Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel (collapse of healthcare)

THE HILL ^ | 2/9/10 | Alexander Bolton

[Liz]

Rahm, Ohaha's Chicago Mob, and that ilk occupying our WH, can't seem to hide their elitist contempt for Americans.
They actually think Americans don't understand what calculating manipulators they are. Watta buncha jerks.

LOL. This about sums it up.

[HerrBlucher]

Under the bus you go Rahm, at least you won’t be lonely.

[Vaduz]

Congressional Democrats learn to use Obama’s excuse blame someone else.

[Haiku Guy]

The problem was that the Administration and the Democrats in power were intent on using the need for healthcare reform as a pretext for seizing power and concentrating it in the hands of the Federal government.

The people don't want that.

The goals of the ruling elites and the people's desires are not congruent. Thus the inability to pass the package, once the feelings of the people became clear.

[Liz]

ping

[Liz]

You got that right. The whole thing is a scam---no matter what they say, no matter what they look like they're doing, it will all change to fit Obama's agenda.

PASTE THIS ON YOUR BATHROOM MIRROR AND MEMORIZE IT Vladimir Lenin: "Medicine is the keystone of the arch of the socialist state."

Once govt gets control of medical care, all the defining, controlling features of socialist govt can be introduced, one by one.

E-v-e-r-y-thing we Americans do is related to health.

OHAHA'S DEFACING THE CONSTITUTION Socialized health care is impossible without seizing private medical records----the 4th Amendment prohibits seizure without warrants. He'll do it anyway.

We ain't seen nuttin' yet. Ohaha’s got BIG plans, much much BIGGER PLANS for us. Ohaha kept saying: "I'm not tired. I'm just getting started."

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sorry, Rahm gets tossed under the short bus.

Couldn't help myself.

[Right Wing Assault]

Setting the stage for obie to pass off the blame.

“We all know it was Rahm’s fault that MY health care plan bombed. So, let’s all hold hands and do it the right way, without him.”

[rod1]

Rahmbo has always been a slash and burn,name-calling political operative. Apparently, even with significant majorities in both the House and Senate, this style of Chicago bullying only goes so far.

[Mase]

Obama was convinced overhauling the nation’s healthcare system would boost the struggling economy by curbing costs and reducing the long-term federal deficit, say Democratic sources.

And they keep telling us how smart this guy is. Sure.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” -- MLK

[Plutarch]

Democrats...acknowledge his...straightforward approach.

The Dems acknowledge that they are effin retards.

[AppyPappy]

Note: Emmanuel is NOT in Congress.

[maggief]

Hmmmmm ... now which senior congressional leaders would be pointing fingers???

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011021604106924.html

While Mr. Obama campaigned as a young postpartisan Democrat who wanted a new era of comity in Washington, his victory has instead empowered these ancient left-wing warriors. These are the men who have run Washington this past year, and they are Mr. Obama’s de facto cabinet. The nearby photos show some of the most powerful, clockwise from the top right:

• Ed Markey of Massachusetts, first elected in 1976, helped to ram the cap-and-tax bill through the House and has pushed relentlessly for the EPA to declare carbon a pollutant under the Clean Air Act that didn’t mention carbon.

• Wisconsin’s David Obey, elected in 1969, is the House Appropriations chairman who steered the $787 billion stimulus to focus on Medicaid expansion and other transfer payments that have done nothing for economic growth.

• Henry Waxman, first elected in the Watergate class of 1974, deposed John Dingell in 2008 as too moderate to run the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Hollywood liberal is co-author of the cap-and-tax vote that will cost numerous Blue Dogs their seats.

• Pete Stark, class of 1972, runs the health subcommittee on Ways and Means and has written most of the House health reform that has forced moderates to walk the plank on the “public option.”

• George Miller, class of 1974 and chief enforcer for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has pushed to nationalize the college student loan market. Like Mr. Stark, he’s from California.

• Barney Frank of Massachusetts, class of 1980 and chief protector of Fannie Mae, wrote the financial reform that would make too-big-to-fail the law for the largest banks. He has also pushed the mortgage foreclosure programs that have extended the housing recession by preventing home prices from finding a bottom.

[Liz]

HEALTHCARE'S HIDDEN AGENDA Any fool can plainly see that Obama and endangered Dems are frantic----rushing to get billions in govt money into the hands of ACORN, SEIU, immigrant groups, and others, BEFORE the Nov 2010-12 elections.

REMEMBER The first four years of ObamaCare is to amass $$billions. Period. Free govt healthcare does not kick in til 2013.

Even stupid Dems know that, for them, it's curtains in 2010-12---unless massive voter fraud takes place. They need to buy votes, and are pulling out all the stops to get billions into the hands of their operatives---ACORN, SEIU, immigrant groups, and others.

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OBAMACARE UPDATE The US Senate may break their own rules-----and go against the will of the vast majority of US Citizens----to pass their health care bill.......by using the nuclear option.

Obama's healthcare gimmicks are legion:

(A) The first four years of ObamaCare is to amass $$billions. Period. Free govt healthcare does not kick in til 2013.

(B) Pushes much of the healthcare costs from the federal budget and onto the private sector by requiring individuals and employers to purchase health insurance....or pay a hefty fine or go to jail (only illegals are exempt from this provision).

(C) When the bills force somebody to pay $10,000 to the government, the Congressional Budget Office treats that as a tax.

(D) When the government hands that $10,000 to private insurers, the CBO counts that as government spending.

(E) But when the bills achieve the exact same outcome by forcing somebody to pay $10,000 directly to a private insurance company, it appears nowhere in the official CBO cost estimates — neither as federal revenues nor federal spending. That’s a sharp departure from how the CBO treated similar mandates in the Clinton health plan. And it hides maybe 60 percent of the legislation’s total costs.

The Obama Enron tricks have only one purpose: to accrue massive amounts of govt money into campaign accounts to elect/reelect Dems. That is the one and only reason to frantically push ObamaCare on a recalcitrant citizenry.

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Obama already has huge slush funds:

(a) 80% of the trillion dollar stim is unspent and under his control, being hoarded for Dem campaigns.

(b) June 9, 2009 Obama announced, "Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68B to taxpayers." Taxpayers assumed that would be returned to the general funds from whence it had come .......in order to pay down the debt. The truth, however, is that the money returned is finding new life as part of what amounts to a Treasury Dept-controlled slush fund.

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A major network commentator stated: “When a President’s poll numbers are this low in his first year in office, his party usually loses 40+ seats in the House at mid-term.”

Ohaha has become very toxic......he is poisoning Dem's election chances. He campaigned for Coakley and a Repub won a Mass Dem seat held for 50 years. The 2009 gubernatorial elections in Va and NJ clipped the wings of Obama's plans for a permanent Democratic realignment.

Here's how it went down in NJ.

THE OBAMA SLAPDOWN Ohaha was heavily invested in the 2009 NJ gubernatorial race. His carefully-laid plans for installing a permanent Dem majority went haywire. Pulling out all the stops made Ohaha a VERY good target for voters disgusted with Ohaha’s policies.

OBAMA WAS DESPERATE FOR NJ's CORZINE TO WIN The NY Times reported:

(a) every TV ad Corzine put on the air was screened by Obama's WH team.

(b) Corzine's aides gave the WH daily briefings.

(c) Obama’s pollsters took over for Corzine’s polling team,

(d) White House operatives were on the ground for internal strategy sessions,

(e) White House operatives were orchestrating obscure pep rallies with Latinos (kept secret from voters),

(f) Ohaha campaigned in the state three times, Biden was there twice.

Ohaha in TV ads for Corzine ran relentlessly in costly NY media markets.

(h) The crooked NJ Democrat Machine was also running at warp speed.

Other pertinent facts:

>> Incumbent Dem Jon Corzine (the wealthy loser) outspent the Repub winner about 4-1.

>> New Jersey has a huge Democratic registration.

>> Corzine bragged he had 20,000 paid union helpers on the ground election day to get out the vote.

>> There was a third party candidate siphoning off Republican votes.

>> Corzine had the power of incumbency.

>> Corzine had the power of a crooked Democrat Machine cooking the vote.

>> Ohaha hid $17.5 BILLION stimulus in New Jersey.....for Corzine's reelection campaign.

And still Corzine lost decisively. He conceded 11/2 hours after the polls closed. The White House did not even bother to say Massachusetts would be a "sleeper." Coakley conceded in 45 min. And wasn't that nice of Ohaha to say healthcare would NOT move forward until Sen-elect Scott Brown was seated? (/snix)

[muawiyah]

PLUS Rahm Emanuel has been letting his Tourette's Syndrome get in the way of doing his job.

Now most people are pretty tolerant of competent people who suffer from the condition, but if they're incompetent, like Rahm appears to be, they can trigger some serious personal dislike in their targets.

There are drugs that help control the problem. Rahm needs a very large injection.

[Uncle Miltie]

I think you "point the toe-shoe of blame at Rahm Emanuel"

[Eva]

Are you serious, or is that sarcasm?

[jmaroneps37]

The death of Obama’s Health care scheme happened at about 10PM on Friday July 31, 2009 when Emanuel FORCED the so called Blue Dogs to vote FOR moving Healthcare out of Committee even though the week before Mike Ross their leader had publicly stated his people would NOT vote for it unless changes were made. There wee no changes, but Emanuel FORCED them to vote yes anyway. Once that happened the whole thing was dead although no one knew it yet. When they voted yes, that took away the Democrats’ plausible lie that since no vote had yet been taken they were actually interested in what Americans had to say about Health care. That gave us the lady going nose to nose with Benedict Arlen Sphincter and others, After that it has been all down hill for Obama’s socialist scheme.

[Carling]

Obama was convinced overhauling the nation’s healthcare system would boost the struggling economy by curbing costs and reducing the long-term federal deficit, say Democratic sources.

Taxing people now for an "overhaul" that doesn't take effect for 4 years is going to help the economy ... how? The incompetent GOP needs to be all over this obvious disconnect from reality.

[Liz]

Obama campaigned as a young postpartisan Democrat who wanted a new era of comity in Washington, instead his victory empowered the ancient left-wing Congressional warriors......the men who have run Washington this past year....Mr. Obama’s de facto cabinet.

Barney Frank of Massachusetts, class of 1980 and chief protector of Fannie Mae, wrote the financial reform that would make too-big-to-fail the law for the largest banks. He has also pushed the mortgage foreclosure programs that have extended the housing recession by preventing home prices from finding a bottom.

LET US NOT FORGET Bwaney Frank’s 4th congressional district went overwhelmingly for Scott Brown; just five of the 24 cities and towns voted for Coakley. Frank acknowledges that it may be a tougher race than he’s used to. “But, if I want to get re-elected it’s my job to talk about the issues and my record, and that’s the nature of democracy,” he said.........fierce competition or not, Frank said he will “definitely” seek re-election this November.

NOT HIS DECISION TO MAKE What this self-absorbed Lipless Wonder fails to fathom is that his constituients (including those townhallers he sneered at) will decide whether he is fit to run for reelection. Now Frank wants to talk about his "record?" Fine. Here it is.

Let The Inquisition Start With Barney Frank
Investor's Business Daily | 3/6/09
FR Posted on 03/08/2009 by FreeManN

Congressman Barney Frank says he wants some of those responsible for our current financial meltdown to be prosecuted. And we couldn't agree more. First up in the court dock: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

Even by the extraordinarily loose standards of Congress, it takes some chutzpah for someone such as Frank to suggest that he'll seek prosecutions for those behind the housing and financial crunch and for what he called "a strongly empowered systemic risk regulator." Frank: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's point man in Washington.

For Frank, perhaps more than any single individual in private or public life, is responsible for both the housing market mess and subsequent bank disaster. And no, this isn't partisan hyperbole or historical exaggeration. But first, a little trip down memory lane. (Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorial.com ...

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THE WORM TURNS Barney Frank: The Poor Should Rent, Not Own (Dem admits disastrous mistake)
The Atlantic | 02/01/10 | Daniel Indiviglio /
FR Posted 02/02/2010 by TigerLikesRooster

In its final installment of the Big Think's "Went Went Wrong" Series on the financial crisis, they interviewed Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA). Much of the interview was predictable: Frank mostly explained what anyone closely following the financial regulation push in Congress already knew. But there was one fascinating gem in discussing where Fannie and Freddie went wrong. Frank views ushering the poor to own homes as a mistake and believes they should rent instead.

Frank was responding to the question about how Fannie and Freddie could be structured to avoid moral hazard and a too cozy relationship with the regulators. After stating that we should separate the liquidity creation function from the subsidy objective (which we already knew he supported), he said: "I think the answer is you separate out the function of providing the equity in general for the mortgage market and doing some subsidy and in my judgment, the subsidy again, as I said before, should be focused on affordable rental housing, not in pushing low income people into owning homes that they can't afford." Can I get an "Amen!"? (Excerpt) Read more at business.theatlantic.com ...

Just wondering how many times Ohaha's going to campaign for Bwaney---ROTFLMCO. Betcha Ohaha's gotta be sedated before he sets foot into post-Scott Brown Mass.