Obama promises: I won’t sign any health-care bill that adds to the deficit
posted at 12:55 pm on July 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
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That’s how the Times is spinning it, but read the fine print. What he actually says is he won’t sign any bill that adds to our deficits over the next decade. The One knows this is a sinkhole in the long run even if it isn’t in the short run — which, per the CBO, it almost certainly is. No worries, though: “I don’t believe that government can or should run health care,” he assures us, ignoring the fact that he once famously said he doesn’t want to run the auto companies … a month after he forced the chairman of GM into early retirement. No wonder some prominent Democrats now want to, um, run the auto companies.
Oh, and he’s still lying about letting you keep your current insurance if you like it, oblivious to the reality of what’ll happen to private insurers forced to compete with a program backed by the Treasury Department’s printing presses. But then, as he candidly says here, “I … don’t think insurance companies should have free reign to do as they please.” That’s Obamanomics in a nutshell. Make sure to read Betsy McCaughey’s rejoinder in today’s New York Post about the difference between your current health plan, the “qualified plan” you’ll be forced to choose under ObamaCare, and the penalties you’ll pay if you prefer not to “qualify.” Should be a fun presser on Wednesday night.
Update: Looking on the bright side, at least we know now what his next bald-faced revisionist lie about his record will be. How many months or years before he treats us to this: “But let me be clear. We have never denied that health-care reform might temporarily add to our deficits.”
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Obama = Evil encapsulated in a black suit.
darwin on July 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM
And yes, we all believe the good King…
d1carter on July 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Well…ain’t this interesting?
“I … don’t think insurance companies (car companies, banks, that Korean restaurant down the street, conservative blogs, private entrepreneurs, hospitals, churches, schools, et al.) should have free reign to do as they please.”
Gotta learn to read between the lines every time Obama says anything.
1281 days until a new President is inaugurated…can we hold out?
coldwarrior on July 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Liar……
Seven Percent Solution on July 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Of COURSE it’ll be a fun presser! He’ll already know all the questions, so what’s not to love?!?
tree hugging sister on July 18, 2009 at 1:02 PM
The mask keeps slipping….revealing what we’ve all known ever since ever since
He’s a 3rd-rate, affirmative-action poster boy, race hustling, fascist piece of shit.
My bet still stands on him not seeing out his first term.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM
The sad thing is most people just take what he says, however contradictory from one day to the next, at face value.
Hesiodos on July 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM
“I did not.. have… sexual… relations with that woman”
katy on July 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Isn’t it amazing how The Precedent tells such transparent lies without flinching? Does he think that people don’t know he’s lying? I have never seen anyone tell such transparent and obvious lies without flinching, at all. It’s as if he enjoys the lying as much as anything. The Precedent gets some perverse kick out of the fact that he can get on TV, say something that a five year old knows is moronic, and everyone still treats him as if he knows what he’s talking about. People need to really meditate on this aspect of the sociopath in the White House and come to an understanding of what it really means. It ain’t pretty.
Orange. Jumpsuit.
progressoverpeace on July 18, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Can’t wait for him to start wearing a uniform…….
Seven Percent Solution on July 18, 2009 at 1:04 PM
The presser on Wednesday night will either be a another set-up or Obama won’t take questions because he knows the health care debacle won’t stand the scrutiny. I wonder if anyone will ask him about Claire McCaskill’s staffer flipping off peaceful health care protestors and then locking the door, closing the blinds, and hunkering down inside the office in an arrogant attempt to silence the protest. 2010 cannot come soon enough to throw the jackals out.
College Prof on July 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM
This man still thinks he is on the campaign trail where he can give a soundbite to a problem, give an innocuous solution and then tilt his head for applause. He peaked somewhere around St. Louis on the campaign trail and is apparently having a hard time coming to terms with the fall from grace.
sherry on July 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM
I’m getting a strong feeling that this isn’t going as smoothly and as quickly for Obama as he thought it would. It is starting to get more scrutiny since the CBO dropped its bombshell. Some of the wiser heads in the House learned from the non-stimulus. People. Don’t. Want. It.
My gut feeling? It will, like Cap-and-Tax, barely, BARELY pass the House and die in the Senate, and the Obama presidency will never recover.
Of course, I’ll add my default disclaimer: I reserve the right to be wrong about this.
Gottafang on July 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM
I would give just about anything for the press to ask actual and difficult questions on Wednesday.
myrenovations on July 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Well, excellent, I won’t give it another thought then. Sucker!!
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM
I will be interested to see if opposing viewpoint ads will be allowed this time. Time to see just how much in the tank the media really is for this president.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Our precious Liar-in-Chief.
petefrt on July 18, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Just like any good Chicago Democratic Machine Politician, he speaks out of both sides of his mouth oh so well, while lying through his teeth.
And just as with any good Chicago Democratic Machine Politician, every word he utters should be taken with a proverbial grain of salt and not be trusted.
pilamaye on July 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Evil no matter what he’s wearing.
Daggett on July 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Yeah, right. You’re anticipating tough questions? Maybe about Bo & his new chew toy, but not about Obamacare.
KS Rex on July 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Healthcare reform was the number one issue in the election. How blocking it seems smart to GOP?
I don’t get it.
But whatever.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Does this man’s gall have no limits? (Rhetorical question, that.)
creatocon on July 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM
The Dems can pass this without a single Rep vote. Leadership…?
d1carter on July 18, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Well, if he’s going to promise….
29Victor on July 18, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Oh, if I were a conservative politician? I’d run from the GOP on this one.
I think it will seal the final deal on the death of the GOP.
People are dealing with the real issues in life. The GOP seems entirely into ideology and out of touch with real life on this one.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Is there any way we can Honduras him? I mean, get our military to arrest him and drop him off in some other country?
Daggett on July 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM
So, you like the 1,018 page plan that came out of the House this week?
What did you like about it?
How is the GOP opposing healtcare at all? The Democrats have the votes, so if there is any real opposition, it comes from them, not from the GOP.
myrenovations on July 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Vive la Revolution.
Obama lied, America died.
Skywise on July 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM
The President opens: “This is an issue that affects the health and financial wellbeing of every American.”
Isn’t that a strong argument as to why the federal government has absolutely NO BUSINESS in further meddling in this issue? Isn’t this a predicate as to why every family ought to do the best to bargain for themselves?
clorensen on July 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Obama is no different than the grinch trying to steal away the american spirit, yet the teleprompter sees him as an idiot.
Teleprompter to obama: “Your an idiot”
Obama: “I’m an idiot”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuqPnLPshU
jaboba on July 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM
“Read my lips, no new….er, can’t use that line can I?”
Patriot811 on July 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM
How this chump can lie! Anyone who believes this schlock deserves to live under it. Of course the MSM will cover for him with their own lies and distortions, but likewise whoever believes their schlock also deserves to live under it as well.
cjk on July 18, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Because national suicide is, generally, bad policy. Blocking it is called … survival.
You’re not a big fan of the Constitution, I see.
progressoverpeace on July 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM
liar, plain and simple.
rob verdi on July 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Look at the polls.
ddrintn on July 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM
redrock on July 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Do you acknowledge any limits on the federal government, at all?
progressoverpeace on July 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM
I have no clue as to why you think this is a constitutional violation.
The constitution allows for laws to be passed on behalf of people.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM
don’t feed the trolls.
redrock on July 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM
And we thought the Clintons were liars.
Speakup on July 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
You a medical marijuana user, Ann?
Patrick S on July 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
And start smoking cigars.
cjk on July 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I’m convinced, Ron….you really can’t fix stupid.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I am well aware of that. It’s sad.
Any laws?
progressoverpeace on July 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I have. I see 76% in favor of reform.
You know, what I think the insiders, whether Dem or Gop are doing?
Confusing everyone.
But it’s not going to work in the long run.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Anne, getting rid of Bush and anything like him was the number one issue of the election. Health care is your hobby horse. Considering the massive cuts and encouragement of seniors to forgo life extending treatments in this package I am at a loss as why you are so supportive. I am 55 and am offended at the obvious attempt to cure both health care and Social Security by having older citizens embrace death at their earliest opportunity. Wake up.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Wanna buy a bridge?
davidt on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
You may allow Boxer, Pelosi and Feinstein pick your health care options; I will take care of myself, thank you.
clorensen on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Ann. There are genuinely stupid people in this world, and you appear to rank among them. Have some dignity and bugger off.
This ‘healthcare reform’ is disgracefully unconstitutional, hence illegal
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Uh… NO it was NOT. Just because you keep saying that doesn’t make it so.
Skywise on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
But Johnknee said it was our responsibility to fix people.
myrenovations on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
I loved his first address to the nation.
progressoverpeace on July 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM
All of Obama’s promises have an expiration date.
Enoxo on July 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM
PEOPLE, LISTEN UP!!!
This things will DIE in the Senate, just like Cap and Tax.
We must always, ALWAYS remind people of one simple thing: 60
BPD on July 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM
+1
d1carter on July 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM
How is the GOP blocking it? By filibuster? oh wait…
BPD on July 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM
I call bullshit!!!
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM
The GOP has a lternate plan that DOESN’T bankrupt the country.
sonofdy on July 18, 2009 at 1:21 PM
The word “reform” is always a lightning rod when it comes to a government program. The details of this plan are the problem for most Americans and they should be for you also.
sherry on July 18, 2009 at 1:22 PM
heh… Complete with medals I’m sure.
“I got this medal for increasing unemployment, this medal for quadrupling the deficit, this medal increasing welfare rolls, this medal for perfect use of the race card…..”
Hog Wild on July 18, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Penalizing people for not purchasing a government plan is violation of the constitution. It overrides states rights, let alone individual rights.
Skywise on July 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Will any of the press have the guts to ask why we are not just freezing outlays for Medicare and Medicaid – the only parts of health care that the federal government is on the hook for?
The only way to truly stop Medicare and Medicaid from bankrupting us is to freeze them. Anything else is a ruse designed to rob this nation and destroy us.
I get so incensed that the MSM lets this miserable POS speak about my private health insurance as if the government pays for it and they have the right to do whatever they want with it.
Freeze Medicare and Medicaid outlays. Period.
progressoverpeace on July 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Liar Liar Mom Pants on Fire!
Bulldogger on July 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM
AnninCA, there is a larg block of opposition in the Hous coming from the Progressive Caucus. They say they won’t vote for any bill that doesn’t have the forced “public option”.
The Blue Dogs are opposing ObamaCare on the basis of cost.
The GOP can talk until they are blue in the face and ObamaCare would still pass.
It’s the various Democrat factions that are blocking what you so desire.
myrenovations on July 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Another thread hijacked and railroaded by the stupidity and ignorance of AnninCa, the infamous troll from California.
Waiting patiently for the BS comments on the wonderfullness of Kaiser from AnninCa in 5….4….3…..
Knucklehead on July 18, 2009 at 1:26 PM
If the definition of “insanity” is “the ability to hold opposite views at the same time,” Obama is nuttier than squirrel poo.
The only thing more bizarre than a psych report on him would be a toxicology report on Michael Jackson.
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RJGatorEsq. on July 18, 2009 at 1:27 PM
As the great Glen Beck would say:
OBAMA, GET OFF MY HEALTH-CARE….AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Falz on July 18, 2009 at 1:27 PM
The GOP blocking this?
That’s funny.
The Dems have the White House, the Senate and the House, the whole enchilada is their’s…they own this. All of it.
If it fails it will fail because maybe just maybe there are a few in the Dem party who understand the overall danger of this plan, and this presidency…and how seriously it will damage all of America in very short order.
coldwarrior on July 18, 2009 at 1:27 PM
“I think it will seal the final deal on the death of the GOP.
People are dealing with the real issues in life. The GOP seems entirely into ideology and out of touch with real life on this one.”
This is EXACTLY what is wrong with the United States today. People, especially on the liberal side are looking at this from nothing more than a partisan angle.
AnnInCa, something more than the demise of a poltical party is involved here – it is the demise of you as an individual with individual rights.
I pay for my own healthcare – my insurance plan is strictly a catastrophic scenario plan. I am single and i dont need anything other than that.
With ObamaCare, my plan that I decided for myself may very well be “non qualified” ! And i will either have to pay a penalty of thousands of dollars during tax time or force myself to be registered in these “qualified plans”.
Modern day liberalism is built on co-ercive mandates – Mark Levin hits the nail on the head when he says that it is wrong to call them “liberals” – these morons want to enslave you and chain you to the state. They are STATISTS.
It is surprising that liberal woman like you who shout and scream that the Government should not come between you and your doctor if you want to have an abortion, now have no problems with the Government coming between you and your doctor.
AnnInCa, you remind me of why I stopped being a lefty- you lefties NEVER could be accused of idealogical consistency.
When Obama said that “in collective salvation, lies our individual salvation” I took it for nothing more than the average Marxist rant. But this guy is turning positively tyrannical now.
My decision to move back to India seems awesome by the day. Even us Indians who are known collectivists have more freedoms in choosing our healthcare plans. I can frankly see the day when India can describe itself as much more free than America.
AnnInCA, enjoy your socialist paradise.
nagee76 on July 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM
How will this Wednesday “presser” be run? I think it will be a 60 minute speech, probably with pathetic “Queen for a Day” candidates standing behind him.
I seem to recall a recent carefully organized “ABC Town Hall” where a neurologist MD was able to slip in a question about a patient named “OBAMA” (becase they were related to Messiah) and the need for that patient to go OUT of the plan to get the necessary care needed ——-Questions like these directly to the Messiah will NOT happen again.
Marcus on July 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Obnoxious
Bastard
And
Motherf——
Assh—
MaiDee on July 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Yes, and he’ll still love us in the morning.
oldernwiser on July 18, 2009 at 1:29 PM
You know who could have used from health care from the government 40 years ago today? Mary Jo that’s who.
Caper29 on July 18, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Well, it might be true that Obama’s plan won’t add to the deficit over 10 years. He’ll just spike tax rates through the roof and ration care to strictly that Americans will start going to Canada for health care. Voila, no “deficits.” But not a very nice health care or taxation system. . .
Outlander on July 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM
60
BPD on July 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM
from = some
Caper29 on July 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Heck, take it all the way back. Remember when he was a newly minted senator and he assured us he wasn’t going to run for President because he lacked experience?
a capella on July 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Yet another example of one of the biggest lies in the worldl; right up there with “Just let me put the head in.”
MikeA on July 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Bingo!!
katy on July 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Wow, he must really think people are stupid if he can make a promise like that with a straight face, given how many times in the past he has gone back on his word and done the exact opposite of what he had sworn he would not do.
Dreadnought223 on July 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM
I don’t get it.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM
And you sadly never will.
txag92 on July 18, 2009 at 1:32 PM
New headline on HuffPo minutes old: “The gloves are off – Obama to target Blue Dog House Democrats opposing his bill”.
Marcus on July 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I believe Teddy decided to ration health care for her. Obviously an useless eater.
a capella on July 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM
thomasaur on July 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Obama knows that the public is woefully uninformed about how many times he has gone back on his word. He can keep doing it until people catch on. The media is doing a great job keeping the people from catching on.
myrenovations on July 18, 2009 at 1:35 PM
The easiest way to lower health care costs is to stop paying doctors and hospitals. That is what will happen under government run health insurance.
Now, if an insurance company does this, you can sue them and change insurance companies. They generally pay up after a lawsuit. When the government does it, there will be nobody to sue, and no alternative to accept.
Insurance companies try to lower the costs of health care daily. That’s what helps them stay profitable. They negotiate rates with doctors and hospitals that get to brinksmanship status all the time. Hospitals will stop accepting insurance if they don’t like the contract. Insurance companies will stop paying the claims if the hospital doesn’t play ball with their cost cutting contract.
The government will cut costs by cutting payments when costs get out of control. As a result, hospitals will shut their doors.
Insurance companies pay TRILLIONS each year in claims. This is where the hospitals get their revenue. If the government wants to take over their claims, they’ll happily let them do it.
ThackerAgency on July 18, 2009 at 1:35 PM
LYING EMPTY SUIT.
stenwin77 on July 18, 2009 at 1:36 PM
FIFHuffPost
ChrisB on July 18, 2009 at 1:36 PM
If I were related to AnninCa, I would have strangled her at a family function by now. Stupider than the day is long.
venividivici on July 18, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Yep.
Zorro on July 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
First, look at what they’ve written. REALLY look, especially the sections about not being able to change companies except to go on Messiahcare after the bill takes effect, the provision that a change in your copay means you have to leave your insurance to go on Messiahcare, or the part about counseling the elderly every 5 years about “end of life choices.”
Decide if you think politicians, specifically congress – the least-trusted body of government – should make the kinds of decisions about your life that they are taking for themselves in this bill.
After that, if you don’t see why someone has to block this blatant intrusion into how we live our lives, then there’s really no point in continuing a discussion. You’ve given yourself over to the government and see nothing wrong with it.
The funny thing about American socialists is that, while embracing totalitarian ideals, they’ve never really lived that way, so they actually don’t know what they’re wishing for.
Conservatives, on the other hand, don’t need to live like 1950’s Soviet citizens in order to know they wouldn’t like it.
n0doz on July 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
You forgot an “as I said”. Announcements this dire need some of O’s masturbatory self-referencing.
Lehosh on July 18, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Healthcare reform was the number one issue in the election. How blocking it seems smart to GOP?
I don’t get it.
But whatever.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM
RAS:
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democrats favor the creation of a government insurance alternative. But Republicans (73%) and voters not affiliated with either party (62%) are opposed.
artist on July 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM
!!Petty alert!!
Would you look at that picture!!! It should be in the dictionary next to the word arrogance.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM
For those who blame the Republicans for stopping this, where have Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod decided to run ads? In Conservative DEMOCRAT districts. Why? Not because they’re Republicans.
The quickest way to get the rest of America to end up like California, let the Californians (Pelosi, Waxman) start making policy.
bflat879 on July 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Hey! Why don’t we reform government instead? I wonder if anyone in Congress has thought of this.
darwin on July 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Sounds like we need some sort of score card web page that shows all the promises and statements Obama has made and then gone back on. Beginning with his declaration that he wasn’t going to run for President, having just been elected to the Senate. Sort of like the Joe Biden Gaffometer.
Dreadnought223 on July 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Whenever he strikes his most arrogant poses, he looks like a wax figurine.
myrenovations on July 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Hey! Why don’t we reform government instead? I wonder if anyone in Congress has thought of this.
darwin on July 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM
That involves common sense.
txag92 on July 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM
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