Obama to Blue Dogs, "'YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY MY PRESIDENCY"

National Journal/The Lid ^ | 7/22/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

The other day, the President bashed Senator DeMint for making the Obamacare battle personal:

one Republican senator said — and I'm quoting him now — "If we are able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."Think about that. This is not about me. This is not about politics. It is a health care system that is breaking America's families.

Many of the Democratic/liberal groups like MoveOn and the DNC are using the DeMint statement for fund raising.

Here's the little secret the Democrats don't want you to know, The President Agrees with DeMint. In a meeting with Blue Dogs last week he complained, 'You're going to destroy my presidency. "

[Munz]

HIS PRESIDENCY???

Isn’t he supposed to be working for US?

I thought he was supposed to be making America better, not worrying about his own agenda!

[Red6]

National health care is based on two arguments which are nonsense:

-That somehow health care becomes cheaper when a government takes over.

-That there will be no rationing of care and anything is available for all.

The bottom line is this. Today “you” the consumer control the purse and “you” are a customer. You have legal recourse and have a high degree of influence on the type of care you receive. You are responsible for selecting your insurance and have to make decisions concerning your own care. Once a government takes over, a bureaucrat makes these decision on your behalf and political considerations as well as ideological views bleed into the decision making process. You see this with medicare, medicaid, the VA, Tricare in the DoD as well as overseas where they have national/universal/social health care systems.

What you get in the end is government managed health care that like in Germany costs 14.7% of your pretax income. You end up with a government dictating what is and what is not covered. Legal recourse is limited because the government like in a monopoly game is both a player and the bank, making their own rules as they go. What you end up with is paid abortions and sex change operations paid for, but someone over 70 being declined dialysis as is the case in the UK. It's very convenient, because you no longer have to think, and the fear of the uncertain is gone. The arguments are all about egalitarianism and that you have some right to health care. However, as with all other social programs, you are surrendering your freedom for some security and in the end you have a mediocre health care system with cost controls that stifle innovation, poor customer service because you no longer hold the power of the purse, and a government suit that dictates how health care is rationed largely based on what is politically expedient.

[Victoria Delsoul]

It's always all about him, isn't it?  He is such an immature egoist, so full of himself.

Not everything is about you, you big dummy! It's about your stinky policies aimed at destroying the country.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Great Poster Material:

Government Health Care
Efficiency of FEMA
Compassion of IRS
Just Say NO.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Sent your letter to Representatives with a little editing to my local newspaper’s letters to the editor.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Good deal. Spam it around! :o)

[Seadog Bytes]

Very Nice animation, Potlatch!   (...and nice teeth on that Blue Dog!)

...Go Blue Dogs!

[potlatch]

Thank you Seadog, I like your blue dog too!