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Posted on 10/13/2009 12:12:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sweeping Health Bill Passes Senate Panel
The $829B plan would require most Americans to purchase insurance
Oct. 13: Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe announces in the Senate Finance Committee debate that she will vote for the heath care bill, telling her colleagues she has misgivings about the bill, but "when history calls, history calls."
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's vow to overhaul the U.S. health care system has cleared a key hurdle with a Senate committee passing a bill.
The Senate Finance Committee approved legislation Tuesday that meets most of the requirements set out by Obama for expanding coverage and cutting costs. The president has made health care reform his top domestic priority.
But Obama's plan still faces an uncertain future. The measure now goes before the full Senate. The House of Representatives is working on its own bill and the two measures would eventually have to be reconciled.
Obama had hoped for bipartisan support, but only one moderate Republican on the 23-member committee, Olympia Snowe, backed the plan.
Her decision gave the final vote a significance that transcended partisan divisions. For months, congressional Republicans have been virtually unanimous in denouncing the Democratic bills as an unwarranted expansion of government influence.
The Maine senator kept virtually all of Washington guessing about how she would vote until she announced it late in the Senate Finance Committee debate Tuesday. She told her colleagues she has misgivings about the bill, but "when history calls, history calls."
The president had earlier praised Snowe and the panel for "extraordinary diligence" on health reform.
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Obama couldn’t get the Olympics, but he did get the Olympia...
I would like a list of all Democrats and Rinos (traitors) who are going along with this. I’ve not found a list yet.
We have alot of work to do getting these people out of office between now and next election. I’m not an activist but an willing to become one to see REAL change. I want to see Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, Snowe, Spector, Kerry, Lindsey Graham, Charles Rangel, (primarily) plus a whole bunch of others OUT, Get rid of the Rubbish from the Senate and House.
Sadly I think that it’s going to be an uphill battle because despite the tea parties and Town Halls - a few may be waking up but I’m afraid a majority of Americans still support Obama and his agenda
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
I think Major Garret should give him a congradulatory hand shake (he has swine flu).
Maybe. But, I assumed Barry would lose, too.
Perhaps the flame of liberty no longer burns in the heart of the average American.
Too many attention whores and not enough statesmen.
something named Bill Nelson (d-FL) was on with Shep Smith and I was Surprised that Shep was actually Taking the issues to this smiling face...
Although it gave no answers to Shep’s Pointed questions... it’s smug arrogant grin and “wait and see” answers reminded me of the stories of leers that charlie gave as he reinforced during the day, conveniently off limits .
I thought he was going to ask Shep to pass his cigarettes down, and get up out of that wheelchair.
G-rrr-r-rr
Kudos where due to Shep ( whom I despise,) now to change to fbn until Cavuto.
Then it’s time to secede and start over. And you have to pay taxes in order to vote!!!!
Since when is Olympia Snowe a "moderate Republican"?
This really maks me sick considering what we've personally been through this past week.
We have a right to choose our own healthcare. Why don't they get that?
“Then it’s time to secede and start over. And you have to pay taxes in order to vote!!!!”
I like this one - you have to pay taxes to vote. And I think there should be a minimum amount of say 10%. That might change a few things!!!
I called Rockefeller’s office and asked if he would be standing up on the floor of the Senate demanding that Senator Byrd be denied any further health care.
After all what was good for his mother ought to be good for Byrd.
The aide was outraged and said she was unaware of the senator’s comments about his mother.
READY FOR CIVIL DISORDER YET FOLKS? ...NO?
ok then..this is only the start..
You wont believe what’s coming next!
That was MOST EXCELLENT of you!
“I’m afraid a majority of Americans still support Obama and his agenda”
I truly think the majority have NO clue as to what his agenda is or why he so desperately needs ObamaCare.
HINT: It has nothing to do with health.
See post #23
How are we going to inform the TV-news-watching segment of America who only get their news from MSM?
They have no idea what is underway in this country.
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I'm so sick of the egos and pretentiousness of our "civil servants". Forget about history, your legacy, your popularity with the "elite class", how you look on TV, and all of the other emotional crap that clouds your limited minds. Focus on your job, on the welfare of your constituents, on your fidelity to the Constitution, on your contribution to the continued Freedom of the American people.
I swear we are "ruled" by some of the most mentally and morally challenged creatures God put on this earth. I am ashamed at what we have allowed to happen.
Stupid freaking bastards.
The only real election battle I see is overcoming the ACORN election fraud. With “one man - one vote” we could clean it up.
Yes, disturbingly so. And some presidents that came before him as well. BO is just batting cleanup.
Already printed it out and send it an e-mail swarm. Thanks, Brown Deer.
(speaking of brown deer, I have about 30 of them in my backyard right now......eating some apple peels and cores I threw off the deck......just beautiful.)
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