Posts about Pelosi as of October 25, 2009

The public option is dead. Long live the public option. That’s the situation now prevailing on a key sticking point in health care reform. GOPers hate the public option because they say it would symbolize the Obama administration’s encroachment into the private sector and be a huge step into socialized medicine. Democrats are split, with some progressives nearly making support of the public option in voting a litmus test for “real” Democrats akin to what Republicans conservatives have done on the issue of abortion to members of their party who dare support it.

While Democrats in Congress have spent months demonizing insurers as greedy villainous monsters, from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi to Alan Grayson, the American media stood mute rather than report on the extent of this supposed greed.  Why?  It’s not as if these companies don’t have annual reports, or that business media haven’t tracked their performance.  The publicly-traded companies have their bottom lines exposed for all to see, and yet the media has steadfastly whistled and looked askance

   October 20, 2009 AP source: House Dems trim  health bill to $871B   ABC News  – Next Steps for Health Care Reform   AP – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., second from right, accompanied by, from left, White House …   By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer   WASHINGTON – House Democrats are aiming to scale back the cost of their health care bill to well below President Barack Obama’s preferred price tag by giving the government a strong hand in selling insurance in competition with the private market.

To All, It is time that we took matters into our own hands in regards to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Pease take a moment and read the petition below. If you agree please use this link to sign on. Once again we can only rely on ourselves to get this done. Thanks Dennis http://www.petitiononline.com/HR847NOW/petition-sign.html To: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ms. Nancy Pelosi & All Congressional Representatives We the undersigned urge Speaker of the House, Ms.

So, you know how President Obama declared a swine flu emergency ? This is a move that makes it easier to deal with the spread of the disease by waiving some Medicare and Medicaid processing rules in order to speed up treatment. What does it mean? Oh, World Nuts, you are entertaining, except for the being real and having readers and thus being kind of frightening part.

Letter From Washington A Culture of Business as Usual New York Times House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat , has pushed for tougher ethical standards and procedures. Still, these changes are often overwhelmed by an … and more »

When asked where Congress derives its power to issue a mandate to citizens to buy health insurance or face large fines or jail time, Democratic politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Leahy, and Steny Hoyer scoff at the very question as “ridiculous.”  However, the last time such a mandate was proposed, at least one entity on Capitol Hill did not find it ridiculous at all.  In 1993, the Congressional Budget Office analyzed HillaryCare and reported to Congress that it would take an “unprecedented”

Chippewa Herald Senate Democrats close in on health reform votes Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democratic leaders are close to securing enough votes to advance a sweeping healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama, a top Senate Democrat said on Sunday, adding that it likely would include a … Who might, or might not, be covered under the healthcare bills Los Angeles Times Senate Demos have votes for public health plan: Schumer MarketWatch Sens.

The Obama family photo by Annie Leiborvitz has been released by the White House for the public. The casual family portrait was taken in the Green Room at the White House. Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and their daughters, Sasha and Malia posed for a portrait on September 1, 2009 in the Green Room of the White House. The official photo, taken by Annie Leibovitz, has been released to the public and can be found on the White House photo stream.

When asked where Congress derives its power to issue a mandate to citizens to buy health insurance or face large fines or jail time, Democratic politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Leahy, and Steny Hoyer scoff at the very question as “ridiculous.”  However, the last time such a mandate was proposed, at least one entity on Capitol Hill did not find it ridiculous at all.  In 1993, the Congressional Budget Office analyzed HillaryCare and reported to Congress that it would take an “unprecedented”

Three senators expressed three different views on the public option Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. WASHINGTON (CNN) – As Democratic leaders in Congress appear to be converging on proposals for a public health insurance option that might win passage in each chamber, the comments of two Democratic senators Sunday suggested that a long fight is likely ahead in the Senate. Conservative Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska told CNN’s John King that he has not committed to lend his vote to aid Democrats in avoiding a filibuster of health care reform legislation.

CBS News Senator: Public option is close to gaining votes The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A proposal for government-backed health insurance is close to gaining the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate and probably will be in overhaul legislation, a Senate Democratic leader said Sunday. A proposal for the public option that is …

As you are probably aware, there is a very heated debate going on in our country over the need for health care reform. It was one of the main agendas that Barack Obama ran on and with Democrats controlling Congress, it seems a given that some sort of health care reform legislation is sure to reach the White House for his signature. Part of the debate over health care reform has centered on who is really to blame for the high price of health care and insurance.

The resurrection of the public option is the latest and one of the most surprising turns in the long battle over legislation to overhaul the nation’s health-care system. Under assault for months, and declared on life support repeatedly in recent weeks, the provision for a public insurance option is unexpectedly alive as House and Senate leaders prepare to send their bills to the floor. That doesn’t mean it’s a done deal. Whether it survives the final battles, and in what form, are still the unanswerable questions.

( The Hill ) Approximately 40 House Democrats are prepared to block healthcare reform legislation from coming to the floor should the bill include federal subsidies for abortions, said Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) Friday. Stupak, who is conservative on social issues, told CNS News that he has organized the voting bloc to support his amendment that would strip the abortion provisions from the legislation. House Rules Committee chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), according to Stupak, said that there is “no way” her panel would provide a vote for his amendment.

Lisa Miller, organizer for Tea Party Washington DC, tracks down Newt Gingrich at a bookstore while he promotes his latest novel, To Try Men’s Souls.  Miller sets up the interview outside the bookstore by reviewing NY23 candidate Dede Scozzafava’s policy record, then goes inside and asks Newt (politely, it seems) what he was thinking when he endorsed Scozzafava.

By Cliff Kincaid October 25, 2009 NewsWithViews.com When Van Jones resigned his White House job, under fire for his pro-communist views, White House adviser David Axelrod said that Jones had himself made the decision to leave the administration. But new documents indicate that Jones didn’t even write his own resignation letter. It is now abundantly clear that he was pushed out because the scandal threatened to implicate Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett in the scandal that gave him a critical White House position without proper vetting.

See, this is the problem with thinking that healthcare can be fixed by going after the insurers. It’d be one thing, if they health insurers commanded fat margins, and that if by lowering them, we could reduce systemic costs. But they don’t. What makes healthcare expensive is the direct cost of supplying healthcare. Bring that down, and the insurance and coverage problems will start to go away.

Before lambasting “winky” (the one eyed wonder who is currently Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), I do want to point out a few things. The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK, all failed to enact a massive screw the taxpayers to the ceiling “stimulus” bills that rewarded all of their political allies. As a result, their recession is in large part significantly less… their unemployment is less (if you can believe that)… and the overall duration of the recession appeared to be less….

One of Barack Obama’s strongest new media supporters during last year’s primary season slams him today on its front page. Resurrection Sunday… for the public option, that is. At least, that seems to be the most fitting label today when reading traditional journalists’ take on the public option. Dan Baltz : The resurrection of the public option is the latest and one of the most surprising turns in the long battle over legislation to overhaul the nation’s health-care system.

By Matt Cover (original here ) (CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious?

Nat HentoffThe CATO Institute Sunday, Oct 25th, 2009While battling the FBI’s expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. 8th) that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8th), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it.

Nat Hentoff The CATO Institute Sunday, Oct 25th, 2009 While battling the FBI’s expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. Then, in a public session, all but three Democrats voted for a watered-down “compromise” bill by Patrick Leahy and Diane Feinstein.

We need to stop throwing good money after bad and let the correction happen. I don’t want my tax money going to reward bad management, poor quality, lousy products, etc. How can we get that collective message across to Washington? Pelosi? Bush? Obama? etc.

Wait a minute, that’s the Hippocratic Oath. Congress took the Hypocritic one. First, Make No Sense.  GMU Econ Prof Tyler Cowen at NYT : The finances of forcing people to pay for what they don’t want. It’s a costly slippery tax slope.  NYT : Pelosi, Reid determined to shove through public option. Washington Post : Zombie-like resurrecvtion of the public option … what brought it back to life? Weekly Standard : That fait is not exacty accompli.

The Failures of both the Hard Right and the Hard Left examined in a New Light!!! The Hard Right Position We have a gridlock of media and academic construction putting two groups (the Poor, the Underclass) against each other on emotive appeals to extremist concepts that are not real and counterproductive to social progress. On the one hand, you have the rural poor (Rednecks, Hillbilly’s, and Trailer Trash), whose greatest fear is that swarms of Black Helicopters will issue forth from Washington DC and force them to clean up the junk laying around in their yards.

Small businesses in the US are facing sharp rises in their health insurance premiums next year. On average premiums appear to be rising 15% in 2010. The NYT quotes “experts” as suggesting that the insurance industry is “raising premiums to get ahead of any legislative changes that might reduce their profits”. Unfortunately for this theory, it seems to overlook the fact that Medicare, the government insurer is also raising its premiums by the same margin .

I always thought it a good thing that my parents don’t know what I do. Sure, they know where I work, but since I’m in finance and they’re in Geology and Endocrinology respectively, the last thing they want to know is anything related to finance. In fact, after spending a tiresome amount of time explaining my job to them, I finally gave in and stopped correcting them when they tell people I do something related to the stock exchange.

The Axis of Idiots “The Axis of Idiots” From the Podium: J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC FROM THE PODIUM This retired USMC Sgt.. Major has his Stuff together. Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the “runner-in-chief.” Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us.

If you want to read one of the all-time classic rants — trust me, you do — scoot over to Dan Collins’ Piece Of Work In Progress site and behold him from earlier today unloading with both barrels against the arrogance of the present administration. Also, make sure you check out the blog post to which he links by Nice Deb about Congressional shenanigans regarding ACORN.

I knew I was forgetting something . No wonder Nancy Pelosi is saying maybe, possibly, there won’t be a ‘robust’ public option. We can’t afford it. Gee, who knew? Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month .

The wheels may be coming off the cart of the Democrats’ all-in-this together strategy for overhauling healthcare. And according to two reports, the people doing the wheel removing work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Last week, conservative Democratic senators broke the news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was considering including a provision in the Senate healthcare bill which would create a government-run healthcare option but allow states to opt out.

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You are here: Home / Environment / A patriarch who ‘generally speaking, respects human life’ October 24, 2009 by John Couretas · The Sweet Kiss iconReading Andrew Estocin’s fine essay, “Constantinople’s Moral Oversight,” I was reminded once again of the long running institutional silence — a scandal really — from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese on sanctity of life issues. But that attitude of indifference comes down from the top — the Phanar.Here is a direct quotation from a July 20, 1990, article, “SF Shows Off Its Ecumenical Spirit,” in the San Francisco Chronicle.

AP – In Congress these days, the health care debate is as much about patience as patients. See the rest here: (AP)”> (AP)”>Patients – and patience – in health care end game (AP)

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Public option likely to be managed by private insurance company By John Byrne Saturday, October 24th, 2009 — 7:31 am A little-noticed tidbit in Saturday’s Washington Post is sure to raise eyebrows among liberal supporters of a gorvernment-run healthcare plan: the plan is likely to be administered by a private insurance company, the very companies that progressive activists are trying to unseat.

Michelle Malkin slams President Obama in Chicago October 23, 2009 BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter Conservative firebrand columnist/blogger Michelle Malkin came to Chicago Thursday night to slam President Obama in his hometown and to slap Republicans who work with Obama instead of fighting him. “Many of you fight not just the Culture of Corruption among Democrats but the culture of corruption that has paralyzed and plagued much of the Republican Party nationally and locally,” Malkin told 250 members of the United Republican Fund of Illinois.

SUCH A SERIOUS MISTAKE? http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/23/pelosi-constitutionality-of-individual-mandates-not-serious-question/

  Left, Right And Haters by R.E. Prindle        We read with amusement that Pelosi, Reid et al., The United Morons Of America, intend to pass legislation barring  ’haters’ from the serving in the military.  That’s rich.      When Congress wanted to pass a law back in the fifties outlawing Communism the Reds scotched the idea.  McCarthyism.  Woo woo.  Now the master hypocrites want to pass laws outlawing the Right.  Get out.

Even though officials are reporting that the H1N1 pandemic appears to have peaked, President Obama has just signed a proclamation that declares the H1N1 swine flu a national emergency. This proclamation gives Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius extraordinary powers to bypass federal rules and open off site hospitals in schools or community centers. This move has raised fears of a government quarantines, and has a number of people very alarmed.

And who isn’t? They are celebrating in Minnesota as our favorite authority on climate change, George Will of the Washington Post embraces Michele Bachmann. He does note that “She is, however, a petite pistol that occasionally goes off half-cocked.” but otherwise says that “her supposed excesses are, however, not merely defensible, they are admirable.” Sharing a state with Al Franken, they should probably rename Minnesota Comedy Central.

We get word that Nancy Pelosi is cutting a country album. We wonder what the title of this album could possibly be ???? And  while you’re at it, perhaps you can speculate about the title of a few of the tunes that will be released as singles.

   Submitted by: John Butler           Pay particular attention to item number 4. The President said we won’t pay for this and other medical needs of non-Americans.  Who will ?                                                         In just One State ! This is only one State……………If this doesn’t open your eyes nothing will !   From the L.

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Submitted by: Tony Caputo Staggering Cost Of Illegal Aliens In America.    Taxpayers Taken To The Cleaners. By Frosty Wooldridge 4-10-08   Illegal alien migration into the United States costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually reported by the National Research Council. While employers of illegal aliens rake-in billions of dollars, the US citizens subsidize what may be called organized “Slavery in 21st Century America.” While Congress facilitates outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring of American jobs by the thousands weekly, that same Congress imports 182,000 legal immigrant monthly who need jobs.

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