Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 25, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009 Boycotting the Boycotters (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Rick Watts, 49, protests outside a Whole Foods store in West Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. The protest took place after John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal about health care reform.

It’s becoming clear that Barry Obama is in over his head.  In his early state visits, he committed a number of serious protocol blunders.  His second-in-command isn’t let out in public any more, afraid of what “crazy uncle Joe” might say. (”Hey, I found the secret bunker.  Wanna know where it is?”) The stimulus bill was put in place before he took office.  It’s not his, it’s Nancy Pelosi’s!  She pushed it through.  All Obama did was sign it and take credit for it.  Except that now that it’s not

If Democratic lawmakers thought all the furor over President Obama’s health care plan expressed this month at town hall meetings was dying down, they might be in for a surprise Saturday.That’s when citizens are planning anti-”Obamacare” rallies across the country Saturday in all 435 congressional districts.And their message is clear: We will not stand for socialized, government-controlled health care.The same groups who made the “tax tea parties” possible in April are behind this weekend’s movement.

Supporters of President Obama’s plan to overhaul the health system, in an acknowledged attempt to reverse growing opposition to the plan, are planning a fusillade of rallies and bus tours starting this week.Health Care for American Now, an umbrella organization of groups supporting Obama’s plan, is coordinating its efforts with Organizing for America, the Obama campaign organization now melded into the national Democratic Party, which reputedly has an e-mail list of up to 13 million names.Together, they plan 1,000 events before the congressional recess ends September 8.

That’s Don Surber’s line (he’s a good Twitter folow as well) as he reports Senator Feingold’s saying that ObamaCare might not ever happen.Let us review. Democrats own the Senate by 20 votes. Democrats own the House by 78 votes. Democrats own the White House. And they cannot pull off Obamacare?Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold told a townhall crowd on Monday in Mercer, Wisconsin: “Nobody is going to bring a bill before Christmas, and maybe not even then, if this ever happens. The divisions are so deep.

Welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble This is the Two Eggs Over Easy, Bacon Edition NON-ENDORSEMENT: Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey: Take a look at this video from almost three weeks ago and decide for yourself if the AARP has withheld its endorsement from ObamaCare. If Barack Obama saw this 30-second spot when it first got released, he can be forgiven for assuming that the advocacy group had explicitly endorsed his plans for overhauling the American health-care system.

It’s always nice to hear a Congressman who opposes government run Health Care: America Does Not Need a Government Run Health Care System Posted by Congressman Paul Broun Tuesday, August 25, 2009 – RedState.com Two days and two health care town halls. At least, that was what I had planned for. Instead, as nearly three thousand of my constituents turned out to express their concerns about Obamacare, we held a second town hall each night for the folks who couldn’t get into the first

It’s always nice to hear a Congressman who opposes government run Health Care: America Does Not Need a Government Run Health Care System Posted by Congressman Paul Broun Tuesday, August 25, 2009 – RedState.com Two days and two health care town halls. At least, that was what I had planned for. Instead, as nearly three thousand of my constituents turned out to express their concerns about Obamacare, we held a second town hall each night for the folks who couldn’t get into the first ones.

Evangelical leaders to hold press conference on ObamaCare Contact: Demi Bardsley, Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 134 WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 /Christian Newswire/ — The Freedom Federation, a cross-section of multi-ethnic and transgenerational Evangelical groups, will hold a press conference to address the impact of health care reform on issues of human life and liberty.  The press conference will be held Wednesday, August 26, at 10:00 a.m.

Here’s an interesting credit crisis byproduct: The 50 million current Social Security recipients probably won’t see any extra SS income until 2012. In fact, millions on the government dime might see their monthly checks shrink. It all boils down to COLA — the government’s cost-of-living adjustment. Since consumer prices are — in theory, at least — deflating, the Social Security administration announced this weekend that they do not plan on a COLA for the next two years.

The Detroit Free Press explains: … a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW’s retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans. It would see the government — at least temporarily — pay 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.

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After speaking at a health care rally in Westwood last Saturday (still waiting to find out who “planted” me there, btw) I ended up in a conversation with three younger, left-leaning, pro Obamacare types who were videotaping the event. They seemed sincere enough, although I haven’t checked to see if I’ve been subjected to some creative editing somewhere on YouTube yet. On the rare occasions that I can have an actual dialogue with anyone on the subject, we can begin to explore the underlying personal philosophies that drive people on both sides of the debate over President Obama’s vision of health care reform.

Charles Osgood, best known for anchoring CBS News Sunday Morning , says that Michael Jackson’s last action–a plea to his corrupt personal physician Conrad Murray for a dose of propofol–is analogous to the desires of Americans who want to keep their private health plans rather than hand over complete control of their health to Obamacare. In today’s Osgood Files , the show’s host notes that Jackson was “killed by drugs administered at his request by his personal physician, Dr.

Fromn Rev Right who got it from here.Posted by denny at August 25, 2009 02:19 PM

Soren Gordhamer is the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected (HarperOne, 2009). His homepage is www.sorengordhamer.com . You can follow him on Twitter . As a company, Whole Foods has impressively embraced social media more than most, gathering over 1.2 million followers on Twitter and 123,000 fans on Facebook in the process.

Two days and two health care town halls. At least, that was what I had planned for. Instead, as nearly three thousand of my constituents turned out to express their concerns about Obamacare, we held a second town hall each night for the folks who couldn’t get into the first ones. All in all, everyone was passionate but very civil with their questions and comments. What folks said in my four town halls was akin to what others have been repeating at gatherings all across America.

WSJ : Obama’s Summer of Discontent The politics of charisma is so Third World. Americans were never going to buy into it for long. By FOUAD AJAMI So we are to have a French health-care system without a French tradition of political protest. It is odd that American liberalism, in a veritable state of insurrection during the Bush presidency, now seeks political quiescence. These “townhallers” who have come forth to challenge ObamaCare have been labeled “evil-mongers” (Harry Reid), “un-American” (Nancy Pelosi), agitators and rowdies and worse.

The answer would appear to be no, at least that the conclusion of an op-ed by penned David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey in last Saturday’s Washington Post : President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president’s proposals.

Here’s an interesting credit crisis byproduct: The 50 million current Social Security recipients probably won’t see any extra SS income until 2012. In fact, millions on the government dime might see their monthly checks shrink. It all boils down to COLA — the government’s cost-of-living adjustment. Since consumer prices are — in theory, at least — deflating, the Social Security administration announced this weekend that they do not plan on a COLA for the next two years.

From The Washington Times By Mark Steyn After the president taxes the rich, you’re nextThe other day, wending my way from Woodsville, N.H., 40 miles south to Plymouth, I came across several “stimulus” projects — every few miles, and heralded by a two-tone sign, a hitherto rare sight on Granite State highways.

I think that one of the big differences between the Left and the Right is that the Left feels that the people have to be controlled, whereas the Right feels it is the government that needs to be controlled. Davy Crockett, in his famous Sockdolager , had a dialoge with one of his constituents… ” ‘No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual (Congress) members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose.

Good morning! Did you have a restful sleep? Yes, I know it’s 3 AM, I just thought… well, the whole orderly staff thought a little early morning air would do you some good after all that commotion yesterday. I have to say you’re a pretty feisty old gal for 86! How’s that? You’re 78? Still, you should really take better care of yourself. Just look at those bags under your eyes! You’re no spring chicken and all that protesting just causes stress.

[Posted by Karl] At the very least, one of the Senate’s leading progressives knows what his constituents want to hear : U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold told a large crowd gathered for a listening session in Iron County last week there would likely be no health care bill before the end of the year – and perhaps not at all. It was an assessment Feingold said he didn’t like, but the prospect of no health care legislation brought a burst of applause from a packed house of nearly 150 citizens at the Mercer Community Center .

By Chuck Norris08/25/2009Ever heard the saying “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”? That’s true for any of the 1,000-plus-page versions of Obamacare.I’ve informed you in previous columns of two dirty secrets in Obamacare. Dirty secret No. 3 is the sin of omission. It’s what the health care bill doesn’t say that will bite you in the end.In 1,000-plus pages, there’s surprisingly sparse coverage or complete avoidance of a host of necessary issues.

Beck Exposes Color Of Change Co-Founder Van Jones video here. I have said on here and Infidel’s Watch that there is NO way these massive bills (Stimulus, Cap and Trade, ObamaCare) were simply just written-up in the months he’s been in office. These were written long before he “won” the election … just sitting in wait for him to be sworn into office and handed the ink pen … Recall how quickly he began sigining things withing days … hours of being sworn in (both times).

I have to admit, I’m a bit puzzled by the Yahoo/Live Science report on polling on ObamaCare issues that Barack Obama calls “myths”.  I get the idea that they want to see how Obama’s pushback will sell with the American people, but it also presents a good opportunity to do some actual reporting and determine whether Obama is telling myths of his own.  Instead, the article blithely accepts Obama’s characterization, using scare quotes around the word myth as its only acknowledgment of dispute.As it

When dealing with Commies, there can be no compromises! New Column: Don’t Give Obamacare a Life Raft So here I am feeling a lot better about the possibility of rolling back Obama statism, when I come across an AP report that Sen. John McCain is throwing President Barack Obama a health care life raft. It’s official; the Beltway GOP simply can’t stand “prosperity.” Why can’t the senator read the tea leaves for once and realize America doesn’t want socialism? Why can’t he read history and understand that liberals never stop with socialism lite? Once in the door, the statist pushes it all the way open.

Canada Free Press – Printer Friendly Page© V2.0 – CJ Website Designwww.cj-design.comObama’s variation of Soviet style rule–NOT governanceObama Attacks CIA to Quell ObamaCare Protests and Establish Secret Police Sher Zieve BioEmail Article Shop CFP Photo GalleryBySher ZieveTuesday, August 25, 2009 In December 1917 Bolshevik Russian leaders, including one of the founders of Socialist thuggery Vladimir Lenin, established the Cheka—Russia’s first political secret police.  With almost unlimited power,

Shocked, shocked, shocked to read in the Sunday New York Times that Tom Daschle, once nominated but then withdrawn as health and human service secretary and head ObamaCare flogger, is still an Administration insider even though he’s dragging down big bucks from Alston & Bird, a legal and lobbying firm.

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Hazzah! Fed loses major lawsuit… judge orders immediate improved transparency Home prices get better, but is this the bottom? Shiller, Fitch and The 5 weigh in Seniors to feel deflation’s sting… Social Security benefit growth stagnates for first time Chris Mayer on what the Chinese love to buy… and the way you can own it first Plus, another credit crisis obituary: The five-star hotel   It’s one of those days… so many great stories, so little time.

From the organizers:The Triangle is holding a Constitutional Town Hall on Tuesday, August 25th, from 7 PM – 9 PM.Senators Kay Hagan and Richard Burr have been invited, as well as Representatives Brad Miller, David Price and Bob Etheridge. Sen. Burr, Rep. Miller and Rep. Price have declined their invitation to this event. They will be represented on stage with a physical likeness to represent your interests. Please prepare your questions prior to the meeting.

I have a new column up at Townhall.com, Obama’s Kryptonite. In it I discuss some of the reasons Obama’s approval numbers have taken a dive.The Travel Channel had an “extreme” marathon this weekend – Extreme Waterparks, Extreme Terror Rides, Extreme Restaurants, etc. In the Extreme Towns episode, there was a segment on the town of Metropolis, Illionois, featuring a picture of Barack Obama standing in the Superman pose in front of the town’s 15-foot tall, 2-ton bronze Superman statue.

The Tin Ears of the Bully-in-Chief and his Comrades in Arms – bsimmons.wordpress.com 08/25/2009 The Tin Ears of the Bully-in-Chief and his Comrades  in Arms By Lauri B. Regan Two years ago, my 9 year old son was pushed against a wall in the boys’ bathroom and told that he better not try out for the football team if he knew “what was good for him.” Not surprisingly, my son came home distraught and unsure as to what to do.

A glimpse of life under Obamacare: The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, “Hello?” “Mrs. Sanders, please.” “Speaking.” “Mrs. Sanders, this is Dr. Jones at St. Agnes Laboratory. When your husband’s doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good.” “What do you mean?” Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein It takes a lot of energy to move forward day after day being wrong in every respect. To lie about every detail of your ideal and slander your opponent, creating boogeymen to fear and hate, is really a lot of work. In the coming days and weeks, you are going to see the creators of Astroturf ( Obama’s advisors et al) gin up dozens or hundreds of pro ObamaCare conflagrations.

Majority of Americans believe “myths” about ObamaCare: “myths” like wait times will increase.Tags: Healthcare, Obama, polls This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am and is filed under Broken News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Pigs fly and the San Francisco Chron has three negative articles about Democrats, Leftism and Obama’s lies President of NY AFL-CIO to Chair New York Fed; Columbia President Named Vice Chair “Guten tag, Mr. Patient. Wie gehts?” — Another health care crisis for Britain’s NHS Obama’s Kryptonite White House budget sees unemployment peak at 10 pct Dirty Secret No.

How great to see the the most rotten neocon senator, Joe Lieberman, plunge the knife into Obamacare. This is further confirmation that the scheme is dead.

The latest retreat on economic credibility at the White House comes at a particularly bad time.  Barack Obama has tried to sell his economic agenda on health-care reform and cap-and-trade as economic boons instead of boondoggles.  However, his mid-year recasting of American economic performance and admission of the deficit impact of his budgets will continue to erode confidence in his competence:U.S.

The Tin Ears of the Bully-in-Chief and his Comrades  in Arms By Lauri B. Regan Two years ago, my 9 year old son was pushed against a wall in the boys’ bathroom and told that he better not try out for the football team if he knew “what was good for him.” Not surprisingly, my son came home distraught and unsure as to what to do. I told him that the way to beat a bully is to stand up for “what you know is good for you” and not allow intimidation to cause you to make decisions that will forever haunt you and change your path in life.

Canada’s former top doctor is ripping Canada’s socialized health care system. Bill O’Reilly: Dr. Day what is the biggest problem with your health care system? Dr. Brian Day: Well, the biggest problem is access. By access we have, in the Canadian system the first line of defense for a sick patient is the family doctor. And, in a population of 33 million Canadians 5 million Canadians do not have a family doctor. Bill O’Reilly: Is it because the doctors don’t get paid as well as doctors get paid as well in the United States? We have 30% more doctors per 100,000.

If we can’t laugh at ourselves from time to time then it’s time to back up and review just what we are all about. I’m no Psychologist, not by a long shot but I also don’t think that you have to be one in order to understand that concept any more than you have to be a Lawyer to understand the difference between right and wrong.

Financial Times – Obama to offer Bernanke second term What do you do when you find out that you’re $9,000,000,000,000 in the hole instead of just $7,000,000,000,000 and are running up the numbers at a rate four times higher than ever before? Reappoint the guy who will print the money to pay it all off. Looking to soothe markets that have gotten jittery after a brief, good run and, most of all, distract from today’s release of revised debt projections that were already delayed a month to coincide with the president’s vacation, President Obama today will announce that he is reappointing Ben Bernanke to another four-year term.

Nope just undermining your liberal wet dream Howard hahahaha! he says the Shrinking Republican Party? now thats a good one. when you look at the polls the democrats have the biggest shrinking party and Independents have the fastest growing. but what do you expect, you go on a liberal network and talk to an ultra liberal host you get to say whatever you want to. The Democrats sure enjoyed undermining President Bush and he wasn’t even destroying the country.

Kohl’s shoppers (48.1%) are most likely to disapprove of the proposed healthcare reform legislation, according to a new analysis of five key retailers (Walmart, Target, Macy’s JCPenney and Kohl’s), conducted by BIGresearch of its August Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey (N=8543). JCPenney (44.3%) and Walmart (43.5%) shoppers round out the top three, but shoppers of all the retailers profiled are more likely to disapprove than approve of the proposed reform.

Viddie this , oh my droogies, with glazzies of your very own… The federal government faces exploding deficits and mounting debt over the next decade, White House officials predicted Tuesday in a fiscal assessment far bleaker than what the Obama administration had estimated just a few months ago. Figures released by the White House budget office foresee a cumulative $9 trillion deficit from 2010-2019, $2 trillion more than the administration estimated in May.

John Mackey – the founder, CEO and marketing genius behind Whole Foods – finds himself in an organic, unsustainable mess with his carefully cultivated affluent, liberal customer base after penning an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare.” For starters, Mr. Mackey opens with a line from known-liberal-allergen Margaret Thatcher that features the dreaded “S” word: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Then he goes on to provide eight sensible free-market solutions gleaned from his company’s well-regarded employee health care program.

This is what happens when tyranny starts taking root by taking control of the media: More than 50 percent of Americans believe a public insurance option will increase health care costs, according to a new survey on assertions the White House has called myths. Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform ‘Myths’ This is repulsive enough to turn my stomach. According to this so-called “news article”, if the White House (Dear Leader Hussein) calls somrthing a “myth” then it is a myth without question and the Americans who believe it are to be made fun of.

About Health Care Reform Town Halls being held in churches?  Will people be more respectful in church? Or will they feel empowered to act out? Does it send a message of intolerance to non-christians? Does it send a message of charitable thought? Does the message change depending on if the person hosting the meeting is for or against current reform proposals? Am I wrong to be squicked out by it? Phoenix, AZ – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) will hold a town hall to discuss health care reform Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 11:00 am PT.