Posted on 07/17/2009 9:46:22 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Three of the five Congressional committees working on legislation to reinvent the nation’s health care system delivered bills this week along the lines proposed by President Obama. But instead of celebrating their success, many Democrats were apprehensive, nervous and defensive.
Even as Democratic leaders and the White House insisted that the nation was closer than ever to landmark changes in the health care system, they faced basic questions about whether some of their proposals might do more harm than good.
And while senior Democrats vowed to press ahead to meet Mr. Obama’s deadline of having both chambers pass bills before the summer recess, some in their ranks, nervous about the prospect of raising taxes or proceeding without any Republican support, were pleading to slow down.
To help finance coverage of the uninsured, the House bill would impose a surtax on high-income people and a payroll tax — as much as 8 percent of wages — on employers who do not provide health insurance to workers.
Mr. Polis said these taxes, combined with the scheduled increase in tax rates resulting from the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, would have a perverse effect. “Some successful family-owned businesses would be taxed at higher rates than multinational corporations,” he said.
In a letter to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Polis and 20 other freshman Democrats said they were “extremely concerned that the proposed method of paying for health care reform will negatively impact small businesses, the backbone of the American economy.”
But the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, testified on Thursday that doing so would come at a steep cost and that the proposals would not curb the rise in health spending by the federal government, which he called “unsustainable.”
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“Obama is all about Obama and trying to rush and bully everyone to do what he wants. This man is not what America is about at all.”
Obama is reading the polls and he sees his numbers slipping quickly. He has to rush this through before the numbers fall through the floor. He absolutely must get this passed before the midterm elections or he will lose the opportunity as he knows the dems will lose one or both houses of congress.
I am not interested in any talk of violent revolution
You nailed it MC!
the bomb is just another Chicago hood...
OMG, don’t mention Kennedy and car keys in the same comment !
On the other hand, maybe you mean it’ll all end up a disaster :)
Unfortunately, we’re all Mary Jo’s in this scenario. =(
What do both things (9/11 & Obama getting elected) have in common?
Saudi money and wahnahabiism.
And this appears to be backfiring on them because they seem to have forgotten one important factor - - - there ARE wealthy Democrats and there ARE Democrat employers.
My guess is those folks are now raising h*ll with their congresscritters and senators like we've been doing.
I can't help but think, "Heh".
[Obama is all about Obama and trying to rush and bully everyone to do what he wants. This man is not what America is about at all.]
I really believe Obama has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (I know some people with it). I think this makes Obama incredibly unstable.
We will be in uncharted territory if Healthcare reform fails and Uberbama goes on the warpath. NPDers cannot admit defeat, they always transfer blame to “those evil others”. Trust me, it isn’t pretty.
Isn’t that what Obama was doing yesterday?? And Biden says “the stimulus is working”!!! Exactly where, we don’t know, but surely not in California.
They need about twenty Repubs to bail them out and make this crappola bipartisan. Let’s see who they can blackmail.
Aren’t almost all Congress members in the millionaire club?? Are they exempting themselves from the 50-60 percent taxes?? Why don’t they just work for free instead of giving themselves raises?? We should start a new mantra-—”soak the Congress members”. Tax them to death, let them know what it feels like.
“The libs are like bratty kids who are always bitching about their parents...”
And then they lock the parents outside, throw their brothers and sisters down the basement stairs, and raze the place.
“...many Democrats were apprehensive, nervous and defensive.”
They ought to be—they’re about to destroy human freedom on planet earth.
Sounds overdone, right?
If the hard-left gets this passed it will be the crack in the foundation of American/world freedom that will allow the them to once again crawl out from the shadows and wreak havoc on the human race.
This is a monumental mistake.
America will never be the same again.
Now, why would that make you nervous?
They're "special", ya know? They don't have to live like the "little people". (a sarcasm tag shouldn't be necessary here)
Just remember all you socialist democraps, an election is just around the corner and you ain’t looking too good about now.
Personally I’m hoping a few of you unamerican socialist types get serious ass whoopins before any election.
Love to see Murtha go to a wal Mart and have the greeter just beat the scum down. And a whole lot of others.
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNGeTwctg8
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