Posted on 09/03/2009 4:33:30 AM PDT by tobyhill
As President Obama prepares to talk health care reform on Sept. 9 at a joint session of Congress, he is being warned by several of his own allies not to walk away from a government insurance option.
"Why would the White House step away from something that is going to weaken their side and that isn't going to pick up a single vote on the other side?" asked Richard Kirsch, the national campaign manager of Health Care for America Now, in an interview with ABC News.
Some of Obama's progressive allies are questioning whether the president is preparing to back down from a fight over a public option in the wake of White House adviser David Axelrod suggesting in an interview with ABC News' Ann Compton that "the spirit," but perhaps not the substance, of a public option would survive in the Senate, where a handful of moderate Democrats have refrained from stating their support for the concept.
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Call it our Death Panel.
Not only that, but this Van Jones and the other czars have GOT TO GO, and the replacements put under equal scrutiny. Get them and keep them on the DEFENSIVE!!
Dems are seeing the polls.
Barry got something right for a change.
We still have Cap 'n Trade, Repeal the Stimulus, healthcare bills in both House and Senate, tax increases....
We're making progress but we have a LOT of work to do.
Van Jones and the other czars have GOT TO GO - PERIOD.
Once again, the lying liar is lying again.
It is not US, it is YOU who is taking over government.
The protests AGAINST your FASCIST rule are to put the power of government BACK IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE.
How’s that “community organizing” working out for you, you commie scumbag affirmative-action politician?
Don’t forget Legalaizing the Mexican hoardes. Oh and Gays in the Army.
No President has the power under the Constitution to appoint communists to positions of influence in the White House, or any other place for that matter.
Yep. Just 4 weeks ago in Mexico, Zer0 promised another assault on the American people with Amnesty For Illegal Alien Peasants, Round 3 (we beat them in 2006 and 2007).
He said the legislation is already being written for 2010, noting that “we don’t want everything crashing at once.”
Those too!
Yeah, they tried that already, didn't they.
How's that whole "Hopey-Changey the whole country immediately" thing workin' out for ya, zer0?
They need the votes to counter the Americans. Looks like we got a Rouge President on our hands.
I’m getting the impression lately that the health care takeover is a ruse to hide other takeover stuff the administration is doing.
No, we won’t back down.
(and I have been contacting state reps about the thugs-for-czars program)
We're making progress but we have a LOT of work to do.
How true!
The so-called health care bill is a disaster even without the "public option."
All of the paragraphs that are still there that let the Government into your bank accounts and private life. as well as your home, will still be there.
Every one of the bills you mentioned have major elements of the total take over of our country by the Democrats to subjugate us.
They will not stop in their efforts before the next elections and if we do not show them ( by the tea parties and filling the meeting halls) that they are against the great majority of us they will try to ram as much of this through as possible and then make attempts to use friendly, liberal courts to overturn next year's election results.
On a tangent, I have been doing a lot of thinking about zero and his DeathCare bill and arrived at a very bad speculation: What if we gave an election and the ruling party (Democrats) lost . . . . big time??
IMO, I think that, based on the current state of politics and our government, that is a good possibility. However, here’s where the problem comes in. I think that zero is prepared to either get the SCOTUS (with his leftist majority) to stay or overturn the election results (so that he can keep his base of power), or he will issue an EO to reverse the election results.
If that possibility isn’t out there, it makes no sense that, despite the palpable anger and outrage that the Congresscritters have experienced at their townhall meetings, zero would still push for his DeathCare bill. According to a number of press reports, politicians are not prepared to pass this bill and face the anger and outrage of the voters. A lot of those same Democrats who are advising zero to let the bill go away are also prepared to distance themselves from him in hopes of surviving the mid-terms next year.
If the country doesn’t explode in open rebellion before the next election (still assuming that we will have another election), I think this will be the final tipping point.
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