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Gibbs talks race, public option and Palin
Politico/CNN video ^ | September 13, 2009 | Eamon Javers

Posted on 09/13/2009 3:16:17 PM PDT by greyfoxx39

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, appearing on CNN"s State of the Union Sunday morning, said President Obama does not think opposition to him is racially motivated, a claim made in Maureen Dowd's Sunday column.

-SNIP

"The goal of the public option is to provide choice and competition," Gibbs said. "As the president said, he prefers the public option, however he said that what's important is choice and competition."

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baghdadbob; healthcare; palin; sarah
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To: Red in Blue PA

??Dowd and the WH are playing Good Cop, Bad Cop.<<

Don’t you mean “dumb cop, dumberer cop?”

;)


21 posted on 09/13/2009 3:31:35 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: EGPWS
"niggardly"

Many think that word is racist and... denigrating.


22 posted on 09/13/2009 3:31:54 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: SolidWood
by showing that Pelosi, Reid and other major Dems received numerous times more in donations from these health companies.

I just have to ask....

What is the stance or response to the democRATs and Oblabermouth from the insurance companies?

23 posted on 09/13/2009 3:35:39 PM PDT by bayliving (Government is NOT the ANSWER!!!)
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To: All

24 posted on 09/13/2009 3:36:19 PM PDT by Liz
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To: shankbear

It’s called “Bromantic.”


25 posted on 09/13/2009 3:37:32 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: EGPWS

Irrational.

That is the word that keeps popping into my head whenever I see this poor Mr. Gibbs trying to explain away that which surpasses all understanding. Well, at least HIS understanding.

Baghdad Bob never had this many fumbles and just plain egg on his face.


26 posted on 09/13/2009 3:37:43 PM PDT by alloysteel (....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
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To: greyfoxx39

What, even Obama realizes what a STUPID thing it was to play the race card on Joe Wilson? Color me...cynical. Sounds like an attempt at “good cop, bad cop”.


27 posted on 09/13/2009 3:41:34 PM PDT by cake_crumb (86 44! (Impeach Obama!))
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To: kcvl

Poor Gibby, he makes Baghdad Bob look like a genius. I kinda feel sorry for the guy, he might be the smartest one of the bunch in that entire Administration and that says A LOT. Of course he can’t call Sarah a liar because he knows she is telling the TRUTH


28 posted on 09/13/2009 3:44:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: LifeComesFirst

Government funded monopoly and competition are contradictions in terms. The American people know this. Democrat attempts to explain to us how ignorant we are will not work.


29 posted on 09/13/2009 3:44:23 PM PDT by cake_crumb (86 44! (Impeach Obama!))
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To: Jeff Head

Hey Gibbs how does it feel being a whore and having “Mack Daddy the Zebra” as your pimp?


30 posted on 09/13/2009 3:44:35 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Red in Blue PA
"Dowd and the WH are playing Good Cop, Bad Cop."

Yep.

31 posted on 09/13/2009 3:46:30 PM PDT by cake_crumb (86 44! (Impeach Obama!))
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To: EGPWS

I guess we will find out how many FReepers do not have a grasp of the English language! ;-)

LLS


32 posted on 09/13/2009 3:49:55 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: kcvl

no, there are still death panels. some objectionable language was removed from one senate version but if you have rationing of health care, you will have death panels. of course there is some orwellian name for it like “ ‘independent” medical advisory board”

Zeke Emmanuel will probably be the first chairman of this independent board, no need to fear for your life Granny. It’s not a bureaucrat, it’s Dr Z. The tunnel of light pill is just what you need.


33 posted on 09/13/2009 4:11:26 PM PDT by Piers-the-Ploughman (Just say no to circular firing squads.)
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To: kcvl

no, there are still death panels. some objectionable language was removed from one senate version but if you have rationing of health care, you will have death panels. of course there is some orwellian name for it like “ ‘independent” medical advisory board”

Zeke Emmanuel will probably be the first chairman of this independent board, no need to fear for your life Granny. It’s not a bureaucrat, it’s Dr Z. The tunnel of light pill is just what you need.


34 posted on 09/13/2009 4:11:31 PM PDT by Piers-the-Ploughman (Just say no to circular firing squads.)
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To: bayliving

“What is the stance or response to the democRATs and Oblabermouth from the insurance companies?”

Spokes guy for Health Insurance industry answered that very question this AM said that they would offer all the plans anyone could want when EVERYONE is on health care... and smilled nicely into the camera...


35 posted on 09/13/2009 4:29:15 PM PDT by PIF
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To: Piers-the-Ploughman

Zeke’s bit is already law - it is the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research signed into Federal law in The Stimulous Bill, aka HR 1.

http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html


36 posted on 09/13/2009 4:33:44 PM PDT by PIF
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To: socialismisinsidious


Socialized Medicine aka Universal Health Care daily digest PING LIST

FReepmail me if you want to be added to or removed from this daily digest ping list (one ping per day of links to pertinent articles).




37 posted on 09/13/2009 4:34:07 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: I see my hands

How about Negro?

I know , I know.Only when it’s used proper,as in Spanish class.


38 posted on 09/13/2009 4:37:36 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes
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To: greyfoxx39

Read this carefully friends ....
The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney 08.24.09

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.

However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the “due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;” The 10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution . If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/constituti on_transcript.html

And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/bill_of_ri ghts_transcript.html

There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us if we allow this bill to be passed.

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney,

Constitutional Law Instructor


39 posted on 09/13/2009 5:08:06 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: greyfoxx39; SolidWood
"It think people are upset because on Monday we celebrate the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse... and we had to do some extraordinary things." "

Clearly someone who is OD'd on tranquilizers or, maybe, some mind-altering drug!

The People are upset because on Monday we celebrate the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse... was used as an excuse and we had to do some extraordinary extraordinarily unconstitutional things."

40 posted on 09/13/2009 6:48:03 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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