Obama’s rhetorical shift on health care

washington examiner ^ | 3/25/10 | Mary Katharine Ham

[Nachum]

You’ll be glad to know that, like with the Obama presidency before it, we have now moved from the “everything will miraculously change” portion of the Obama health-care pitch to the “I never said everything would miraculously change” portion.

This comes from his speech selling health-care reform in Iowa today:

Now, it will take about four years to implement this entire plan – because we need to do it responsibly and we need to get it right. That means that health care costs won’t go down overnight. But we have built into the law all sorts of measures to assure that in years to come, health care inflation, which has been rising about three times as fast as people’s wages, will start slowing. We’ll start reducing the waste in the system, from unnecessary tests to unwarranted insurance subsidies. So over time, Americans will save money.

He kindly advised the GOP to “go for it,” on their attempts to repeal the bill, proving he’s just reading the polling numbers and offering kind, post-partisan advice to the caucus.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Open letter to all the Sammy and Sylvia Sobstories out there:

Do you have more and better health care NOW than you did last week?

If his plan was so great, why did the Rats delay the implementation of key components of this bill for 3, 4, 5, and even 8 years?

One more set of questions, if you are in trouble and your freedom is in jeopardy and need a lawyer, would you rather have the best private lawyer you can afford or would you rather have a government appointed attorney who may be half drunk when he shows up for your trial?

Then why would you want a GOVERNMENT APPOINTED DOCTOR in a GOVERNMENT RUN HOSPITAL when your LIFE may hang in the balance?

[Migraine]

I have never seen anything so divisive out of a president than his sore-winner mocking in Iowa today of those who oppose the monstrosity just passed.
He is the divider in chief. The only thing I remember even close to what I saw today was when LBJ called congressmen who opposed Vietnam escalation “Nervous Nellies”.

[garjog]

[Migraine]

or would you rather have a government appointed attorney who may be half drunk when he shows up for your trial?

Or a public defender like the stuttering fool in "My Cousin Vinny"?

[Son House]

“crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality”

State of Illinois
92nd General Assembly
Regular Session
Senate Transcript March 30, 2001

Page 87

http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf

Obama “And if we’re placing a burden on the doctor that says you have to keep alive even a previable child as long as possible and give them as much medical attention as — as is necessary to keep that child alive, then we’re probably crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality.”

Allowing Obama’s logic for a moment;

‘placing a burden on the doctor to keep alive even a previable child is probably crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality’

^
‘placing a burden on the citizen to pay even a health insurance policy is probably crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality’

[Scotswife]

I can’t tell if we have a mentally ill president?

Or a downright evil president?

I suppose it could be some combination of the two - but whatever it is, there’s going to be alot of damage by the time he’s finished.

[freekitty]

LOL Selling healthcare.

[HiTech RedNeck]

He’s bats and evil.