Fearmonger-in-chief: Pass my crappy bill or people will die
posted at 10:30 pm on September 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing,” says the guy who’s committed to doing nothing about social security, Medicare, and the mind-bogglingly enormous deficits that promise fiscal catastrophe in the years ahead while he saddles America with yet another red-ink-bleeding government program. Note well: He’s actually promoting a plan that will lead to health-care rationing as a way to prolong Americans’ lives. We’re living your dream, Orwell. Click the image to watch.
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Not for nothing, but the story of the night BY FAR, is the new number: “30 million uninsured”
No explanation. Just a new number.
LibTired on September 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
He attacked Palin like 5 times
OBAMACARE IS DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!
battleoflepanto1571 on September 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
This is a lie. I work in this field and I have seen a lot of people taken care of who had absolutely no resources..I have never known a case in which people were left to die because of a lack of health insurance coverage. I think Obama should have to give a real example of this happening.
Terrye on September 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
And Wilson becomes a pansy and caves…
Enoxo on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I wonder how good people working for insurance companies, who were demonized by this man and called basically murderers, are reacting to the gasps and John McCain’s of the nation clutching their pearls because someone called him a liar.
Marcus on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
From my cold, dead hands, you thuggish creep.
MadisonConservative on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
People die every day. Duh.
SouthernGent on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
The sheer gall of this man is unbelievable. “My critics are fear mongering liars. If you don’t pass my plan EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE!”
Unbelievable.
marmaran on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
The guy is mad.
In both ways.
JellyToast on September 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM
*cough*
plzzz
can i pleeeze haz healfcare?
*cough die*
X-(
blatantblue on September 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM
And I thought we were in the new era of ruling without fear! Remember how Obama thought it was bad when GWB did it?
Pam on September 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM
We knew Obama would lie about the legislation. That is exactly what he did. Republicans should have walked out of address en mass. This is a president that cares only for his own ego and not the American people. His ratings are tanking and he is desperate. So he lies…
IntheNet on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Man, Allah, you seem worked up. I like it.
I know someone has to have mentioned this already but regardless of what passes it won’t take effect for three to five years from signing. What kind of emergency can wait that long for implementation?
Cindy Munford on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Allah, you’re very alpha tonight– it suits you well!
Pasalubong on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
If we could just pick which ones…..
I hope they don’t really have that in mind. Do they?
tommylotto on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
NO. We do NOT know what will happen if we do nothing.
In fact, I can say that by doing NOTHING we may be far better off than following your disastrous Obamaplan(tm).
Oh wait, you really don’t HAVE a plan… just some meaningless platitudes because you haven’t read the bill yet.
KILL
THE
BILL
Then repeal the stimulus package.
Skywise on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
The punk who accuses the Republicans of using scare tactics says “pass my bill or people will die”.
That’s rich.
Hey Hussein, you have the majority in the house and senate. What’s stopping you from passing the bill?
As for his speech tonight …. very unpresidential. The pattern continues.
fogw on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Liar-in-chief.
Obama is a disgrace and a jackass.
cubachi on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
AP is Alpha tonight
He’s gonna get Twitter-Laid real soon
blatantblue on September 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Ow, that screenshot. “Hellooooo, helloooo, hellooooo….Hello!” *Three Blind Mice music*
ddrintn on September 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Was that the speech he wanted to give the schoolkids? Sure felt like I was being treated like a child.
BigAlSouth on September 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Yo. Over here. I work at an insurance company monitoring for health care fraud. And you better believe people treat me like the worst thing ever, even though they have no bloody clue how health care works.
And I used to work in hospitals and ain’t no one kicked out of a hospital for not having insurance. That’s a sue-able offence that can get a hospital shut down.
And FYI – People die every day. I doubt this sh*tty bill will change that.
mjk on September 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM
He lies!
He lies!
He lies!
pilamaye on September 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM
We were always at war with East Asia.
JiangxiDad on September 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM
You know they’ve lost the argument when all they can do is attack a former vice-presidential candidate.
We’ll know surrender is nigh when they re-attack Prejean.
BobMbx on September 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
You are on fire Allah and have been for the past couple of weeks.
What happened? Are you not feeling the hopeychangy schtick anymore?
Knucklehead on September 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
He’s a P*ssy. That’s what.
mjk on September 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
i don’t think he ever felt it
blatantblue on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I am tired of being angry all the time. I need Obama to go away for me to get better.
TXMomof3 on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Bad results(other than financial) from the bill won’t be known till 2013 when it goes into effect. He runs for re-election in 2012. Probably just coincidence.
a capella on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
He will lose 10 points by tomorrow.
This was the SOS, with a little added fake passion thrown in.
PattyJ on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I SAID PASS IT OR UH PEOPLE WILL DIE!
1)Barry I know this hurts but people die every day champ…Grandma was not special in the sense that she died…she was special in and of that she put up with your a$$
2) tehy must be dying REAL slow for you to go into such histrionics over a plan that doesn’t kick in until after “You Won” again in 2012…..
“tough decisions”
sport
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
The premise that if you don’t want single-payer government-controlled health care means you want people to die is not only faulty, it’s getting old.
ncborn on September 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Michelle on Hannity now
Ugly on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I can’t remember…did Obama ever say “I am the President” in this speech, like he does in most of the speeches he gives?
ddrintn on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Did obama change any minds? I think not. That makes taking the risk of going out there in one final desperate act seem foolish. This is prob. going to hurt him badly. I don’t think he’ll ever be able to talk on this subject after tonight (although there’s always the Greek columns.)
JiangxiDad on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Feh. Your idiotic fantasies, both foreign and domestic will lead gawd-knows-how-many people into a pit filled with misery and death.
If this turns out as I fear, there will be no statues of this ‘man’. At least ones who will survive.
CPT. Charles on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Truer words have never been spoken.
Dritanian on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Lol, I love your headline, Allahpundit!
Alana on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
It’s exhausting isn’t it?
thomasaur on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Yes, he is.
I remember your dream. You posted a dream where you said that the Dems were gone, and the GOP were working quickly and gravely, to remove “all traces” of Obama’s presidency, like a surgeon on a critically wounded patient. You said that Americans were standing all around the Capitol, watching it, waiting.
I hope your dream was prescient.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Damn, thought we had finally found someone with b*lls
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
He said “everyone in this room knows what will happen if we don’t pass this bill”. Problem is NO ONE in that room will be covered by this bill.
mph on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
AP is FIRED UP!!!!
Yesterday’s sweaty Thai Food must be working it’s way through.
aquaviva on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Obama: Pass my crappy Bill so people will die.
daesleeper on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Michell ‘kicking it’ on Hannity now…
Seven Percent Solution on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
To do that, he’d have to talk bad about his closest friends like Chavez, “ain’t no homos’ in Iran” Imadinnerjacket, Castro, etc. Wouldn’t project the image of the “New America” he is so carefully crafting.
BobMbx on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Btw, if, as he repetitively alleges, Medicare is bloated with waste and fraud, why precisely do we want more government healthcare plans? Will he still take an ax to the waste and fraud if he doesn’t get his health care reform? What’s he waiting for? Fix Medicare now!
obladioblada on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
“Pass my crappy bill
orand people will die…”There, fixed it.
JoeinTX on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
lol
yes
lol hahaha
blatantblue on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
If we do nothing 85% of Americans will be ecstatic!
txdoc on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
What now?
That’s the question. Congress is back in session. The Marxists are undeterred in their quest for total control over We the People. So, what next?
The federal government has ZERO Constitutional authority to take over health care. Will anyone in the GOP bring this up?
Will Red states roll over and accept the imposition of socialism?
Will taxpayers accept their indentured servitude?
Will talk of secession increase?
Will 10th Amendment challenges to federal overreach happen?
I will find a way to not participate in this crap. Not sure what it is just yet.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence (OBAMACARE – mine), the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
DerKrieger on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Pass his bill and Grandma dies.
wildcat84 on September 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM
and people wont dies if we pass this bill. Christopher Reeves will get up and walk!
Ampersand on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I am presently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. I cannot imagine dealing with a government bureaucracy for pre-approvals or any of the other myriad questions/concerns that I’ve had. My insurance company has been wonderful. And yes, we pay a lot for insurance through our employer plus a fairly high deductible. But, I wouldn’t change it for anything!
AndAwayWeGo on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
This reminds me of my all-time favorite National Lampoon cover: “Buy this magazine, or we kill the dog.”
applebutter on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
How can I trust this POTUS if will not apologize for calling a prominent opponent a liar during a speech to the joint session of Congress. I just don’t trust an administration that would construct such a speech with gutter language.
d1carter on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Democrats have no minds…
IntheNet on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Proper rebuttal speech.
Caper29 on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
“Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing,”
Is that a threat.
the_nile on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
All I can say is if Obama, Pelosi and Reed do somehow manage to push this pile of crap through, the Democrat party will be headed on a one way trip to political oblivion at the next election. The Democrats will be punished and punished badly by an electorate that has made it perfectly clear that they do not want what is being forced upon them.
Hellrider on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Punk.
Buy Danish on September 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I sure hope you’re right but I’m still getting that bad vibe that this thing will pass in the middle of the night, aka Van Jones.
They seem to be good at it.
Knucklehead on September 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM
After Obama’s HC plan fails, will he still remember to find the waste and fraud in Medicare and give us a refund?
JiangxiDad on September 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM
As Rush likes to say “100% of people who eat carrots will die.” This sort of cheap fearmongering is beneath contempt, and most Americans are brave enough to see through it.
The truth is, Obama’s health care plan isn’t saving anyone. As Axelrod himself admitted to Bill O’Reilly, people are still getting care in emergency rooms. Someone please show me the list of people who died as a direct result of being uninsured.
I suppose “pass this bill or people will die” is no worse than “we must stop those tonsil-stealing doctors” as far as primetime health care rationales go, though.
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM
**chortle**
Patrick S on September 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM
im a college student
and i want healthcare and money and iwant to be a janitor and get paid 200,000 a year
yep
obama will do that for me
free mcdonalds.
blatantblue on September 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM
I think the fig leaf mention of tort reform was supposed to be a game changer. By now, people know enough to parse what he says and realize it was classic feel good smoke screen.
a capella on September 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Ten thousand Brits die every year while waiting for cancer treatment.
29Victor on September 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Inevitable, but too bad.
Perhaps not the most politic setting – and I’m sure the talking heads are having fun with it – but his few words precisely captured the sentiment of many of us yelling at the tv tonight. And I remember a quote from years ago: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
gonegaltinstl on September 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Yep, we have to do something now or we will all die, but let’s start the plan in four years.
I loved the “Come to me with your ideas and I will listen, but not if you plan on trying to sell me on things that I don’ agree with.” As if the GOP could get a minute of his time with any real effect before the ‘rats schedule a vote.
Man, there is a nationwide party that is going to happen soon; anyone who wants to wait it out on my property is more than welcome.
Bishop on September 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Yes,he’s threatening!
From,Open Thread.
====================
Obamas door is open,but you better not waste his time!!
Or,they`ll will call you out!!
More threats!!!!!!!!
canopfor on September 9, 2009 at 8:56 PM
canopfor on September 9, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I actually was laughing out loud at O reilly making fun of the “we will cut $500 billion in waste and abuse from Medicare!”
And then Dennis Miller came on and pointed out that the speech started 15 late. And you trust these guys with health care?
I suspect his numbers will get a little bounce from this because he had his
training wheelsteleprompter helping him.I just wish he had gone without it. THAT would been 45 mins of fun.
B Man on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Uh…wasn’t that quote from the discussion over the Erie Canal?
BobMbx on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Is Biden really alive?
GarandFan on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
My prediction. House passes public option. Senate passes some sort of trigger or marketplace. Conference committee adds some Eye of Daschle (instead of Newt), and voila! a nearly-public option plan.
Olympia Snow will shrug and say she tried to stop it, then vote for it. Democrats will say the bill was bipartisan while still objecting to GOP obstructionism.
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I’m gonna hold my breath until I get my health care bill!!!
chickasaw42 on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Did anyone else notice that toward the end, he started doing that crazy eyed look? It always freaks me out. And the little man is going to call us out on untruths? I am pretty sure Mama Obama puts him in his place. He is a little boy, playing at being a man.
TXMomof3 on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I am glad to hear that they are being supportive.
Prayers for your health.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
LOL. “By now?” It’s only been 7 months. If most people have his number already, he won’t be able to appear in public again. He’s nothing but the delivery vehicle anyway, and if he can’t do that, what good is he…..to Soros?
JiangxiDad on September 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Does anyone here agree with his opening statement that the American health care system must be reformed? That Republican Response confirmed that, but is that the prevailing opinion?
ReaganRoxx on September 9, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Where are all the lame trolls.
I want one of them to explain to us why their party is incapable of passing this bill. Why blame Republicans for the failure of Democrats to get there own legislation passed, while they have a majority in both houses?
Have their ever been a bigger bunch of cry-baby losers on the left?
Epic Fail for the left and the incompetent man-child pretender they have for a leader.
fogw on September 9, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I think the Erie Canal was a state project, not a national one. But why does the cause of his comment matter? His comments, like many comments in his day, does not require a lot of context. It is true, through and through.
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Um…so? Does it not apply?
DerKrieger on September 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM
This is the sound bite we need to hammer. People will see this as a common thread with his attempt to cram a bill through before taking time to consider/debate/even read the friggin’ thing. If we succeed in making this the take home message of tonight’s speech, Obama is toast.
BryanS on September 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Let me guess this right if this thing passes then I will live forever? Whoopie!
sonnyspats1 on September 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM
And to note this brand new “30 million without insurance” number used tonight. For weeks, months, years the leftist have been screaming about 40, no, 45, no, 47 million uninsured and, no sir, that did not include illegals. Just the number of good ol’, hard working Americans getting screwed by “big insurance.”
Well, I guess they had to admit it eventually. But now with only 30 mil w/o insurance, does that not drive the need for “change” even further down the list? Did BO accidentally start sawing off one of the legs of the table he and his cohorts are standing on?
JoeinTX on September 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I just want them to explain how to save money by spending $900 billion MORE dollars.
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Sorry mein fuhrer but PASSING your bill will cause people to die.
Hobbes on September 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Oh wow. I think that dream is meaningful, jellytoast.
Alana on September 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Allah
You are going to need a bigger server.
Kudos and thanks!
katy the mean old lady on September 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I think so but I think it needs to be reformed to get the government out of health care. Government meddling is one of the biggest problems.
DerKrieger on September 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Yes, I remember the dream. Honestly, I hope it’s something I can laugh off as silly in about 3 1/2 years from now.
JellyToast on September 9, 2009 at 10:49 PM
He attacked Palin like 5 times
OBAMACARE IS DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!
battleoflepanto1571 on September 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
battleofpanto1571: For some inexplicable reason,Rahm
comes to mind,ala,dead,dead,dead!!:)
canopfor on September 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM
If they dont know how many , how do they know how to save money on it.
the_nile on September 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Whose the “bitter clinger”now?
chickasaw42 on September 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM
so many hotair heads exploding it’s a fine fine spectacle
Dave Rywall on September 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM
It’s about time Obama admitted what everyone else has been saying.
Palin is his Lex Luthor. XD
Orange Doorhinge on September 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM
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