The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama's Presidency

New York Times ^ | March 6, 2010 | FRANK RICH

[SmartInsight]

WEDNESDAY'S health care rally was one of President Obama's finest hours. It was so fine it couldn't be blighted even by his preposterous backdrop, a cohort of white-jacketed medical workers large enough to staff a hospital in one of the daytime soaps that refused to be pre-empted by the White House show.

At last he mobilized his rhetoric against a villain everyone could hiss - insurance companies. In a brief address, he mentioned these malefactors of great greed 13 times.

[SmartInsight]

It's an amusing editorial.

I think a lefty is really upset with Obama.

[Cicero]

Frank, Frank, back in the closet! You aren’t supposed to come out more than once a month!

[Don Corleone]

In a brief address, he mentioned these malefactors of great greed 13 times.

Who have one of the lowest profit margins in industry.

[GailA]

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~~ President Ronald Reagan

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. 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 (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
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OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security, http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html

Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

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SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2464538/posts
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MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/posts
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

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
http://www.navytimes.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.

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.

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.

[GailA]

Obamacare call list: Courtsey of TN Eagle Forum:

PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
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Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
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Bart Gordon (202) 225-4231 TN
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE

[fightinJAG]

Now that we have finally arrived at the do-or-die moment for Obama’s signature issue, we face the alarming prospect that his presidency could be toast if he doesn’t make good on a year’s worth of false starts. And it won’t even be the opposition’s fault. If too many Democrats in the House defect, health care will be dead. The G.O.P. would be able to argue this fall, not without reason, that the party holding the White House and both houses of Congress cannot govern.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[fightinJAG]

Once the health care fight is over and out of sight, it will be out of mind to most Americans. We’ve already forgotten about Afghanistan — until the next bloodbath.

I take it you disagree with Mr. Rich on this point?

Me, too.

[fightinJAG]

The leadership shortfall we’ve witnessed during Obama’s yearlong health care march — typified by the missed deadlines, the foggy identification of his priorities, the sometimes abrupt shifts in political tone and strategy — won’t go away once the bill does. This weakness will remain unless and until the president himself corrects it.

Wait, I thought this dude just said we'd all forget about the Obambicare debacle once the Rats ram it through. Now he's saying we'll still be ticked about the Obambicare debacle and the Rats ramming it through.

Whatever.

[fightinJAG]

I'm sorry to keep posting snipets of this article, but they are just too juicy to not highlight:

Those who are unsympathetic or outright hostile to Obama frame his failures as an attempt to impose “socialism” on a conservative nation. The truth is that the Fox News right would believe this about any Democratic president no matter who he was and what his policies were.

I don't care who you are, that's funny.

OF COURSE any Rat president will be revealed as a socialist or worst. Duh. The nation maybe learned the lesson this time, Frank-buddy, that THERE ARE NO MODERATE DEMOCRATS.

And, yes, I'll yell occasionally if I want to.

[blackbart.223]

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."

Obama and the Feds have no business sticking their nose into this in the first place. The Constitution forbids it. Not that they care about that.

[fightinJAG]

The problem is not necessarily that Obama is trying to do too much, but that there is no consistent, clear message to unite all that he is trying to do.

Oh, blah blah blah, Frank.

These are the same clowns who ruthlessly derided President Bush for being a simpleton because he had a clear, fundamental vision of what America is and because he simply stated what he wanted to accomplish for the nation.

[fightinJAG]

To galvanize the nation, Obama needs to articulate a substantive belief system that’s built from his bedrock convictions.

His bedrock convictions? Frank, are you series?

[UCANSEE2]

I tried to read it all.

Every paragraph was the same.

It’s all Bush’s fault.

And the ‘man’ is holding Obama down, and keeping him from opening up and accomplishing anything.

[Gargantua]

[Excerpt]"If F.D.R. or Reagan could distill, coin and convey a credo “nonideological” enough to serve as an umbrella for all their goals and to attract lasting majority coalitions of disparate American constituencies, so can this gifted president."

What planet does this rump-wad live on? "This gifted president?!" The only thing "gifted" about Bukkaki O'Bunga is that everything he has ever had in life was given to him! He never had to earn anything!

O'Bunga is literally the LEAST gifted, capable, tested or experienced president in our Nation's otherwise proud history. He is an incompetent thug, and the epitome of the Peter Principal; a dysfunctional hybrid of the Peter Principal and Affirmative Action.

He's an asocial sociopathic socialist idealogue and pathalogical liar, and the whole country (minus the 17% Libtard Extemist Commie Fringe) knows it!

Stick a fork in this clown: he's done. And this author needs to rent a brain.

;-/

[okie01]

It's an amusing editorial.

Frank Rich is evidence that the loonies are running the asylum at 620 Eighth Avenue.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you for this great list.

[blackbart.223]

Obama knows what he is doing. That is the problem. And the bigger problem is he has a large following of lemmings who will jump of the cliff for him. Sound familiar?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

About the only thing that Frank Rich could write that would interest me would be a suicide note.

[GVnana]

That's easy.

[Mobties]

What was it Ann Coulter called it last week, the NY Times drama queen?