Democratic House Passes Pelosicare — Washington Political Theatre Act I
The irony was stunning as Nancy Pelosi proudly said “The bill is passed” and hammered down her huge gavel in the House chamber. The 1990 page, “Affordable, Quality Health Care For All Americans Bill”- H.R. 3962, barely read by the 435 Congressman, rammed through on a Saturday night, was only a symbolic political gesture.
Pelosi's Democrats all smiles on their "victory". Luke Sharrett/The New York Time
Folks, this is what we have elected in 2006 and 2008 — an elitist bunch of wealthy robber barons who care nothing about the United States of America and serve only for the purposes of phony agendas and re-election.
We are ten months into Barack Obama’s presidency where we have been pressured to believe that if this massive government-run health care bill is not passed immediately, people will die and the United States will end as we know it. This is a great big lie.
If a nationalized health care system is so important to the nation, then why will it only begin in 2013? That’s because it will cost us a fortune and be a bureaucratic mess. The Democrats do not want us to see how badly it works until after the mid-term elections in 2010 and the possible re-election of “our dear leader” in 2012.
The victory dance of the Democrats and the left will be short-lived as the bill’s journey in the Senate will face huge resistance and delays. It will probably not be up for a final vote until early in 2010 and if it is passed not reach the President’s desk until that spring at the earliest.
In 2005, Nancy Pelosi railed against the Republican majority that it was “an outrage” to not have 3 days to read a bill, “Members can’t even see what they’re voting on”. Now as House Speaker, Pelosi thumbs her nose at us and does the same thing.
Here are some of the hidden details in the House bill as explained by Betsy McCaughey in the Wall Street Journal:
On Nov. 2, the Congressional Budget Office estimated what the plans will likely cost. An individual earning $44,000 before taxes who purchases his own insurance will have to pay a $5,300 premium and an estimated $2,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, for a total of $7,300 a year, which is 17% of his pre-tax income. A family earning $102,100 a year before taxes will have to pay a $15,000 premium plus an estimated $5,300 out-of-pocket, for a $20,300 total, or 20% of its pre-tax income. Individuals and families earning less than these amounts will be eligible for subsidies paid directly to their insurer.
• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a “qualified plan.” If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a “grace period” to switch you to a “qualified plan,” meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there’s no grace period. You’ll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.
• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a “qualified plan” covers and how much you’ll be legally required to pay for it. That’s like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later.
The CBO estimates that this crap sandwich will cost us $1.055 trillion over the next decade as our current debt is already up to $12 trillion. You can watch our debt grow in real time at US Debt Clock.org
Meanwhile the Obama/Democrat agenda has been a big fail. Unemployment has reached 10.2%, there is still no decision on troop levels in Afghanistan. Obama is still waffling on Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Palestine. Now he is trying to be politically correct as he deflects calling the Fort Hood massacre by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a terrorist attack by a Muslim fanatic.
Thirty years ago on November 4th, 1979, fifty-three Americans were taken hostage in Iran and held for 444 days until Ronald Reagan took office. Twenty years ago this very day, the Berlin Wall came down.
We have a weakling for a President, who can only preen for the camera and apologise for the America he hates so much.
Ronald Reagan said,
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
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President Obama said he would not watch the election returns tonight and instead was in the White House gym shooting baskets. He actually did this nation a huge favor by not shooting his mouth off and offering us bullshit. We’ll leave the re-writing of history on this referendum on the Democrats and this huge repudiation of their swing to the left for Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. This morning Robert Gibbs said, “well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”
They will all say the Republican victories in overthrowing the incumbant governors of Virginia and New Jersey means nothing for the midterm elections of 2010 — but this is a bold face lie. This will also spell huge problems in getting Obama’s healthcare bill passed by the senate in January of 2010.
The voters of both states demonstrated their anger towards the hacks and professional politicians in Washington by telling them that they want jobs and the economy to turn around. This time they really voted for change they can believe in!
Obama's Oval Office Blues (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
How great was it to hear Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run”, being played as Chris Christie’s victory entrance theme. Bruce, a big lefty must be pissed. What about Christie’s supporters chanting “Yes We Can”.
Americans do not want huge government programs, being told how much they can earn, which doctor they can see or being taxed to death by a huge deficit we can never repay.
Americans do want change and if we continue to let them know how we feel, by calling Washington and then kicking their corrupt asses out of office — then we can take back this country.
Remember this night as we move forward, support conservative candidates that you believe in and have your backs. Vote for candidates who uphold the Constitution and who always know they are working for us, not themselves!
This is only the beginning of a huge electoral turnaround in 2010 and 2012!
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President Obama has attended 25 Democratic party fundraisers in his first nine months in office. Comparatively, George W. Bush attended six political fundraisers and Bill Clinton went to five during their first year in office. Mark Knoller reported that Obama has also played 24 rounds of golf since taking office. It took ‘W’ two years and ten months to play the same number of rounds.
Gen Stanley McChrystal submitted his report on Afghanistan, requested by the president on Aug 31st. Obama took that report with him to Camp David on Labor Day weekend. Three weeks later, President Obama made no decision on the report and it’s contents were leaked to the press. McChrystal requested 45,000 additional troops saying, “the stakes in Afghanistan are high” and without sufficient troops, the mission could fail. The President continued to sit on the report and in frustration McChrystal unloaded on the administration in a blunt speech in London.
President Obama meets with Gen McChrystal for 25 minutes on Air Force One
At the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, General McChrystal said that the proposals to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations against al-Qaeda, which is favored by Vice-President Joe Biden, would lead to “Chaos-istan”. When asked whether he would support it, he said: “The short answer is: No.” “Waiting does not prolong a favorable outcome. This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, and nor will public support.”
The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago’s unsuccessful Olympic bid. Since then Obama has held six strategy sessions (a seventh is scheduled for this Friday) on deciding what his decision on McChrystal’s request will be.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney rebuked Obama last week in a speech, saying the President was “dithering” and was “putting politics over security.” The White House went into attack mode, criticizing Cheney, Bush, declaring a war on Fox News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The art of distraction is Obama’s only play in his book. He does not have the strength of conviction to make a tough decision and is now stalling in an effort to avoid tainting next Tuesday’s two Democratic Governor re-election bids in Virginia and New Jersey.
Press Secretary Gibbs insists the decision is really coming after the November 7th runoff elections in Afghanistan. Today, they added another distraction, saying that Obama is now considering a scaled down troop escalation, billed as “McChrystal Light”.
While Obama dithers more than 55 Americans have been killed in action in Afghanistan this month — the highest number of KIA’s in a month since the war began. This year more than 270 have died, compared to 153 for all of 2008.
Obama’s caution, which in reality is cowardice, is an attempt to appease his hard left base, but it reeks of failure to the independents who voted for him.
Forty five years ago today (1967), Ronald Reagan made his historic “A Time for Choosing” speech in which he said,
“There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.”
Watch the speech Reagan gave below and then think how similar Barack Obama is to Jimmy Carter.
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President Obama is certainly not talking about campaigning. Obama has been on a permanent campaign since he announced way back in 2007, and don’t expect him to ever stop — because that is all he can do. Speechifying is his best asset, then put downs, insults and smirking. Being Presidential and leading this nation — forget about it.
What bothers me most about Mr. Hope and Change is the fact that he has not done any thing he promised to “change” in Washington. Obama’s statements about “transparency”, “no lobbyists”, being able to read the bills for “five days” prior to signing have all been forgotten.
Obama in San Francisco, pitching for Nancy Pelosi
The White House is being run Chicago-style by his henchman, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett. It’s nasty, petty, finger pointing ugliness. They believe they are above criticism and responsibility, no rules apply.
Obama made his first visit to New Orleans since being elected, a brief four hours. Naturally he blamed Bush and promised to help rebuild, but not a word about Mississippi, where Katrina made landfall. Then he was off to what really counted, a twin Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco. Obama raised $3 million dollars for the DNC by spouting, “When I’m busy, and Nancy’s busy, with a mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess, we don’t want somebody sitting back.” “Grab a mop. We need help.”
Obama bragged that his (actually Pelosi’s) $780 billion Stimulus bill has saved jobs. In November 2008, Barack Obama promised to “create or save” 2.5 million jobs. Today the White House said that 30,383 jobs were saved-or-created thanks to $16 billion in federal contracts. Costing about $527,000 per job!
California with one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates of 12.22% “created or saved” only 2260 jobs. While Colorado, well below the national average at 7.34%, “created or saved” 4695 jobs. All the details are here at Recovery.Gov
Obviously Obama and the Democrats go for political payoffs first, above the nation’s interest.
Obama then touted how he has begun a new era of engagement. Among his accomplishments, he said, are efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and work with other countries to stem the global economic downturn and confront climate change. “We banned torture,” he continued. “We’re closing Guantanamo. We’re rebuilding our military. We’re reaffirming our alliances. We are drawing down responsibly and ending the war in Iraq.”
Like I said, he’s in 24/7 campaign mode, with no achievements or a realized agenda. Except one, he won the Nobel Peace prize. The Nobel committee voted on this only twelve days after his inauguration — obviously because he got elected and promised world peace.
Don’t hold your breath folks. Obama is all talk and no action. As they say in Texas, he is “All hat and no cattle.”
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The Senate Finance Committee voted to send its version of the healthcare legislation to the Senate floor today. The committee voted 14-9 in favor of the package. Republican, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, broke with her party to support the bill. All 13 Democrats on the panel voted in favor of it, while the rest of the Republicans opposed it. Now is the time to burn those phone lines in Washington!
The Senate Finance Committee’s hearing on health care legislation. Harry Hamburg/Associated Press
Our Congress is attempting to ram this bill down our throats without any one being able to read the bill’s language. You must contact your senators and insist that we see the full text of the bill before any vote is taken. The U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202 224-3121. Here is the online Congressional Directory: Congress Merge
My anger over this new proposed entitlement program is the fact that we cannot pay for it and my personal experience of living in Canada under its government run program. The U.S. plan will mean higher taxes for ALL and rationing of care. There is no way around it and it will not be free as Obama and Congress pretend.
Read The Disaster of Obamacare and the Showdown on Cloture by Hugh Hewitt.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will use every Constitutional run around they can to get this passed and signed into law by Obama. Then they will trumpet this as their banner to try and use it in the elections of 2010 and 2012.
The one caveat is that the proposed legislation will not become law until 2013! That is because it will fail and it will be long after the elections before the people can vote against those that brought it into being.
Call those bastards in Washington now!
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During Obama’s two year run for the U.S. presidency we kept telling you about his radical, America-hating friends. The main stream media and the swooning fans never believed us and elected him any way.
We told you about Barack’s twenty year association with the racist and vile hate spewing preacher, Jeremiah Wright, his friend, self-proclaimed terrorist Bill Ayers and PLO operative and vowed anti-Semite, Rashid Khalidi.
Muammar al-Gaddafi and Barack Obama shake hands
Voters never even blinked and scoffed at those crazy Republicans and conservative talk radio ‘racists’, like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Now that we are eight months in to Obama’s radical leftist agenda, who’s scoffing now?
Barack Obama is a student of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, worked for ACORN and sat with Bill Ayers at the Woods Fund of Chicago. Obama is steeped in the leftist, social justice, America is to blame ideology and he brings all this with him to the White House.
Obama has surrounded himself with lefties just like himself; Mark Lloyd at the FCC, Cass Sunstein, Eric Holder, Hilda Solis, Steven Chu, Arne Duncan, Carol Browner. The list goes on and on.
The man you elected President has a history of voting ‘present’ — he can’t stand up and make a Presidential decision, he can only pass and defer to some one else to recommend what he should do and of course say.
Right now Barack is playing Chamber of Commerce-in-Chief as he and Michelle, Valerie Jarrett, Oprah Winfrey and two plane loads of advisers make a whirlwind trip to Copenhagen to pitch a bid for the 2016 Olympics in Chicago. The rest of his agenda, including the economy, Healthcare, Iran’s nuclear ambitions and world leadership can all wait. Read All the President’s Olympic Cronies
Talking about leadership and the world stage, Obama is a joke. At the United Nations last week, the leader of the greatest super power said, “No nation can or should try to dominate another nation.” At that point the leader of the free world, threw in the towel. What a disgrace.
My favorite pundit, Mark Steyn said it best in, Dog-Feces Ice Cream.
America, did we really elect this clown, Barack Obama? Were you sleep walking? Were you listening to all his drivel and then you bought it?
Shame on us. But this is not permanent, yet. If we act now and get off our asses and fight the idiots we elected in Washington, we can make a huge change in 2010 and then a bigger one in 2012.
What are you waiting for?
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Words cannot describe the emotions that all Americans felt on that day. We should never forget the slaughter of all those innocents. The deaths of all the brave fire fighters and police, who thought of nothing else but saving the people trapped in the burning towers. The relentless non stop rescue efforts and those who have fought and died to protect us. Thank you.
Words will never be enough to say what I felt on September 11th, 2001 and ever since.
God Bless America.
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Barack Obama’s speech before the joint session of Congress will be a re-write of his non-plan for Obamacare. Meaning he’s just jumbled the same talking points he’s been pushing for months and regurgitating them. Here’s a sample.
“I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out. And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.”
Of course Obama is not referring to any of the special interest groups that are already working in the White House, such as AFL-CIO, ACORN, SEIU, George Soros.
Obama in the House (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
“But what we have also seen in these last months is the same partisan spectacle that only hardens the disdain many Americans have toward their own government. Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics. Some have dug into unyielding ideological camps that offer no hope of compromise. Too many have used this as an opportunity to score short-term political points, even if it robs the country of our opportunity to solve a long-term challenge. And out of this blizzard of charges and counter-charges, confusion has reigned.”
Blah, blah, blah. Blame, blame blame.
Then Obama gives you the glossy stuff, but no hard answers to the nagging questions every American has; how much is this going to cost? Instead he says this.
“Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result. We know these things to be true.”
Are you laughing yet? My first response is, “What? Is this Obamanomics?” Spend trillions so we can owe trillions more.
Will you be watching Obama’s desperate attempt to save the capstone of his legislation? David Axelrod really, really hopes so. I just got this email from him
Dear Friend,
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, the President will address Congress and detail his plan to bring stability and security to Americans who have insurance and affordable coverage to those who don’t. You can watch the speech on television or on WhiteHouse.gov, with an exclusive live chat immediately afterwards.
But you don’t need to wait until then to understand what’s at stake. The President has said many times that reform isn’t about him — it’s about a health insurance system that is breaking America’s families and small businesses. Millions of Americans have lost coverage, are denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and continually watch premiums skyrocket out of control. That’s why Americans want reform and why Congress must act.
Thank you,
David
David Axelrod
Senior Adviser to the President
Nancy Pelosi will be beaming because Barack Obama will read every word she wrote.
Eric Cantor sent this,
Don’t let these bastards who are stealing you blind, win this one. Call your Senator or House Representative and just say NO!
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Breaking: As reported on Fox News Obama ‘Green Jobs’ Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
Van Jones
Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs,” has been linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.
Jones issued an apology on Thursday. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones “continues to work in the administration.”
The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones’s name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officers had allowed the attacks to occur.
Jones flatly said in his statement that he did not agree with the petition’s stand and that “it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever.”
As for his other comments he made before joining Obama’s team, Jones said: “If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize.”
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It seems like a curse and it is now not just a seasonal event, but year round. The steep hills and deep canyons of Los Angeles county are so tinder dry that it is almost a miracle that all of it isn’t on fire. The biggest and most dangerous fire is in La Cañada Flintridge, another is the Morris Fire, burning about 5 miles north of Azusa near Morris Dam, that has scorched more than 2,100 acres. (interactive map)
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The Station Fire in La Cañada Flintridge has burned about 20,000 acres and is 5 percent contained and has now forced evacuations as it threatens nearly 10,000 homes. Evacuations were ordered for La Cañada Flintridge, Glendale, Altadena and Big Tujunga Canyon as at least three homes are destroyed.
On Thursday night another canyon fire began in Palos Verdes Peninsula. That fire is almost out, at 90% containment. Adding to all this misery has been a blistering heat wave. Day time temperatures have been well in the 100’s and there is little relief ahead.
La Cañada Flintridge fire (Al Seib Los Angeles Times)
Owning a home in the hills and canyons of southern California has inherent danger now a days. The rainy winters create lush growth and then the hot, dry spring and summers raise the risk level off the charts.
Here are more of my posts on L.A. fires. Firestorms Ravage Southern California: UPDATE
Fires Rage In Southern California — Again
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