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Pelosi says Obama has the votes to pass health reform
AFP Yahoo News ^ | Feb. 28, 2010 | AFP staff

Posted on 02/28/2010 12:34:12 PM PST by KTM rider

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.

Pelosi, in an interview with ABC television's "This Week" program, said Democrats would succeed in passing a bill despite concerted Republican efforts to derail Obama's top domestic priority ahead of crucial mid-term elections.

"We're here to do the job for the American people -- to get them results that gives them not only health security, but economic security, because the health issue is an economic issue for America's families," she said.

After months of wrangling, the House and the Senate adopted different versions of a reform bill late last year but they must be combined into a single piece of legislation for Obama to sign into law.

Obama is widely expected to announce in the coming days that he is prepared to use a process known as reconciliation to force a bill through Congress against Republican objections.

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However, this may be delusional hyperbole, based on a reporters question to Pelosi "do you have the votes".

the unrelenting rush to socialism continues

1 posted on 02/28/2010 12:34:12 PM PST by KTM rider
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To: KTM rider
"We're here to do the job for on the American people"

Fixed.

2 posted on 02/28/2010 12:37:14 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Progressives are everything they accuse their opponents of being.)
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To: KTM rider

I think if she doesn’t, she’ll get them, unfortunantly.


3 posted on 02/28/2010 12:37:16 PM PST by Onerom99 (I)
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To: KTM rider

From what I understand, the current bill the Senate has in the pipeline contains abortion language the Stupak crowd (supposedly) will not support. If he and a couple others back out, it’s dead.


4 posted on 02/28/2010 12:37:21 PM PST by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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To: KTM rider

If the bill is so good then the Rats should answer why the so-called benefits don’t kick in for at least 6 years?


5 posted on 02/28/2010 12:38:06 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: KTM rider

She’s TOAST.


6 posted on 02/28/2010 12:39:49 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Obama’s DeathCare was tried before:

Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group — Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare: When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“Mercy Killing” Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws: Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

“It’s true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

“After America , There is No Place to Go”

Please forward this message to other voters who may not have it.


7 posted on 02/28/2010 12:40:33 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: KTM rider

So how many did he have to bribe?


8 posted on 02/28/2010 12:41:34 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: KTM rider
We're here to do the job for on the American people
9 posted on 02/28/2010 12:41:34 PM PST by windsorknot (o o)
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To: tobyhill
"If the bill is so good then the Rats should answer why the so-called benefits don’t kick in for at least 6 years?"

....and agree to use it themselves...

10 posted on 02/28/2010 12:42:32 PM PST by spokeshave (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
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To: KTM rider
Story is wrong. In her with ABC's interview with Elizabeth Vargas, she is asked at least twice of she has the votes. She refuses to answer the question. She knows she does not have the votes.

Look at her on http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/network-exclusive-speaker-pelosi-part-9969912

11 posted on 02/28/2010 12:42:46 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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To: KTM rider
"We're here to do the job for the American people --

If that were truly the case, the health care debacle would be dropped like a hot iron.

12 posted on 02/28/2010 12:43:07 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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The Repubs cannot allow them to twist this thing. The bill was so bad, last year they could not pass it with a Dem majority. Blaming it on Repubs is more dishonesty that must be called to attention. I’d like to see mention of the fact Dems wouldn’t vote for this horrid mess, so why should Repubs be expected to.


13 posted on 02/28/2010 12:43:22 PM PST by buschbaby (Children are running the country. They need a mommy to whip their butts.)
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To: KTM rider

Go for it you filthy (*&^%$ hag.


14 posted on 02/28/2010 12:43:25 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

You fixed it before I did. ;->


15 posted on 02/28/2010 12:43:26 PM PST by windsorknot (o o)
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To: KTM rider

May God protect us from these terrible leaders.


16 posted on 02/28/2010 12:43:49 PM PST by RochesterFan
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To: KTM rider
Since Pelosi and Reed are strangers to the truth, I have little confidence in anything that they say. I have seen stupid politicians, and I have seen corrupt politicians, but I have never seen stupid and corruption politicians become leaders of a political party before now. Pelosi and Reed are living proof that fact is stranger than fiction. No one could create two political figures as goofy as these two.
17 posted on 02/28/2010 12:43:54 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: KTM rider

Only on YAHOO have I read that San Fran Nan says she has the votes!


18 posted on 02/28/2010 12:44:18 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: KTM rider

If Obama has the votes, a vote would have already been taken. They don’t have the votes, and the problem is in the House whose members did probably not like Pelosi’s call for them to become Kamakazi Congresscritters.


19 posted on 02/28/2010 12:48:02 PM PST by centurion316
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To: RochesterFan

This MSM headline is an outrageous lie. Pelosi said no such thing.

Every third grader knows that the House cannot pass the Senate bill. Voting for the corrupt Senate provisions will be a political death sentence for many, many Democrats.

I think they are going thru the motions to placate the lunatic base and they’ll roll out a smaller bill in the coming weeks.

Politically, it is still insanity for the RATS to continue this conversation. Every day they waste on health care is enraging the American people.


20 posted on 02/28/2010 12:52:03 PM PST by mwl8787
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