Posted on 02/28/2010 3:29:37 PM PST by bestintxas
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue's massive role in this election year.
Lawmakers sometimes must enact policies that, even if unpopular at the moment, will help the public, Pelosi said in an interview being broadcast Sunday the ABC News program "This Week." "We're not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress," she said. "We're here to do the job for the American people."
It took courage for Congress to pass Social Security and Medicare, which eventually became highly popular, she said, "and many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
She seems to be praising these two systems as examples of what she wishes Obamacare needs to be, in spite of the fact that they are both miserable failures that are BROKEN.
How much evidence do Americans need to see we have insane people heading this country?
At least they are consistent.
This is just like white liberals strategy for affirmative action, where they volunteer somebody else or somebody else’s kid to give up opportunities to promote the “greater good” ( in that case “diversity”).
That’s big of Nancyh to volunteer other dems to be brave from her safe kook district. Surely some of them have a spine and are coming to hate her as much as we do.
I think her exact words were, “Fight on for socialized medicine, comrades!” “Do it for Stalin! Make Lenin proud! Make chairman Mao’s dream come true! Make our evil capitalist healthcare system into the far, far better system that is found in our glorious, communist Cuban paradise!”
That’s easy for her to say. She has a wacky constituency and no real challenger.
Heaviest Element Yet Known to Science Discovered
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has now identified with certainty the heaviest element known to science.
The new element, Pelosium (PL), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Pelosium is inert, and has no charge and no magnetism. Nevertheless, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Pelosium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Pelosium has a normal half-life of 2 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a biennial reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
Pelosium mass will increase over time, since each reorganization will promote many morons to become isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Pelosium becomes Senatorium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Pelosium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Reminds of the scene in Xmen 3 when Magneto tells the higher ranking mutants to hold back and, “Let the pawns go first.”
“How much evidence do Americans need to see we have insane people heading this country?”
They are totally sane. They simply want to destroy this country.
Misery loves company.
"Fellow Democrats, if you sacrifice your careers by voting for Pelosicare, err, I mean Obamacare, I PROMISE I'll pay for your funerals!"
You first, bi**h!
Hilarious....and true!
Bloody awesome......!
The Democratic leadership has not learned that the American voter will get there revenge at the ballot.
It’s gibberish. First, it’s we spend too much on healthcare, and it’s a drain on the economy. Then, it’s the healthcare bill is going to spend more money but create 40,000 jobs.
Here’s the message. If you vote for unconstitutional mandates and another unaffordable entitlement, we’re gonna send you back home, pronto. Then you’ll be off the gravy train, and you’ll have to earn a living. And your replacements (did you think there is a shortage of self-serving opportunists?)will repeal what you did anyway. So think about your vote carefully.
You go first, Nancy!
Show them how to do it, girl!
Exactly: One has to wonder how she would vote if it were her job, that might be lost.
her feet are in concrete, it’s easy for her to urge others to political suicide.
Ms. Capone speaks up, tells it like it should never be. Had enough ‘’hope and change yet’’. ????
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460358/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
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