Posted on 03/23/2010 9:55:45 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama on Tuesday signed into law a sweeping health care reform bill, the nation's most substantial social legislation in four decades, achieving a top priority of his administration.
Greeted by applause from enthusiastic supporters, he said, "Today after almost a century of trying; today, after over a year of debate; today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America."
The president said he is confident the Senate will improve the health care reform law swiftly. He said some health care reforms will take some time to phase in, but others will "take effect right away."
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Where’s the executive order that bans federal dollars for abortions?
I am trying to promote the idea that Republicans fight back with the “how dare you repeal” crowd by saying yes, we want to repeal it. Then they list all taxes, fines, cuts, death panels, IRS, etc. It’s important we get on the same page with this.
But then they say they’ll offer a TOTALLY CLEAN bill with the popular line items right after the Obamacare monster is dead.
I really believe that this is what the country wants, laws passed in bills that won’t continue to break our backs. Bills that are submitted untainted by backroom deals and bribes.
We need to let them know. Our alternative media has been great but they need to stay on point so the sheeple hear.
I hear you.
Let the Dem’s lose their patience. let them act nuts and irrational. We must calmly and firmly speak truth to power and not give them any fodder to divide us with.
We must support those who will stand and represent us.
Well said.
ahemmm...you mean the sock-puppet-in thief?...LOL
Obama can try to put lipstick on this Pig of a bill all he wants it’s still a freakin pig. I look around my country lately and all I see are idiots. I just can’t believe some people were so gulible about him from the beginning. Can’t say I didn’t see this coming cause I did. It’s like we the people have no voice anymore.
It was like Grant Park all over again when it passed.
This is going to be hilarious. Honestly, I hope that Emperor Bozo the Usurper stumps every single day for socialized medicine, now until November.
I know how much everyone on the Right is hurting this week, the profound sense of grief we feel for the future of our nation, and our sense of betrayal by the officials we elected to represent us.
But the debacle on Sunday was basically a matter of being overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Our GOP representatives hung tough for the most part, and gave us some inspiring moments, like Boehner’s final speech. The fact that this travesty didn’t pass last August is a credit to the Tea Partiers, the new media, and many of our elected officials.
Now, we are at war with the power-mad Left, a war we did not seek.
We are not without resources to fight this war. And one of them is the Emperor himself, who simply cannot shut up. He has been dangerously overexposed and turns people off every time he gets on the stump.
Yes, losing a political battle hurts and the danger of socialized medicine is real.
But we make a mistake by casting the Emperor and his sycophants as invincible. This is the path to defeatism, and in its way just as bad as underestimating our enemies.
If the Emperor were truly the transformative figure he claims to be, ObamaCare would have passed within the first 100 days, with bipartisan support in both houses and solid poll numbers.
If that had happened, I would agree with pessimists on the Right who are singing a dirge over the prospect of Euro-Socialism coming to America.
Still, we’re in for the political fight of our lives, no doubt about it.
The upside is that if we win, not only will ObamaCare be replaced by sensible, market-oriented reforms, but the American Left may at last be consigned to history’s dung heap.
Think I’m too optimistic? Well, in 1861, chattel slavery still had many defenders ...
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