Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 24, 2009

Question: Do any of the various obamacare bills floating around congress specifically state, “The government of the United States of America will fund abortions?”  The short answer is, “Obviously not!” Obviously, because even abortion-loving, leftist Democrats know that including such language or any other language suggesting government-endorsed payments for terminating the lives of the pre-born in any obamacare package would ignite a firestorm of opposition and doom it to failure.

In today’s Washington Post, RNC Chairman Michael Steele outlined what the GOP is calling it’s Senior Health Care Bill Of Rights: PROTECT MEDICARE AND NOT CUT IT IN THE NAME OF HEALTH CARE REFORM: President Obama and Congressional Democrats are promoting a government-run health care experiment that will cut over $500 billion from Medicare to be used to pay for their plan. Medicare should not be raided to pay for another entitlement. Yes, you read that right.

Here’s another fun detail from last night’s Americans For Prosperity teletown hall, which featured Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Both politicians said that if a health care bill passes, it should be actively fought and resisted through a collective effort of conservative governors. A caller asked DeMint what the states could do [...]

According to the NH Political Report , Rep. Carol Shea Porter (D-NH 1) will finally hold meetings with constituents in person. The meetings are scheduled for this coming Saturday, August 29, in Manchester and Portsmouth.   11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Norris Cotton Federal Building 275 Chestnut Street Manchester, NH  03101 Doors open at 10:00 a.m.  2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building 80 Daniel Street Portsmouth, NH  03801 Doors open at 1:00 p.m.

Via Memeorandum : If the Left wishes to bring the heart breaking case of Terri Schiavo in to the health care debate something more honest than The Schiavo Saga and “Death Panels”. The author attempts to smear those who tried unsuccessfully to protect Terri as hypocrites: This isn’t just an amusing example of hypocrisy, however.

Posts about Bill O’Reilly as of August 24, 2009 – thedailyparr.com 08/24/2009 Posts about Bill O’Reilly as of August 24, 2009 – thedailyparr.com 08/24/2009 Larry Gellman: It Was Never Fair and Balanced — Now It’s Not Even News – huffingtonpost.com 08/24/2009 We are all painfully familiar with the many casualties of the deep economic decline that has ravaged the value of our homes, businesses, and investment accounts. Another less obvious victim of the economic crisis has been the truth.

Michelle Obama placed an article up this morning about Daschle and his ties to Obama.  She also placed several tidbits from her book on the blog and Chapter One is HORRENDOUS!  The cheating and infightng is comical and sad.  I just wonder where in the United States Constitution all of this is sanctioned. From Michelle Malkin about half-way down: [...] Another empty promise. Over the weekend, the New York Times detailed just how cozy Daschle has been with the White House and the health care industry over the past six months.

The Detroit Free Press noticed something that flew over the heads of the mainstream media: Obama’s healthcare plan includes $10 billion to supplement pension plans in big unions . Buried in HR3200 is “80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for claims between $15,000 and $90,000 for retirees age 55 to 64,” with 30 cents per dollar in the future. This explains why the unions are astroturfing the town halls and violently suppressing the opposition.

No kidding. The feds want “all baby boys born in the United States” circumcised. Experts are also considering whether the surgery should be offered to adult heterosexual men whose sexual practices put them at high risk of infection. But they acknowledge that a circumcision drive in the United States would be unlikely to have a drastic impact: the procedure does not seem to protect those at greatest risk here, men who have sex with men.

From CNSNews.com , today: Restaurant chains with 20 or more stores would be required to display nutrition information, including calorie counts and “suggested daily caloric intake” on their menus, under a mandate contained in [ Section 325 of] the health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee…. Someone just sent me the following surprisingly funny bit posted by the ACLU back in 2005 to protest nationalized IDs .

Cynical yet effective, at least short-term.Republicans want reform that should, first, do no harm, especially to our seniors. That is why Republicans support a Seniors’ Health Care Bill of Rights, which we are introducing today, to ensure that our greatest generation will receive access to quality health care. We also believe that any health-care reform should be fully paid for, but not funded on the backs of our nation’s senior citizens.The Republican Party’s contract with seniors includes tenets that Americans, regardless of political party, should support.

I went to the doctor the other day and received some terrible news.  It came as quite a shock because, while I had not been feeling great — I was running a slight fever and I had the sniffles — I felt pretty good for a guy my age.  So to hear my doctor tell me that I needed immediate and radical surgery I was sent for a bit of a loop.

RUSH: Obama Revives VA DEATH BOOKwww.rushlimbaugh.com ^ | August 21, 2009 | Rush Limbaugh Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 11:20:06 AM by Yosemitest “If President Obama wants to better understand why America’s discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care.

President Obama said on Saturday: “Some are also saying that coverage for abortions would be mandated under reform. Also false. When it comes to the current ban on using tax dollars for abortions, nothing will change under reform.” FactCheck.org reported on Friday: “As for the House bill as it stands now, it’s a matter of fact that it would allow both a “public plan” and newly subsidized private plans to cover all abortions.” The House bill would mandate the establishment of at least one insurance plan that covers elective abortions in every regional health-care “exchange” for federally-subsidized plans.

These ‘private/public partnerships” are great aren’t they? Private gets the tax dollars and the public gets screwed. We got the Treasury/bankster partnership. We got the Pharma/Obamacare partnership. We got the GM/Treasury partnership. We got the car dealer/clunker czar partnership. We got the Union retirement fund bailout/Treasury partnership. Hate to tell you folks, but the “capitalist” CEO’s want to shift their employees to Obamacare from expensive private health care, too.

Cash for Refrigerators, Cash for Appl… – Right Pundits Now that the Cash for Clunkers program is over, your tax dollars will begin funding the Cash for Refrigerators and Appliances program …. Cash For Appliances Program To Kick O… – NewsNet5.com Stimulus money will pay for rebates to encourage people to get rid of older appliances and replace them with ones that are more energy efficient. …. ‘Cash for clunkers’ deal boosts US ca… – guardian.co.uk In a variation of the programme, the Obama administration is to introduce a cash-for-appliances deal this autumn.

WSJ: Obama and Shinseki now pressuring Veterans toward EuthanasiaHUman Events e-mail ^ | 8/24/09 | Connie Hair Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 1:57:19 PM by nmhThe Wall Street Journal just published a shocking editorial written by a respected University President, confirming the Obama Administration is now using VA hospitals to order doctors to pressure all military veterans to sign “pull the plug” do-not-resuscitate orders, hastening their premature deaths through mandatory “end of life”

Marine Corps Vet Blasts Dem Congressman for Calling ObamaCare Protesters ‘Brown Shirts’ [AWESOME!!!]Newsbusters ^ | August 23, 2009 | Noel Sheppard Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 3:01:08 PM by grundleOn August 5, Congressman Brian Baird (D-Wash.) likened recent town hall meeting protesters to Nazis:“What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics.

Why unions are “Astroturfing” health-care town halls.

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Just as the Obama administration tries to reassure people that the government can manage the health-care system more competently than what we have now, one of its single-payer systems demonstrates exactly what we can expect from ObamaCare.  The VA mistakenly informed 1200 veterans that they have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a 100% fatal condition.  They blamed it on a “coding error” (via JWF):At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly

V ia Pandagon : Democrats are choosing to “go it alone” without the country if they opt to pass healthcare reform on a party-lines basis, one Republican congressman accused Thursday. “If they go it alone without the Republicans, it also sounds like they want to go it alone without the American people,” Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told a conservative news radio program in an interview. Rep.

Andrew is a lucky man. Julie is the hottest reporter on television. (hat tip johnny$ ) Related Posts Rumors Of Glenn Beck Suspension — Debunked Video: Shepard Smith Rips Obama Spokesman Over Public Option Video: Dennis Miller Unloads On Nancy Pelosi Video: Meet The Obama ‘Dis-Disinformation Czar’ Video: Mark Levin Talks ObamaCare Protests With Hannity

In one of this morning’s editorials, the Union-Tribune claims that “many Americans oppose” the so-called “public option” part of proposed healthcare reform “because they think that it will undermine private insurance.” The editorial also claims that “Obamacare is unpopular with the majority of Americans.” It appears that the editorial writer is doing some kind of language dance aimed at implying that there are more Americans opposed to the idea of setting up a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurance than there are who are supportive of it.

Jonathan Adler over at The Volohk Conspiracy is tackling the question, “ Is ObamaCare Constitutional. ” It a long post, full of references to cases, some of which I can actually recognize, but it’s a good read if you are a Constitutional thinker. They have some great commenters over there as well. Make sure to read on into them, as they ask and answer some great questions about the matter.

In his August 23 column “Where Bush Missed, Obama has a Shot,” Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus [email him] says Americans who oppose taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens are spreading “misinformation,” telling “whoppers,” etc.When I noted to him that the present House version of Obama-care provides no mechanism to verify citizenship of applicants and that the Democratic leadership has thus far defeated all attempts to add “strong enforcement measures”, McManus responded with the same language one routinely hears from those in Washington who call themselves representatives and senators:Dear Mr.

After enraged constituents started showing up at Congressional town-hall forums to oppose ObamaCare, the unions acted quickly to counterdemonstrate on behalf of the Democratic agenda item.  In at least one case, union representatives used violence to intimidate and harrass ObamaCare opponents.  The same union, which represents a large percentage of government workers and would be presumably immune from any health-care reform action, issued memos demanding volunteers to “drown out” opposition to ObamaCare.

Caption This! from Chickaboom , via Weezer: I’ll start: “Is Alka-Seltzer covered?” “Under your plan it is. The peasants will have to suck willow roots.” No. 2: They had to crop out Larry Summers asleep under the coffee table.

I don’t know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times ‘ failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama’s failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar. It’s tempting to think of both failures as cowardice, a mortal fear of being branded “liberal.” But ironically it’s liberalism itself that makes them both mistake their cowardice for fair-mindedness. Exhibit A is how the Times covered Jon Stewart’s evisceration of McCaughey on The Daily Show .

Speciesist: Maxine Waters calls opponents of Obamacare “Neanderthals.”Tags: Congress, fail, Healthcare, racism This entry was posted on Monday, August 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm and is filed under Broken News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Polls are mere snapshots in time, and as such, should be taken with a grain of salt…especially 14+ months in advance of an election.  But man oh man, how awesomely McAwesome would this be? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trailing a top Republican challenger by 11 points ahead of next year’s election, according to a new poll. The Mason-Dixon Polling and Research survey, reported Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, showed GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian leading Reid by 49 percent to 38 percent in Nevada.

Beef: Jay-Z Latest Rapper To Rip Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh – mediaite.com 08/24/2009 Who’s beefing with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh this week? Hip-hop icon Jay-Z . In his newest song from his upcoming album, leaked today, “Off That” includes a line directed at the Fox News host and radio star. Here’s what Jay-Z says near the beginning of the second verse of “ Off That “: This ain’t black vs. white, my n—a, we off that. Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back.

LIFESITENEWS “I can’t even tell you how many people just say, ‘Oh, get an abortion .’ Like it’s not a big deal,” says the star. By Matthew Anderson Kourtney Kardashian, the famous socialite and model, told People magazine in a recent interview that she considered having her unborn child aborted but changed her mind after reading about the traumatizing effects of abortion online. “I looked online, and I was sitting on the bed hysterically crying, reading these stories of people who felt so guilty from having an abortion,” Kourtney told David Caplan of People.

In today’s transparent and political economy, the two-faced CEO can’t catch a break. When he acts as a Citizen , he might damage his organization’s reputation. When he acts as a Shareholder , he  might limit his own participation in our political conversation.  Neither option is good.  What’s a CEO to do? The broohaa over the anti-ObamaCare opinion piece by Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey in the WSJ highlights for us once again the danger of being a two-faced CEO.

Kevin MacDonald August 24, 2009 The health care debate continues to rivet the country. By most accounts, the sheer emotional intensity of the protests has forced Democrats to scale back their plans for nationalized health care. And who are these angry protesters? The vast majority of these angry citizens are White people — a topic I wrote about recently , but before the health care debate assumed center stage. The health care debate seems to have ratcheted things up a notch .

Mickey Kaus, who voted for Obama and wants to see universal health-care, wonders why Obama is damaging his credibility and endangering his health-care reform proposals by lying about whether ObamaCare will cover illegal aliens . He chides Congressional Democrats for trying “to sneak de facto health care for illegals through while showily saying the opposite,” and Obama for offering “carefully-crafted phrases designed to offer false assurance” that illegals will not be covered. Kaus notes

Mickey Kaus, who voted for Obama and wants universal health-care, wonders why Obama is damaging his credibility and endangering his health-care reform proposals by lying about whether ObamaCare will cover illegal aliens .  He chides Congressional Democrats for trying “to sneak de facto health care for illegals through while showily saying the opposite,” and Obama for offering “carefully-crafted phrases designed to offer false assurance” that illegals will not be covered.

Many have offered reasons why the “ tide of opinion seems to continue to run against Barack Obama and the Democrats’ health care bills. “ Victor Davis Hanson believes that Democratic proposals to overhaul our health care system are losing favor with the American people for the same reason George W. Bush lost public support for the war in Iraq : . . . the Bush administration . . . could not articulate what the aims in Iraq were, why they were worth the likely costs, and why decisions like

Many have offered reasons  why the “ tide of opinion seems to continue to run against Barack Obama and the Democrats’ health care bills. “  Victor Davis Hanson believes that Democratic proposals to overhaul our health care system are losing favor with the American people for the same reason George W. Bush lost public support for the war in Iraq : . . . the Bush administration . . .  could not articulate what the aims in Iraq were, why they were worth the likely costs, and why decisions like disbanding the Iraqi army, at first pulling back from Fallujah, giving a reprieve to Sadr, etc.

It is the Veteran’s Administration “Death Book” and contains a series of “questions” written by an advocate of doctor assisted suicide in 1997 for the Clinton Administration.    They are designed to lead the veteran to a pre-designed conclusion that suicide is the preferable option… the same way a rigged poll is constructed with “questions” designed to give the pollster the supportive answers being sought by the special interest that commissioned the poll.

by Steve Chapman at Townhall.com The American medical system has the latest technology, the greatest variety of new drugs and unparalleled resources. But anyone who thinks we’re getting something great for our dollars inevitably encounters a two-word rebuke: infant mortality. The United States is the richest nation on Earth, but it comes in 29th in the world in survival rates among babies. This mediocre ranking is supposed to make an irrefutable case for health care reform.

By Glen Meakem Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review August 23, 2009 Representing a remarkable shift in public opinion, new polling data demonstrate that the majority of Americans do not want the liberal Democrat version of health care reform. An Aug. 11 Rasmussen poll shows likely voters now oppose ObamaCare by 53 percent to 42 percent. That’s a nine-point increase in opposition since late June and a four-point increase since Aug. 1.

Republicans Have Obama Playing Defense The GOP strategy of principled opposition is winning over independents. FRED BARNES Republicans are discovering just how effective an opposition party can be in Washington. Their strategy is simply to aggressively and relentlessly oppose the liberal agenda of the president and the Democratic Congress. As a result, Barack Obama’s agenda is in jeopardy, and the president is disconcerted, less popular and on the defensive.

Marine vs. Congressman Might be the best townhall clip yet! Oh, Really? Now the President is calling on Christians to help pass Obamacare.  Yes, the very same Christians he’s treated like lepers since the election http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2009/08/22/obama_makes_a_political_booty_call_to_the_church Poor Barry If his sudden affection for Christians isn’t bizarre enough, now even the New York Times is started to question the Chosen One.

Until recently, few Republicans had wanted to challenge Harry Reid for his Senate seat in Nevada, as Reid had built a huge warchest and had expected to use it to coast to victory.  New polling, however, shows that Reid is quite vulnerable even with his campaign coffers stuffed to the brim.  Danny Tarkanian, a relative newcomer to Nevada politics, has an eleven-point lead on Reid in the latest Mason-Dixon polling in Nevada, and the state GOP chairwoman also leads Reid:Senate Majority Leader Harry

The public option is comatose, the death panels are expired, and a reconciliation bill may resemble Swiss cheese, but the rumors of ObamaCare’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. And so it was quite a surprise to read a short blog piece in the Sunday New York Times, of all places, under the heading of “Causes of Death (Just in Case).” Curiously, the piece ran in the print edition, but is no longer on the Times web site.

As President Obama begins his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard this week, the fiery debate over health care reform continues to rage. The latest member of congress to wade into the issue is California Rep. Maxine Waters, a liberal Democrat who at a town hall over the weekend implored the president not to drop the public option plan and said his efforts at bipartisanship are futile. “Yes, we know that you are a nice man, that you want to work with the opposite side of the aisle.

Obama Makes a Political Booty Call to the Church Obama Considers Bypassing Republicans on Health Care (Update1) Town Hall Patriots Morning Bell: Myths and Facts about Obamacare Obama Will Nearly Double US Debt in Only 10 Years Social Security Payments to Shrink Next Year Under Obama Socialist Maxine Waters Blasts “Neanderthal” Opposition to Obamacare …Update: Waters Challenges Town Hall Protesters STIMULUS PACKAGE FEATURES FUNDING FOR SEX RESEARCH PROJECTS Roubini:

Infowars | So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.

“All wee-weed up”: Must Be A Test Phrase Callin’ All The Clans Together I HAVE FLAGGED MYSELF!! Grunt Speak Warning! You Have Been Warned The Onion: Obama Manic Depressive What About the 2010 and 2012 Elections? Michele Bachmann: ‘Now Is Not the Time to Take the Pressure Off’ Lockerbie Terror: Terrorist Set Free For “compassion” Obama: STOP TALKING and GET OUT OF OUR WAY! The Undead? ObamaCare The Unknown Message The Snooper Report.  Join us as we Take Our Country Back.