Posted on 09/13/2009 9:21:51 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
In his 60 Minutes interview to be aired tonight, President Obama apparently says, "I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it....I'm the one who's going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to get this right."
No, Mr. President. It’s not about you. If legislation passes, you don’t own it.
We all own it. Any health care bill will become part of the U.S. Code, not simply an item on the Obama White House web site. We will all feel its effects. We are all responsible for the future of our country. Here the people rule.
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-- if the Democratic Congress jams this legislation down the people’s throat -- then the Republican party will have to say: We do not yield. We do not acquiesce. And we will take this issue to the country in 2010 and 2012, with the purpose of repealing this dangerous and damaging legislation.
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No, I never heard Bush or any other president say anything like that.
In Obama’s mind, it’s all about him.
Maybe the GOP and others will have the guts to do this. I think there’s going to be massive civil resistance to this “health care” garbage if they do enforce it. One of the reasons I think they’re giving it a fairly long lead-in is that they want to give people time to simmer down and mistakenly think it won’t really have any effect, and they also want to put the enforcement structures into place before they even try it.
The downfall of the arrogant is always their arrogance.
Poor Obummer doesn’t know the different between ruling and a representative republic.
I think you are dreaming..........time to wake up :)
Somebody please remind this guy that he’s an elected president, a temporary guardian of the country, and not a monarch.
Neither does just about anyone in congress, or the American people for that matter. All I ever hear is democracy bantered around. They have no concept of a democratic process in a representative republic form of government. The comment, we won, get over it, proves that point.
How about you, your family, and your mother-in-law go on this plan along with us? And if people are turned down for care and die because of that, you'll be responsible?
Obama, you will pass into history............just like the great ones did, but you will never be known as a great one.
Repulsive arrogance.
I fear that may be correct. Obama's "Civilian Defense Force" to be the enforcers?
I saw a sign yesterday that read, "We came unarmed THIS time"! I pray that the Thugrocracy administration does not ignite something that will pit Americans against each other with more than words.
Me either, that is rather creepy. He says that like we don't have a say in who stays and who goes.
I like the writer's take on it. WE pay for it so WE own it bozo.
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He means "for life".
His arrogance is breathtaking.
You are right, and the media and Obummer want it that way ... But then again, we are educating plenty and can continue to do so. First they come for the language ... Read Alinsky.
The democracy bit plays into the hands of the ones who want to use the downtrodden for their own nefarious ends. The problem always is the downtrodden are not reliable handmaidens.
He will pass through History like a bowell movement passes through a poop pipe.
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To “own” something, you have to pay for it. He has no clue how this grandiose monument to himself will be paid for.
BO is so arrogant he doesn’t even know how outrageous this attitude is to the taxpayers who will, unfortunately, “own” the trillions of dollars of debt foisted on them by the Democrats if HellCare passes.
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