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President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix....

Posted on 03/02/2010 4:26:11 PM PST by RED SOUTH

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial "reconciliation" rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the "fix" to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/obama-democrats-will-use-reconciliation-to-pass-senate-health-care-bill.html


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KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhohealthcare; healthcare; nuclearoption; obamacare
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To: RED SOUTH
Dear Mr. A-hole President,

I know you taught con-law but might I remind your A-holeship that you have NO authority, not legal authority, not political authority.... And certainly no moral authority to tell the Senate to do ANYTHING !

41 posted on 03/02/2010 4:49:15 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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To: RED SOUTH
Every day that passes puts me more in the mood to return to my evil, hacking ways.
42 posted on 03/02/2010 4:50:09 PM PST by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Venturer

Obama WANTS the RATS to lose Congress in November. His only remote shot at re-election is if he can create an enemy of the GOP Congress - like Clinton did.

Hopefully enough vulnerable RATS will recognize that Obama’s needs do not align with their own.


43 posted on 03/02/2010 4:50:19 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: RED SOUTH

When are we going to get to the part when one of our leaders calls this what in the hell it really is?

REPARATIONS. This is little more than Obama stealing from those that earned it and giving it to those that refuse to get off of their dead lazy asses and earn it.

My rule: Trip and I will try to help you stand. Trip me and I will kick you in the face. Yes, I sound ornery, but it’s time to get ornery... talking hasn’t done a damn thing.

Yes, it sucks to be poor, it sucks to live in black ghettos, but those folks seldom lift a finger to dig their way out of those holes. I applaud those that rise by way of their hard work, but the rest can drop dead for all I care.

Obama is opening a box that he will not be able to close.... I don’t care how much of a Magic Negro he is.

Dear God get that arrogant trash out of my White House.


44 posted on 03/02/2010 4:51:34 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First FAILED "light skinned African American [Pres-ent] with no Negro dialect..")
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To: RED SOUTH

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543

Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. 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 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2462143/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.


45 posted on 03/02/2010 4:55:08 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: RED SOUTH

That should be the mantra. Obama and Reid going.... Nuclear.


46 posted on 03/02/2010 4:55:20 PM PST by rod1
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To: RED SOUTH

It remains to be seen if the Democrats are ready to sacrifice their careers for this power grab.


47 posted on 03/02/2010 4:57:00 PM PST by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: RED SOUTH
"Mr. Obama will say that he will be working on exact legislative language in the next few days. Republicans can join him and Democratic congressional leaders of the House and Senate to makes these changes and to pass the bill, but either way the bill will be moving forward."

This kenyan fascist loves to talk like a dictator. His smug arrogant comment of "you can join us if you want, if not Im going forward in violation of the 10th Amendment and the will of the people anyway" speaks volumes. He is going to try to shove socialism down our throats like he is some latin american dictator.

48 posted on 03/02/2010 5:00:00 PM PST by GregoTX (When people find they can vote themselves money it will herald the end of the republic. Ben Franklin)
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To: RED SOUTH
DRUDGE Headline OBAMA TO TRIGGER NUKE OPTION ON HEALTHCARE
49 posted on 03/02/2010 5:03:22 PM PST by thouworm
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To: RED SOUTH
I'll try again:

DRUDGE Headline

OBAMA TO TRIGGER NUKE OPTION ON HEALTHCARE

50 posted on 03/02/2010 5:04:13 PM PST by thouworm
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To: RED SOUTH

51 posted on 03/02/2010 5:04:54 PM PST by Palmetto Patriot ( Nov. 2, 2010, Circle the Date)
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To: trapped_in_LA
No problem, in 4 years if things go right then the republicans can use the “nuclear option” to undo a whole lot of rat nonsense

No problem? I see a big problem, unless you can name me one welfare type program that has ever been rescinded or even scaled back.

My favorite example is the so call Earned Income Tax Credit, whereby people get income tax "refunds" whether they have paid in or not and often times very large ones at that.

Proposed by Richard Nixon, signed into law by Gerald Ford and increased in every administration since - without exception.

52 posted on 03/02/2010 5:06:11 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("0bama's not just stupid; He’s Jimmy Carter stupid”. - Don Imus)
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To: RED SOUTH

Bozo can’t “trigger” anything. He not a member of the legislative branch. He can shout, conjole and threaten but he can’t “trigger”. The MSM does everything it can to bolste the idea that this President can do what ever he wants. They just can’t wait until he reaches full dictator status can they?


53 posted on 03/02/2010 5:17:40 PM PST by calex59
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To: RED SOUTH
I can't help thinking that something else is going on here. Mass career suicide for all incumbents is completely contrary to the instincts that are a part of the DNA of these people. I have heard the arguments that the Democrats think this is their last and only chance to do this. Bull. This won't happen, at least not via reconciliation.

My experienced guess is that while all of the attention is being devoted to this idiocy, something else is going on outside of view that the orchestrators of this nonsense do not want us to focus on. My money is on something connected to the bailouts, such as the mysterious use of the TARP money (which was used for something other than the purchase of "toxic" assets).

Fortunes have been made right under our noses with taxpayer money, but the cameras are pointing at the helath care circus.

54 posted on 03/02/2010 5:19:52 PM PST by Zebra
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To: RED SOUTH; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


55 posted on 03/02/2010 5:22:08 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: RED SOUTH

Time to pull a “revolutionary” trigger.


56 posted on 03/02/2010 5:23:17 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: RED SOUTH

Where’s the gang of 13 now, John?


57 posted on 03/02/2010 5:25:54 PM PST by Defiant (To bring down a great nation, work to take away everything that has made it great.)
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To: RED SOUTH

How quickly could a suit be filed on Constitutional grounds?


58 posted on 03/02/2010 5:26:39 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: RED SOUTH

All of the State AG’s need to issue a statement that any such mandate will be hauled into court immediately.


59 posted on 03/02/2010 5:27:14 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: RED SOUTH
Insanity...


60 posted on 03/02/2010 5:27:58 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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