Posted on 02/19/2010 4:17:13 PM PST by NoExpectations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) President Barack Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday.
The administration's bill will aim to jump-start the stalled healthcare overhaul and comes just days ahead of a planned televised White House summit with congressional Republicans, who are calling on Democrats to scrap the bills and start over with a far less sweeping proposal.
Democrats are struggling to push healthcare legislation over the finish line in the face of sagging public support and solid Republican opposition bolstered by recent election victories in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
The legislation the White House will post on its website is expected to reflect common ground negotiated over the past several weeks by House and Senate Democratic leaders.
Those agreements are likely to be combined as a privileged budget reconciliation bill, which only needs a simple 51-vote majority to pass the 100-member Senate instead of the 60-vote supermajority that has become routine in the Senate and gives Republicans power to block the healthcare bill.
"I believe that's the path we are going to take," a senior congressional Democratic aide said.
But it is not clear, even to congressional Democrats, what the White House will include in its legislation and whether Obama will try to add proposals aimed at attracting at least some Republican support.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have not signed off on any final agreement, several Democratic aides have said.
"We are still waiting for the president to present to Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi his plan," a Democratic leadership aide told Reuters.
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polishing the turrd
STUFF IT!! Read the Letter by the ER Doctor addressed to OBOZO! OBOZO wants nothing less than to destroy America’s Fantastically Successful and Wonderful Healthcare System to gain absolute Political control of the Most Important 20-25% of the American Economy and OUR HEALTHCARE! Look what these Sickos did to Terri Schiavo, We are Next if they get their Way! STOP THIS INSANITY NOW!!
(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
“Barack Hussein Obama will you please go now!
The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
Go!
I don’t care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Barack Hussein Obama will you please go now.
You can go on skates.
You can go on skis.
You can go in a hat.
But
go.
Please!
I don’t care.
You can go
By bike.
You can go
On a Zike-Bike
If you like.
If you like
You can go
In an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO!
Please do, do, do, DO!
Barack Hussein Obama
I don’t care how.
Barack Hussein Obama
Will you please
GO NOW!
You can go on stilts.
You can go by fish.
You can go in a Crunk-Car
If you wish.
If you wish
You may go
By lion’s tale.
Or stamp yourself
And go by mail.
Barack Hussein Obama
Don’t you know
The time has come
To go, go, GO!
Get on your way!
Please Barack H.!
You might like going in a Zumble-Zay.
You can go by balloon . . .
Or broomstick.
Or
You can go by camel
In a bureau drawer.
You can go by bumble-boat
. . . or jet.
I don’t care how you go.
Just get!
Barack Hussein Obama
I don’t care how.
Barack Hussein Obama
Will you please
GO NOW!
I said
GO
And
GO
I meant . . .
The time had come
So . . .
He WENT.”
BTW: Whatever happened to the H1N1 “pandemic”
Mass graves in every country on earth. Vehicles collecting bodies every morning in the US. If only they had taken their mandatory vaccinations.
But absolutly NO ONE will be allowed to read the bill before it is voted on.
If we had real leaders who had a spine the Democrats could pass whatever Health care bill they wanted via reconciliation; it would all be undone via repeal. But like FDR knew when he got SSI pushed through, once the people get a taste of their new entitlement no one will have the will to take away the entitlement no matter how destructive it will be to the country.
Did medieval kings care when their serfs said "no" to anything they did? Of course not.
We're nothing but serfs, and have been nothing but serfs for a long time now. IMO, our serfdom was made official whenever it was that the government enacted this obscene confiscatory withholding of income taxes and taxes to pay for social entitlement programs.
If we had real leaders who had a spine the Democrats could pass whatever Health care bill they wanted via reconciliation; it would all be undone via repeal. But like FDR knew when he got SSI pushed through, once the people get a taste of their new entitlement no one will have the will to take away the entitlement no matter how destructive it will be to the country.
The only chance we have of repealing it is that the actual benefits don’t kick in until after the 2012 election. The experience all the voters will have before the election is “my taxes went up and I have nothing to show for it”. A successful Republican platform will include “My very first act as President will be to repeal this monstrosity and refund this money to the People”
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M
It's all about setting up the world government the globalist elites want.
“combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives,”
Twice as bad as the previous bills.
I hate him. He’s evil.
“Obama to Spell Out New Health Care Plan”
S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M
Isn’t it unconstitutional to legislate from the White House? Just sayin’.
Call it what your want Barack...Put whatever fancy wine dressing on it you want the bill is still RANCID and makes you want to wretch(paraphrased from a Bruce Cutler argument).....It should be ABSOLUTLELY CRYSTAL CLEAR to Republicans that Obama does NOT want Bi-Partisanship and will stop at nothing to get his version of the health care bill passed. They should not go to Obama’s Photo Op BS Meeting.
Actually, benefits don’t kick in until 2013, I believe. But taxes will go up immediately. It is interesting that President Obama isn’t clear what he is planning on doing with the money in the meantime.....
...and will go nowhere even faster in this election year.
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