Posted on 09/09/2009 11:36:26 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
President Obama is going to offer "his" healthcare prescriptions tonight at a special joint session of Congress. But why is he doing this now? After all, the bills are already written and most of the committees have already passed their versions out of committee. What is it that Obama will say that will make any difference at all tonight?
Does the president imagine that "his" ideas will send Congress running back to the drawing board after they've already gotten their bills written and passed from committee? If he imagines that he is pretty naive.
We have several other eyebrow raisers with this joint session address, as well. First of all is the whole claim that Obama will suddenly at this late date offer "his" plan. How is it that President Obama has spent the last five months talking about his Obamacare plan but we are only now hearing "his" plan? What has he been talking about for all these many months? Hasn't he been selling this as his plan all along?
If he hasn't been selling these healthcare plans as "his" plan all along, then what was he selling? Did he even know? Did the president have any idea at all about what he was talking about lo these many months?
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
...”Did the president have any idea at all about what he was talking about lo these many months?”...
Does the sun set in the East?...
Can pigs fly?....
” the uneducated masses, the unions and the media. “
Wow - a triple redundancy!!
absolutely true and yet I predict he will say that all the ‘ opposition” has done is complain about the dem bills without offering any ideas, which is a LIE
And he will say we mobsters are confused and don’t understand what the bills are
another LIE
I think we should have a pool on the number of lies odumbo spouts tonight
and another pool on which MSM outlest slobbers over him the most
Just sort of fits in with the rest of his speeches I guess...
Melanie Oudin (US Open Tennis quarterfinal match) will have higher ratings tonight than Obummer. Go Melanie!
Fox News reporting that Obambi “will” push for the public option tonight!
Obama is shovel ready.
He is the president. He is adverse to get his hands on something very scummy. Rather, make it a fait acompli that Congress presented to him.
Bush II tried the same hands-off, gimme a bill strategy on his scummiest of big idea corruptions, immigration reform/middle-class destruction bill, and the Goldman Sachs/Social Security privatization push.
They know it is scum, they know they are tricking the people, that’s why they take the hands off approach, compared to other agendas.
But when they invest so much political capital, and it looks like its failing, they do their public meetings, their “I gave a speech, gimme what I want” gestures,
Obama is replaying Bush II’s failed (thankfully) strategy on big ticket evil bills.
Why? I think it plays up to his arrogance. The “I say so” style.
Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”
Lowest audience ever. My prediction.
” Lowest audience ever. My prediction. “
In a perfect world, it would be substantially less than 535.....
It's gonna be good!
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WHO, if anyone, is to give a rebuttal speech for the GOP ?
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