Wow: Support for health-care reform much softer now than in 1993
posted at 7:01 pm on June 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
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I’m surprised but I shouldn’t be. Universal health care was The One’s top domestic priority during the campaign and he won by a sizable margin, ergo it’s natural to assume that America’s readier than it’s ever been to socialize medicine. But consider: In ‘93 the Cold War was over, the economy was coming out of a recession considerably weaker than this one, and we were 15 years further removed from facing Medicare doomsday than we are now. Fast forward to 2009, with the U.S. stuck in two wars and Obamatopia landing us trillions in the red and it’s only natural that we’d find priorities have hope-n-changed.
Rove argued this morning that we can stop ObamaCare. If we could stop HillaryCare with these comparative numbers, why not?
Another fascinating data point: “In April 1993, a majority of Americans (55%) said the health care system needed to be completely rebuilt. As discussion of Clinton’s proposals progressed, support for completely rebuilding the health care system declined. By June 1994, just 37% said the health care system needed to be completely rebuilt.” Evidently, the more people know about universal health care, the less they like it. (College grads are significantly softer on it than those without a degree, too.) Given all that, on this issue, I wonder if having a Democratic Congress right now isn’t as much of a curse for The One as it is a benefit. The smart thing to do would be to hold off health care until his second term and focus on reducing the U.S. presence in Iraq and paying down the deficit. The more economically secure the country feels and the less overextended overseas, the more inclined it’d be to address expensive domestic priorities. The problem is, if Obama waits, the odds increase that the GOP will take back one or both chambers in the meantime and torpedo reform altogether. So he has no choice but to go for broke now, when enthusiasm for the program is necessarily weaker. Are his charisma and powers of persuasion so vastly greater than Clinton’s that he can make up for the gap in popular support here?
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I don’t know about the rest of you Americans, but my healthcare is pretty damn good. BO stay out of my healthcare.
bloggless on June 18, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Different media today.
JiangxiDad on June 18, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Also, the Bush years were economically beneficial, no matter what the media tried to tell us, and more people were able to buy their own great insurance or get jobs with great insurance.
myrenovations on June 18, 2009 at 7:05 PM
“Second term?”
Jesus H., A.P.
:P
RedNewEnglander on June 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Wait does this mean Bawney Fwank won’t be allowed to make the healthcare decisions for my family. Noooooooooo!!!!!!
elduende on June 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM
a statement from the precedent, we have the best heath care in the world, help me change it……
SHARPTOOTH on June 18, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Because most people are happy with their coverage, Now we are being asked to pay more for worse coverage, who wouldn’t oppose that.
rob verdi on June 18, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I’ve already got Government run health care… called Champus Prime…
Trust me, the rest of you don’t want it… its MUCH worse than my Kids who are on Kaiser.
Romeo13 on June 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM
If things keep going the way Mr. Soetoro plans and is acting on, we won’t need health care reform…….. we’ll all be dead.
Kenny Solomon
Locked and loaded in South Florida.
E T Cartman on June 18, 2009 at 7:11 PM
This may be good news…
Had this NOT come on the heels of the TARP, TALP, stimulus, GM & Chrysler, the appetite for this may be altogether different.
Fortunately, he may not have budgeted his political capital any better than our tax money.
singlemalt_18 on June 18, 2009 at 7:11 PM
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
capitalist piglet on June 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM
After working at the VA for four years, I so not want the government anywhere near my health care.
daesleeper on June 18, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Rove is right. However the media today has everything invested in Obama Inc. They have doubled down. Their liberal dreams have come true in this empty vessel they tout as “The One”.
ABC’s Obama special should pull the numbers up a bit. I’m sure he will have Tiny Tim’s crutch hung next to the fireplace where Obama will get his acadamy award winning heartstrings speech about families & sickness. He’ll have children suffering from cancer, old people who chose between food or prescription drugs, and the family barely hanging on paying insurance for the family and living in a world terrible enough to not keep them alive.
Obama’s TV specials are very moving. Don’t underestimate his power to “Oprah” his way through Obamacare.
portlandon on June 18, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Wait, wait, I recall that the ole pitchfork card has yet to be played.
Blue Collar Todd on June 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Clinton had a far better chance of passing health care in 1993. People I know that were in favor of HillaryCare in 1993 are now vehemntly opposed to ObamaCare, even though they voted for the guy.
Obama would be an idiot to push for this sure loser, but perhaps he is. It would fail regardless, and would just insure a repeat of 1994 in the 2010 midterms.
Norwegian on June 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM
I do think we need health care reform. As in, the government should remove itself from EVERY ASPECT OF IT. It is none of their concern and they are screwing up too many things to count already.
echosyst on June 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM
capitalist piglet,
you might have a point, there are a lot of knuckleheads out there calling for “reform” who have no idea how much this is going to screw the working and middle class. By the way in Massachusetts after years of their health care plan they ended up just as many people using the emergency room as a doctors visit, the reason, doctor shortages.
rob verdi on June 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Since when does the will of the people matter at all to these ideological thugs?
Itchee Dryback on June 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM
They better not put any kids on the ObamaCare special, as I am already paying for their health insurance.
myrenovations on June 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM
As more daylight shines onto Bama’s socialist methodology for “reforming” healthcare, it looks less and less appetizing.
Given the first 100 days, nationalize this, bankrupt that, “use every crisis to move the ball quickly”, etc., I would guess a lot of people are getting itchy about letting Bama run it, and you know damn well his “light touch” is going to be just like what happened to Wagoner at GM and a couple of IG’s, more recently.
Barry really liked seeing Hugo Chavez for the first time, birds of a feather…although Hugo at least has done something other than talk for a living all his life.
Harry Schell on June 18, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Lets see how he obfuscates the truth before we get all giddy.
Ochimpy has not yet begun to pull the wool over the eyes of an America populated by vacuous Obamatrons on the health care issue.
csdeven on June 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM
It’s been a bad two weeks for Obarfo
blatantblue on June 18, 2009 at 7:23 PM
pleasant news!
gatorboy on June 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Moderate democrats need to step up to the plate on this.
therightwinger on June 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM
No that is not the smart thing to do. Four years from now people might want change and they might get rid of the Democratic Congress. If Obama is going to have some difficulties passing universal health care during an overwhelming Democrat Congress, he won’t be able to doing in a Republican Congress.
terryannonline on June 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Since when does a dictator care about public opinion polls?
angryed on June 18, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Strategically this is a mistake for O and frankly I’m amazed he hasn’t realized that once he has all of us working for the government he will have his national healthcare program.
Pianobuff on June 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM
The time table is not all on Obama.
Democrats in Congress, the huge lefties anyway, want healthcare done as soon as possible. They need it for their future plans of increasing control of the people.
myrenovations on June 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM
I believe thats true….so why is this not common knowledge?
I can understand the ideological robots and zombies who will benefit with $$, power, or ego boost, but where is the impartial press who would just report the facts as they actually exist??
NO ONE will tell the truth??..why? what do they have to gain?..or is it what they might have to lose? Would their whole world view and value system begin to crumble if they acknowledged the truth, and they are all just cowards?
“Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
who would hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?”
B. Marley.
(sorry, I just like that line)
Itchee Dryback on June 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM
We can b ring our pitchforks to the July 4th tea parties. Obama and the democrats will get the message, even if the media covers the First Puppy, instead.
Right_of_Attila on June 18, 2009 at 7:29 PM
The propagandists were so effective at spreading fear and panic before the election, and continuing with more fear and panic after the election. Spending trillions and trillions of dollars, and adding trillions and trillions of dollars in debt finally had an effect.
People are getting nervous about ‘change’.
Skandia Recluse on June 18, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Even if the socialists “lose” by backing down and passing a smaller version, they still win. They want $1T to start right? They will “compromise” and only spend $200B. And conservatives will breathe a sigh of relief. Except that $200B will grow to $250B next year then $375B the year after and by the time you know it, $1T+++.
And any Republican who stands up and says the spending is getting out of hand will be branded as a racist teabagger who is denying health care to ‘working families’.
angryed on June 18, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Oh and it was complete political ploy when Obama stepped into office and they were comparing the recession to the Great Depression and the media was comparing him to FDR. They needed an excuse to get through their spending legislation. Apparently the American people didn’t buy it.
terryannonline on June 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM
You’re just another right wing extremist aren’t you? I guess I am too.
Blue Collar Todd on June 18, 2009 at 7:35 PM
What? Suddenly public opinion matters to the Washington elite? Really? Try to get your Congressman on the telephone. Go ahead. Try.
They think we’re stupid. And given an electorate that swept in BHO and re-, et. al. term after term…well…maybe they’re right.
guntotinglibertarian on June 18, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Fixed. Remember, O’bama claims to be from Hawai’i, where the ookelele evolved into what it is today…
Del Dolemonte on June 18, 2009 at 7:37 PM
I am not surprised to hear this. Don’t you remember that back in the 90’s Hollywood made movies and television shows about evil insurance companies, especially the mega-evil villain HMO. They would still be making them if the public could relate but I think the companies did a free market adjustment and improved their customer service. There is nothing wrong with the insurance industry that couldn’t be taken care of with some tort reform, realistic compensation for Medicare/Medicaid and immigration.
Cindy Munford on June 18, 2009 at 7:38 PM
But are they getting nervous fast enough?
chemman on June 18, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Lots o’ new racists against Ogabe appearing on our streets, that’s for sure.
No wonder ACORN needed those billions, picketing 60% of American households is going to demand a lot of resources.
Bishop on June 18, 2009 at 7:40 PM
How can it be that this crooked car salesman technique is still working on the American people?
Hurry!..we have to close the deal now!
Most people would run as fast as they could from a con schtick like that, or roll their eyes and chuckle at the attempt to be sold something using that crap.
But something that will bankrupt the country and change the society and culture possibly forever, and its..”uhhh….O.K…if you say we have to, I guess we have to.”
I just don’t believe what I’m seeing with my own eyes. It’s incredible.
Itchee Dryback on June 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM
The more freedoms that you have, the less control the democrats have over you and your family. Every move they seem to be making results in the financial crippling of the family unit and total dependence on the government for survival and in turn granting the control to government that sustains power that will never be relinquished. To nationalize healthcare gives them the right to decide treatment that could save your life or not. Your death could result from your political beliefs. Total control is the goal.
volsense on June 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM
3 miles of dirt roads to get to my place I won’t be seeing them anytime soon. But if they manage to make it out here Mr. Springfield will see that they leave post haste.
chemman on June 18, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Someone from HA needs to get the press conference clip from Gibbsy today talking about President Bush’s comments against Obama’s pursuit of death care!
In it, Gibbsy slips up and says we had the debate about “individual” _____, I am not sure what word he used here. It could have been policies. In any case, I saw this twice on Fox, and besides the, “we won” comment, and disrespect for President Bush, this comment indicates they are not for anything other than single payer insurance.
I sure wish the GOP would use something like this, and everything else to prove to the public this is a horrific plan. This Gibbsy comment could nuke anything Obama claims on ABC.
freeus on June 18, 2009 at 7:46 PM
This just exposes the gulf between what libs and the media claim everyone is clamoring for and what the reality is. I also think Obama’s “crisis” shtick is getting old. Allowing the Pelosi porkulus bill be the first shot out of the box was a colossal strategic blunder. It is failing even though Obama said it was critical, now when he attempts to use the same strategy on health care people aren’t buying.
There really is no point to this clown’s initiatives, he is already an enormous failure. There is also no better way to squander money than having politicians throw together bills in a hurry, people instinctively know that.
echosyst on June 18, 2009 at 7:46 PM
The thing is that most people LIKE their health care. Why? Many reasons, but a big one is that most people don’t pay for it anyway. Their employers pay for it.
When their employer pays for it, it shields them from the cost. . . they may be upset when the employer increases the deductible from 500 to 1000, or raises their copay from 15 dollars to 25 dollars. . . but for the most part, they like what they have.
The rhetoric comes in when they think that EVERYBODY ELSE is in bad shape. I always used the 47 million uninsured number as a selling point for my products. . . I never actually believed it though. But it’s published. Now they are using the number to say it is a ‘crisis’.
It’s not a crisis. People are happy with health care. The government just wants to pretend like they are the ‘hero’ so they have to create a ‘crisis’.
I liken the health care debate on capital hill to the firefighter in California who sets fires in the woods to have something to do.
Poor people get medicaid. Disabled people get Medicare. People over 65 get Medicare. If you are sick, and not even a citizen, you go to the emergency room and they care for you.
THERE IS NOT A CRISIS. (other than the government is out to ’save’ us)
ThackerAgency on June 18, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I think support is weak because people are looking at the massive deficits and the government takeover of banks and car companies and are scared sh-tless. The media’s love affair with Obama apparently has no end in sight, but the majority of this country ain’t down with the guy. The idea that he’s still got 43 more months in office(assuming he’s only a one-termer) is chilling.
Doughboy on June 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM
chemman on June 18, 2009 at 7:45 PM
You’re lucky. I live in a township/exurb and my ‘hood STILL has geeks showing up at our doors, the ones who try to sell that all-in-one cleaning solution that is nothing better than dishsoap. You ever get those people? I figure if they can find me then the ACORN pinheads will too.
Bishop on June 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Why are you giving him ideas? The ones he thinks of on his own are bad enough.
Beaglemom on June 18, 2009 at 7:54 PM
This term, next term, whichever President, get out of my business. Health care is my business.
kahall on June 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM
The problem is, Obama doesn’t worry about whether the people want something. He won. He’ll do what he wants. And, infuriatingly, the people — no matter how much they hate what he does — still heart him. I want to believe we could go all Isfahan on him and stop the madness, but these days our media is more tightly controlled by the government than in Iraq, and we couldn’t pry half of the public out from in front of American Idle to save their lives.
One positive take-away from this for me, though: “Obamatopia”. But I’m going to shorten it: ‘O’topia.
RegularJoe on June 18, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Change.Hope.
SouthernGent on June 18, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Indeed. That’s why progressive in this country should really put pressure on the White House and Democrats to deliver on those promises, fast.
mycowardice on June 18, 2009 at 8:04 PM
I am with you. I do not think the polls, or anything the American public does is going to stop them from getting this instituted. Rush and others have said this will kill this country if this gets passed.
Tonight I heard the Office of Budget Management is where they might sneak this in and therefore, Congress is not an issue. In other words, it will be another czar deal. A run around Congress with no oversight.
freeus on June 18, 2009 at 8:04 PM
I am not so sure there will be a second term. Obama might feel the same way.
Terrye on June 18, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I like the idea the GOP has of, well, the “high-risk pool” for people with preexisting conditions, etc. I wonder why nobody ever thought of it before?
In states that mandate auto insurance they make the provision of the “high-risk pool” for new drivers and drivers with poor records, to be sure everyone can obtain the coverage you are supposed to have when Ossifer Smokey pulls you over.
Sekhmet on June 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Two terms my a–. Bozo will be out with the rest of the clowns in 2010/2012.
txag92 on June 18, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I’m going to guess those pesky Bond Traders are going to stiff James Carville all over again.
gabriel sutherland on June 18, 2009 at 8:15 PM
And why aren’t there adds comparing Obamacare to Fanny and Freddy?
Upstater85 on June 18, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Upstater85 on June 18, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Where is any Republican screaming at the top of their lungs about any of this disaster (aka everthing Obozo has done)? Surely some smart Republican(s) can come up with a conservative ACORN/moveon.org/etc.
txag92 on June 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM
txag92 on June 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Where has Steele been through all this? He should be out there representing the Republicans.
kingsjester on June 18, 2009 at 8:24 PM
I don’t know about no second term, but I bet GM fires him.
bagoh20 on June 18, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Oh Lordy…
Over dinner last night, my lefty brother-in-law came right out and said it in front of his 20-year-old daughter.
He’s gonna “get his”. He isn’t interested in any extensions on the age for Medicare entitlement. He wants to get on the dole as soon as possible, THEN it can get “fixed” however it gets “fixed”.
Total disconnect. I mentioned that his daughter and grandchildren will pay for this attitude if everyone has it and he did not care.
keebs on June 18, 2009 at 8:31 PM
It hardly matters how much support he actually has, he THINKS he has total dem support as well as thinking he’s a freaking god or something.
Meanwhile, between his idiotic healthcare fascism and his redistricting plans for the US, Canada, and Mexico into cash farmable regions, this idiot in chief has MIchigan rural communities locking and loading.
If you’re a lib and visit a rural Michigan community, it’s well advised that you keep your politics to yourself at this point, or don’t show up at all. You risk more than your tire pressure if you want to press the talking points here.
The fuse is lit, I just can’t tell you how long that fuse might be….
Spiritk9 on June 18, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Awesome.
myrenovations on June 18, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Hmm, where are the Republicans? After all, the chipping away at 0bama’s popularity as a prelude to effective attacks on him and his policies just came out of nowhere….didn’t it?
Seriously, I think the GOP is being smart. This is a passive-aggressive strategy. An insurgency, if you will. The blows come, seemingly from nowhere. The leadership remains in the shadows, decentralized, and much harder to hit with a concentrated blow. The right hand does not seem to know what the left hand is doing—is it really incompetence, or is it plausible deniability?
Sekhmet on June 18, 2009 at 8:38 PM
It’s called giving the moron more than enough rope to hang himself and not pulling the slack until it matters.
At least that what I HOPE the GOP is doing.
Spiritk9 on June 18, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Hope springs eternal. And I hope you’re right.
keebs on June 18, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Do you think those same folks voted for HOPENCHANGE? Just curious of your opinion…I am in the land of Obamabots…I see little shift.
keebs on June 18, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Nobody voted for this imbecile because of any policy he espoused…he could have outright stated his policy was to destroy America and he still would have won.
AUINSC on June 18, 2009 at 8:54 PM
I guess it depends on which rural town, and exactly how far removed it is from Detroit, flint, Southfield, Ypsilanti,etc. The particular folks I’m familiar with out near Adrian and a tad north didn’t have a single obamabot campaign sign out there, and I can’t find one person to talk to that doesn’t flood the air with vitriol for the one, not that I mind at all.
I’m betting…no campaign visits out this way.
Spiritk9 on June 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Although I am happy to know that those folks never drank the kool-aid, it doesn’t help the cause much when there are so many still drugged up on THE ONE.
keebs on June 18, 2009 at 9:01 PM
My healthcare is great, too. Never have to wait for appointments, always get in to see specialists (if necesssary), low co-pays ($30 doc, $100 ER). Surgeries are covered.
Yes, we pay for it, but it’s worth it for the peace of mind it offers.
pullingmyhairout on June 18, 2009 at 9:02 PM
With the internet and talk radio, people have had more of a chance to see the horrors associated with socialized medicine failures in Canada’s and UK’s healthcare, too. Just yesterday, a man called into Rush from Canada talking about the nightmare of rationing and having procedures that the government ‘allows’. Rush went for the term allowed, and talked about how the Government will decide if it will allow you to have treatment….That doesn’t sit well with most Americans.
Not that your points aren’t good, but as one who grew up in Alabama and will always consider it ‘home’, would you mind very much using another name for the man occupying the White House? There is really no need to insult a fine state that way. ;)
Here’s one you could use:
My children call him Baroccoli Insane Ovomit. I promise they came up with it on their own. Obviously, I don’t hide my feelings about him, but I usually just call him ‘that man’. But tonight my daughter decided it was about time to start calling him ‘He who must not be named’.
pannw on June 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Where I’m currently located there has been a shift. Whereas people were practically having orgasms over him around election time and -certain- people took on an entitled-to-now-be-your-master attitude, this has vanished and these folk are once again quiet and unwilling to discuss politics at all.
Spiritk9 on June 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Another thought: I’m not convinced that Obama is going to go for broke on this one. I think democrats know it’s a bad deal. If they socialize medicine and it is an abysmal failure (which of course it will be), they will be blamed for it and republicans will hold congress for the next 50 years. Not only that, but the trillion dollar price tag is giving many people, on both sides of the aisle, big pause.
The dems will save their own skin and not risk losing congress for the next generation.
It won’t pass.
pullingmyhairout on June 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Odd, if Americans are so much better off under a Democratic Congress, Senate and White House, WHY would they be worried about 2010?
GarandFan on June 18, 2009 at 9:09 PM
NO. As much as I disliked Clinton, I was always willing to admit that he was charming. Not so with Obama. I just don’t see any charisma or charm with him. All I see is evil and smarminess.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on June 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM
In 1993, The Clinton Administration attempt was thwarted when the public pretty much decided they didn’t want socialism but, rather, insurance reform. I don’t see anything that would have made a radical lurch to the left since then.
Throw in the fact that, although the Obama voters won’t admit it, Americans are absolutely aghast at the way this “President” has been a bad steward by the way he has spent the nation into debt with no sure return on investment.
The filthy liar in the White House can’t bankrupt our great grandkids in the name of economic recovery AND get a program passed that in itself would bankrupt our great grandkids. This is clearly a case of the thug-in-chief getting too arrogant for his own agenda. Socialized healthcare isn’t going to happen without a clear method of paying for it and the filthy liar spent all the reserves in order to deliver GM to the UAW and other bad investments.
highhopes on June 18, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Numbers make no difference. One Won.
MikeA on June 18, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Is it just me, or as a socialistic, government-pays-for-it assumption built into each of these questions?
Count to 10 on June 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Good point. Entire communities will experience economic collapse if the health care system no longer relies on the free-market.
Hospitals, clinics,labs,doctors offices, imaging centers pharmacies, physical therapy businesses–all will have to change their business model away from the free market. Every single person who is employed by these organizations will suffer terrible losses to wages and it will be disastrous.
That is why I am terrified of this “reform”.
keebs on June 18, 2009 at 9:19 PM
MikeA on June 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Maybe because King Minus is pushing this?
He’s got the Minus Touch – everything he touches, turn to crapola.
NoDonkey on June 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Health care needs tort reform and then it will be just fine the way it is.
tarpon on June 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Obama, like Clinton, lives by opinion polls.
I used to think Obama would be unbeatable in 2012. Now I think he’s going to be one very vulnerable dude.
ddrintn on June 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM
+1
AND, fix what’s already broken in the existing socialized systems (Medicare and Medicaid). They have a drawing board to which to return. They don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
keebs on June 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Much like JFK. People forget that he was in Dallas in November 1963 because he was in political trouble. He was specifically to bolster support among Southerners and having LBJ along was a necessary part of the equation since his audience was going to be outright hostile without such tacit support.
JFK’s foreign policy was a nightmare- Bay of Pigs was less of an anamoly than the handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis (and this was before we knew how he embroiled us in the Vietnam War). JFK’s nazi-like tactics at integration in the South had alienated his base of Southern Democrats. The shine was definitely off Camelot by the time of JFK’s assassination. Had he lived, JFK would not have had the legendary mythology that has resulted in the Kennedy cult following (about extinguished) that has caused the nation to suffer decades of Teddy Kennedy’s corruption despite the fact the drunken bastard killed a woman.
IMO, Obama is going to be a one-term loser with a trail of corruption behind his administration.
highhopes on June 18, 2009 at 9:57 PM
At this rate, this corrupt and incompetent Bed Crapper will be lucky to make it to 2012.
Seems to me, Barry needs to “spend more time with his family” and that puppy needs to be potty trained. That’s more Barry’s speed.
NoDonkey on June 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM
In all honesty and seriousness, does it really seem to you like the filty liar in the White House has a family?
When it comes to photo-ops they look like the perfect family but I have never gotten a vibe that this is a family. GWB and Laura Bush had a chemistry that was evident. When I look at the Obama’s I simply see two radical racist activists playing roles with no real love between them. The kids were probably the result of a strategy to make the filthy liar more likeable.
highhopes on June 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I think maybe he is finding out that being the President of the USA is hard and does not all work like a campaign where is is all talk and slogans and bumber stickers. I just wish he had the bal*ls to admit that he does not have all the answers and step back and let some real experts have some input. Probably won’t happen.
MikeA on June 18, 2009 at 10:49 PM
I don’t want them touching my healthcare.
Blake on June 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Well, yes. That’s why all those flies invaded the White House. They’re attracted to hot air and sh*t.
Schadenfreude on June 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM
My family’s premiums went DOWN for the 2nd year in a row. Our coverage is good, Drs are great.
MYOB Barack.
outwestdownsouth on June 18, 2009 at 11:48 PM
I assume (hope) this will be the tipping point…
mjbrooks3 on June 19, 2009 at 1:15 AM
Did anyone run the new poll by China? Aren’t they the ones footing our (massive) debt…
TN Mom on June 19, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Welcome to ObamaCare:
For Sore Throats: Dial Barney Frank
For Hip Replacement: Dial Pelosi
For Mental Illness: Dial VP Biden
For Group Flu Shots: Dial ACORN
Please note: If this is your 2nd call this year, contact your local funeral director…
TN Mom on June 19, 2009 at 1:33 AM
He can’t wait on anything because he’s so full of himself.
Before the year ends, the economy will be stimulated, healthcare will be reformed, there will be peace in the middle east and agreements with Iran. It can’t be any other way.
Phoenician on June 19, 2009 at 4:10 AM
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