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John Boehner sums up ObamaCare for the President

Republican House leader John Boehner summed Obamacare it all up for the President prior to this morning’s much-anticipated Healthcare Summit.

To paraphrase John Boehner, "Now wait just a darn minute, Mr. President."

Republican House leader John Boehner summed it all up for the President prior to this morning’s much-anticipated (hey, Katie Couric described it that way, so it must be true) Healthcare Summit:

Opinion: Who’s Listening to the American People?

For his part, President Obama comes to the table with the same massive government takeover of health care that the American people have already rejected. In effect, the president’s proposal actually takes the 2,733-page bill that the Senate passed on Christmas Eve and manages to make it worse. Even more Medicare cuts. Even more tax hikes. Plenty of special-interest deals still in place. A trillion-dollar price tag.

This latest Democrats-only backroom deal snuffed out any chance that this summit could serve as the starting point for a bipartisan consensus. Democrats are instead hoping that this media event can be the gateway to a final push that involves circumventing the will of the people and jamming a bill through using parliamentary tricks.

This is the same arrogance and overreaching that the American people are so fed up with. It’s why Massachusetts happened. It’s why Americans waited for hours in the August heat to get into town hall meetings and make sure their voices were heard.

Indeed, we’ve been here before. Shortly after Labor Day, the president gave an address to Congress designed to resuscitate his proposed government takeover of health care. That speech was followed by an all-out media blitz. It was described as a “last-ditch effort,” “an opportunity to take back the initiative.” Nearly six months later, still no health care bill has been signed into law, tens of thousands more have lost their jobs and unemployment is still near 10 percent.

All this uncertainty is hurting small businesses, the engine of job creation in our country, while Americans are rightly asking: “Where are the jobs?”
The president’s health care media blitz was based on the notion that the more the American people learn about his plan, the more they would come to like it. Now that just the opposite has occurred, the president has chosen to limit participation in the Thursday summit to administration officials and congressional leaders. America’s governors and state legislatures have been excluded. Their perspective from the front lines about the damage this massive government takeover of health care would do to cash-strapped states is apparently not welcome. That’s greatly disappointing, considering that measures have been introduced in at least 36 state legislatures opting out of a federal takeover of health care.

Also excluded from today’s summit is Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., co-author of a House-passed amendment barring federal funding of abortion. The Stupak-Pitts amendment — which reflects the will of the American people on the issue of federal funding of abortion — is supported by a bipartisan majority in the House, but was excluded from the president’s proposal. Pro-life Democrats in the House have already pledged to vote against this provision. Health care reform should be an opportunity to protect human life — not end it. This fundamental issue isn’t even listed as a topic for discussion at the summit.

The president can hold all the summits he wants, but the toothpaste is out of the tube: The American people don’t want this massive government takeover of health care. No summit or speech or sales pitch can fix a fundamentally flawed 2,000-plus-page health care bill that spends money we don’t have and kills the jobs we need to get our economy moving again.

Let’s listen to the American people and let’s start over.

Any questions, President Obama?

Source: AOL News

Obama and Democrats condemned reconciliation in 2005 when Republicans threatened to use it

First, here’s a 2005 video in which Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid says Republicans should stop complaining about the Democrats’ plan to force ObamaCare into law via the reconciliation process. Now here’s another video recorded this week in which poor old feeble-minded Harry doesn’t seem to remember what he and his cohorts said way back to 2005. If you haven’t time to watch it nor read the transcript, let us summarize it for you.

First, here’s a 2005 video in which Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid says Republicans should stop complaining about the Democrats’ plan to force ObamaCare into law via the reconciliation process.

Now here’s another video recorded this week in which poor old feeble-minded Harry doesn’t seem to remember what he and his cohorts said way back to 2005. If you haven’t time to watch it nor read the transcript, let us summarize it for you.

“Waaaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa!”

Looks like the Dems didn’t like the concept of the nuclear option until they and their lackeys in the media gave it the kinder, gentler name of reconciliation.Obama: He hasn’t gotten his way. And that is now prompting, you know, a change in the Senate rules that really, I think, would change the character of the Senate forever. And what I worry about would be that essentially you have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the Founders intended.

Hillary: So this President has come to the majority here in the Senate and basically said, “Change the rules. Do it the way I want it done.” And I guess there just weren’t very many voices on the other side of the aisle that acted the way previous generations have acted and said, “Mr. President, we’re with you, we support you, but that’s a bridge too far. We can’t go there. You have to restrain yourself, Mr. President.”

Schumer: We are on the precipice of a crisis. A constitutional crisis. The checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances which say that if you get fifty-one percent of the vote you don’t get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing. It is almost a temper tantrum.

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Barack Obama’s closest living relative is a conservative blogger and physician. And he doesn’t like ObamaCare.

Irony of ironies. The president’s closest living relative, other than his sister, is Dr. Milton R. Wolf. He’s Obama’s second cousin, a physican, a conservative and a blogger. Cousin Barack will not like his opinion of ObamaCare.

Dr. Milton R. Wolf, America’s second black president’s white second cousin

Irony of ironies. The president’s closest living relative, other than his sister, is Dr. Milton R. Wolf. He’s Obama’s second cousin, a physican, a conservative and a blogger.

Cousin Barack will not like his opinion of ObamaCare:

Our nation laid to rest this week Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha whose death was the result of a surgical error at a government-run hospital. In the same week of this ill-fated surgery, Canadian Premier Danny Williams escaped the clutches of his nation’s socialized medicine system to seek heart surgery in the United States.

These episodes, while anecdotal, underscore the distinction between free-market and government-run health care. And we need look no further than our own country to see both. Fourteen years into my medical career, I have worked and trained in both the free-market and government run sectors of our health care system. I’ve been in the trenches. I’ve seen lives saved. And lost.

Entering a Veteran’s Administration Hospital is a rite of passage for most medical students. It’s a different world. Gurneys in hallways, crowded multiple occupancy patient rooms, waiting lists, nursing shortages, paperwork … these are the norm. Gone are the niceties of most hospitals and, too often, so is the compassion.

There was a running joke during my training days that all the code blue’s of the VA occurred at 7 AM which was the worst possible time for a frantic medical student already trying desperately to finish an endless list of tasks before morning rounds. Why 7 AM? Because an unattended patient — an American war veteran — died quietly sometime earlier in the night and 7 AM is when the poor tech assigned to the morning blood draws would come across the remains. “Cold codes” we called them. These were exercises in futility whose only purpose was to allow a system to pretend that what had just happened hadn’t.

Our veterans deserve better. My patients deserve better. And so do you. There’s a reason why veterans with means will avoid the VA system just as seniors with means will avoid Medicare. The free-market medical care is simply better. So instead of expanding the government-run portions of our health care system, we should be doing exactly the opposite. We should embrace free-market reforms that will abolish junk lawsuits, rein in government insurance commissioners and allow patients to become empowered consumers.

President Barack Obama may be my cousin, but I consider standing in opposition to ObamaCare to be a call to duty. And while it is this assault on America’s health care that has forced me from the sideline to join the fight, I recognize that health care is but one arena where our liberties are under assault by this administration and others.

Nice to see that socialism doesn’t run very deep in the Obama gene pool.

Check out the good doctor’s website.

Source: Wolf Files

Chris Matthews sticks finger in wind, sees which way wind blows, attacks Alan Grayson over reconciliation

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has recovered from his election night depression and is now attacking anyone who continues to be as blind as he once was. That includes delusional Congressman Alan Grayson

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has recovered from his election night depression and is now attacking anyone who continues to be as blind as he once was.

That includes delusional Congressman Alan Grayson (D-NeverNeverLand), who says Democrats can still pass ObamaCare via the reconciliation maneuver.
“You know you can’t do it,” Matthews responds. “You’re pandering to the netroots right now. I know what you’re doing.”

Matthews is hilarious. He’s like a jilted lover who now hates everything about the woman he used to worship.

Looking back at one year in healthcare reform: That Obama is one funny guy

We didn’t realize it until we watched this compilation of Obama’s comments on healthcare, but his mantra has gone from “Yes We Can” to “We’re gonna get this thing done.”

Is it just us or is he starting to sound a lot like Larry the Cable Guy?

We didn’t realize it until we watched this compilation of Obama’s comments on healthcare, but his mantra has gone from “Yes We Can” to “We’re gonna get this thing done.”

Is it just us or is he starting to sound a lot like Larry the Cable Guy?

Source: Talking Points Memo

Barney Frank on God, the filibuster and the constitution

Witnessing the dismantling of the Democrat Party, Barney Frank had a few frantic words for what’s left of the Air America audience on Saturday. Those damn 60 votes required for passing healthcare bill are just a technicality.

Witnessing the dismantling of the Democrat Party, Barney Frank had a few frantic words Saturday for what’s left of the Air America audience. Those damn 60 votes required for passing healthcare bill are just a technicality.

“Look, we have a serious constitutional problem…The 60 vote majority, it is outrageous…It is time top shut it down. It is anti-democratic.” And our personal favorite: “GOD DIDN’T CREATE THE FILIBUSTER.”

But not to worry, he says: those forty votes against healthcare are just from small states anyway.

Maybe God didn’t create the filibuster, but we think He might have brought us Scott Brown.

Weiner suffers from electile dysfunction

Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D – NY) “I think you can make a pretty good argument that health care might be dead.”

Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D – NY) “I think you can make a pretty good argument that health care might be dead.”

Amish set to become America’s most popular religion

For most Americans, ObamaCare demands that you either carry insurance or face substantial fines. But there is a way around it! Become Amish.

There's nothing Brother Barack enjoys more than raising a barn. Unless it's tearing down an economy.

For most Americans, ObamaCare demands that you either carry insurance or face substantial fines.

But there is a way around it!

Become Amish.

Sure, the black clothing gets a little hot in the summer and the facial hair is itchy, especially for the women, but religious groups, like the Amish, can opt out of the draconian ObamaCare health insurance measures about to be foisted on the American people.

According to the Watertown Daily Times, the Amish will be allowed to opt out of health care reform.

“The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a “religious conscience” exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.”

The Amish, after all, teach personal and civic responsibility. We wouldn’t want that lesson to creep into the big nanny government.

So, it may be time to convert to the old time religion–the old, old time religion.

And, think how much thou wouldst save on the electric bill.

Source: Watertown Daily Times

– Written by Sven Waring

C-SPAN tells Congress to put or shut up, televise ObamaCare negotiations

The clowns in congress love to see themselves on television. Except when it comes to ObamaCare. Now C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb has told them to put up or shut up. In so many words. He wrote to leaders in the House and Senate urging them to televise “all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings.”

The clowns in congress love to see themselves on television. Except when it comes to ObamaCare. Now C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb has told them to put up or shut up. In so many words.

He wrote to leaders in the House and Senate urging them to televise “all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings.”

“The C-SPAN networks,” he added, “will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety.”

Not gonna happen. Contrary to the President’s pledge of full transparency, it now appears that top Democrats in the House, Senate and White House will work out all the niggling little details behind closed doors before sending this bloated atrocity of a bill back for a final vote.

Hmmmmm. Candidate Obama’s words seem to conflict with President Obama’s actions. Here’s what he said on the campaign trail in a debate with Hillary:

“That’s what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.”

In the words of Nancy Pelosi, “Lots of things are said on the campaign trail.”

Translation: “Don’t believe a word we say.”

Source: FoxNews.com, Breitbart.tv

Is Max Baucus drunk with power? Or just plain stinkin’ drunk?

Watch Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) debating ObamaCare on the floor of the senate. Then make up your own mind. We can’t actually verify that he’s drunk, but it’s been reported that he began chanting ”Toga, toga, toga” immediately after his speech.

Watch Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) debating ObamaCare on the floor of the senate. Then make up your own mind.

We can’t actually verify that he’s drunk, but it’s been reported that he began chanting ”Toga, toga, toga” immediately after his speech.

We’d guess that Baucus checked the bill and discovered that rehab is covered.

Source: NewsBusters.org

Holy friggin’ moly. Obama approval rating plunges to new low after healthcare vote

For the second straight day, the Rasmussen Reportsupdate shows the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President. So much for passing healthcare helping him

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Just yesterday, Democrats were saying that the healthcare vote would cause their approval numbers to soar. Hmmmm. Might be time to rethink that theory.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.

Fifty-three percent (53%) of men Strongly Disapprove along with 39% of women. Most African-American voters (58%) Strongly Approve while most white voters (53%) Strongly Disapprove.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove as do 52% of unaffiliated voters. Forty-seven percent (47%) of Democrats Strongly Approve.

For the second straight day, the update shows the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President. That negative rating had never topped 42% before yesterday. However, it has risen dramatically since the Senate found 60 votes to move forward with the proposed health care reform legislation. Most voters (55%) oppose the health care legislation and senior citizens are even more likely than younger voters to dislike the plan.

In the words of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, happy trails to you, President Obama, ‘til we meet again.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Everybody hates Harry, 54% have unfavorable view of Reid

Rasmussen shows what happens when a pompous politician forces an unpopular healthcare program down the throats of the American people. Hope this guy has a good lobbying job lined up, because he’s going to need it come November, 2010.

Rasmussen shows what happens when a pompous politician forces an unpopular healthcare program down the throats of the American people. Hope this guy has a good lobbying job lined up, because he’s going to need it come November, 2010.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Hide the decline incline: the real cost of ObamaCare

Ahhh, those wily Democrats. They tried to say that ten years of ObamaCare would cost under a trillion dollars. But then it came out that their numbers were based on ten years of goes-inna and only six years of goes-outta.

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Ahhh, those wily Democrats. They tried to say that ten years of ObamaCare would cost under a trillion dollars. But then it came out that their numbers were based on ten years of goes-inna and only six years of goes-outta.

Maybe Montana Democrat Senator Max Baucus was overcome with guilt or maybe he was secretly injected with truth serum – there’s no real way of knowing – but he unexpectedly spilled the beans about ObamaCare.

“Healthcare reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or it’s $2.5 trillion, depending on where you start…”

Expect an angry phone call from the White House today, Senator Baucus.

Source: Reuters.com

Harry Reid gives a pep talk guaranteed to depress the most avid liberal

Good lord, Harry. A couple more speeches like this and we’ll have to put our liberal friends on 24-hour suicide watch.

Good lord, Harry. A couple more speeches like this and we’ll have to put our liberal friends on 24-hour suicide watch. The full speech ran much longer, but the cameraman must have fallen asleep.

Source: Gateway Pundit

Ode to ObamaCare: Katie Couric reads poem extolling healthcare bill

The Perky One recited a holiday Ode to ObamaCare last Monday night.

Would Walter Cronkite have recited a poem about the day’s news? Chet Huntley? David Brinkley? Hell, even Keith Olbermann would have had more sense.

Well, damn those old sticks in the mud. Katie Couric is not about to be bound by tradition.

The Perky One recited a holiday Ode to ObamaCare last Monday night.

That’s not to say the CBS News anchor is taking a position on the issue. No, not at all. Surely, she’s just looking for creative ways to deliver the news and climb out of the ratings basement. If this works, she may try topless news next week.

We’re not big on poems here at IHateTheMedia.com, but we do know a few about a girl from Nantucket.

Source: Gateway Pundit

Damn the cost! Immortality is ours! Bwahahahaha!

Either this is the greatest health plan in history or Harry Reid is over-promising with this post-ObamaCare vote comment.

The good news is that you'll live forever. The bad news is that Harry Reid will live forever.
The good news is that you'll live forever. The bad news is that Harry Reid will live forever.

Either this is the greatest health plan in history or Harry Reid is over-promising with this post-ObamaCare vote comment:

“Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation – indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and death, which can be prevented by decent health care for all.”

Live free from the fear of illness and death?

Well, hell, why didn’t the Democrats just mention immortality in the first place? Now that we understand the miracles to be wrought by ObamaCare, we’re behind it 110%. Maybe 115%.

Source: National Review

Obama exploits ill children. Or ill actors. Or healthy actors. Or something.

Barack Obama’s personal storm troopers, also known as Organizing For America, held a contest to create a commercial promoting ObamaCare. Oh, excuse us, they call it “health insurance reform.”

Barack Obama’s personal storm troopers, also known as Organizing For America, held a contest to create a commercial promoting ObamaCare. Oh, excuse us, they call it “health insurance reform.”

This, believe it or not, is the winner. Yet another of those stupid left wing commercials in which supposedly “real” children preach to adults.

Can we ask a question? What kind of weak-minded moron has ever had his opinion swayed on any subject by the persuasive powers of a seven year old?

We hope Organizing for America spends a lot of money running this commercial everywhere. In fact, we’ll gladly take their money if they want to run it on IHateTheMedia.com.

Hell, OFA’s money is as good as anyone’s. Not that anyone’s is worth all that much these days.

Source: Organizing For America

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The “special” language added to the Senate ObamaCare bill and a translation to English

Just before the Senate’s 60-39 procedural vote in favor of ObamaCare, Harrry Reid bought recalcitrant Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote with a $300,000,000 grant to the state of Louisiana. First, the actual language of the Landrieu amendment and then the translation. Feel free to skip directly to the translation.

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu became the highest paid prostitute in history when she screwed the American people for $300,000,000.
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu became the highest priced prostitute in history when she screwed the American people for $300,000,000.

Just before the Senate’s 60-39 procedural vote in favor of ObamaCare, Harrry Reid bought recalcitrant Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote with a $300,000,000 grant to the state of Louisiana.

First, the actual language of the Landrieu amendment and then the translation. Feel free to skip directly to the translation.

SEC. 2006. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT TO FMAP DETERMINATION FOR CERTAIN STATES RECOVERING FROM A MAJOR DISASTER.
Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d), as amended by sections 2001(a)(3) and
2001(b)(2), is amended— (1) in subsection (b), in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection (y)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (y) and (aa)’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:

‘‘(aa)(1) Notwithstanding subsection (b), beginning January 1, 2011, the Federal medical assistance percentage for a fiscal year for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State shall be equal to the following:
‘(A) In the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), increased by 50 percent of the number of percentage points by which the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5.
‘‘(B) In the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection for the State, increased by 25 percent of the number of percentage points by which the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection.
‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State’ means a State that is one of
the 50 States or the District of Columbia, for which, at any time during the preceding 7 fiscal years, the President has declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and determined as a result of such disaster that every county or parish in the State warrant individual and public assistance or public assistance from the Federal Government under such Act and for which— ‘‘(A) in the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5, by at least 3 percentage points; and ‘‘(B) in the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection by at least 3 percentage points.
‘‘(3) The Federal medical assistance percentage determined for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State under paragraph (1) shall apply for purposes of this title (other than with respect to disproportionate share hospital payments described in section 1923 and payments under this title that are based on the enhanced FMAP described in 2105(b)) and shall not apply with respect to payments under title IV (other than under part E of title IV) or payments under title XXI.’’

Translation:

“We’ve established what you are, Senator Landrieu, now we’re just haggling about the price.”

– Written by Patrick Michael

Butt out! Gallup poll says Americans don’t want government healthcare

Support for government run healthcare has fallen off a cliff. In fact, more Americans now want the government to butt out rather than butt in. Here’s how Gallup.com reports its latest poll.

gallup-poll-healthcare-government

The Greatest Orator In History is having a big impact on the opinions of the American people. But not in the way his handlers expected.

Support for government run healthcare has fallen off a cliff. In fact, more Americans now want the government to butt out rather than butt in.

Here’s how Gallup.com reports its latest poll:

More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government’s responsibility.

There’s only one thing you can do to save government run healthcare, Mr. Obama:

Begin speaking in favor of it.

Souce: Gallup.com

President Obama vehemently opposes lobbyists. Except when he vehemently favors them.

“I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA.” – President Obama, November 5. If you don’t like what the President Obama says, just wait. Won’t be long before he says the opposite.

obama-pensive “It is an indisputable fact that in recent years, lobbyists for major special interests have wielded extraordinary power in Washington DC, resulting in a national agenda too often skewed in favor of the interests that can afford their services. It is that problem that the President has promised to change.”
– White House blog, October 21

“I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA.”
– President Obama, November 5

If you don’t like what the President Obama says, just wait. Won’t be long before he says the opposite.

Source: Wall Street Journal/Best of the Web

Good for thee, but not for me: Congressional Democrats don’t want to be covered by ObamaCare

Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.

Czar Nicholas. Or maybe a Congressional Democrat. We're not sure which.
Czar Nicholas. Or maybe a Congressional Democrat. We're not sure which.

Life is good for Democrats in Congress. Kind of like life was good for the Russian Czars (not to be confused with the Obama Czars). They pass laws and regulations willy-nilly with nary a thought that those laws and regulations should apply to them.

CNSnews.com reports that, “Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.”

“If Congress forces our constituents into a public option plan over time,” noted Rep. Howard McKeon, a California Republican, “then members of Congress should be expected to do the same.”

“It became apparent then that Democrats are afraid of being put on a government-run health care program,” McKeon added, “but that fear does not extend to the welfare of their own constituents.”

“This is one of those classic hypocritical moments for the Democrats,” said Matt Lavoie, a spokesman for Representative Wally Herger, a California Republican. “They simply don’t want to put up with the public option that they are preparing to inflict on the American public.”

Could this be true? Of course not. Don’t be silly. Nothing could be further from the truth according to Vincent Morris, communications director for the Democrat-controlled House Rules Committee.

“The reason we didn’t support those amendments is because the public option was created precisely to give the American people a choice between private and public [insurance], Morris noted. “Given that all Americans have a choice about whether to join the public option, we thought it didn’t make any sense to force members of Congress to join.”

Bottom line: We’re amazed to see the words “sense” and “Congress” in the same sentence.

Source: CNSnews.com

President Obama: “No healthcare insurance? Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go.”

During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.

President Obama is playing Monopoly again. Except this time it’s with 1/6 of the American economy.

During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.

monopoly go to jail card Sure, he stopped short of calling for jail time, but his hesitance to do so is undoubtedly borne out of an intense desire to avoid yet another conservative firestorm.

“What I think is appropriate,” Obama said, “is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are — are burdened by because of the fact that people don’t have health insurance, you know, there’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”

The only problem with Obama’s version of Monopoly (let’s call it “Obamanopoly”) is that he’s added one new rule:

If he runs out of money, he just takes a little from all the other players.

Source: MofoPolitics.com

Jerks In Congress need a tax on the wealthy. That’s all they need.

Now the jerks in Congress say that in order to pay for health care, they need is a tax on the wealthy. And that’s all they need. Well, maybe they need a little more.

Congress prepares to Jerk everyone around
Congress prepares to Jerk everyone around

Remember Steve Martin’s movie The Jerk? Navin R. Johnson said all he needed was the ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair. And that’s all he needed.

Now the jerks in Congress say that in order to pay for health care, they need is a tax on the wealthy. And that’s all they need.

But don’t fear, the Democrats say. It’ll just be the rich people. That’s all they need.

Oh, and perhaps a tax on kinda rich people, depending on where you live.

“The bill is funded largely from a 5.4 percent tax on individuals making more than $500,000 a year and couples making more than $1 million, starting in 2011.”

So it’ll just be a tax on the wealthy. And the kinda wealthy. That’s all they need. Oh, and maybe small business owners.

“The tax would hit only 1.2 percent of taxpayers who claim business income on their returns, according to the estimates by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. But that percentage would grow as business owners’ nominal incomes rise with inflation.”

OK. So just the tax on the wealthy. And the kinda wealthy. And small business owners. That’s all they need. And…ummm… people who are trying to become wealthy and small businesses that want to become bigger.

Continue reading “Jerks In Congress need a tax on the wealthy. That’s all they need.”

Take two and call someone who gives a damn in the morning

Nancy Pelosi, 85% of the Democrats and one so-called Republican squeaked their bloated healthcare program through the House on Saturday night. Just in time. We’ve been feeling a little queasy ever since we heard the news.

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Nancy Pelosi, 85% of the Democrats and one so-called Republican squeaked their bloated healthcare program through the House on Saturday night.

Just in time. We’ve been feeling a little queasy ever since we heard the news.

Protesters get thrill on Hill with “house call”
to “Kill Bill”

Check your favorite stations, websites or newspaper (if anybody still reads them) to see how or even if they cover Thursday’s “House Call” tea party-style health care protest at the U.S. Capitol.

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Check your favorite stations, websites or newspaper (if anybody still reads them) to see how or even if they cover Thursday’s “House Call” tea party-style health care protest at the U.S. Capitol.

bachmann-kill-billWe’re not sure if this qualifies as “news that’s fit to print” for the New York Times, but it’s bound to be on Fox.

According to Politico, at least 10,000 tea partiers showed up to protest government takeover of health care.

With the House of Representatives rapidly approaching a vote on the Democrats’ 2,000-page monstrosity, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) attempted to slow the impending train wreck by enlisting help from constituents. Inspired by the tea party protests, Bachmann instigated a “House Call” to have taxpayers visit their Representatives. Guest speakers included Actor Jon Voight (he’s great and all, but why another actor?) and radio host Mark Levin.

We’re not holding out much hope for news coverage on this story. But if it does get any attention from the media, it’ll mean they found some kook with an Obama-as-Hitler poster. Or they found something racist. Or, conceivably, they just flat-out made up something racist to cast the protesters in the worst possible light.

Take your choice.

Source: Bachman.house.gov

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