Posted on 03/13/2010 8:29:02 AM PST by SmartInsight
Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.
"An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message.
"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway."
Brown himself can claim responsibility for the Democrats' failure to pass health overhaul legislation to date. They were on the verge of doing so before Brown claimed the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat in a special election upset in January, depriving Democrats of their filibuster-proof supermajority and throwing the health care effort into limbo.
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Scott Brown is right. Obama and the Dems are defying the will of the American people.
My only trouble with Brown so far is that he has already indicated a willingness to pass some kind of health care legislation...just not the one being thrown around in DC.
I don’t want any health care reform.
There are things that could be considered genuine reform like selling insurance across state lines and (indirectly) tort reform..etc
The only reform we need is for the government to take down the roadblock to buying over state lines that they initially put up.
He doesn’t care if people hate it and he doesn’t care if the Democratic party gets smashed.
I finally figured out that he wants these 13 new bureaucracies ASAP and will fill them with SIEU members. That is his *real* power base, not the Democratic party.
Any elected political party is too ‘democratic’ for Obama. The bureaucracies are dictatorial, and that’s where he will consolidate his authoritarian power.
I think it’s time we people dream up some House and Senate reform and shove it down their throats.
Actually we could shove it .........never mind.
“My only trouble with Brown so far is that he has already indicated a willingness to pass some kind of health care legislation...just not the one being thrown around in DC.”
What’s wrong with that? Some reforms are good (malpractice limitations, for example).
Need to Reform the Marxist Government OUT of the health care business and take the Lawyers with them!!!!
Does it occur to anyone that the jokers in Washington are trying to tell us that it is all ovr. Obama as much as said he won. He is a Communist, and it seems most of Congress is in lockstep with him. But now that the amazing American people are beginning to see more clearly, we will see who ulyimately wins. God bless America!
As suggested by Congressman Duncan L. Hunter during the presidential debates.
But from what I gather, the drafted legislation doesn’t contain any meaningful tort reform...or maybe no tort reform at all. Who knos what the present bill is like? It’s been changed so many times and much of it is being kept under wraps.
And there is nothing wrong with opening up competition for the insurance companies — allowing them to compete across state lines and just in general letting the market determine the premiums.
This so-called health care reform has nothing to do with health care. It’s all about control — control of the economy, control of our bodies. We don’t need more government control of and intrusion into our personal lives.
agree 1000%...you want to offer affordable insurance to low income earners??? fine- let’s start by clamping down on the trial lawyers who are raping this nation and not only increasing the cost of health care and health insurance but increasing the costs of auto insurance, home insurance, commercial liability, taxes, etc which we all pay for in the end...
"Now, for the first time in our history, the majority leadership within the US Government is moving against its own people with increasing alacrity, force and determination. They have told us and continue to shout to us in myriad ways that they will refuse to listen to anything we say unless it is to thank them (our new "masters") for placing us into bondage and slavery."
Note the following statement by Thomas Jefferson:
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
Note especially the very last several words of this profound statement which provide analogy to where our elected representatives (Congressmen, Senators, and President) have brought us today, keeping in mind the recent reports showing that government workers outnumber and outearn private workers.
". . . no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
Is this not what is happening at this very moment? As unemployment in the private sector has declined and continues to decline, we, the once-proud defenders of opportunity, growth, and prosperity for all, are looking for and finding work in various levels of government, thereby, "hiring ourselves to rivet their (government's) chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
And, that's exactly what our noble health care workers will be forced to do in the future, if these tyrannical rulers have their way.
What a revolting development this is!
An excellent article in the WSJ:
The Cost-Control Illusion. Breaking down the ObamaCare claims
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470277/posts
“ObamaCare’s real cost-control plan boils down to this: First subsidize coverage so much that costs explode, raise taxes as much as possible to pay for it, and when that isn’t enough hand power to an unelected committee to limit treatment and control prices by government order. This is what Democrats are voting for.
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Someody better call Erica a waaambulance.
The commies in our government are on a long term plan. The U.S. is ratcheting further and further to the left. Entitlements, beuracracies and dependant citizens are the prizes that never shrink nor disappear.
The only way to beat back the tide would be for true conservatives to run the House, Senate and Oval Office for at least a decade while holding fast to conservative principals. Either that or another option that I can't advocate here.
check out Hugh Hewitt website. He has a email system to send letters to Blue Dogs.
http://hughhewitt.com
He also has a link to the Tim Burns, the Republican trying to take Murtha’s old seat.
Send him a contribution to send a message to the Democrats.
You don’t want tort reform?
Some types of health care and health care insurance are needed... However, I believe as much you do. We don’t need any reform relative to health care or health insurance - nor do we need ANY reforms done by Congress. Congress - both the House and the Senate just simply cannot be trusted to do what is right.
Congress and the President’s Administration and the President himself are NOT HONEST PEOPLE.
The best thing Congress could do is pass a new rule - that the only item open for business is adjournment ...
Total Congressional Grid Lock is the only way the American People have a hope of being safe.
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