Posted on 03/24/2010 2:09:30 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Good old Joe Biden, introducing Barack Obama at the health-care bill-signing lollapalooza in Washington yesterday, leaned over and whispered into the presidential ear (and a nearby open mike): "This is a big f---ing deal." Sure was -- though not personally to Veep Potty-Mouth, nor to the president. They're exempt, you see.
Really.
No worrying for them about the personal consequences of ObamaCare's overbearing regulation, worrisome coverage uncertainties and financial confusions. Same for members of the presidential Cabinet -- and all of their staff members.
They and their families are exempt from the calamitous health-care "reform" plan they've hung on the rest of the country.
(Think maybe they know something?)
It didn't have to be this way.
Last fall, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Finance Committee, proposed that any health-care bill apply to all non-civil-service federal employees -- from Obama on down -- currently covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
But when it came time to mark up a final version of the health-care bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid included language that applied only to members of Congress and their personal staffers.
That may well have exempted all congressional staff members employed by committees -- staffers heavily involved in actually writing the final bill.
And Reid never allowed Grassley's amendment to come to the floor for debate and a vote.
How typical.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Well aren’t they “special”? ;-)
THAT alone should make this abomination unconstitutional. Equal Protection Clause...but NOOOO!
If the Federal government mandates that we buy a certain product, in this case, health insurance, doesn’t seem like they would have to make all the possible approve options available to ALL of us? Or are some of us just “more” equal?
People should go to the link and read the rest of the short article.
Leaders who will not expose themselves to the consequences of their policies are not leaders. They are tyrants.
agreed - publish it far and wide
Yep - as before - publish it far and wide
We have more hopes with the people than our politicians
BumpandMark.
Amerika’s nomenklatura.
Laws for thee but not for me! BHO
Now, ain’t that Orwellian?
“All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.”
Animal Farm was the exact forecast for our Dear Leader and his zombies.
Sorry, and I apologize George Orwell, I really didn’t think that your book applied to the free nation of the United States. I was wrong.
Big Brother lives right here at home with us now. (1984)
So they’re saying that the current presidential staff is exempt? Are they mentioned by name? Or does it mean anyone who ever was or ever will be a presidential staff member.
I can’t for the life of me understand how anyone can be for this when they know congress and Islambama exempted themselves.
Healthcare reform would have been brought to a screeching halt if they knew that they were actually going to experience Obamacare first hand.
They didn’t read the thing! The “Yeas” just assumed that their special turf wouldn’t be disturbed by such a trivial matter as equality with the unwashed masses - and they were right!
And there was a period for awhile when those Soviet leaders were dropping like flies. Might have been the elite health care system their state eventually produced. That is what will rule the day in the long run. Our current governing state is living within a corrupt fantasy world of their own creation that will continue every day to separate from physical reality. Those of us who retain our freedom will continue living within a reality being governed by truths we deem to be self evident. For the Tyrants, their Science is already failing them (Global Warming), their Economic Administration is producing record deficits and hardly anyone believes a word they state. They have lost trust, economic production and their science is failing them. In short, they have no future.
If the Democrats keep this up they will be able to reinstitute some of their old favorite rules, like separate bathrooms, separate water fountains, and separate entrances to movie theaters and the like.
These people need to be removed from office.
That’s what Communists do...the ultimate Oligarchy.
Did you really think it would say anything else? Come on, don’t act outraged, we all knew they would be exempt.
Shame John Murtha couldn't stick it out a little longer; he still might be with us. Just another victim of the 'old system', I guess...
Outraged? Yes.
Surprised? Nope.
There have been plenty of posts about this on FR over the past 8 months. However, it's going to be a very effective campaign weapon to be used to hammer the Demencrats in the campaign stops for the November elections.
Some animals are more equal then others.
Agreed! Spread the details.....
As far as an effective campaign weapon, until the idiots that think this is a good bill actually lose the coverage they already have, they won't care.
YOU FIRST, CONGRESS!!!!
Might also have had something to do with the fact that they were a gerontocracy. Most of them were born into Orthodox faith when Russia was still using the Julian Calendar.
That pic of Biden on Drudge today is disgusting. HOWEVER...
Kudos to Drudge for posting pics like this. It really speaks volumes in showing the arrogance and vile nature of this administration. The pics of Pelosi and her gavel will also be ones that will show up during the election cycle.
I suspect based on the mood of the country, these exempt people may end up needing emergency room care, STAT!
But again, it says the “president’s staff”. If this means every presidential staff there’s ever been and is ever gonna’ be, all those who’ve worked for Bush can opt out. If it just means O’s staff, they would have had to list them by name.
Same for congress.
Or does it mean they’re exempt only when they’re in office.
I’m also convinced that if the republicans take over they won’t be puttin’ themselves back into the pile of the unwashed. I simply cannot to bring myself to trust the GOP to get us outta’ this mess though that’s our only choice at this time, short of all out rebellion.
Sadly, the sheep who support Islamabama and his ilk and this bill, think it’s perfectly fine for congress to exempt themselves. These people are royalty to them and O is the king of kings!
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