Posted on 08/13/2009 8:56:54 AM PDT by rvoitier
When Barack Obama first launched his health-care reform effort, he had some natural allies among Republicans, and it looked as though a deal could get made — depending, of course, on the terms. After putting Nancy Pelosi in charge of that effort, though, Obama has run his putative Republican allies off the team and onto the other side. Senator Charles Grassley had been among the most publicly committed of Capitol Hill Republicans to hammer out a deal with the Democrats on health care reform, but their lack of give and his constituents’ obvious anger at ObamaCare has him backpedaling
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From what I can tell, this bill had been constructed for the most part in 2007. If I’m remembering correctly, McCain’s position during the campaign was to give American’s their money back in the form of tax cuts (with vouchers?) so they could purchase their own insurance at a cost of $5,000 or $6,000 per year.
No worries. :)
It's what the dems do if you vote against them
GOOD: KEEP The Pressure up..!
GOOD: KEEP The Pressure up..!
I have great respect for Krauthammer, but I think that the effect of these town halls on the Congresscritters standing before them is important. They are not staged for TV. The people come to tell the elected official their opinion, and the opinion comes through, loud and clear.
Now the politician can decide whether to ignore that opinion, and face electoral extinction, or abide by that opinion, and keep his nice cushy seat in Washington. This is not a tough choice for them.
And the daughter is grinding on their pet Yorkie......
I do too, but I think Charles has bought into the lie that it's just Republicans and conservatives at these townhalls. It is not - there are indies & dems scared *&^$-less about this attempt by Obama to seize control over their end-of-life decisions.
Out of all the thousands & thousands of scientists in the country Barack Obama might have chosen to serve as his "Science Czar", he somehow managed to pick a 'scientist' whose major claim to fame is that he once said "The elderly have the patriotic duty to die."
You don't have to be a Republican to be concerned about what his real intentions are here. These people need to get face to face with their democratic constituents & see that the fear in their eyes is just as obvious.
The same President who is barring dissenters from his own Town Halls, who is telling the opposition to "Shut Up", has his congressional enforcers call them Nazis and is asking his union thugs to report anybody who dares disagree with any part of the bill to the White House also wants us to just "trust" him that he'll lend an understanding ear to hear dissent later when his bureaucrats decide to yank the plug on our grandmothers?
Presumably he's putting his best foot forward right now while trying to sell the public on his ambition take over the medical industry, yet he doesn't even bother to pretend to disguise his callous arrogant contempt for the citizenry's objections now? How callously contemptuous will he be of the public's fears when he's given complete unilateral control over the citizenry's end-of-life decisions - including those of his fellow democrats?
Old Charley’s commentary is usually quite illuminating, but if this is his opinion on the town hall meetings, he is way out in left field. By that logic, the Minute Men at Bunker Hill did themselves harm. Rediculous!!
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