Posted on 03/21/2011 8:01:34 AM PDT by re_tail20
Sometimes the biggest victories are the ones that make the least noise. Lost amid all the excitement over the Rio trip, the anti-obesity campaign, and the March Madness picks was the revelation that Senate Democrats had given up any attempt to confirm Donald Berwick as chief of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It seems that 42 Republicans had informed the Democratic majority by letter that they would vote for Berwick's confirmation when Hell froze over. (With Wisconsin, that makes two examples of Republicans acting as if they had spines in one month. Will wonders never cease?) Berwick was originally given a recess appointment, another example of Obama's Chicago method of doing things. But that means that he must now leave office by the end of the year.
This would be truly below the fold on Page 5 if not for one single factor: as CMS head, Berwick is Obama's point man on health care, the man tasked with putting ObamaCare into action. Now Obama is left having to start over again from square one. This is as serious a repudiation of ObamaCare as Judge Roger Vinson's decision, and possibly one with even greater ramifications.
Berwick's problem lies in his infatuation with the British National Health Service (NHS). Berwick spent several years in the UK attempting to reform the organization without notable success. All the same, he has publicly declared, "I am romantic about the NHS." As I have said elsewhere, he sings about the NHS the same way that Bryan Ferry sings about his ex-mistresses.
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Now the maoist is planning on nominating Gorelick as head of the FBI.
We’ll see what kind of spines show up on the republican side
The deuce you say! What's next, putting Louis Farrakhan in as head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division????
That woman belongs in prison.
Gorelick???? The Mistress of Disaster as FBI director?
Barry must have some serious problems staring him down to want to put her in that position. Everywhere this woman has been there is a disaster with her fingerprints all over it.
If she is nominated, it should be opposed vigorously by Republicans. He sole purpose as FBI director would be to shield Barry and the democRATS and prevent investigations into corruption/wrongdoing by HIGH level officials inside the Obozo Administration.
TV and the newsmedia put the muslim in power and keep him there. Idiots who watch TV empower him.
AP article today by Pete Yost.
Reported in the Record of Bergen County.
Saw her name pop up about a week ago and just couldn’t believe it.
Sickening.
Let’s hope there are spines in our party.
Gorelick’s malfeasance has evidently paid off in the millions hasn’t it?
Hillary is conducting her own silent protest against that.
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