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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heh!
FontanaConservative on July 18, 2009 at 9:26 PM
+1
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Ah..um..about the um deficit,ah..um..healthcare spending ah
um..um..um..,a should be ah..um..ah..looked at ah..how..
can I ah..um..put this..um..oh ya..a new mindset..ah..um and
in that ah..um..new mindset..and ah um..let me be clear..ah
ah..shoot,no teleprompter,where was I,oh ya..ah..um.(Snark).
canopfor on July 18, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I don’t mean this in a disrespectful or mean-spirited way, nor do I intend to pathologize him just to discredit him, but I suspect that the President has some serious personality issues stemming from his childhood.
Does everyone remember the kid growing up who wanted desperately to be liked, lied habitually, and didn’t seem to get that it wasn’t okay?
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Morris was the first one I saw that addressed the detrimental impact of Obama’s plan on Medicare and seniors. These folks can and will derail Obama if they are allowed time to learn of and digest this travesty. Obama’s time is running out because seniors are the most politically active voters.
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 9:32 PM
From Politico 30 mins ago:
In his most recent remarks, President Obama has stopped mentioning what had been his mantra — that the House and Senate finish their health-care bills by the August recess — and switched to a less specific call to fast action.
This looks like a crack in the facade. Backing away from the false timeline. Grassley had mentioned he had big concerns with this Aug false deadline.
Does this represent an early sign that he’s conceding defeat?
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 9:33 PM
FontanaConservative on July 18, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Good one!!! Seems like I’ve heard that one before….hope he fails!!
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Does she mean individuals or is she just generalizing linguistically and referring to married couples total income too. I hope it’s the former.
Alden Pyle on July 18, 2009 at 9:33 PM
hmmmmm, could be.
FontanaConservative on July 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Continuing my earlier post . . .
Obama seems to believe that his lies aren’t going to catch up with him. I don’t think this is stupidity but maybe something he has learned from years of experience.
I don’t know him personally, of course, but does he have any close friends–people who know him well?
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 9:31 PM
interesting. I had read somewhere that he was abandoned three times before the age of 10–mom, dad and someone else. Landed at Grandma and grandpas house. Sad, but the cost of a fatherless childhood is now in the trillions.
Did you hear his call for fathers to step up the other night. It was pretty passionate and I thought it was actually a fairly good speech.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 9:33 PM
if it’s no longer emergency…
be interesting to see how many corps roll before we have a renewed “crisis”?
I wonder where the FBI is.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM
After reading the link about La Raza, I am even more fired up to make sure this sh!t doesn’t pass. How do we legally raise hell?
A poll on Facebook regarding ObamaCare currently has 70% of people against it. What don’t the fers in congress understand? WE DON’T WANT BARRYCARE!
txag92 on July 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Yeah, his emphasis on responsible fatherhood may be the only thing he and I would agree upon.
Fatherhood (and motherhood) matter, and I feel sad for anyone abandoned. In no way am I excusing his decisions or the values he’s chosen, but that sort of childhood would explain some of his personality problems.
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I’m pretty sure that when they speak of “individuals” this is a cute linguistic trick used to obfuscate the fact that their wretched policy will negatively impact, S Corps, LLCs, and joint filers, which represent the bulk of small business in the country.
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 9:43 PM
If you are a Conservative Red State is not the place to be. When I pointed out that they were supporting a Pro Amnesty RINO in a Congressional race they deleted my post that had his voting record and banned me. For them as long as there is an R next to the name the are gung ho and that includes support for the likes of John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Chuck Hagel, Lindsey Graham and they even had a soft spot for good old Arlen
Bulldogger on July 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM
AP posted a 10min speech by President Ronald Reagan against the socialization of medicine.
It is utterly priceless.
He quotes James Madison–gradual and silent encroachment in power–linked to social insurance program.
He makes the case against Social Security and socialized medicine.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Ted C & elduende on July 18, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Hennessey doesn’t rule out using reconciliation altogether but he definitely thinks it is highly unlikely since portions of the bill creating exchanges and mandates for employers etc can’t be done through reconciliation.
I would not say Obama would not do it, but it might also end up being a victory for us because it would be pretty weak legislation. He could definitely increase the taxes on the upper 1%. First he has to have something complete from Senate Finance though doesn’t he?
msmveritas on July 18, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Bulldogger on July 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM
ok, and that’s why I love my Country, because we all still have choices.
I’m sorry for your bad experience, all I know is I have to get involved and try and preserve our Nation. In all ways possible.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 9:47 PM
As a surgeon paying 80k/yr in malpractice, I am utterly disgusted that both the AMA and the American College of Surgeons endorsed this crap sandwich.
They sold their souls and their membership out for short term financial gain and without even addressing tort reform. Although even tort reform would not make this so-called health care reform any less repulsive.
Parasites……
Paul Revere on July 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM
They sold their souls and their
membershipterm out for short term financial gain and without even addressingtorttheir constituentsreform.Although eventort reformdeficit debacle would not make this so-calledhealth care reformadministration any less repulsive.Parasites……
Paul Revere on July 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 9:53 PM
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM
The President kept some pretty good friends: Bill Ayers, Rezko and Reverend Wright. (:
I agree with your thoughts about his childhood. He also was close to Frank Marshall Davis when he was young.
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
msmveritas on July 18, 2009 at 9:47 PM
yes, I think anything that needs funding requires a finance committee hearing in the senate…?!
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Paul Revere on July 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM
I’m a PT and I don’t support this plan one bit.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 9:56 PM
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
I must have missed the 90 minute special on CBS chronicling the family and school history.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM
This bill accomplishes 2 things:
1-the destruction of the best health care system in the world
2-cements a permanent libtard majority in DC for the unforeseeable future
Paul Revere on July 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM
ICBM, that link is *hilarious*!
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 10:05 PM
That is because they will tax the shit out of US! We will pay for this so called Health Care. I hope it doesn’t pass. I been writing to my Reps. This will be one huge mistake to happen. I will get Health Care soon from my job. Am worried that it won’t be worth it in the end, if this passes.
sheebe on July 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I guess I did too.
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Sorry–wrong thread. (Here’s the link if you’re curious.)
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I’m not up on parliamentary procedure or what can or can’t be pushed through on reconciliation but I do know that if they push this massive nationalization through without Republican support, and on only 51 votes, Obama and his band of socialist thieves will be courting the mother of all political firestorms. It may cause a Constitutional crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen in our lifetimes.
Win or lose I think Obama’s political capital is sapped after this.
Lets keep the pressure on these invertebrate weasels in Congress.
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
USS Obama:
Armed with plenty of strongly worded memos
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
interesting point. This guy is so apparently empty, vacuous and devoid of anything resembling character or substance it just makes me wonder how he’ll ever regain his footing if he loses this battle. He is absolutely spending every round of political capital on this–his reserve tank is getting tapped. He will expend all kinds of congressmen to get this done and may likely still lose. Even if it fails–there are going to be many congressmen to still lose next year–based on stimulus bill votes and unemployment.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Well. all I do is keep informed as best I can, pay my mortgage on time, participate in local government, plant more seeds in my garden and stock more my shelter.
I wish I could be more optimistic. America is in denial.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
If this goes down in epic fail, then next year’s State of the Union is going to read like this;
blah blah blah blah blah
3 Somali pirates
blah blah blah blah blah
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Nope, no way–no sirree Bob.
Dude–I remember 1977, driving around with my dad in the station wagon, the fuel gauge is on “E” and we’re passing gas stations, lines out the parking lot–NO GAS signs all over the place. Dad has a buck in his wallet and needs milk for 6 kids. 52 prisoners in Tehran and unemployment at 1 in 4.
America’s best days are ahead of her. We conservatives are simply toning our muscles back up. They’re a little flabby, but our throats are clearing and we are going to roar. And we shall be heard. Never give up–we need you
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Make no mistake, I was there in the lines in 77 myself.
I will never give up. You need me and Ted C I need you too.
I am stating fact.
52% of America voted for this admin.
And elections have consequences.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM
My gut is telling me that Obama’s political capital is spent. Obama’s popularity does not extend to his socialist policies. If Obama wins this healthcare fight his party will lose Congress badly next year, therefore in an effort to minimize the damage to themselves they will either defeat him to save themselves and deny him anymore “victories” or as I think less likely give him this win and definitely enact no more of his agenda. Win or lose his capital is spent.
I’d bet dollars to donuts that these spineless weasels are watching, the impending thrashing the democrats are going to get in the Virgina and New Jersey Governor’s races, with dread.
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Ted c,
I don’t know what region of the country you’re in, but maybe you should run for office.
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
It was fortunate for him that the economy was slumping right at the time of the election last year. But, that’s a door that swings both ways. That 2-3% of people are definitely swinging the other way now that they’re losing jobs, 401ks and so forth. Moreover, they’re openly questioning the foolishness that is deficit spending writ large. So, 52% was a fact last November–but just like gas was $4/gal last year, it’s $2.50 this year–stuff changes like the wind.
Obama was fortunate enough to run with a fairly clean slate from the Senate and IL. Those days are OVER jack! His slate is etched in stone everyday and the story ain’t pretty. Those 2-3% who loved Obama last November are singing a tune and I betcha it goes like “Lovin’ Obama ain’t gonna fill my fridge tonight.” So, if there were an election tomorrow and Sarah Palin were to shout Tax Cuts and Jobs awful loud for the next 24—I bets you that Mr. Barack Throckmorton Obama would be standing outside in the global warming cold with a widdle tin cup tomorrow.
mark my words….
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
jazz_piano
and so should we all….
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
One can only hope.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Anyone remember the kid that believed he really was god’s gift to humanity?? I think Obama really believes his own press. When he’s getting the applause and he gives that big wide gay like grin,, that is strange. He’s POTUS but he can’t take people making fun of his ears.
Obama has come a long way far. He has accomplished a few things like campaigning, winning a few elections and getting an agenda passed during a honeymoon period. He has been accomplished at waving to crowds and giving speeches to adoring fans under the watchful eye of an adoring press. He is accomplished at intimidating certain people.
But, the one thing he has yet to do is win a re-election. He’s never won re-election to anything,,, nor has he ever really had a record to run on. He’s always based his campaigns against an incumbent. He has no experience at campaigning on a record either. It is one thing to campaign against an incumbent and make big promises of change and hope,,,, it is quite another to run for re-election on a record. Especially if that record included things like melting your nation.
JellyToast on July 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM
El duende: I agree, this is a textbook case of overreaching. By the way this President is acting, one would think he garnered 70% of the vote and carried 40+ states.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Good points.
jazz_piano on July 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
ditto jelly
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
President Obama is a liar.
Knott Buyinit on July 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
You sound like me…pay my bills on time and participate in local and state politics. I haven’t quite gotten the into stocking up on vegetables, but if we don’t do something about the mess our nation is in, I’m sure I can start some serious canning. I am optimistic and hope that we can light enough fires under our politicians who are up for election in 2010, so they will vote against the President’s Health Scam.
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
darwin-t on July 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
He fancies himself a basketball player…but, never played…
He fancies himself an author… but, serious questions surround primary authorship for his two books…
He fancied himself a professor, but his scholarly publications are…..well, there were none…
He fancied himself an Ivy League law reviewer, but his opinions and papers or theses are …. nonexistent….
He fancied himself a Sox fan and spoke fondly of Cominsky Park…..
He fancies himself an American but….well
Hence despite his clear lack of record in education, the law profession, as a baseball fan, author, athelete…..other than that–he must be a great President…
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Eureka jazz–I’ve got it!
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
It must be very frustrating to an elite,,, an elite like Obama,,, the most powerful man in the world. He can travel the world with the best security, eat the best foods, have an audience with anyone. Celebrities, beautiful women, the powerful and rich of the world. He has the power to send men to die. He can start a world war if he really wanted to. And yet,, your future can be determined by some uneducated backwoods voters who may not even know the way to Washington or how to spell it. A humble man or woman who understood freedom can and would accept that. But an elite like Obama?? No,, that is one reason America must be remade.
JellyToast on July 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM
All of his efforts are aimed at assuaging the pain of the past. The lack of a father to play ball with, so he poses as a Sox fan. The lack of true skills as an author, so he has Ayers write books for him and now he has Favreau et al. make him look good. The poseur law student and law professor now has the opportunity to appoint someone just like him to the SCOTUS. As a senator he wrote the laws that he didn’t have to follow, he had risen above that. I think all of this behavior is a steady attempt at vindication of a lifetime of disappointments and pain. He’s been steadily empowered by sycophants and has this malleable identity issue he brings out depending on whom he is talking to. He’s everything to all people, so people will like him.
am i wrong?
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:42 PM
The media has been complicit in this “mandate to enact his platform” meme from the beginning. He no such thing.
I’ll tell you one thing though, the fact that the spineless democrats and some observers realize his political capital is spent does not mean that the media and Obama himself won’t continue to push their socialist agenda.
I think he will continue to overreach until he either suffers a meltdown in the polls or causes a meltdown in the country. Again that’s a hunch, but an informed one.
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM
optimistic and hope that we can light enough fires under our politicians who are up for election in 2010, so they will vote against the President’s Health Scam.
yoda on July 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM
That’s what makes America .. America – optimism.
Clip the wings, kill the bird.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM
once the shine is fully off his administration, just watch how his fellow democrats start eating his lunch. Heck, they’ve already started–he outsourced his two biggest bills yet to them and he’s paying the heavier price for it. That’s just plain dumb. His signature EXORDs like Gitmo were a farce because he didn’t even know what he was signing. He does, however, give a great speech. TOTUS left–TOTUS Right—-repeat. No questions, smile, glare, smile, walk off. What a job.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:42 PM
no, but people are navigating lines at Safeway.
and reading People.
Wake up your neighbor.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM
I would argue that any Democrat up for reelection next year in the wake of an epic health care bill failure will throw Obama himself under the bus as they distance themself from him and his policies as a manner to get reelected.
I bet you a dollar to a donut that you will never in American history, hear more CONSERVATIVE democrats running for office, than you do next year. Every swingin’ richard is going to be a conservative, will quote Reagan and will be talking tax cuts and fiscal responsibility. The hypocrisy will be hip deep.
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:51 PM
And again, they do not intend for you to be allowed to vote them out in 2010. Communists do not play that game once they get in power. Not ever. The only way they will leave office now is at the point of a bayonet, and they intend to have an exclusive on those by 2010 too. Of all the things Obama is, stupid is not one of them. He cannot be doing the things he is doing to take down America as fast as it is happening and still think he can win another free and open election. Ergo, there will be no free and open election.
MikeA on July 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I say we elect from ground roots. Make it the protocol that any money from the RNC except for major races fund dollars to elect non-incumbents -and experienced businessman only.
I call for new blood. Except for My Senator of course. Mr. Sessions.
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 10:58 PM
MikeA on July 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM
there may be free brass to collect just prior to the polls being declared “open.”
ted c on July 18, 2009 at 10:59 PM
yep. completely right. the economy and his wretched socialist policies have done him in before anyone thought it was possible. Unfortunately for him, the emerging consensus is that even if the recesssion ends by next year it will be a jobless recovery in a stagnant economy. No jobs NObama. Welcome back Carter!
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM
That’s nice, but what if they had government healthcare and no one wanted to work in it?
If you work in healthcare, you need to ask yourself if you are ready to be the labor that builds the Golem that destroys our country. Are you prepared to deny services, ration medicines, procedures, therapies, etc… and have less protection from the lawyers? Moreover, Will you be willing to put the Obama oligarchy in permanent power by simply showing up for work and doing your job according to their rules? Are you?
If you work in Healthcare – anywhere in healthcare- please let your Senators know when you call that you won’t be a part of it.
batterup on July 18, 2009 at 11:20 PM
batterup on July 18, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Again. American Optimism
seesalrun on July 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM
WHAT’S THE RUSH HUSSEIN? WHERE’S THE URGENCY TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY! GO BACK TO YOUR MOSQUE AND STFU!!!!!
WE KNOW YOU APPLIED TO COLUMBIA AS A MUSLIM EXCHANGE STUDENT FROM INDONESIA…..THATS THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN. YOU ARE A FRAUD AND A LIAR. RELEASE YOUR LONGFORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND COLLEGE RECORDS SO WE CAN ALL KNOW WHO YOU ARE. GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR HOUSE AND OUR COUNTRY!
texaninfidel on July 18, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Long Live Jeff Sessions!!
Paul the American on July 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Oh, a terrorist, a racist preacher, a criminal real estate baron. You know, the usual suspects.
DrAllecon on July 19, 2009 at 12:10 AM
I’d like to encourage you all to consider getting the book by one of my newest heroes…Senator Jim DeMint.
He was on with Mark Levin on Friday and I think it’s safe to say he’s one of us. He gets it and furthermore he calls it like it is.
Here’s the name of his book:
Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide into Socialism
As Dr. Levin pointed out, this man is on the front lines and knows exactly what it will take to stop these people.
Let’s arm ourselves accordingly so we’re prepared to fight.
powerpro on July 19, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Front photo: he’s been smoking.
baldilocks on July 19, 2009 at 1:28 AM
You do realize the Constitution places SPECIFIC limits on what the Federal Govt can spend tax dollars on, right? Didn’t think so. They do not have the authority to take MY MONEY to pay for YOUR healthcare insurance.
Fed45 on July 19, 2009 at 1:28 AM
+100
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1864
Geochelone on July 19, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Anyone using the constitution to back up what Obama is doing, should have their head examined.
His presidency is the most anti-constitutional one EVER.
Good God.
B Man on July 19, 2009 at 1:56 AM
The “welfare clause” is part of the preamble, the wording is “promote the general welfare”. The operative word is promote,not “provide”. Further more the preamble is NOT law. As much as AnalinCA and liberals would like it to be, it ain’t!
oldernwiser on July 18, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Actually, it does occur within the Articles of the Constitution”
Article I, section 8 of the U. S. Constitution grants Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States.
In the Constitution the word “welfare” is used in the context of states and not persons. The “welfare of the United States” is not congruous with the welfare of individuals, people, or citizens.
Fed45 on July 19, 2009 at 2:19 AM
That ‘made my day’.
Thanks.
Sapwolf on July 19, 2009 at 2:48 AM
Only those who pay income taxes should be allowed to vote.
That would solve half the problem overnight.
Sapwolf on July 19, 2009 at 2:51 AM
Yeah right. This jerk is just SO freaking believable.
/spit
Spiritk9 on July 19, 2009 at 4:25 AM
Lets go back to the way it was at one time…long ago, don’t know how long. Had to be back in the late 1700’s though, where only property owners were allowed to vote.
I say that would absolutely negate the power of the socialist fascists we have in government now. Only people with a vested interest in this country would be allowed in the polls. If you don’t own a piece of this country, you have to wait till you do to have any say in how your property is taxed, and how that tax is spent.
To hell with everyone else. Sorry, but it would solve a lot of problems very quickly, guaranteed. For one thing, people like Obambi, pukelosi, and her pet reid would be nothing but bad memories…not soon enough, but it would happen.
Spiritk9 on July 19, 2009 at 4:30 AM
Obama’s time is running out because seniors are the most politically active voters.
elduende on July 18, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Oh, if only that were true. They may have been the most active before, but there is a battle of great import being waged as we move into the future. The youth–indoctrinated in liberalism and too green to have actually experienced the world through their own eyes–will try to be the largest voting bloc in the future. And that’s why all these things “have” to get done now: as those youth graduate into the real world, they will start questioning the theories they hold as gospel right now. But if the “real world” starts looking like their textbooks, then the young never have to get out of their comfort zone.
johnny alpha on July 19, 2009 at 8:05 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071702093_2.html?sid=ST2009071702964
dude–this article is harsh on obama’s fiscal stuff. check it
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM
For all of the (justified) criticism of ObamaCare in the conservative media, their silence on one aspect of this impending disaster is deafening. Under ObamaCare:
1) state laws restricting abortion (such as parental notification requirements) will be overruled
2) pro-life pharmacists will be forced to distribute the “morning after pill” RU-486
3) your tax dollars will help pay for every abortion under the so-called “public option”
4) all health insurance companies will be forced to cover for abortions
http://www.citizenlink.org/videofeatures/A000010516.cfm
jgapinoy on July 19, 2009 at 8:31 AM
There is an Investors Business Daily column that debunks all of the lies that the White House is putting out with regards to health care.
Check it out.
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 8:38 AM
when are these dumbasses going to stop lying and insulting our intelligence
hawkman on July 19, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Here is a better link for the WaPo article asking “What next Mr. President, Cardigans?”
I would have never thought that the WaPo would try to resurrect any of its credibility considering its slobbering sycophantic behavior over the last 2 years.
This article was step one in recovery. They have themselves to blame for this.
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM
WaPo is merely trying to regain some credibility for their recent stumble on the Weymouth salons. Read some of the comments on that article. Amazing. There was also an article in the NYT that was unusually straightforward about the problems healthcare was encountering, and I was amazed by actual opposition to Obamacare in the comments from their normally leftwing readers.
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 8:51 AM
It’s a waste of time trying to convince or even break through The AnninCa’s. I just went to a dinner party where I was only one of two who voted for McCain. One of the women who I know well said she couldn’t believe I didn’t vote for Obama and that I thought Palin was a smart gal. These same people never heard of Cap and Trade, were clueless about the healthcare fiasco, and didn’t know that the new science czar wrote a book (in the 60’s) about how to control population growth through putting sterilants in the water system.. These are wealthy, educated Chicagoans. That’s the case for intellectual morons and there’s plenty more where they came from.
Nalea on July 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 8:51 AM
All the more reason to continue to prevent overwhelming and compelling evidence that a) socialization of medicine is a horrible idea and b) B. Throckmorton Obama is doing everything he can to extinguish freedom and liberty.
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM
I’m going for a bike ride~! schaaa!
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Here is the link from the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/health/policy/18health.html?_r=1&ref=politics
It is a crack in the facade.
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM
It’s soon going to be very hard to keep this patient alive. I’m sure the White House yes boys will be doing CPR on this legislation all morning on TV.
they want this Frankensteinian legislation to live so that the rest of the economy and Americans can die.
Mahhvelous…
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Here is another link to an op ed by J.C.Watts in the Las Vegas Review Journal, Death of a Medical Specialist
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM
They are pulling out the big guns though because Teddy is now out with a piece in Newsweek.
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Does Mary Jo Kopechne have a comment for Teddy’s article?
Would Teddy get in line to have his aneurysm addressed?
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM
have the epitaph written on socialized medicine by the time I get back from my bike ride, ok?
ted c on July 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM
deal
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Don’t be deceived. They are who they are.
True_King on July 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM
House Democrat Health Bill Adds to Budget Deficit, CBO Says from the Wall Street Journal.
This is why the AMA is supporting the House plan. I guess they figure Reform is inevitable so they want to get what they can out of it. Members of the AMA should write them and protest their position. I bet the state Medical Associations aren’t onboard.
txmomof6 on July 19, 2009 at 9:48 AM
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