Posted on 09/15/2009 6:36:28 AM PDT by IbJensen
The President's speech to a joint session of Congress failed to move the health reform ball closer to the goalposts. Instead of bringing much-needed clarity to the issues, it was yet another laundry list of platitudes and generalities, just a listing of the provisions already in the bills in Congress. This is exactly what the public did not need and was not looking for.
Keep in mind that this proposal is huge. It will directly affect each and every American for generations. It will control fully 17% of the national economy. This is far bigger than Social Security or Medicare. It may be the biggest domestic initiative since 1913 when enactment of the 16th amendment created a federal income tax.
People have a right to know how this thing will work. What benefits will be covered? What premiums will be charged? How much will subsidies be worth? How will it be enforced? What is the long-term cost? How will it be paid for?
But answering those questions would require Mr. Obama to get beyond his campaign mode and get into actually governing. The man is proving that he is incapable of doing anything but give a speech. He gave one to the AFL-CIO in Cincinnati on Monday, and another to the kiddos in Virginia on Tuesday, and another at the Cronkite memorial in New York Wednesday afternoon, all before this health care speech Wednesday evening in Washington. This was the 29th speech devoted exclusively to health care since he became president.
If he would stop running his mouth for a few days, he might be able to actually find out what is in the legislation he is promoting. But every time he talks, support for the proposal goes down. People listen to him and realize he doesn't know what he is talking about.
So it is this time. The rock 'em, sock 'em partisan pep rally might energize some of his most ardent followers, but that energy will fade within hours, and the ugly reality will still be with us. It is a hideous, incomprehensible bill that turns all decision-making over to a handful of elitist bureaucrats.
This communist fool couldn't govern a flock of chickens. He is an absolute phony who hasn't had an original thought his entire fictitious life.
Begone, imposter!
How 'bout we just leave it at that?
Was that what he was trying to do? Move the ball?
More like somebody took a crap in the middle of the field and was DARING somebody to pick it up.
I can’t think of a single speech he has given, or a question he has answered, where he has ever talked about specifics.
I’m sure there have been some, but certainly it isn’t the norm. He’s always discussing things in broad strokes, in lofty goals and expectations.
Last week, he described a health care plan that doesn’t exist, one which:
- costs the taxpayers nothing
- allows everybody to keep their existing insurance
- doesn’t cover illegal aliens
- doesn’t cover abortion
- will lower everybody’s cost of insurance
- will provide better care
- included tort reform
Who wouldn’t want that, if it were possible?
But there was no mention of how you would actually achieve any of those things, it was immediately clear he wasn’t describing the existing house or senate bills, and that he was lying about lots of things, like his false story about people getting their policies cancelled and dying because of it.
0bama doesn't see himself as one to "govern." He sees himself as a ruler. He wants his opposition to shut up and get out of the way so he can execute his whims. This is the mark of an immature, impetuous, ineffective, self-absorbed, narcissistic pol, not that of a leader. Even his strongest supporters have got to be disappointed with this poor excuse for a "president."
Who has that “Empty suit” picture?
rather rough language, but you make an accurate analogy.
I had a thought!
One might say it is brilliant
Others may say it is insightful
Still others will say it is somewhat humerous....so here goes.....
Have you ever thought that Obama might be depressed or irritated by being forced to live in a place call the “White” House?
Yeah that’s the one.
Thank you
Let's contact our congresscritters and suggest that yet another bill be introduced to rename the White House the Black House. Or, better yet rename it the Mosque of Peace.
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