Breaking News Sen. Finance Chairman Baucus Concedes 'Public Option' Can't Pass the Senate

Fox News ^ | 8/9/2009 | Fox news

[mikelets456]

Breaking News Sen. Finance Chairman Baucus Concedes 'Public Option' Can't Pass the Senate

[Jagman]

He was good on Gilligan’s Island, but the rest of his career has been Z-list at best...

[joejm65]

Great! The 567,984th mixed signal on health reform by the Dims. Grab the popcorn and sit in the recliner, these guys are off the wall.

[xcamel]

Max ***-us.

figure it out...

[SE Mom]

Information, dis-information...it’s all flying like a roomful of feathers with a fan switched ON!

[From The Deer Stand]

How about the Baucus proposal that the gub’ment will fine you if you don’t buy health insurance?

[Huskrrrr]

Head fake.

[Jeff Head]

Hehehe...wheels coming off Obama's Magical Mystery Tour bus.

Time to double down on these leftists and knock the axels off.

Not only no public option plan...NO DEM PLAN!

Kill it...kill it dead.

then let the adults craft the necessary change in 2011 after the 2010 landslides.

"President Obama argues that Democrats' "will provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable." Of course consumer protection sounds like a good idea. And it's true that insurance companies can be unaccountable and unresponsive institutions—much like the federal government. That similarity makes this shift in focus seem like nothing more than an attempt to deflect attention away from the details of the Democrats' proposals—proposals that will increase our deficit, decrease our paychecks, and increase the power of unaccountable government technocrats.

"Instead, let's talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include giving all individuals the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage; reforming tort laws to potentially save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.

"We often hear such overblown promises from Washington. With the facts in hand, tell them that this time we're not buying it." Sarah Palin - September 8, 2009

EZEKIEL EMANUEL AND OBAMA HEALTH CARE
(Must Read - Shocking, cited quotes by Emanuel)

OBAMA HEALTH CARE BY THE NUMBERS

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

OBAMA IS A MARXIST IDEOLOGUE

[Y2Bogus]

You didn’t like Mr Magoo?

[loveliberty2]

Lots of head fakes going on.

Tonight's speech will, undoubtedly, employ "words" crafted and designed to get what the forces behind his presidency want the speech to accomplish.

As they critique it, those who value liberty must keep that fact uppermost in their minds. Else, they will get lost in the technicalities and "issues" of parsing phrases.

The big picture is individual liberty and prosperity for future generations through constitutionally limited power granted to government versus collective subservience to coercive control (tyranny) by government. The first is the successful and authentic idea of America's Founders, and the second is a counterfeit idea which has been tried and has always failed to make the lives of people better.

By his own claim in a campaign speech, "words matter." We must remember that "words" are only vehicles that carry ideas, and even the chosen exercise in semantics being thrown around gives the clue. What is the role of a trigger on a weapon? It is certainly not to cause the weapon not to fire! What a stupid choice of words.

If a person is intent on taking his cargo from Point A to Point B, and finds there are such obstacles to traveling by airplane that he decides, for expediency's sake, to take it by bus instead, except for the time involved, there is no difference in outcome. The cargo still goes from Point A to Point B. Changing the mode of transportation didn't change that fact.

Changing the semantics of the mode of getting the billions (trillions) of dollars involved in health care in America under the control of powerful "people controllers" in Washington, D. C., will not change the outcome and consequences. It will only serve to delay the onset of those consequences.

Calling the vehicle a "public option," a "trigger," a "cooperative," or by any other word should not confuse Americans about the cargo's eventual fate. The Far Left wants to transfer this large percentage of the American economy to the control of the state. Congress, the Senate, and the Administration need to be told "no" in no uncertain terms.

Changing the description is just an exercise in semantics. The destination already has been made clear, and it's not in the direction of liberty.

[ConservativeMan55]

bump

[mockingbyrd]

That’s not going to make your plan any more palatable.

[ridesthemiles]

Baucus has finally been awakened from his ‘Rip Van Winkle’ sleep???

Baucus must take lesson in denial from the black mothers in ‘the hood’ who always claim their dead/dying sons were good boys- never in trouble- always went to chruch on Sunday-etc-etc-.

These persons never see the gun in the hands of their offspring.
Baucus doesn’t see the gun in NObama’s hands, either, with this ‘health care plan’.

[Dixie Yooper]

Kill the Bill before it destroys what’s left of your career!

[ridesthemiles]

Baucus has finally been awakened from his ‘Rip Van Winkle’ sleep???

Baucus must take lesson in denial from the black mothers in ‘the hood’ who always claim their dead/dying sons were good boys- never in trouble- always went to chruch on Sunday-etc-etc-.

These persons never see the gun in the hands of their offspring.
Baucus doesn’t see the gun in NObama’s hands, either, with this ‘health care plan’.

[Dallas59]

Or is it just called something else now?

[SE Mom]

http://twitter.com/SenArlenSpecter

This U.S. Senator is going to tell him (the President) emphatically that we need the public option. http://tinyurl.com/kwykdh\

[mikelets456]

Good point, they’ll probably rename it “Operation soaring eagle...”

[bcsco]

Information, dis-information...it’s all flying like a roomful of feathers with a fan switched ON!

Exactly. Reid/Pelosi saying they have the votes, even today. Anything coming out of the Democrat side is suspect. All we can do at this point is hear what Obambi has to say and go from there.

[y6162]

Mary Anne or Ginger?