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Obamacare worth the price to Democrats (GOP Will Not Repeal It)
http://www.ocregister.com ^ | March 5, 2010 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/05/2010 4:09:43 PM PST by Para-Ord.45

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To: BornToBeAmerican
You are right about that.Definite anger against both parties,and its all about America versus government.Americans do NOT like their government, and have lttle or no respect for it.
41 posted on 03/05/2010 6:00:18 PM PST by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: Ted Grant
No we would repeal it with a simple majority just like they are trying to pass it. This is why what the RATS are doing is so damn dangerous. There are real reasons for the filibuster rule but the RATS could care less. They are the party of treason in my opinion.
42 posted on 03/05/2010 6:08:52 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Para-Ord.45
What have the GOP repealed ?

The 55 MPH speed limit!

43 posted on 03/05/2010 6:11:33 PM PST by danmar (Life is hard enough, even harder if you're stupid! John Wayne)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Democrats are betting that their “democratic” people will love this “health care” when implemented and will forever reward their benefactors. They will reward them even without the “health care,” which is care of no sort.


44 posted on 03/05/2010 6:15:17 PM PST by Theodore R. (...)
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To: goldstategop

Sadly, you are so right. Even Everett McKinley Dirksen went out of his way to accommodate his friend Lyndon B. Johnson.


45 posted on 03/05/2010 6:16:50 PM PST by Theodore R. (...)
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To: Graybeard58

Thus far in 2010, the returns from IL and TX are mostly just status quo. Several conservatives were rejected in both states’ primaries. People want these big government programs if they think they will benefit them.


46 posted on 03/05/2010 6:18:54 PM PST by Theodore R. (...)
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To: Para-Ord.45

The only way the dims can pass health care is via reconciliation. We can unpass it via reconciliation. Yeah PFL BO will veto it. But remember the health care taxes and mendacity kicks in immediately. There is no care or help for anyone in this thing. And there is BO knocking down the American people with taxes and arrogance over and over again. A child could win this game.


47 posted on 03/05/2010 6:28:31 PM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: gogogodzilla

No ‘Communist-lite’ ideology, but ‘We the People’

Who else?


48 posted on 03/05/2010 7:19:00 PM PST by BornToBeAmerican (“If you think education is expensive try ignorance.”)
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To: Mister Muggles
Not enough, but becoming informed as much as I can. Studying not only the Constitution but “Why” it was written the way that it is. Lot's of reading. Also went to several Tea Parties and Town Hall meetings. Enough, no, but not nothing.

Let's just say that I am sick and tired of being told what is going to happen, by whom and when.

This is not America and his American will not just pat someone on the back like a good ol’ boy when he says something I don't agree with.

This is a new game with a lot of old players. These old players will either play the new game or 'WE THE PEOPLE' will find ones that will.

I have not forgotten that the ‘Government’ is supposed to govern ‘by’ people and ‘for’ the people. Not themselves or special interest groups.

I hope I answered your question sincerely enough, for I sure am sincere

49 posted on 03/05/2010 7:28:56 PM PST by BornToBeAmerican (“If you think education is expensive try ignorance.”)
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To: BornToBeAmerican

Steyn knows because he knows how the pubbies have behaved for 80 years. They whine about the entitlement program but never eliminate the program.

That is the sorry situation. Steyn doesn’t hope it will happen he is just calling out what will happen of this bill is passed.

I will go one step further, if this bill is passed within 8 years the private health ins system will be destroyed and we will have single payer.

The pubbies won’t stop it. The pols change the bureaucracies stay.


50 posted on 03/05/2010 9:02:04 PM PST by Leto
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To: BornToBeAmerican

“This is not politics as usual”

?!?!

That’s exactly what he is saying.

More is at stake here with the future of the country than in any election in a generation.


51 posted on 03/05/2010 9:24:14 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: Graybeard58

“I agree, It’s a pipe dream to think that a republican congress can or would undo the mess that Obama is pushing on us. Republicans are not by definition, “conservative”, though some conservatives are republicans.”

All the more reason to STOP IT NOW.


52 posted on 03/05/2010 9:28:30 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: Nuc1

“We can unpass it ...”

... IF we have a massive Tsunamai election that defeats the Democrats on the most massive scale in 100 years.

THAT is how we turn it around.

DEFEAT ALL DEMOCRATS.


53 posted on 03/05/2010 9:29:56 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: WOSG
How could anyone disagree with that! But all we need is 52 votes. Reconciliation don't ya know.
54 posted on 03/06/2010 7:42:44 AM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Para-Ord.45

It ain’t dead until congress is recessed and we flip at least 1 in Nov, or we will be fighting this battle for 3 more years!

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

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.

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

Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2464538/posts

MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/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

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.

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.

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.


55 posted on 03/06/2010 7:49:14 AM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Obamacare call list: Courtsey of TN Eagle Forum:

PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Gordon (202) 225-4231 TN
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI


56 posted on 03/06/2010 7:49:49 AM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: gogogodzilla

“And you really think that the party of ‘Communist-lite’ ideology is really going to do anything about this? Yeah, in your dreams!”

You’re quite right, which is why we need to throw the commie-lite RINOs out and elect small government conservatives. It will take at least three election cycles to gain a conservative majority, unless God thunders down lightning on our enemies. The new governor of Virginia is off to a good start reining in the socialists. Need more like him. See you at the barricades.


57 posted on 03/06/2010 8:43:59 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: BornToBeAmerican
You know, I'll have to agree though, that it is heartbreaking to realize that the most eloquent writer/advocate of the American conservative today....is a Canadian.
58 posted on 03/07/2010 10:20:11 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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