Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 26, 2009

Annotations & Elucidations Or Should That Be “Putsch”?   The state headlines are dominated by the controversy over Delegate Phil Hamilton. Read all about it. Apparently, a single delegate seat trumps coverage of the state wide races. Moving on . . . In National News, the AP uncovers shocking news: Politics, believe it or not, has a role in where the porkulus bill money is spent! Imagine that! There’s another observation — that Americans don’t trust government to run health care.

It’s easy to assume the unions are so vocal, and physical, proponents of the Democrat Health Care plan because they believe the issue is important and they want it to succeed. It’s even logical to assume they are fighting because the are political allies of the Democrat party and share the same goals. However, when you look at the health care bill they are stomping people over, you see the real reason they are out in force. They get paid $10 billion if it passes: Antilabor forces say it’s welfare for the UAW and Democrats’ union allies.

Congressman Tom Price from is an M.D. who agrees that health care needs to be fixed, but doesn’t agree that increased government involvement is the way to do it: H/T: Cato@Liberty Similar Posts: Canadian Health Care vs. American Health Care Why ObamaCare Will Be More Expensive Than They’re Telling Us The Case Against A “Public Option” On Health Care John Stossel & Ron Paul On Health Care A Health Care Crisis, In Canada

This may be one reason : Obamacare bails out union pension plans, too Union bosses who have mismanaged benefits for their own members are poised to receive a $10 billion bailout from U.S. taxpayers in the form of a “reinsurance program” that has been folded into the healthcare bill, according to the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI). This provision should be viewed as part of a larger payback effort the Obama White House and top congressional figures have set up in exchange for the support they have received from organized labor, Katie Packer, executive director of WFI said.

I called out GOP fake hate crime perpetrator Ashley Todd last year and have documented a long list of hoax crimes across party, racial, and gender lines for nearly two decades.So, the latest case of so-called progressives vandalizing a Democrat headquarters in Denver comes as no surprise. And neither does the initial attempt by Colorado Democrats to blame “hate” by “the other side” and to shamelessly tie the crime to town hall protesters.

Up and down the Democrat food chain from the high and mighty Obama to the lowliest hack, every, single Democrat swears that “Obamacare absolutely, positively, cannot ever in a million, zillion years provide coverage to illegal immigrants.” This is one of those lies of omission rather than commission, because according to the Congressional Research Service: “H.R.3200 does not contain any restrictions on non-citizens–whether legally or illegally present.” Further, since there is no

“The debate over the public option has, as I said, been depressing in its inanity. Opponents of the option — not just Republicans, but Democrats like Senator Kent Conrad and Senator Ben Nelson — have offered no coherent arguments against it. Mr. Nelson has warned ominously that if the option were available, Americans would choose it over private insurance — which he treats as a self-evidently bad thing, rather than as what should happen if the government plan was, in fact, better than what private

I woke up this morning and the first thing I see on the computer is Ted Kennedy’s mug looking at me with the headline, ‘The Most Important Kennedy’. I yawned and wished I could go back to bed but our RAV4 was in the shop and we had to pick it up this morning (it had a bad ignition coil). So I had to drive the better half into Salt Lake and pick it up so she could get to work. I then went into work early. Ted Kennedy is dead and life goes on.

Barack Obama picked up considerable political support for his overhaul of the American health-care system by promising a limit on price concessions to the pharmaceutical manufacturers. They signed onto ObamaCare after getting assurances that their givebacks would amount to no more than $80 billion over 10 years and that the federal government would not try to bargain for lower pricing using its advantage through Medicare.

(NOTE: It has been confirmed that Senator Edward Kennedy has passed away today at the age of 77. I will refuse, for now, to address my misgivings about the man to issue condolences to his friends and family. Theirs is a pain I would wish on nobody.) Yesterday, the Democratic National Convention headquarters was vandalized. Windows that protected ObamaCare posters, artwork and other such things were smashed. The perps were caught on tape with shirts over their heads and hoodie sweatshirts to hide their identities.

Barack Obama picked up considerable political support for his overhaul of the American health-care system by promising a limit on price concessions to the pharmaceutical manufacturers.  They signed onto ObamaCare after getting assurances that their givebacks would amount to no more than $80 billion over 10 years and that the federal government would not try to bargain for lower pricing using its advantage through Medicare.  Henry Waxman plans to renege on just about every aspect of that agreement:As the health care debate focuses on whether cost cuts are looming in Medicare coverage, Representative Henry A.

I considered posting this a week ago, but had much to do to get my projects ready for the North Idaho Fair. From canning, to crafting, to needlework and then baking; I was really rather busy. But, there were certain revelations that I definitely kept in mind for the moment when I would have a few free moments.  Betsy McCoy was invited onto “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” at one point last week.  She brought with her the over 1,000 page health care reform package and planned to point out to

HuffPo : Gang of Six Repulican Admit’s He’s Simply Blocking Obamacare . I don’t understand why a liberal would allow a Republican Senator to entertain such delusions of grandeur.  No Republican can stop Obamacare from passing.  Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House.  If Obamacare never becomes a reality, Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves.

Got a hot tip from someone on the Rapid City “not so public” forum with Herseth Sandlin as to what went on outside at the event: About 50 Young Professionals attended the private Herseth meeting in Rapid City yesterday. Outside the Holiday Inn, there were about 35 Anti-ObamaCare protestors. Even though the public was excluded from the event by Herseth because the meeting became private all of a sudden, KOTA and KNBN were both there to cover the event. Anyone get Pictures?

We just came across this observation, which applies as much today as it did when first written by the Supreme Court justice in 1832: “ Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them .” ~ Joseph Story, Commentairies on the Constitution Profligates rewarded for flattering the populace with betrayal in mind.

I KNOW that the “end-of-life” provisions have been said to have been removed from the bill and all but, Kennedy would have had to go by that rule or law anyway seeing that he was on the BEST HEALTH CARE PLAN in the world…congressional type.  Our “Obamacare” will NOT provide for all of that. I HAVE READ THE BILL AND HR3200 DOESN’T SAY WE GET CONGRESSIONAL CARE!

No surprise here. It seems that all the hand-wringing about nasty Republicans vandalizing the Denver DNC office was as accurate as the “doctor” who stood up in Sheila Jackson Lee’s town hall to support Obamacare. From the Gateway Pundit, The young vandal who smashed windows at the DNC headquarters in Denver on Tuesday worked for a democratic [...]

Makes sense. He was an archetypal tax-and-spend liberal and the living symbol of dynastic politics. What better way to mark the passing of a royal than to deplete the state treasury erecting a monument to his greatness?Just as Limbaugh predicted, incidentally.Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor at the Cook Political Report, said the news will strengthen Democrats’ resolve to get a bill passed.

From @DerekTrovi twitter feed: Baron Hill 2 hold townhall at IU SE 8/31. You MUST CALL NOW to get a spot 812-288-8193 ext 104 Ds already notified

…and all things being equal I would have kept quiet about Ted Kennedy’s passing last night. Safe to say I have never been a fan of his; quite clearly the man was an embarrassment and if his last name had been Fabrizio or Wojciewicz he would have been drummed out of the Senate with all possible haste after any of his scandals. But today would normally be a day for the Left to wail and gnash teeth at the death of one of their sainted heroes and I’d be content to shut up.

  Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds. The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets – even a caravan – went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000. Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

The American Association of Retired Liberal Persons (AARLP) has launched an all-out blitz in support of ObamaCare, even though older Americans have the most to lose should this travesty ever get passed into law. In other words, the AARLP, which is supposed to work in the best interests of its membership, has instead become more or less a wing of the Democrat Party, and, as such, is working against the very citizens who support the organization.

I wanted to update the former post with the following, which is a bit better. The host of issues surrounding the healthcare debate continues to grow on a daily basis as each of the bills in Congress are scrutinized by groups on both sides. However, one piece of the puzzle, the actual administration of the program, has been for the most part ignored as even the best crystal ball is unable to peer through the bureaucratic fog of a government program yet to be realized.

By: Dr. Owens Don’t be fooled. The Progressives may backpedal. They may make noises about dropping the government option. They may call Obamacare insurance reform. They may talk about saving money and being more efficient. But they won’t retreat from their objective of re-making America into a nation of the government, by the government and for the government. All this backpedaling shows is that Progressives can’t campaign on what they really intend to do because they know that despite generations of dumbing-down education and endless Mainstream Media propaganda this is still a center-right nation.

The WaPo ’s Steven Pearlstein – as he advocates for passage of Obamacare – complains about Michael Steele’s plan to “bankrupt” America by 2035 . I presume Pearlstein would rather go with Obama’s plan, which will probably bankrupt us sooner:

For those of you out there who aren’t 100% convinced that President Obama is in favor of universal health care, try htis on for size.

Since Democrats didn’t get to ram through ObamaCare before Congress’ August recess as President Obama had wanted, we’re learning more and more about H.R. 3200, the ObamaCare bill. The more we learn, the more we realize that we don’t want this. And so the White House has gone into full damage control by telling the American people that the truth we have learned is really a myth, and the zombie-like press is dutifully playing along with the charade.

As recently as Saturday, far-left Bucks County Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy repeated the lie that the ObamaCare plan for a government run health care system would not cover illegal immigrants.  The lie was dutifully reported as accepted fact by “reporter” Jo Ciavaglia in Sunday’s Bucks County Courier-Times / Patrick Murphy newsletter. Patrick Murphy knows full well [...]

by AlexinCT Its seems that the page one Denver Post article insinuating evil & racists conservatives/republicans against Obamacare destroyed democrat headquarter property yesterday has been trumped by a back page article pointing out that the perp was a hard core democrat operative . Even more unbelievable is the attempt by the democrat chairwoman that was all ready to lambaste Obama-haters on Tuesday and called a hate crime, to now pretend this is no big deal, or that both sides are at fault!

Citing the exploding budget deficit numbers, the editorial page of the Washington Post calls for the end of Obamacare The new deficit numbers make it even more urgent that any health-care reform not only be fully paid for and certifiably budget-neutral in the eyes of independent analysts such as the CBO but also promise meaningful reductions in the cost growth of health care. So far, none of the plans under discussion measure up. The time is fast approaching for the president and Congress to face that reality, too.

If you are a freedom loving American, you will love this clip of a Marine Corps veteran reading Congressman Brian Baird his rights at a town hall meeting. I heard the audio version on Monday’s Rush Limbaugh Show, and then my pro bono research assistant forwarded me the link to a Newsbusters page commemorating the event. This is absolutely wonderful. Marine Corps Vet Blasts Dem Congressman for Calling ObamaCare Protesters ‘Brown Shirts’ | NewsBusters.org Posted in Conservatism

Another dynamite find by Verum Serum, on an endless mission to expose liberal doublespeak about what the public option would mean in practice. First clip is from two years ago, the second clip — declaring the arguments against the public option to be “sheer nonsense” — from last weekend. My only quibble with VS is that they seem to think there’s some dissembling here by Krugman. But there’s no contradiction: He’d clearly love to see ObamaCare metastasize into socialized medicine, ergo any arguments against that happening are nonsense.

« Obamacare brings “medical speak easys” for “back alley tonsillectomies” and abortions in clean hospitals An honest obituary of “Sir” Ted Kennedy you’ll never see in print August 26, 2009, 7:18 am By Kevin “Coach” Collins Senator Ted Kennedy has lost his battle to live. As a Christian I hope God has mercy on him. He suffered from a ghastly cancerous brain tumor that has apparently taken his life. Obviously Kennedy will be canonized by acclamation in the media today and for days to come.

Gov. Schwarzenegger has a good idea to rid the government of stuff it shouldn’t have in the first place and recoup a buck or two in the process. He’s holding a garage sale on eBay and Craig’s list. As we reported it , the governor is even going to autograph some cars. Hm. Considering how far his favorability rating has plummeted, is that a good idea? Doesn’t the state want to get as much as possible for the used cars? Would defacing a car with graffiti add to the value? Would his name scrawled on it devalue it more? Then again, they only have to find one buyer who thinks otherwise.

Matt Rooney | August 26, 2009 That didn’t take long, did it? From Politico: Ailing Senator Robert Byrd, one of only two to have served longerthan Kennedy, suggests in an emotional statement renaming the pendinghealth care legislation for the late Massachusetts Senator: “In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to hisideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilizeddebate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has beensigned into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring thehealth of every American.” I told you this would happen, Save Jerseyans.

While the “Lion of the Senate” is being lionized, Democrats are falling all over themselves in a rush to rename ObamaCare in memory of Senator Edward M. “Teddy” Kennedy. The new name was selected earlier today. ChappaquiddiCARE™ corporate offices will be located just off Dike Bridge which spans Poucha Pond in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. Plans include the installation of a fitting memorial located outside the corporate office building.

No Myth: Illegal Immigrants Covered under  Obamacare Clarice Feldman Since he obviously can’t be bothered reading the bills he insists we need to support, Obama might be forgiven for characterizing as a myth something which is not one.   Mark Tapscott highlights a report establishing that ObamaCare will cover illegal immigrants.

I was at a friend’s house a few nights ago for a little informal gathering. When we were chatting he had his iPod providing some background music.  One of the songs that came on was from the “Woodstock” soundtrack. So there I was in a kitchen full of conservative upper middle class Midwesterners who were suddenly waxing poetic about how great Woodstock was. What happened next was the kind of thing I do that keeps me off the party circuit.  I said something to the effect that Woodstock was an unmitigated disaster and a perfect metaphor for the Obama administration.

MSNBC, 8:21pmET: This actually comes from last night: a chyron about the health care debate. And it comes form Countdown with Keith Olbermann . You can probably guess which side it comes down on – but the implication seems like even more of a stretch than usual. “GOP to US: Drop Dead” is even more hyperbolic than a usual Countdown chyron. Here’s Olbermann and The Nation editor Christopher Hayes discussing the GOP opposition to Obamacare. Which apparently calls back to death panels.

Adam Brody – lepasstress.blogspot.com 08/26/2009 Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American film and television actor and part time musician. He began his career in 1995, appearing on the Gilmore Girls and other series and subsequently came to fame for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C., establishing his defining screen persona. Joel Stein of Time magazine has described Brody as creating an “Adam Brody type”, a screen persona of a “nerdy, sarcastic, obscure-reference-laced Jew”.

And this is what the dream would bring us : Man collapses with ruptured appendix… three weeks after NHS doctors ‘took it out’ After weeks of excruciating pain, Mark Wattson was understandably relieved to have his appendix taken out. Doctors told him the operation was a success and he was sent home. But only a month later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be taken back to Great Western Hospital in Swindon by ambulance.

Green Czar, Van Jones, co-founder of ColorOfChange.org – bellalu0.wordpress.com 08/26/2009 Connecting some dots from Van Jones to Color of Change. org who is out for the destruction of Glenn Beck.  [However, it is not working because his audience has increased, and he is in third place on cable news, only behind O'Reilly and Hannity.] It turns out that Van Jones is co-founder of ColorOfChange.org with James Rucker who now serves as its executive director.

On July 15, 2009, Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mich) told the U.S. House of Representatives that Democrats offered a false choice in the healthcare debate.  (Watch Video) Although the majority party (Democrat) has the prerogative to demand that their legislation be considered with no changes (what Representative Rogers refers to as  the “this or nothing” approach), the idea that Republicans have offered no alternatives to the Democrat plan is simply not true.  Republicans have offered three alternatives so far, the “ Patients Choices Act of 2009 ,” produced in May by a bicameral coalition of the U.S.

Apparently, the town hall meetings – with health care first and foremost on their minds - are effective, at least in the minds of the constituents who have attended them. And that bears itself out in a recent telephone poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports . If Democrats agree on a health care reform bill that is opposed by all Republicans in Congress, 24% of voters nationwide say the Democrats should pass that bill.

Via Geraghty , the numbers from the very credible polling firm Public Opinion Strategies: Latest poll on how the public feels about health care, from Public Opinion Strategies, finds… well, more skepticism: 15 percent strongly favor Obama’s proposed health care plan, 10 percent somewhat favor, 5 percent somewhat oppose, 32 percent strongly oppose, 37 percent no opinion yet. (That comes out to 25 total favor, 37 percent total oppose.) The pollsters found that 38 percent said the more they hear about the plan, the more they like it; 49 percent said the more they hear, the less they like it.

By PoliPundit ~ August 26th, 2009 @ 8:15 am Someone has to do the ghoulish job of analyzing the political fallout from Ted Kennedy’s death. So here are some possibilities, in no particular order:Kennedy’s death serves as a rallying cry for Congressional Democrats to back ObamaCare and damn the consequences.The Democrats screw up the Kennedy funeral, like they did Paul Wellstone’s funeral, and alienate the country.While voters are sympathetic to the Kennedys, they still oppose ObamaCare.

On his show last night, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly went on record as saying ObamaCare is unConstitutional and cited the commerce clause of the Constitution as justification for his claim the fact that the federal government is not allowed to force you to buy something or, in lieu of that, pay a tax as a penalty.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009: Posted at 8:00 A.M. PST: Bailouts / Stimulus: Boston Herald: Feds Say Stimulus Money Sent To 4,000 Cons Unions: Gateway Pundit: Dem Headquarters Vandalized By SEIU Activist, Dems Blamed GOP Uprisings: Orlando Sentinel: How Twitter and YouTube Users Fought ObamaCare Other News: Yahoo News: Senator Kennedy Dead

Perhaps it’s too much for elected officials in Washington to understand the document to which they swear an oath of loyalty. It certainly proves too much for Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, who responds to an inartfully posed question about the constitutionality of ObamaCare by offering a very odd response.

Heated partisan debate over President Obama’s health care plan, erupting at town hall meetings and in the blogosphere, has more to do with our illogical thought processes than reality, sociologists are finding. Health Care Debate Based on Total Lack of Logic We all know liberal elites think we regular folks are stupid, ignorant dummies they need to control. Yesterday they claimed we still believed health care “myths” that are declared “myths” by the White House.