Posted on 11/07/2009 7:00:45 PM PST by Steelfish
November 7, 2009
Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch
By JACKIE CALMES In an odd coincidence, the House debate on Saturday to overhaul health care took place on the third anniversary of the 2006 election that gave Democrats majority control after 12 years of Republican dominance.
It fell to President Obama and to Congressional leaders to persuade those Democrats still sweating the final vote that it would not prove the party’s undoing in next November’s midterm elections.
Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats’ newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district that Republicans had held since 1872. In the campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens’ conservative rival.
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
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...and Bill Ayers wasn’t. *rolling eyes*
He’s a worthless punk.
YOU LIE!
By becoming extremists we are also displaying our true American loyalty, no amount of spin or propaganda will ever sway my beliefs or my direction of destiny.
He’s a sack of sh*t..I have never hated a President as much as I hate Obama. I was too young during The Carter years to even care, I didn’t even dislike Clinton all that much, but Obama, OH MY GOD..he makes Chavez look tame
Obama doesn’t want American to “jump into conclusions” about terrorist mass-murderer Hasan but peaceful protesting Americans are called “EXTREMISTS”! When did a president ever stoop so low?
As were all the signers of the unanimous Declaration in 1776. We're in good company.
“Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice” Yes I am an extremist!!
GOD PLEASE cause confusion an the minds of the delegates as they vote...................
You call me a tea bagger? I call you a Douche bagger.
“teabag, anti-government people...[are]...extremists”
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Dear Blue Dogs,
Please dive off the cliff for me and my ego.
Yours truly,
Obama (I won!)
This mfer is no president. He has consistently demonstrated a stunning incompetence with regard to the office he was elected to, an infuriating, breath-taking and atrocious disrespect of this nations military and those who serve in it, a veritable paranoia and hostility to Fox News and to anyone who criticizes him. He has reached out to Americas enemies at the same time abandoning allies and has consistently apologized for Americas supposed ‘’sins’ and ‘’mistakes’’. He is not my president nor is he Americas president. He’s a racist, ghetto punk. A slovenly neo-Marxist thug of a South Side Chicago politican. He derserves No respect what so ever. None at all. He hasn’t done anything to earn it. He’ll certainly get none from me. Not ever. What he really is can’t be mentioned here but it would certainly fit as to what he really is. What a disgrace this nation has bought on itself. I hope the moral idiots who voted for this punk are happy with what they’ve done.
I am beginning to believe that Hasan was just one of Barack’s sleeper agents.
WE don’t really have any proof whatsoever he said this though, do we?
Wow. He really has a gift for "bringing the country together," doesnt he?
/s
HE’S THE EXTREMIST!
Bastard!!!
Yeah, well I am a tea partier and I call the marxist punk a stupid nig.
All I kept hearing was how smart Zero was, but now I am happy to say he is playing on our team. The more he opens his mouth, the more he f**ks things up, the better our side will do. After 11/04/09 I thought it was going to be an uphill battle to get to 2010, it seems to me that it is now a down hill slide for the other side.
Keep up the good work Zero.
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