalized healthcare. The various lobbying groups, the astroturfers, and Obama’s synchophants in the media will say, “Yeah, we want nationalized healthcare!” And the Democrats on Capitol Hill will make another effort to get it passed.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein
“...Pfeiffer, said that President Obama would reiterate his commitment to a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s health care system in his State of the Union address on Wednesday night.”
What a plan. Create more bureaucracy to raise the debt more which will inevitably continue to increase health care costs and generate more confusion in coverages in the face of incontrovertible proof that the majority of the American people do not want it. The best thing he could do for the benefit of America would be to promise to resign now.
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