Obama: We Can't Back Off Healthcare Reform

CBSnews.com/blogs ^ | 2/7/10 | Perky Katie

[GailA]

"If we can go step by step through a series of these issues and arrive at some agreements, then procedurally, there's no reason why we can't do it a lot faster than the process took," he added.

Mr. Obama said that he was frustrated by special deals for legislators, such as earmarks, that got into the healthcare reform bills.

"They did not help. They frustrate me," he said. "But this is a democracy. I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically-approved approach to health care, and didn't have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it and just go ahead and have that passed. But that's not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people, many of whom have their constituents' best interests at heart. What ends up happening is it ends up looking like each individual senator, each individual legislator is just looking out for their own thing, and don't have the larger public interest at heart.

"My job is to make sure that we stay focused on that larger vision of how do we lower costs for Americans over the long-term."

[GailA]

IF ANY ONE believes he's going to stop trying to SHOVE OBAMADEATHCARE down our throats I've a prime piece of ocean front property in the middle of the GOBI desert to sell them.

There are a couple of videos from Perky Katie's Superbowl interview with 0bama in this article...grap and capture some one please, as it is beyond my HTML abilities.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/feb/08/e-j-dionne-congress-must-finish-the-health-care/

If President Barack Obama gets to sign a health reform bill, as I believe he will, one reason may be Rep. Jay Inslee's difficult experience renovating his kitchen.

[silverleaf]

clever move by the ideologue

call in the squishy GOP, make a bill that uses their ideas, pass it

then amend it bit by bit after it passes, so it’s got his socialist dictates and GOP names on it

[midnightcat]

The madman strikes again. I’m exhausted.

[Old Texan]

He is a one track mind. He is too stupid to realize he is done.
Americans want to work. We have too much pride to live on welfare like some people in this country.
Nobama wouldn’t even make it as a shift leader at Church’s Fried Chicken.
They need to shut down welfare tomorrow.Let the working people have their hard earned money.

[GailA]

We don't want to be like England where much of their population live on the dole. I had to for 3 years when I first divorced and had 2 boys to raise all by myself with little to no child support. It was shameful, and degrading. We lived in a small 2 stop light town, few jobs where you could support yourself much less 2 small boys unless you wanted to turn hooker.

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.

Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. 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)

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama's War on Seniors

Socialized Med Thread

[VA_Gentleman]

I can’t believe See-BS used the Super Bowl as a platform for Obama’s health care propaganda.

[Old Texan]

There are some people that definitely need help. But those people sometimes don’t get the help they need.
There are some families that have been on welfare for Generations. They don’t want to work. All they do is drop out a litter of kids and the gubmit takes care of them for life.

[GailA]

That's their plan, exhaust us, and we will give in. Did George Washington give in when it looked like the Brits had all but won the Revolutionary War? NO he dug in and kept going finally turning the tide and giving us the greatest Nation on the planet. In the name of those brave men and women we must do the same thing, wrest our country back from the commie/libs.

Hit our knees and pray, keep your powder dry and pass the ammo in the mean time.

We have the one thing our ancestors didn't 'prince the bore's' internet for ammo!

[GailA]

We have plenty of that in Memphis, now the illegals are doing the same thing.

[shiva]

Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people, many of whom have their constituents' best interests at heart.

That's "Unfortunate"?

[ncalburt]

Its not happening.

The GOP knows victory means working for new jobs and stopping Obama Death-care.
Healthcare is way down the list of people's concerns.

[Lazamataz]

I’m energized.

[SeattleBruce]

“then amend it bit by bit after it passes, so it’s got his socialist dictates and GOP names on it”

All I have to say is, the Repub-libtards better not fall for this, or the TEApublicans will have them for lunch.

[silverleaf]

the teapublicans better invite Mitch McConnell and the other GOP members of the “collegial respectful gentlemen of the Senate” club to have a spine transplant

Watch out for Batman Juan McCain and his boy Robin Linsey Graham when they see camera crews gathering at obama WH meeting with the GOP

[GailA]

They only have their own interest at 'heart' and that interest is named POWER!

[midnightcat]

You are right. I’m generally a very quiet person and melt into the wallpaper, but this president, his non-stop marxism and total disregard for the constitution has me on the verge of Primal Scream. Someone on here said Obama and his healthcare bill has more lives than Rasputin and they’re right too. He really does remind me of Rasputin.

Pray.

[FrankR]

"Nobama wouldn’t even make it as a shift leader at Church’s Fried Chicken. "

Hey...perfect line, but I don't even think he could handle "french fries", much less a shift leader.

[SeattleBruce]

“Watch out for Batman Juan McCain and his boy Robin Linsey Graham when they see camera crews gathering at obama WH meeting with the GOP”

Argh! That’s enough to make me barf...

[lacrew]

I was taking a no. 2 before the super bowl, when I heard his interview come on. I decided to stay in the bathroom till it was over, since it smelled better in there.

Seriously, though. Is Katie working for extra cash on the side?....The Chosen One had to pay for that ad, didn’t he:)

[Old Texan]

Yeah, but he could do really well reading the To Go Window moniter.
Unless they have “Corpse Fries”