Posted on 09/09/2009 6:03:40 AM PDT by NMEwithin
During August, in scores of meetings which were held in all parts of the country and attended by thousands, concerned citizens sent unmistakable signals to their elected political leaders that if Congress is going to produce anything on health-care this year — and many openly stated they hope nothing at all will pass — they want it to be a more targeted, less expensive, and less controversial product, and one based on bipartisan consensus and not ideological ambition. Polls show most Americans are strongly opposed to a full governmental takeover of U.S. health-care, and they rightly sense that is exactly what would happen if the bills currently under consideration were to pass.
And so how are Democrats responding to this spontaneous display of widespread public disapproval of their planned agenda? Not with a sensible course correction, it seems. No, by all appearances, it’s still full steam ahead.
Yesterday, Pres. Obama delivered a campaign-style speech to his union supporters which made news mainly because the president went off of his prepared remarks to deliver a false attack on his political opponents. The president said those who are against his government-heavy plan have offered no alternatives, which is flatly not true. Months ago, Senators Coburn and Burr, and Congressmen Ryan and Nunes offered the Patients’ Choice Act which would build a true consumer-driven marketplace for insurance and medical services.
Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus distributed a summary of his long-awaited plan to selected members of his committee, and it looks to be the same plan that was under discussion in June and July, with only the most modest of tweaks...
(Excerpt) Read more at healthcare.nationalreview.com ...
Yogi Berra “ it ain’t over till its over.”
The President and his ilk obviously know better what should be done than the people they supposedly represent.
OK...can i be first?
“We are Doomed”!
“No, by all appearances, it’s still full steam ahead. “
Yup. The Kenyan is going to jam DeathCare down our throats with Democrat votes, all the while casting Republicans as the bad guys. This is the Kenyan’s idea of a surge.
I hope the Republcians don’t go wobbly. We can win this thing.
Expect the witches of Eastwick Maine to be collaborators.
OK...can i be first?
“We are Doomed”!
So now the Democrats are back in Washington and they will ram it through despite Republican protests, because it's what the people want.
Unbelievable, huh?
Possibly even McCain.... under the guise of bipartisanship, of course.
I have a feeling that reality is going to rear it's ugly head pretty soon though...
if Barry is lucky he will lose this in a Senate vote this fall. If he is unlucky, he will lose much more in a second American Revolution come spring.
If ONE REPUBLICAN goes along with this, we should start a
NEW PARTY IMMEDIATELY.....Sarah, pick up the white courtesy phone!
Sounds good to me.
If zer0 simply ignores everything that was said in August in his speech tonight what do you think the response of the Tea Partyers will be once they get to DC?
It will not be just D.C., it will truly go nation wide.
Well if the Dems all put their heads in the sand their butts will be better exposed in 2010!
Hey, October is just around the corner - it’s the time of year for Communist mischief.
What do you expect from a bunch of elitist socialists? Not only do they think they know what is best for all of us, they think it is their right or duty to impose their vision on us. This is why we absolutely need limited government.
Yes. I agree. I think a whole lot of usually shy people are going to step up and whup some liberal (and RINO) a$$.
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Yogi Berra
>I hope the Republcians don’t go wobbly. We can win this thing.
The Republicans, as a party, have been a HUGE disappointment for the majority of the last decade; they had control of the executive and legislative and did NOT follow-through on the party-line of ending abortion, they did not secure the borders, they threw away a prime opportunity to reform & reorganize both immigration bureaucracies and immigration law (and I’m not talking about imply ignoring current law a with “amnesty”).
Furthermore, the Republican party’s offering of presidential candidate was a horrible, horrible misstep... the ONLY reason I voted McCain was because Ron Paul wasn’t on my state’s ballot. (IE McCain was the “least bad” of all the candidates offered... but that isn’t saying much.)
It is my opinion that the reason the Republican party i so impotent and leaderless is that they are not FOR anything; contrasting this to conservatives like Glen Beck who IS about God, Country, Law, and so forth. As is obvious to me the Republicans are failing to really offer anything in the way of vision; the conservatives are offering “Truth, Justice, and the American way” as their vision.
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