Posted on 07/30/2009 1:56:11 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Yesterday, Pres. Obama’s proposed takeover of the US healthcare system took hits in polling from from NPR, TIME, Gallup, NBC/WSJ and the New York Times. Today’s Pew poll is about as bad.
The Hill and Politico report on the Congressional Progressive Caucus threatening to bolt over the deal their leaders forged with the Blue Dogs — and that is over the supposed substance, not the delay for a vote by the full House until September, when time is so clearly the Democrats’ enemy.
The emerging proposal from the bipartisan “gang of six” Senate Finance Committee negotiators that would drop a government-run insurance plan caused wailing and gnashing of teeth throughout the Leftosphere. Matt Taibbi, Scott Lemieux and Howard Dean are good examples, though Jane Hamsher attacking Ezra Klein as insufficiently dogmatic may be my favorite. Moreover, it seems that a bipartisan proposal will not emerge before Congress goes on August recess.
Grading Pres. Obama’s efforts to sell healthcare reform, Lefty blogger Nate Sliver gives The One a B+, a D+, a D- and two Fs. President Obama’s AARP town hall showed a man clearly on the defensive. It is thus no surprise that Obama plans to retool his rhetoric — though 8 bullet points, pitched mostly at the insured (who are overwhelmingly happy with their coverage already) are unlikely to change the field much.
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When your health care is managed by the same sort of folks who handle your local Registry of Motor Vehicles, the US Postal Service, and Amtrak, you’ll know ObamaCare is up and “running.”
If this universal health care is made into law we should should do everything we can to foul up the health system.
One thing we could do is get every person against this to go to the emergency wards every day and complain of being real sick to clog up the system.
Also go to your hospitals and doctors offices for the same reason.
People may then vote Republicans and maybe enough to get 60 Republicans senators and then they can get rid of socialism for good.
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