Posted on 07/21/2009 1:33:39 PM PDT by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama remained on the offensive Tuesday on the pace and shape of legislation reinventing health care, against stiffening opposition from Republicans and growing wariness among rank-and-file congressional Democrats.
Following a recent pattern, harsh public exchanges ricocheted along Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol amid laborious work on the measure that Obama has insisted be put together before Congress leaves in August for its recess — a timetable a House Democratic leader indicated was slipping.
Entering a closed-door Democratic meeting, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., told another lawmaker: "No one wants to tell the Speaker (Nancy Pelosi) that she's moving too fast and they damn sure don't want to tell the president."
Rangel's panel finished its portion of the House bill last week.
Obama stepped once more before the cameras at the White House to say strides have been made. At the same time, he repeated that the sticker shock that critics keep citing will be worse in the absence of an overhaul and exhorted Washington to "insist that this time it will be different."
Obama's challenge was evident, even in his own party.
"Members have concerns, and they're not just Blue Dogs," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters, referring to a group of conservative Democrats. "I want to make it very clear that there's progressives, Blue Dogs and everybody in between who have expressed concerns and we're working on that."
Hoyer raised the prospect of delaying passage of a bill after Congress' August recess.
"If we can get to consensus we're going to move. If we can't get to consensus we're going to continue to work on creating consensus," he said.
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“hey sheep.... don’t think.... just follow me to destruction of the US.... that is my goal” obamanation
What is the date of the first day of the “August Recess”?????
‘No you can’t read it. Just vote yes... Or else.’
Yeah, cuz he's pretty formidable with that 51%-and-sinking popularity rating.
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If this monstrosity doesn’t take effect until 2013, why does it have to be finished and passed in the next few weeks?
WOW, Rangel is afraid to tell the Emperior he has no clothes. Hey idiot that is your Job as a Reprentative. What are you afraid of RETALIATION.
Where have we heard this routine before? Oh, that's right, there was no time for delay on the stimulus, or else unemployment will go over 8 percent.
We all know how that one worked out.
When did she say that, and in what context. Maybe it needs to be on a poster.
“....Yeah, cuz he’s pretty formidable with that 51%-and-sinking popularity rating.....”
Dropping very quick. Politicians don’t like to be associated with unfavorable Presidents and policies! As his popularity drops so shall his support...so help us God!
People are figuring out that the real nasty things that are about to happen with this guy are the very proposals he says we have to have.
He is an abject marxist ideologue who is destroying the free market and this nation with the "fundamental" change that he is implementing.
A PETITION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH
...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.
Jim DeMint was on Cavuto at the top of the show today and said when Obama was a senator, he voted against all the Republican bills which would have made healthcare cheaper. Now he wants a big govt. takeover of healthcare and he does not even know what is in the bill.
And take the remote chance that someone might read said monstrosity? Never, I tell you! Dire consequences unless we act now... etc, etc, ad nauseum...
Michelle meant it when she said “Barack will require you to work.”
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When you analyze their backgrounds, it was VERY clear then that we were dealing with college-campus commies who hated America. These people are strapped to an ideological horse they are trying to ride down the throats of the American citizens — lubricated BY LIES AND DECEIT. These people are without conscience or care about America or its people — they are things to be used as slaves to a radical socialist agenda to SERVE THE STATE while having their beloved country torn apart by a twisted, anti-American, anti-capitalist agenda. The INDIVIDUAL is to be destroyed along with his/her rights and freedoms.
I bet it was the Good Cop Obama and Bad Cop Emmanuel show...
He’s got his ‘higher calling’. Destruction of this Country.
Translation: Obama wants to rush this through before he’s required to deliver his already delayed and late Budget Report.
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