Posted on 08/20/2009 1:10:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President's side doing too little, too late to stop an increasingly violent and vocal surge of conservative opposition.
With the opposition angry, growing, and getting ever-more extreme, with the polls tanking, with its own supporters disillusioned and confused, and with the Republicans smelling blood, President Barack Obama's administration appears to have abandoned hope of bipartisan compromise in health-care reform.
“The Republican leadership has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama's health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance problems that Americans face every day,” Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, told The New York Times.
The Democrats now say they will try to push health care through on their own, using their majorities in the House and Senate, if the Republicans won't join them.
This is a sign of how much trouble the Obama administration is in. Those majorities could crumble, thanks to divisions within the Democrats' own ranks between liberals and Blue-Dog conservatives.
Right wing groups and the Republican Party have mobilized a large, vocal movement whose members' protests at rallies and town halls have successfully hijacked the health-care narrative.
Democratic health care reform has become, for many Americans, not an attempt to improve coverage and reduce costs. Instead, many now see it as a government takeover of private insurance that will lead to state-sanctioned euthanasia of the elderly and infirm.
An NBC News poll released Wednesday revealed that 45 per cent of Americans believed that, under the Democrats' plan, so-called “death panels” would decide when to terminate treatment. In the poll, 42 per cent opposed the Democrats' plan, while only 36 per cent favoured it.(continued)
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Don't bet on it
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said.
Read the comments on the original story if you get a chance.
They must serve Industrial Strength kool aid up there.
When conservatives get beat on by union goons, it is an example of right-wing violence because conservatives put themselves in positions where union goons could beat them up.
President's side doing too little, too late to stop an increasingly violent and vocal surge of conservative opposition.
What you're seeing here is the international liberal media trying to prop up a dying US liberal media.
There has been no violence in these protests from conservatives. It was once Obama had his pals in the SEIU, AFLCIO, and all these other rent a mob groups join into the fray that people started getting beat up and sent to hospitals.
That seems to be the message here.
“It’s your fault your husband beats you up, lucy”
“Right wing”(OMG !)groups and the Republican Party((?)...have successfully mobilized large groups who have “hijacked” the health-care “narrative”....
Wonderfull sentence ! A master-piece of misinformation
“Wonderfull sentence ! A master-piece of misinformation”
By masterful massagers of mendaceous messages to mislead the masses.
“knives to the gunfight”
I thought this was meant to be “about the American people”, not fighting a CIVIL WAR.
Oh wait, that was Just Another Lie, wasn’t it.
Double-plus good!
Well the libs forget that an armed society is a polite society.
"When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated"---Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Chief health-care policy adviser to President Barack Hussein Obama
The acts of violence have been perpetrated by the leftists.
It's a quote from our "president."
It IS a civil war, there just haven’t been any shots fired yet.
They intend to ENSLAVE us, and kill us if we resist.
That’s NOT hyperbole.
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