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Senate health care read-a-thon ends
AP ^ | December 16, 2009 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and KEN THOMAS

Posted on 12/16/2009 5:08:26 PM PST by Phlap

Hopes for rapid progress on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul dimmed Wednesday as Republican delaying tactics complicated the work of Senate Democratic leaders to line up 60 votes and move the bill.

Obama repeated his demand for action, telling ABC News "the federal government will go bankrupt" if the health care bill fails. He said Medicare and Medicaid are on an "unsustainable" path if no action is taken.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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How so?
1 posted on 12/16/2009 5:08:26 PM PST by Phlap
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To: Phlap

It’ll go bankrupt even faster if it passes!


2 posted on 12/16/2009 5:09:35 PM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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To: Phlap

That may be true, but then instead of ‘fixing’ it by dragging more people into a failing system, be a man and propose a REAL fix.


3 posted on 12/16/2009 5:09:45 PM PST by Trust but Verify
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To: Phlap

How so?

Via redundancy, the USA is already broke. They just don`t know it yet.


4 posted on 12/16/2009 5:10:09 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: Phlap

“Obama tells ABC News “the federal government will go bankrupt” if the health care bill fails.”

Well it’s official, the man is a blithering idiot.


5 posted on 12/16/2009 5:10:22 PM PST by Grunthor (There is no such thing as unconditional love.)
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To: Phlap

Who knows,

Only in the dudes mind.


6 posted on 12/16/2009 5:10:57 PM PST by silentreignofheroes
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To: Phlap

FUBO! This lying sack will resort to anything to to get this pos bill passed!

Just makes me sick what is happening to this country.


7 posted on 12/16/2009 5:11:33 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: Phlap
The government will go bankrupt if it doesn't spend even more money that it doesn't have? Obama should get the next Nobel Prize in Economic Science.

The AP blames the Republicans...I thought there were 60 Democrats in the Senate.

8 posted on 12/16/2009 5:11:48 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Phlap

Don’t you see? This proves obamacare isn’t about health care. It’s about power and skimming from one of the last booming american economic sectors: medicine.


9 posted on 12/16/2009 5:11:49 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Phlap
Medicare and Medicaid have a lot of high-cost people being covered. Medicare has old folks who have heart troubles, cancer, and other issues of old age. Medicaid has welfare types who get into a lot of shootings, bad drugs, and other issues of the welfare class.

The real reason for ObamaCare was to force healthy 20-40 year olds into paying into the plan, and kick the problem down to the next administration.

10 posted on 12/16/2009 5:11:55 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Phlap

Will go bankrupt?


11 posted on 12/16/2009 5:13:08 PM PST by Mobties
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“Obama tells ABC News “the federal government will go bankrupt” if the health care bill fails.”

Well we have finally made it, double-speak has arrived. Double plus ungood!


12 posted on 12/16/2009 5:13:23 PM PST by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: Phlap
This should tell everyone, but it won't, the real reason for the bill - a feeble attempt to get more dollars into the Federal Coffers. But the President doesn't seem to think anyone can figure this out or is really delusional in believing the Fed's can do anything efficiently.
13 posted on 12/16/2009 5:13:38 PM PST by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
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To: Phlap
"Republican delaying tactics" = Reading the bill.

Amazing.

The lamestream media isn't going to escape the coming treason trials.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

14 posted on 12/16/2009 5:14:15 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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Gee I thought that liberals like to paint republicans as the party of scare.....why mr o, what’s up with that


15 posted on 12/16/2009 5:15:07 PM PST by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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If this genius moron wants to prevent bankruptcy, there are measures he can take to address the problem. Wandering around and attacking unrelated “problems” does not solve the presenting problem.

e.g., Engine won’t start. Okay let’s change all the tires or we can’t drive the car again.


16 posted on 12/16/2009 5:15:29 PM PST by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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The title you created

"Obama tells ABC News 'the federal government will go bankrupt" if the health care bill fails.' "

was no match for the published title at the linked source and had to be changed.

In order to reduce the number of threads we have to pull, we have been asking everyone to use the published title only. Please do not create your own title nor alter any published title. Thanks.

17 posted on 12/16/2009 5:15:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

It makes me sick What he is doing to it and How he is doing the Nation.
In the meanwhile he is also taking down the “free western industrialized nations” who are currently looking to America for leadership but not finding it....

Radical Marxist/ Islamic asshat!


18 posted on 12/16/2009 5:15:38 PM PST by himno hero
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For all the hype the libs give this clown as to his intelligence, etc., an outright clumsy display like this betrays a markedly pedestrian intellect.

One term, please, and gone.


19 posted on 12/16/2009 5:15:49 PM PST by 4buttons
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To: Grunthor

No, my friend, you are wrong. I used to call Barack Obama an idiot also, but he now has advanced to being delusional and unfocused with reality.


20 posted on 12/16/2009 5:16:21 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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