Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Obamacare, and Death Panels

Common Sense 2020 ^ | 2009-08-27 | Ray Harvey

[Phree Non-Phixion]

Poor misunderstood Ezekiel J. Emanuel.

Ezekiel, if you don’t know, is the older brother of the statist Rahm Emanuel, and recently Ezekiel got his feeling hurt.

In an interview he just gave the Associated Press, Monday (August 24th), Ezekiel said this:

"I’m completely dumbfounded. I’ve been in academic disputes before, but I never thought I’d be disparaged on Sunday morning talk shows and in the papers, being distorted in ways that can only be described as willful and intentional."

More details and a video here: Fact of the Day: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Obamacare, and Death Panels

[sheik yerbouty]

Succeeding the recent Debt Star, willm be the Death Star, one ofour mad emperor’s most vile schemes..

[massgopguy]

Nazi is as Nazi does, Dr. Zeke.

[Phree Non-Phixion]

And, let us not forget that the Nazi party were “democratic socialists”.

Certainly, our President is surrounding himself with special advisers (czars) who are socialists and communists.

[HighlyOpinionated]

For some odd reason, the [sexy] song that comes to mind is “I’m too INTELLIGENT for my pants, too INTELLIGENT for my cat, too INTELLIGENT for my shirt, too INTELLIGENT for Milan , , , New York ,,, Japan . . . your Party . . . my car ... my hat ... my cat ... this song ... and this democratic republic ... but not too INTELLIGENT for Socialism, Marxism, Abortion, Eugenics, and Euthanasia.”

Now you’ll be humming the tune all day, too. You’re welcome. lol

[Phree Non-Phixion]

"too Intelligent" LOL

[HighlyOpinionated]

Here, while we’re on the subject, is what Barack Obama told the New York Times regarding his desire to control your health:

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here. [Therefore] I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance.

Keep in mind that this unspeakable injustice would all be avoided if your inalienable right to your own life — and only your own life — were recognized as it should be.

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Bam-Bam’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. Living Constitution? How about LIVING CITIZENS???

[DGHoodini]

Ezekiel Emanuel is a ghoul.
An inhuman ghoul.
A modern day Joseph Mengele.
Inspired by the character Kodos the Executioner.

[jnsun]

"I’m completely dumbfounded. I’ve been in academic disputes before, but I never thought I’d be disparaged on Sunday morning talk shows and in the papers, being distorted in ways that can only be described as willful and intentional."

Hmmm! Persecution Complex. It's been around - Wahhhh!.

[HighlyOpinionated]

too Intelligent defined as MORE Intelligent than you peons who have to accept rationed health care.

This from article:
The reason people were wary of Dr. Emanuel in the first place is because of his writings from the 1990s in which (to quote one of them), he advocated giving younger people first dibs on medical care: “Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years.” In late 1996, he wrote that “services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”

And Ezekiel is soooooooo intelligent that he doesn’t see the conflict between rationed health care and an individuals right to choose his own health care without any government interference.

The man is tooooooooooo intelligent for this earth.

[Cyropaedia]

From the Washington Times :

President Obama admitted he wants the government to decide what health care Americans receive. "There's always going to be an asymmetry of information between patient and provider," he said. "And part of what I think government can do effectively is to be an honest broker in assessing and evaluating treatment options."

An "honest" broker...? Dream on...

[mo]

Maybe ole’ Zeke can wriggle a little harder to get around this...

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2960137-9/abstract

[Liz]

Honest ta God---I just hate it when Rahm and Zeke are dissed. We all know The Wonder Boys are "totally perfect." Take Rahm:

RAHM WAS CLINTON ADVISOR, WALL STREET MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, A CONGRESSMAN, WHITE HOUSE COS
AND RAHM WAS NOT EVEN VOTED "MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED."

TIMELINE

1992 Emanuel's knowledge of the top donors in the country, and his rapport with potential donors within the Jewish community helped Clinton amass a then-unheard-of sum of $72 million which nailed his victory.

1993 Emanuel became a senior advisor to Clinton from 1993 to 1998. Emanuel was initially Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and then Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy. He was a leading strategist in the unsuccessful White House efforts to institute universal healthcare and many other Clinton initiatives.

1993 One of Rahm's proudest moments was an event that touched his political sensibilities and his personal ties to Israel: the 1993 Rose Garden signing ceremony after the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Emanuel directed the details of the ceremony, down to the choreography of the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat."

1998 While official Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a senior political aide to Pres Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview, The New York Times’s Michael Luo writes.

John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson’s boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel. “I had this idea that this could work and that it had upside,” Mr. Wasserstein, now chairman and chief executive of Lazard, the investment bank, told The Times. “It worked out better than I could have hoped.” And better than Mr. Emanuel could have imagined as well.

Over the course of a three-hour-plus dinner, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Emanuel discussed how they might work together. Shortly afterward, Mr. Emanuel accepted an offer, nudging him down what has by now become a well-trodden gilded path out of politics and into the lucrative world of business.

1998 Rahm "The Perfect" resigned his position as an advisor to Bill Clinton, to become a Wall Street investment banker with Wasserstein Perella, (now Dresdner Kleinwort), where he worked until 2002.

1999 Just like that (snaps fingers)----in 1999, Rahm became managing director at their Chicago office. According to Congressional disclosures, Emanuel made $16.2 million in his 2 1/2 year stint as a Wasserstein Perella banker AND he probably paid all his taxes.

Amazingly, Rahm "The Perfect" became a multi-millioniare overnight----and he wasn't even voted "Most Likely To Succeed."

At Wasserstein Perella, Rahm worked on eight deals, including the acquisition by Commonwealth Edison of Peco Energy and the purchase by GTCR Golder Rauner of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC.

2002 Rahm "The Perfect" then ran for Congress (successfully, OF COURSE). Luckily (/snic) members of the securities and investment industry became Rahm's biggest backers, donating more than $1.5M up to 2002, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

2006 Rahm also leaned heavily upon the financial industry as 2006 Dem Congressional Campaign Committee Chair. Financial industry donors contributed more than $5.8M to the Dem committee (behind only retirees).

Remember, the point of Obama bringing Rahm in was so that "tolerant and compassionate bi-partisan Rahm" could work constructively w/ Congress to pass an ambitious agenda.......

Here's tolerant Rahm expressing his feelings for America on inauguration day.

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SURPRISE Brother Zeke is JUST as PERFECT

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, was tapped as White House health care policy advisor (thank God Rahm will "help" Ezekiel handle Medicare/Aid billions)

Chicago Sun Times | Feb. 14th | Lynn Sweet
FR Posted on 02/15/2009 by william1970

Rahm's brother, Dr. Emanuel, has received numerous awards....election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science and the Association of American Physicians. Hippocrates Magazine selected him as Doctor of the Year in Ethics.....the AMA-Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and a Fulbright Scholarship (which he declined). Dr. Emanuel served on President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), and on the bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School.

[Phree Non-Phixion]

Good timeline. THX

[Liz]

Rahm resigned as advisor to Bill Clinton in 1998, to become an investment banker with Wasserstein Perella, (now Dresdner Kleinwort), and worked there until 2002. In 1999, Rahm became managing director at the Chicago office. According to Congressional disclosure statements, Rahm Emanuel made $16.2 million as a Wasserstein Perella banker. Rahm worked on eight deals, including the acquisition by Commonwealth Edison of Peco Energy and the purchase by GTCR Golder Rauner of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC. Imagine, Wonder Boy Rahm became a multi-millioniare overnight----and he wasn't even voted "Most Likely To Succeed."

QUESTIONS FOR THE WONDER BOY

(1) Did Rahm fillout the 63-count seven-page personnel application Obama gave to potential appointees?

(2) How did Rahm outline his activities on the Freddie Mac Board as Clinton's appointee (described as rife with fraudulent bonus schemes)?

(3) Was Rahm involved in Clinton's pardon of tax cheat Marc Rich?

(4) Working in the cozy canyons of Wall Street, did Rahm ever know (and email) ripoff artist Madoff?

(5) Did Rahm reveal his activities with the military of a foreign government?

(6) Did Wall Street Rahm reveal all his ties to financial institutions involved in Obama's federal bailout?

[sheik yerbouty]

Yup..

[Liz]

Obama is implementing Rahm's "The Plan"
(from Rahm's book "The Plan, Big Ideas for America")
FR Posted August 17, 2009 by HollyB

Rahm Emanuel's main points-----which Obama is now trying to ram down our throats.

1. Page 160 New Domestic Defense Division
Rahm: “It should include top security talent from the CIA, the FBI, and the ranks of state and local law enforcement.
Obama: The new task force: The Team would be drawn from those with relevant experience probably from agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and the Pentagon…” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124787391051060705.html

2. Page 58 Citizen service:
Rahm: “Every citizen needs to understand and accept the essence of the American bargain: Each of us has to do his or her part. While the rights of citizenship are explicit in our constitution, the implicit responsibilities are every bit as crucial. All Americans between ages of 18-25 will be asked to serve their country by going through 3 months of basic training, civil defense preparation, and community service”.
http://change.gov/americaserves/ “Obama and Biden will call on citizens of all ages to serve”.
HR 1388 Serve America Act
For more information on HR1388 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1388

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Rahm's Citizen Service “The nation will enlist them for 3 months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for basic civil defense training in their state or community.” Obama:” We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded”. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html

“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year”. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80829

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KEEP IN MIND Candidate Obama campaigned on installing a “Civilian Security Force” on US soil. Dual citizen Rahm Emanuel surely got the top White House job as Obama’s COS based on his Israeli training on how to organize a “Civilian Security Force.”

Rham Emanuel has been trained to organize a civilian security force as a volunteer for “Sar’el”——the three-week Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) training program to train civilians. Looking at ACORN’s activities, and the BILLIONS Obama has given them, ACORN is primed for (and is already acting as) a “Civilian Security Force.”

ONE RAHM VERSION BACKSTORY Circa 1991 Rahm Emmanuel volunteered in a program for civilian service in the IDF, and worked on brake components for APC’s and tanks in an IDF motor pool. He is lacking part of a finger and for many years went around claiming that he’d lost it in actions against the enemy in a tank.

Now if Rahm fought in the military of foreign government, that would negate his American citizenship (US citizens forfeit their citizenship when they serve in the military of a foreign government).

SECOND RAHM VERSION Rahm volunteered for “Sar’el”——a three-week Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) training program (like US boot camp) where civilians are trained to assist the Israeli military. Civilians like Rahm lived on an IDF military base to get the proper training. A civilian volunteer, Rahm assisted the IDF during the 1991 Gulf War, repairing truck brakes in one of Israel’s northern bases.

Rahm's father was an Israeli who was part of the underground resistance movement under the British Mandate.

FRIGHTENING STATEMENT Obama has stated that Rahm tells him "everything he needs to know about Israel."

Rahm Emanuel today is a dual Israeli-American citizen. It is not clear whether a dual citizen is permitted to serve in a high level US govt job that makes policy decisions for Americans.

[Liz]

I think Dr Zeke was spit-shining his penny loafers when the subject of "death" panels surfaced.

[Brugmansian]

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Even the names of the entourage around Obama and well as "Barack Hussein Obama" itself could have been created by Ayn Rand.

[Phree Non-Phixion]

Indeed. Good point.