No doubt McConnell will still meet MAO-bam for his photo-op. Good grief - the RINO’s will lose this opportunity. Again.
This oughta be good...
I wonder how many more Dhimmie Congress Critters will announce their retirement this week...??
Pure politics. They will just issue non-market T-bills (IOUs) to the SSTF and use the money elsewhere. The fact is that the SSTF represents an unfunded liability, which is why it is included in the national debt under "Intragovernmental Holdings." By putting the money into the SSTF, we are actually increasing the debt.
This is supposed to be an improvement?
He would destroy America to get health insurance we do not want or need. Why?
So he puts this out there 3 days before the Republicans meet for his sham lecture? Why they are going, I’ll never know.
just under the headline Drudge shows Bam at -19%...and the link to the actual “plan” is not even active yet!
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.
Also developing on Drudge: Rassumssen Obama Approval Index: -19
Take note Republicans before you head off to surrender at the obamacare summit
More taxes, more govt invasion into individual privacy, more funny money into the imaginary social security lockbox to replace the skittle-crapping unicorns that escaped
what’s not to love about the democrat party’s visionary approach to fundamentally changing this country?
The GOP is gonna go politely applaud this like nice gentlemen?
Obama is a Republican Mole, and he was put there to destroy the Democrat Party for the next 100 years.
Republicans and Democrats know that they can not ride this health care reform vehicle and expect to be reelected or get donations for that matter. Think about it at a strategic level. ....
You may not be up for re election in 2012 but teaming with Obama is looking like the biggest Cluster _ _ _ _ since Jimmy Carter took office. Which means that every picture you had made with obama will be used by your opponent in every fund raising mailer in your district. You will be strapped for cash years before you are up for re-election.
At this point your best option is to get the congress to “re-work” healthcare (read put it on a back burner and hope it just goes away so we can focus on Jobs)
Obama could end up being the best player on our team.
First sentence from McConnell’s mouth on Thursday ought to be:
“This isn’t a plan, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a sentence.”
0bama’s road to his Single Payer Utopia.
He’s already conditioned America to expect a continued/necessary escalation of taxation and government so once he institutionalizes this “Continuous” journey under the banner of Health Care for “the Greater Good” then he has everything he needs to own America.
Which really is what this is ALL about Government controlling our decisions, property, and our lives.
The GOP says this: “The American people do not want a bad bill. This is a bad bill. We will never say ‘yes’ to a bad bill. “
Then they walk out.
End of discussion.
We win, they lose.
Obama and the Dems just lost the senior vote. All the GOP has to do is say ‘raid Social Security’ and this will explode in Obama’s face.
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