Posted on 09/09/2009 9:37:21 AM PDT by Libloather
Obama tries to build momentum for health overhaul
Obama will push for new and crucial protections for people who already have insurance
JENNIFER LOVEN AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will tell the nation in a prime-time address precisely how he wants to expand health care, pitching a fresh argument but, to liberal disappointment, no demand for a government-run insurance option.
"The president's going to speak clearly and directly to the American people about what's in this bill for them," press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday, hours before Obama appeared before a rare joint session of Congress and a live national television audience.
Opening a final push for his top domestic priority, Obama will push for a health care overhaul that provides new and crucial protections for people who already have insurance, affordable access to coverage to those without, and reduced spending for families, businesses and government.
"We do intend to get something done this year," Obama said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Even as the president prepared to speak and continued Wednesday to write and hone the approximately 35-minute address himself the leader of the influential Senate Finance Committee raced to broker an overhaul proposal with both Democratic and Republican input.
And Republicans pressed their case that Obama's sweeping approach won't wash.
"The status quo is unacceptable. But if August showed us anything, it's that so are the alternatives that the administration and Democrats in Congress have proposed," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in prepared remarks. "That means sensible, step-by-step reforms, not more trillion-dollar grand schemes."
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Let him speak. Let him speak every day.
It pisses us off the more we hear his lies.
RE :”The status quo is unacceptable. “
McCain’s line. Remember when Obama could walk on Water?
Do I detect a change in game plan?
That train has already left the station.
Fact is, he simply has proven himself over and over again to not be credable, to not be trustworthy, and to out and out lie.
He did so again on Monday night (9/07/09) when he said that the GOP plan for Health Care was "to do nothing", that they, "didn't have a plan." When he knows good and well that they do, and that plans have been put forward in the House and the Senate that have been ignored by the DNC and by himself.
Our nation is in one of the fights of it's life. It is a fight ultimnately for our liberty and very life. It is a political fight, it is a fight of ideas, and it is a spiritual fight.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." - Ephesians 6:12
As time goes on, and as more and more Americans simply refuse to be quiet and accept what the Obama administration and the DNC leadership propose, the fact of the coupled physical and spiritual nature of it becomes more evident. The lies and deception of the Obama administration and the DNC leadership are becoming more and more apparent.
Here is what Obama said to the American people at a contrived "town hall" in New Hampshire on Tuesday, August 11, 2009.
"I have not said that I was a single payer supporter. Pres. Barack Hussein Obama, Aug 11, 2009
Compare that to what he said while campaigning for the Senate to his union supporters, and was cheered while so doing:
I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And thats what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. Thats what Id like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first weve got to take back the White House, weve got to take back the Senate, and weve got to take back the House. - Barack Hussein Obama, June 30, 2003 to AFL-CIO
I guess he thinks he can say whatever he wants at any given time and it will be truth. That is the definition of a pathological liar.

He and those around him and supporting him are drunk with power and control, and so they demonize the opposition, rather than seeing it for what it is, a massive outcry from the people of this nation, right before their very eyes, over their monstrosity plans for health care.
Their pronouncements and actions are like every other repressive, tin-horn regime in history. Label the opposition with exactly what they themselves are doing and then use the government controlled and co-opted press to spread that lie, and then use their thugs to try and enforce it and stamp out dissent.
Well, not any more in this country. The health care debate has blown the lid off and it's time to carry it through on this issue and every other similiar issue (like Cap & Trade, FOCA, etc.) that these wanna-be tyrants propose.
President Barack Hussein Obama said on August 7, 2009, that he expected the people who caused the financial and health care mess to be quiet, stand out of the way, and let it be fixed.
Well, Mr. President, if you do not want the people who created this mess standing in the way of fixing it, then you, Mr. Obama...and Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, et all had best step out of the way yourselves. Because you not only helped engineer the problems that ensured the fiasco...you are now intent on making it immeasurably worse in your drive towards abject marxism.




Maybe we ought to call all the republican reps and senators and ask them to SKIP this meeting tonight. If they’re gonna pass this crap, PUT IT SQUARELY on the democrats to take the blame when it ruins this country, just like Britain!
Sure is interesting how all the Congress members who are lawyers are continuing to protect their own ilk.
There isn’t one word about Tort Reform from the left.
Future scenario:
NObama gets his “health care’ program.
Hospital gets less and less money to run the business.
Doctors and nurses change to other careers.
Tort lawyers sue over scaled down care or lack of care. Jury awards big bucks to a struggling hospital.
Hospital closes doors.
Where’s the health care then for that community?
"President Obama argues that Democrats' "will provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable." Of course consumer protection sounds like a good idea. And it's true that insurance companies can be unaccountable and unresponsive institutionsmuch like the federal government. That similarity makes this shift in focus seem like nothing more than an attempt to deflect attention away from the details of the Democrats' proposalsproposals that will increase our deficit, decrease our paychecks, and increase the power of unaccountable government technocrats.
"Instead, let's talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include giving all individuals the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage; reforming tort laws to potentially save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.
"We often hear such overblown promises from Washington. With the facts in hand, tell them that this time we're not buying it." Sarah Palin - September 8, 2009

Maybe we ought to call all the republican reps and senators and ask them to SKIP this meeting tonight. If theyre gonna pass this crap, PUT IT SQUARELY on the democrats to take the blame when it ruins this country, just like Britain!”
I like that idea !!
When will a single Republican with some cojones stand up and and talk about the part of the bill that says UNION members will NOT have to pay premiums on THEIR health care?
UNION members under NObamacare will become a new ‘welfare class’ with some of the highest wages in the world.
Disgusting !!!!
I believe Sarah quit being Governor to do exactly what she did yesterday:
SPEAK OUT against this administration.
She had her hands tied in being Governor of Alaska and having the freedom to tell it like it really is...
Thank you, God, for Sarah Palin. Keep her safe, please. We need her like never before to lead this country out of the morass of NObama and his minions.
Iam really getting tired of hearing that zebra son of a bitch talk about anything, every thing he says is a LIE.
Well.
That’ll be a novelty.
If he tells the actual truth, too, it'll be a singularity.
While they do this, and further discredit only themselves in the effort, Sarah is going to write her book, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disaster and gain great political capital in the process.
Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that capital and make an awesome, stunning, and successful run for the Presidency in 2012.
Mr. President,
Keep your laws off my BODY!
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