Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 27, 2009

I challenge Democratic and Republican leaders, those in favor and those opposed to health care reforms, to submit to hostile interviews with journalists that oppose their view on health care. The only rule is that the interview must be broadcast in its entirety to avoid any hint of creative editing. Related posts: Republicans: time to engage on health care The Republican party of the United States of America should… Please help the White House find me I think President Obama and his staff could learn a…

Sometimes, I must confess, I find myself feeling like one of those cursed individuals like Job and Sisyphus.  In my case, the curse takes the form of trying to be rational in a mad world.  My particular albatross is trying to make sense of the liberal mind.  No sooner do I try to delve into it than I pop out on the other side.  It’s as shallow as a midget’s footbath.  For instance, I understand why liberals opposed invading Iraq.  It was because George W.

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Kurt Nimmo Infowars August 27, 2009 The Missouri House of Representatives plans to hold a hearing on the MIAC (Missouri Information Analysis Center) report, according to the House website. The hearing will be held on Monday, August 31, at 11:00 AM in the Grove Meeting Room at the Grandview Community Center in Grandview, Missouri. For more information, see the Missouri House website . A page from the MIAC report demonizing Chuck Baldwin, Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and patriot groups.

Kurt Nimmo Infowars August 27, 2009 The Missouri House of Representatives plans to hold a hearing on the MIAC (Missouri Information Analysis Center) report, according to the House website. The hearing will be held on Monday, August 31, at 11:00 AM in the Grove Meeting Room at the Grandview Community Center in Grandview, Missouri. For more information, see the Missouri House website . A page from the MIAC report demonizing Chuck Baldwin, Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and patriot groups.

27th August 2009, 01:07 pm Among friend and ideological foe alike, who cannot but admire the courage Ted Kennedy exhibited this past year as he tirelessly soldiered on, while battling brain cancer? Throughout it all, he asked for no pity and demonstrated a remarkable assiduity of purpose and resolve as he attempted to continue on with his duties as a major player in the Democratic Party.

Senator Kennedy has not even been dead for two full days and hte Democrats are re-animating his corpse to speak out on health care reform and to rally the “troops”. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a statement. Pelosi’s sentiment was echoed by former vice president Al Gore who served with Kennedy in the Senate.

Liberal Christian Obama supporter Jim Wallis debated FRC’s Tony Perkins on CNN’s Lou Dobbs show August 25. In that segment Wallis admitted: … There is a consensus in the faith community that federal funds should be prohibited from paying for abortions in a healthcare bill. That’s where we have to go. Are all the bills clear on that now? Not yet. They’re making progress on the Hill. We’re not there yet …. The president has said that he doesn’t want federal funds to pay for abortions….

There has been a lot of talk about health care reform over the past month: much of the information has been repetitive, not based in fact, or purely sensationalist. However, there have been some well-written and meaningful pieces that have emerged above the din. I’d like to highlight a few of them here: August 9, 2009 – NY Times – Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn – “A Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform” This is a relatively concise and unbiased article covering some of the main issues of the Congressional health care reform proposals.

Declan McCullagh CBS News Thursday, August 27, 2009 One of the problems with any proposed law that’s over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much deviltry can lie in the details. Take the Democrats’ proposal to rewrite health care policy, better known as H.R. 3200 or by opponents as “Obamacare.” (Here’s our CBS News television coverage .) Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation.

Government Takeover of more banks is planned: According to Bloomberg News today the feds have taken over 81 banks and are setting up 111 more for takeover, and the FDIC is broke, and borrowing money to do that. And according to MarketWatch there are 416 ‘troubled’ banks in the U S. Read the Bloomberg article at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?

Thursday, August 27, 2009 Today, I interview Michael D. Tanner on “America’s Morning Show.”  Michael is a  Senior Fellow at the CATO institute and “heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on health care reform.” Michael and I discuss some of the particulars of H.R. 3200, and how it would lead to rationed care and increased costs for the majority of Americans.  He If you missed this show, please go to wpgb and listen to the 7:00 am hour (hour 2) .  For more information, please read some of Michael’s recent articles on Healthcare Reform (see below).  You can also check out CATO’s full reading list on Healthcare reform.

I had originally missed the first article in Ann Coulter’s series, but I went back and read it after reading her brilliant second article in the same series.  Coulter brilliantly makes the case for the efficiencies of the marketplace versus the inefficiencies of government control.  The bottom line is that our health care is in the miss it’s in now because we already have too much government control, not too little.

A look at what members of Congress and Federal Employees get for Health Insurance. Why doesn’t Obamacare just expand the Federal Employees Health Benefits program?From Fact Check:Health Care for Members of Congress?Q: What type of health insurance do members of Congress receive? Is it a single-payer, government-run system?A: Members of Congress are covered by private insurance under the same system that covers all federal workers.FULL ANSWERMembers of Congress have good health insurance by any standard, but it’s not free and not reserved only for them – and it’s not government insurance.

From the early days of the campaign until now, we have learned Barack Hussein Obama is on a mission of tragedy. A selfish mission to transform the US into some ideal classroom fantasy framed upon his misconception of Socialism. Understanding his motive to tear down the existing framework we see that Obama slipped through a bill that turns the nation’s remembrance of September 11th into a perverse celebration of Socialism.

So simple, so easy, so sensible. Seriously folks, universal (government-run) health care just makes sense. Please watch.

The Progressive Junta in Washington keeps showing their lack of respect for the American people. It has been revealed  that in the Eugenics based Health-Care bill there is a provision for the release of your Tax data! One of the problems with any proposed law that’s over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much [...]

Suspect in vandalism leftist, not RepublicanA suspect in a case of vandalism at the Colorado Democratic headquarters was once a paid campaign worker for a Democratic candidate for the legislature, despite the state party chief having blamed hate-fomented opposition to Democratic health care plans. Maurice Schwenkler, 24, was arrested in Denver on Tuesday on a charge of criminal mischief after windows were smashed at the Democratic offices. Many of the windows displayed posters supporting health care reform.

With the public plan in ObamaCare attracting enough heat to melt steel girders, some moderates in the Senate have proposed replacing it with health insurance co-operatives.  The idea dates back several decades and was instrumental in FDR’s program of modernizing energy distribution in rural areas, and Kent Conrad (D-ND) says that example should light the way for an overhaul of the health-care system as well.  However, as the Washington Post reports, the track record of those co-operatives hardly gives confidence that they’ll work as intended or prevent government control of health care as a result:Sen.

Yes, it’s back for one morning only. Before I get to the meat of the matter, I must point you to some heartfelt words from Emperor Misha I to the remainder of the Kennedy family . For them, the late Senator was not Senator, but family. Now that the 24-hour period of “mandatory niceness” is officially over (hell, it barely begun before Nancy Pelosi declared a unilateral end by demanding that ObamaCare the Chappaquiddic Memorial Death Panels Bill be passed in his name), we need music.

Love the title. I said in my last post that although I don’t like some of Randall Terry’s antics, he is helping fuel the tension about abortion in any healthcare plan. It takes a village, as someone once said. The combination of pro-life citizens at town hall meetings asking the abortion question (as I personally witnessed at a town hall meeting last week, when well over half the questions and comments were about abortion), calls, emails, letters to congresspersons, protests outside offices of town hall-challenged wimps of Democrat congresspersons, letters to the editor in newspapers, and posts, articles, columns, and dialogue on the Internet are creating a crescendo.

Via CBS News : Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.” Section 245(b)(2)(A) says the IRS must divulge tax return details — there’s no specified limit on what’s available or unavailable — to the Health Choices Commissioner.

A new Republican fundraising letter contains yet another lie about health care reform: Raymond and Louise Denny of La Center were surprised last week to receive a mailing from Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, entitled “2009 Future of American Health Survey.” After reading it, their surprise turned to outrage. They were especially irked by the following: “It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person’s political affiliation, prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system.

Will an unruly mob of liberals descend on John Campbell’s office on Monday?Orange County liberals will be protesting John Campbell’s stance on Obamacare at his district office, according to the Daily Pilot, which reported that “Organizers announced this week the destination of a march slated for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday calling for health care for all will be at Campbell’s office, 610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 330, Newport Beach. Some are predicting enough people will show up to completely encircle the building.”Apparently “The staff at U.S.

I’ve always been fascinated by the way in which language can degrade, especially when the object of a given word or phrase is not held in high esteem.  For example, the word spinster simply used to mean a woman who spun thread.  Over the years, the word came to mean an unmarried woman (it was the legal term on wedding documents in Victorian England).  It has ended up meaning a dessicated, barren virgin.  Another word that made an even more extreme transition in meaning is “beldam.”  Its origin is the medieval French phrase “ belle dam ,” which translates to “beautiful mother” (or grandmother).  Its current meaning, of course, is ugly old hag.

And now for the most comical, absurd and idiotic comment from the Town Hall meeting for the 8th District of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Does anyone really wonder why Obama and the Democrats have lost the PR battle for Obamacare? Watch the following video. The American people do not want talking points of the plan … THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT WHAT SO EVER! Whose brilliant idea was it to bring lighting rod and flame thrower Howard Dean to a town hall meeting? Please do not use the excuse that Dean is a doctor.

By John TateMake no mistake: there’s a strong, unrelenting push to destroy what remains of private health care in this country.And now congressional leaders are attempting to overcome their scheme’s plunging approval numbers by manipulating Ted Kennedy’s death to create support for a “legacy” health care bill.Our representatives and senators are eager to get back to Washington and away from the tremendous grassroots opposition to health control.Which means it’s time for us to turn up the heat.Click

***So let me see if I get this. Our side is the one with the homemade signs and little to no experience actually protesting anything – thus, our collective awkwardness while protesting Obama Care. Their side has the fully laminated, pre-made to order signs – each with a union bug, pre-written chants and songs, AND free bus rides from out of state …. and WE are the astroturfers??? Get real.

In his most recent (August 22, 2009) weekly radio address, President Obama railed about the supposed “outrageous myths” surrounding his plan for Health Insurance Reconstruction , a plan that is often shilled as Healthcare Reform. One of the things he attempted to refute was that illegal immigrants would be covered under ObamaCare. From Reuters (Washington, DC): Today, I want to spend a few minutes debunking some of the more outrageous myths circulating on the Internet, on cable TV, and repeated at some town halls across this country.

Quote: Colorado GOP Calls for Apology After Democratic Office Vandalism The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party is calling on his Democratic counterpart to apologize following comments he claims connects an act of vandalism to opposition of President Obama’s health care reform. By Joshua Rhett Miller FOXNews.com Wednesday, August 26, 2009 The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party is calling on his Democratic counterpart to apologize for suggesting that an act of vandalism at Democratic Party headquarters was linked to opposition to President Obama’s push for health care reform.

The President is sending out this email today. Probably thinks Teddy would have wanted it.Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy.For nearly five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well-being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts.His ideas and ideals are stamped on scores of laws and reflected in millions of lives — in seniors who know

Good God, they couldn’t even wait until the man’s body was cold could they? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” the statement read. Andy Stern , president of the Service Employees International Union, also issued a statement this morning calling for the passage of health care overhaul.

Boycotts don’t work. Boycotts rarely, if ever, achieve the goal(s) set out for them, in large part because boycott organizers lack clear goals for what response the boycott is supposed to trigger and especially for what the boycotting action has to demonstrate in order to be seen as “successful”. So I’ve got a proposal, for those who want to use a boycott to show Whole Foods that they disagree with John Mackey’s comments about Obamacare : Boycott Whole Foods , and do it in a S.M.A.R.T.

Heh . Hope Big Pharma hasn’t made those ad buys yet. As the health care debate focuses on whether cost cuts are looming in Medicare coverage, Representative Henry A. Waxman is on a crusade to save Medicare billions of dollars — in a way that he says would end up helping the elderly. That is because the money would come from the drug industry, which is why Mr. Waxman may have a fight on his hands. Drug makers contend they have already worked out a 10-year, $80 billion cost-savings deal with the White House and crucial Senate gatekeepers on the trillion-dollar health care overhaul.

Flopping Aces: Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges Your IRS Tax Data Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.” [...] Flopping Aces: Obama Healthcare Plan Advisor: It’s not a DEATH PANEL, but a “GOD COMMITTEE” [...] Baby Boomers beware.

Wow — I’m away a few days and something momentous happens. I didn’t know it at the time, but I guess my last post about his rush to fill his Senate seat was pretty timely, after all. Senator Ted Kennedy died Tuesday shortly before midnight after a long battle with brain cancer at the age of 77. Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.

Now I’ve seen it all… the very people who wanted Obama in the White House are now suffering from severe and flaming buyers remorse! Well… all I can say is stop your bitching… you asked for it, and sunk the rest of us in the process. How’s that Hope and Change workin’ for ya? “You know things are going in the wrong direction for President Obama when Air America hosts begin turning on him.

Washington Examiner Political Digest Susan Ferrechio – Kennedy’s death may weaken Dems’ health plan While Kennedy was widely eulogized by Republicans, it is unlikely his death will soften the universal opposition to his health plan in the GOP. Nor will it persuade many moderate Democrats from swing districts who have been ambushed by widespread constituent opposition to the scope and cost of the proposal.

Hey look, illegal aliens WILL benefit from Obamacare. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the “research arm” for the United States Congress, issued a report validating an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), that illegal aliens would be able to receive benefits under the House health care reform bill, America’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200).

Just when we thought, we were winning.  The democrats have caught their second wind and it seems that ObamaCare may not be dead after all.   Since the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy, there are already cries of “Do it for Ted.”  My question to you is: Will that be enough? View This Poll trends

I had just said to Derek last night that we should now expect ObamaCare to become ‘KennedyCare’. The democrats are wasting no time. — Sharon for PID(ABC NEWS) — /SNIP/ To infuse Kennedy into the health-care debate, Democrats are planning to affix the former senator’s name to the health-care legislation that emerges from Congress.The idea of naming the legislation for Kennedy has been quietly circulating for months but was given a new push today by Sen.

Michael C. Moynihan : doesn’t good taste dictate that ObamaCare advocates wait at least one business day before using Ted Kennedy’s death to agitate for health care reform? As Wellstone’s untimely death showed, never waste a tragedy.

Youth Abandon Obama During Healthcare Fight Newsmax – “Add this to President Barack Obama’s problems in selling his health care overhaul: A lot of the tech-savvy activists who helped put him in office are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue. It’s a crucial gap in support and one the White House may have to correct if Obama is to regain the momentum and get Congress to act on his top domestic priority.” [Find the Article at News From the Front]   Daily Lickskillet: Read today’s Lickskillet here ! News From The Front: Does Twitter favor conservatives?

Let’s take a peek at the events that have transpired since Ted Kennedy died yesterday, shall we? Chris Matthews got another thrill down his leg by declaring that (a) health care protestors at the town hall are basically Lee Harvey Oswalds; and (b) Obama is now the last remaining Kennedy brother.  Oswald was a commie…just sayin’.  But if B.O. is the last Kennedy brother, hopefully Michelle won’t be letting Barry drive a convertible over a bridge anytime soon, especially this week at Marxist’s Vineyard.

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights stops advertising against Obamacare because of Teddy’s death : A conservative group that opposes President Obama’s approach to health care reform said Wednesday that it is suspending a multi-million dollar television campaign, because of the death of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy. “[N]ow is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance,” Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, said in a statement.

Under the Cover of a Backroom Deal : After scanning news this week, one might notice a startling dearth of health care stories making headlines. Surprisingly, for most media outlets–be they liberal, conservative, a major news network or a basement blog–stories regarding public options, death panels, Obama’s waning support, insurance companies, and the like were nowhere to be found.

It must be Thursday and that means I usually do a rant. Since I’ve been on the sick list all week I haven’t been able to spend as much time as I’d like on research. Now that I’m feeling better I’ll put more effort into things. Before the rant I’d like to give a nod to Keith Meyers who has filed to run for Alderman-At-Large. We wish him well and will vote him in the election. A revised deficit projection from the government now says the old projected deficit is around $2 trillion too low.

  Wondering what can be done to stop the ObamaCare trainwreck heading our way? Think you can’t make a difference?  Already contacted your Reps and Senators, and think there’s nothing more you can do? Au contraire! Hugh Hewitt is suggesting a very clever iniative to convince Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just how much the general public (i.e., we the people) do not want  the health care reforms being proposed by the Senate.

The BOPAC Report: ChiBama Politics – Creation of an Obamanista Army of Thugs No Turds In 2010 – Democrat, Republican, or Independent Turds – Vote For Fiscal Responsibility and Those Who Will Support The Constitution! Note: I’m not calling Obama a Nazi. I’m calling his movement fascist because it constantly seeks to ruin, ridicule, intimidate and/or censor everyone who questions Obama’s honesty or his policies.

God, I’ve got a headache. I just got back from the Townhall Meeting with Rush Holt, and as promised I’ve started drinking. A lot. I need to. And maybe you will too if these things go through. The meeting was scheduled to start at 7pm, so like a good anal-retentive type I got there at 4:30…and I was about the 20th person on line.