Posted on 09/13/2009 4:59:54 PM PDT by Libloather
President Obama on health bill: 'I own it'
By POLITICO STAFF | 9/12/09 10:48 AM EDT
President Obama tells Steve Kroft in an interview airing Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CBS News' "60 Minutes: "I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it. ... So I have every incentive to get this right.”
The interview was taped Friday night at the White House, as part of an administration media blitz following his address to a joint session of Congress.
In an excerpt released by "60 Minutes," Obama said: “I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails. That doesn't work. You know, I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it. And if people look and say, ‘You know what? This hasn't reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 percent, insurance companies are still jerking me around.’ I'm the one who's going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to get this right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
...that no one will watch.
Get it right? Make it as lefty as possible.
Read this carefully friends ....
The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney 08.24.09
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.
However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the “due process of law.
So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;” The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution . If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/constituti on_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/bill_of_ri ghts_transcript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us if we allow this bill to be passed.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
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Notice a pattern here?
Interesting that the only bill that has been fully written is the house bill and Obama wanted that one passed right away. Now we are supposed to support a bill that no one has seen. This is like signing a contract that has yet to be written. Sorry Obama we are not that dumb.
To follow up this reminds me of Obama wanting us buy a used car and signing the contract before the contract is written or seeing the car.
How do we stop it? I am terrified but none of the usual stuff (like contacting your congress) is working.
Yeah, this from the clown who said that “this isn’t about me...”
Like hell it’s not.
Well-written, thanks for posting. Do you by any chance have a link to the author’s website?
"We're the ones we've been waiting for."
The 1.2 million to 2 million protestors this weekend was a good start. We stop it by letting these fascist aholes know, in no uncertain terms, that there WILL BE BLOOD spilled if they pass this against our will. (hint: their blood)
He’s always talking about stuff he owns. What kind of fruitcake job says that? LOL
They’re driving at breakneck speed on the road to tyranny without enough adaption time for the average American pleb. This could be a problem.
THE PRESIDENT: So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right? I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.
Interviewer: So how do you — how do we deal with it?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance
God love every protestor in that beautiful march on D.C. and every citizen that attended tea parties or Town halls anywhere.
I did have one thought to get our concerns out there. Since Obama is holding all these healthcare meetings, we could have our own. I’m sure there’s already Obama Halloween masks out there, we could have him up front and ask all our questions, then he could read a teleprompter and give his standard answers. At least we could release some of our frustration by hollering “you lie” over and over again.
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I've said this from the beginning - it's a Trojan Horse -
More and more states are looking at State's Rights legislation - after a certain no. of states have passed it - we can stop the Fed. take over.
WE are in the race of our lives, folks.
That sounds ominous...like for a lifetime?
He owns it.
And we PWNED him yesterday in DC.
We need to make damned sure that they (the idiots in government) got the message from the Freedom Rally, loud and clear.
That message isn’t just Don’t Tread On Me, it’s don’t Tread on our constitution. What the socialist/commie DemocRats are attempting to do goes against our constitution, and against each and every citizen of America. And as such we, the people, are duty-bound and OBLIGATED to now go against them. In ANY way we can.
This. Must. Be. Stopped....
Notice how the sob Kenyan did not say 4 years, nor 8 years. He may be planning to create a crisis that would allow the dems to declare a state of emergency and cancel elections.
Well...his good bud Fidel did it. His good bud Hugo intends to do it. What’s good for one commie is good for another, eh?
I’m trying. I’m talking to any senior citizens I know and asking them to put a few hours a week at Republican hdqtrs. The suggestion seems to be well received. I guess we’ll have to call a group of activist seniors ‘oaks’ instead of ‘acorn’.
Anyway, I’m watching for all events in my area. I totally agree with you, we have to do everything we can.
Is that the Michael Connelly who writes legal thrillers?
They intend to ram this anti-constitution bs down our throats, no matter what. They’ve known since the Clinton era that most Americans don’t want socialized health care, yet still they persist. It’s something we’re finally going to have to face, since we’ve let it slide for decades now. The commies intend to take over this country. And Zero is their last, best hope. We have to show them, once and for all, that we will not stand for their brand of “”hope and change””. The elderly are not able to fight physically, but they CAN fight this heinous takover attempt with words, with their memories of defeated fascists in the past, and with their hearts.
Keep up the good work. We will win this. One way or another.
I picked up on that too. Why not say I intend to be president for two terms. This guy needs to be thrown out ASAP. If there are any decent Republicans in Congress out there who are not afraid to speak out, please save our country from this mad man
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“I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it. ... So I have every incentive to get this right.”
Bullcrap. If it passes and is a disaster, he will be pointing fingers and blaming others so fast our heads will spin.
Why,yes, the only people whose health care will be limited will be those who need it most. and dissidents, and the physically impaired, and Republicans, and veterans, and people with athletes foot. and jockey itch, etc etc....
I am still hoping Ogabe can be found ineligible to hold office. I’m not sure we can stand him till the next election.
Instead of him “owning” it after it passes, why doesn’t he just take it now? AND STICK IT UP ..and then just go away.
Title change.
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