Drudge Report Headline Only: OBAMA IN NEW HEALTHCARE BLOWOUT

Drudge Report ^ | Monday February 22, 2010

[Bigtigermike]

From Sources:

BACKDOOR FIX: 'Funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust' if necessary...

PRESIDENT'S 'HEALTHCARE' PROPOSAL SUMMARY USES WORD 'TAX' 35 TIMES...

'Increase in Fees on Brand Name Pharmaceuticals'...

Broaden 'Tax Base for High-Income Taxpayers'...

Orders 'Comprehensive Database' On Health Claims...

FORCED: 'Raises percent of income assessment that individuals pay if they choose not to become insured'...

[PghBaldy]

Ugh. I hope they know what they are doing. It seems like a bad idea, IMO.

[diamond6]

Who exactly should we contact to complain, the RNC?

[hope]

My email from the progressive movement @ PCCC

Friday night on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow announced:

"Breaking news. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now signaling that he is ready to join the newly resurgent health reform fight. He says he would support a plan to pass a public option for health insurance without Republican support."

Reid's announcement was prompted by a letter from 19 senators calling for the public option through reconciliation. Keith Olbermann added, "The people who started this letter campaign showed some courage."

The senator who led the charge -- Michael Bennet of Colorado -- is now being slammed by Republicans and conservative papers in his state.

Can you show Bennet that he has support -- and encourage him to keep being bold -- by chipping in $3 to his 2010 campaign? Click here.

The Denver Post accused Bennet of trying to "jam [the public option] down our throats" while a Republican opponent accused him of showing "outright contempt" for voters. But a recent poll shows that Colorado voters want the public option 59% to 36%!!

Let's encourage Bennet to keep fighting. Can you chip in $3 to his campaign? Click here.

(At this link, you can also support Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand -- an original signer of Bennet's letter who is in a competitive primary against corporate Democrat Harold Ford.)

The public option fight is far from over -- we still need to push many other senators to commit to voting with us. But this week's momentum would not have been possible without Bennet, Gillibrand, and other senators sticking their necks out.

Please say thanks today.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Michael Snook, Brian Bills, and the PCCC team

[kaila]

I don't get it. Is he going to raid Social Security, or add to it?
That sentence from Drudge does not make sense.

[PghBaldy]

Yep. My fear exactly. Just like the conf Repubs invited him to- he came off better, even saying the wrong things and lying. Pence especially looked very weak.

[Gene Eric]

>> but if asked to attend, he would because he is a doctor.

Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a senator.

[torchthemummy]

Mr. President, Monday we read your proposal to fix health care by borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund. We have also been hearing from our esteemed colleagues, that there will be an attempt to pass health care through reconciliation. What is the purpose of this meeting with us if you and your party have already decided to move forward against the wishes of the American people?

And that's exactly what needs to be done. Plus keep highlighting how many Pubbie bills had been proposed and ignored, mention how health insurance companies like CA BC and BS are merely covering unfunded mandates, mention the complete lack of tort reform and allowing states to agree to sell across state lines. Etc.

I see this as one of the best opportunities to nail down the upcoming electoral season's bullet points by highlighting the Dems dishonest claims to pursue bipartisanship.

[paulycy]

McConnell has only one last chance to pull out of this stupid bi-partisan version of 0bamacare. When 0bama’s version does come out today, McConnell can say finally, this is intolerable and withdraw.

Mitch McConnell may not realize it but if this 0bamanation passes it is his fault.

The way it is working out Mitch McConnell is the key to killing this negotiation and that makes me very depressed and fearful.

[Rummyfan]

Up yours America!

I'm really starting to dislike the man....

[rbmillerjr]

This guy has a one-termer death wish lmao.

F you Obama....

You still can’t hear us.

Notice the BigPharma screwing, who even cut a deal with him..

Now he is taking them on???

What a F up he is.

We win the House and the Senate, even the GOP can’t screw this gifthorse up

[b4its2late]

He would will destroy America to get health insurance we do not want or need. Why?

There, fixed it for ya.

[onyx]

Fox News Channel discussing it now.

Power grab deluxe.

Paid for by “off sets” that will never be realized.

[Matchett-PI]

Exactly. No doubt Rush will repeat himself again today. bttt

[exit82]

Obama is a Republican Mole, and he was put there to destroy the Democrat Party for the next 100 years.

Nice strategery, there, Laz ;)

[JohnBrowdie]

that’s not a health care bill. it’s a bed time story. the only thing it’s missing is “and they all lived happily ever after”.

[JerseyHighlander]

Republicans need to either go shock and awe ,or not show up at this sham.

Here is about the only way to shut this down:

Walk in with a list of every lobbyist and lobbying group that have hooks in the proposed bills, and just start loudly and firmly rattling off their names until the TV networks cuts off their mics.

Trostky didn’t have the balls to stand up to Stalin, will any Republicans stand up to Obama?

[onyx]

First sentence from McConnell’s mouth on Thursday ought to be:

“This isn’t a plan, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a sentence.”

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YES! Brilliant, my dear friend, absolutely brilliant !!!

[SecondAmendment]

Captain Ahab has to get his whale ....

[AmericanInTokyo]

Has the market(s) over there tanked yet this morning??

[Bigtigermike]

“From Hell’s heart i stab at thee... For hate’s sake, i spit my last breath, at thee” OH GOD!!