Posted on 09/09/2009 11:20:14 AM PDT by newbie2008
One of the clearest messages from the Town Hall forums during the August congressional recess was that people want Congress to be covered by the same health care reform plan they impose on the rest of us.
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And in this video Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option plan if they approve it for private citizens. Predictably, however, the Heller amendment was defeated, with all 21 committee Democrats voting against it.
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In a hundred billion years Obam and the democrats will never subject themselves or their families to the crap medical care they are going to impose on the American People.
Plus they will have us pay for their Five Star treatment forever, long after they are out of office.
They are busy building that big tent strategy to court important people like Colin Powell. There would be no opposition to Nancy and the Clown-Congress if not for Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, et. al.
Congress....YOU try it out for 4-5- years and then we'll talk.
Dr Walter Williams was filling in for Rush a few years ago. He said something that stuck to my brain like superglue: We should simply demand of Congress that every law they pass for the country also applies to them.
Taxes, restrictions, health care, retirement plans, whatever. Congresscritters are part of the people and need to also live under the laws they pass for the nation.
Wow, talk about a paperwork reduction act.
Does anyone know why we have “republicans” in congress anyway?
In yesterday’s Medford Town Hall meeting, Senator Wyden is quoted by the Medford Mail Tribune as saying about Health Care Reform:
“eveyone will have to give up something”
Under any bill pending before either house of Congress, will the Senator himself be giving up anything, or was he lying?
A thorough reading of the bills and the press reports on them show that Senators will give up nothing under any of the bills. Aristocratic Congressmen and Senators will continue to be served by the superior Congressional health plan, a plan that mere citizens will not be allowed to have.
Unless the Senator can dig up SOMETHING to prove his point, can we count on a public apology for his LIE?
Here it was an R who introduced the amendment requiring Congress to be subjected to any & all mandatory health care provisions congress imposes on the people, and it was democrats who defeated it along a straight party line in committtee.
Shouldn't we give Congresscritters (of any party) credit for doing right when they do it, instead of ignoring it & reflexively criticizing on them for all their other shortcomings?
Does anyone know why Obama gave a nationally televised labor day speech about his health care plan and said "There is no republican alternative being presented" -- and NO republicans have come forward to expose the falsehood.
Not true, Tom Boehner called him out on it. The Repubs have indeed been flogging their own reform initiatives. Obviously the State Run Media would like us to believe they aren't offering any free market oriented reforms, but it doesn't mean they haven't just because Brian Williams & Co refuse for their own partisan reasons not to publicize them.
Seems like sometimes they're damned if they do & damned if they don't - even on a conservative forum! I really don't see much in the way of HC alternatives coming out of any other third parties, do you?
That movement has started. Go to www.amendtheconstitution.org.
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