More like turds in the U-pipe.
Posted on 03/22/2009 7:38:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
George Stephanopolous reported yesterday that Senate Democrats forced Barack Obama to choose between two break-the-bank policies for this year. The White House apparently surrendered on cap-and-trade in order to get started on a massive overhaul of the nation’s health-care delivery system. Stephanopolous refers to the dilemma as a classic “scorpion in the bottle” problem:
When the White House released its budget, I said the president’s effort to reform health care and cap carbon emissions were “scorpions in a bottle” — only one could make it through Congress this year.
This week, the White House and House Democrats made their choice: health care is the survivor.
As the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have reported, House Democrats (backed by the White House) plan to write a budget resolution that allows health care to be passed by a simple majority (through the so-called “reconciliation” process) if a bipartisan compromise isn’t reached by September.
Cap and trade will not get the same budget protection, and there are nowhere near 60 votes for it. Keeping it out of the reconciliation process recognizes reality: Congress can’t pass it in the middle of a recession.
Stephanopolous notes that Democrats in the House made this choice, but it’s really all about the Senate. Obama thinks he can get a few moderate Republicans to go along on health care reform, probably more than just the Porkulus 3, if he steers a centrist course. Cap-and-trade has problems even among Democrats, especially in the Rust Belt and in coal-producing areas, and its impact on the economy makes it a non-starter in this session of Congress.
Even the health-care effort will get curtailed, likely as a result of the massive government spending already undertaken by Democrats this year.
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“Free” socialist healthcare is a politically correct form of genocide.
Good news, but the health care will completely destroy the country on it’s own. Once it passes, there is no recovery without a whole bunch of things that we’re not supposed to talk about on FR.
The budget is still too expensive with only one thing left in it! Not no but h*ll no!
Good luck.
Who's going to lead?
McCain? Steele? Huckabee? Palin? Jindal? Romney? Gingrich? David Frum and the “New” Republicans?
Without serious, principled, and highly disciplined leadership, the GOP is going straight to the political graveyard.
Politically astute. The global warming fraud is unravelling, and any cap-and-trade system would be much easier to dismantle in 2011, when Congress reverts to Republican control (which is now highly probable.)
That's this year. Or maybe not. There can always be a "Global Climate Change Crisis" once the health care system is well on the road to Hell.
Good emergency care is especially important when some of those things happen.
Good post. They still haven’t realized THEY BOTH BREAK THE BANK.
It has been rare, in history, for Congressional campaigns to be “nationalized” -—
For the most part, Tip O’neil was right, “politics is local” -—
There is a good chance that 2010 WILL be more of a referendum on Obama than usual, for a mid term election.
However, each race can and will be determined on its own, and the “leader” for the Republicans, in each district, will be decided by the Republicans IN THAT DISTRICT!
There NEVER has been a Republican “General” in charge of every Congressional race.
Most Republicans would gag at such control or command.
Our job is to recruit candidates, where the sitting Republican is not acceptable, and to find a good conservative to run against every sitting Democrat.
Yeah, sure. Everyone will be rushing to the enemy for medical attention. Because the socialists are just soooo humane...
Universal Health Care = Socialized Medicine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4DRML0S3U&feature=related
For crying out loud!
If folks would just read the Kyoto treaty they would see the whole game is about redistributing America’s wealth and shuting down it’s industry.
“Without serious, principled, and highly disciplined leadership, the GOP is going straight to the political graveyard.”
If this isn’t a false move to get us to put down our pitchforks, it shows that the establishment is bringing pressure on Obama to back it down a bit. They are on the defensive, and don’t like it. Nutless republicans they can handle. But all this continual focus on their corruption and looting isn’t what they want. You know the congress is really hearing it in their offices.
So now Barack’s Brownshirts want to give our children uniforms and ship our elderly off to camps, I mean campuses. The lawsuits and who knows what else is really going to fly after King O, Queen Nancy, Prince Harry and Barney the happy jester try to impose this Nazi style remembrance on the general public. Nothing will anger people at our fool president and his band of thieves faster than taking their children and parents away.
The heat is rising on them and they must be feeling it, even though they still have a gushing media and millions of brainwashed fools. No administration, not even the polarizing ones hated by their enemies; W’s and Clinton’s were circulating this degree of dread and fear so fast.
The GOP could run the sawed off back end of a goat’s carcass and people would vote for them next year. The only issue is whether we will have the amnesty voters on the rolls and whether the election is legitimate.
More like turds in the U-pipe.
Now that is where there is a problem...
Don’t wait for 2010. There are some elections for open seats that need to become high profile conservative wins. High enough profile to scare those rare DINOs in congress and to make the more numerous RINOs there more scared of us + Rush than of Obama + MSM. We need to minimize the bleeding now! We also need to recruit and fund enough primary opponents to keep the RINOs scared. We won’t defeat all of them, but if the remaining mushy moderates feel enough heat coming from the right their voting records will improve.
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