Posted on 03/14/2010 12:37:05 PM PDT by tobyhill
Expressing an increasing confidence that a massive health care overhaul will pass Congress -- despite dire warnings from Republicans about its impact on Democrats in November -- White House officials on Sunday dared the GOP to bring it on during this fall's 2010 midterm election.
"We're happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of health care reform. That's a debate I think we're obviously comfortable having," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday."
"Make my day," added senior White House adviser David Axelrod.
"If the Republican Party wants to go out and say to that child who now has insurance or say to that small business that will get tax credits this year ... you know what, we're actually going to take that away from you and we don't think that's such a good idea, I say let's have that fight," Axelrod told ABC'S "This Week." "I'm ready to have that and every member of Congress ought to be willing to have that debate as well."
White House aides and House Democratic leaders have expressed increasing confidence they will get the 216 votes needed in the House to pass a Senate version of a health insurance overhaul that is not exactly what any Democrat wants but is more than no bill at all.
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And taxes. And no “benefits” for 4 or 5 years. Yeah, that will go over well with the public. Watch every Obama voter showing up at doctors office saying “I have to pay? but I thought it was free now?”
Voter: Heyy my paycheck went down 20 bucks!
Us: Yeah now you get to pay for somebody else’s health care plus your own! what a deal!
Obama is the worst poker player in the world.
He always raises when everyone knows he has a poor hand.
Olympics-Copenhagen, cap and scam-Copenhagen, Letters to Khomeini, Yelling at Honduras, “Reset” with Russia, etc.
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Liberty.
It must be clear that every election from now on will be about liberty.
If the voters want to be “comfortable” slaves to government then the ‘Rats will win.
I think that they are in shock that their threats have not cowed some republicans into the go along and get along mode. Open rebellion is a real, possible consequence of this unconstitutional and criminal act.
Glad to see the WH is mouthpiecing for all RATS. How about someone get a follow up from the vulnerable RATS who have to go home and face the (political) pitchfork and torch mobs?
Yyyyyyyep!
"John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144
"Obsta principiis (translation: resist the beginnings), nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."
This is what the 'Progressives' have done to America! They have created millions of "seekers" after your earnings, and they are now arrogant enough to believe those dependent on the government for everything will assure their political success in 2010 and 2012.
This never has been about "health care." It is, and has been, about raw government power over the lives of citizens who inherited liberty as a birthright, and gave it away for promises of "goodies."
IN 2012, also!
Unfortunately, many people would not miss $20. The real problem is that there will be many consumption taxes that will take place. We will also hear, "Hey, my (medical supply) just went up 20%. Now I have to cut back on ..... to make ends meet."
I’ll call Axelrod and I’ll raise him:
You guys write the bill and allow Congressional candidates to run on it. Specifically, allow Democrats to run on the notion that it will be the first bill voted on in January 2011.
We’ll see how many pro-health-care Congressmembers get elected in November.
You can count on it Barry. WE will!!!
Not only will the GOP run on it, they will win big on it.
Yeah Obama, make the debate about health care. It worked wonders in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
Yup. DemonRats charmed by the Pipe Piper's flute tune - marching to the sea. Just like lemmings most of them will blindly follow Hopey Changey the Commie Clown. They have lost all individuality.
Forward March Rats! Ignore the sound of the crashing waves!
They are delusional.
Because the only thing we will be taking away are taxes for three years.
Here’s my health plan ideas for Republicans. Do away with Affirmative Action demands. Affirmative Action knocks out better qualified candidates for lesser qualified candidates, and it drives up the cost of medical schools, as do small quotas for graduating students. Increase the number of med students to increase competition and supply. Do away with borders for insurance companies. Let them compete wherever they want to compete, and do away with the portability problems. Allow for bigger bargaining groups for insurance. Work with medical schools that are receiving federal money to open and support clinics in impoverished areas for rendering preventative care and hands on training. Let these clinics work with Medicare/Medicaid, and take the brunt of non payments from the federal government. That should help lower the cost of private insurance that makes up the difference of what doctors and hospitals are losing from Medicare. It should also help lower indigent expenses of private healthcare businesses that are absorbed by the consumers. That’s my Keynesian, spread-the-load contribution. If we are going to have socialized medicine at some level, get it out of the private market. Create more supply and competition, and beat the Democrats over the head with their stupid, incompetent Socialism.
Make the Democrats pay for their assault on liberty.
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