| The CBO’s most recent analysis is out, and it’s not likely to convince wavering House Democrats to jump to the Obamacare side of the fence. Even the Democrats are granting that the latest version of their proposed health care overhaul would cost $69 billion more than the previous version. According to the CBO, this version would siphon even more money out of Medicare, make even further cuts to Medicare Advantage, and levy even higher taxes and fines on the American people. |
| President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and their allies, are cheerfully citing “ten year” costs of $940,000,000,000.00 — apparently believing this to be a far more palatable figure than $1 trillion. But even this colossal tally is like the introductory price quoted by a cell phone provider. It’s the price before you pay for minutes, fees, and overcharges — and before the price balloons after the introductory offer expires.Read more at www.weeklystandard.com |
As part of the federal government’s efforts to rein in health care spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has instituted a generous offer to all U.S. citizens. It will pay you cold, hard cash for any seniors in your family who are 65-years old and over. Said seniors will be dispensed with humanely, in accordance with the recommendations of Ezekiel “Doctor Death” Emanuel. |
| There is nothing in any of the legislative proposals that would call for the creation of death panels or any other governmental body that would cut off care for the critically ill as a cost-cutting measure. |
| The AP is technically correct in stating that end-of-life counseling is not the same as a death panel. The New York Times is also correct to point out that theRead more at www.americanthinker.com |
I confess, I’m utterly flummoxed by health care reform and what’s going on in Congress. |
Maybe, as a local newscaster, I’m just not capable of keeping up with the arcane legislative nuances that are driving this bizarre surreal spectacle, but I know experienced congressional correspondents who are equally perplexed over this sausage-making. |
Maybe it’s information overload that keeps us from fully understanding why “deeming” one-sixth of the U.S. economy past an unwilling public is a good thing. After all, we’ve all seen those studies that say too much information, ingested en masse, digested too briefly, regurgitated too suddenly leaves the synapses idle and unconnected, and wanting for something authoritative, reliable, true and deep. |
| So, I’m feeling insecure about all these smart people who know better than I. I’m imagining a frightening fantasy—where I’m called to do a one on one interview with the Speaker of the House.Read more at dailycaller.com |
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” –Federalist No. 33 |
Our Constitution is on life support, and House Democrats are about to pull the plug. |
Leaders of the Democrat Party (”Progressives” as they call themselves, Leftists as we call them) have been unable to garner popular or even Democrat Party support for their plan to socialize our health care system. Fortunately, Republicans are united in their opposition to this one issue. |
Barack Hussein Obama, titular head of the Demos, proclaimed, “I want some courage. I want us to do the right thing.” |
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concludes, “Nobody wants to vote for the Senate bill.” |
Raising the bar on Republican opposition maneuvers in the Senate, Mr. Coburn on Thursday threatened to put future holds on any Democratic House members who switch their vote in favor of the health care bill, lose their election as a result next November, and then are rewarded with a high-ranking job in the Obama administration. |
“If you voted no and you vote yes and you lose your election and you think any nomination to a federal position isn’t going to be held in the Senate, I’ve got news for you, it’s going to be held,” said Mr. Coburn, a physician known somewhat affectionately around the Senate as Dr. No. |
“If you think you can cut a deal now and it not come out until after the election, I want to tell you that isn’t going to happen and be prepared to defend selling your vote in the House,” Mr. Coburn warned those making up their minds across the rotunda.
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WASHINGTON – House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party’s fiscal conservatives. |
| Leaving nothing to chance, the White House announced that Obama has put off a trip to Asia for a second time, delaying it until June. Obama was to have left Sunday — when the House is planning to vote. |
| Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “He wants to be here for the history.” |
| The 10-year plan would provide coverage to 32 million people now uninsured through a combination of tax credits for middle class households and an expansion of the Medicaid program for low income people. Release of the legislation later Thursday sets the stage for a House vote on Sunday, and Democrats have already signaled they plan to go it alone, without Republican support. Read more at news.yahoo.com |
America will be in a constant health-care war if ObamaCare is enacted. Passage wouldn’t end the health-care debate. Rather, it would perpetuate ObamaCare as the dominant issue for decades to come, reshape politics, create an annual funding crisis in Congress, and generate a spate of angry lawsuits. Yet few in Washington seem aware of what lies ahead. |
| We only have to look at Great Britain to get a glimpse of the future. The National Health Service—socialized medicine—was created in 1946 and touted as the envy of the world. |
A Conservative member of the European Parliament, Daniel Hannan, last year in an interview on Fox News denounced the NHS as a “60-year mistake,” declaring he “wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” As prime minister, Margaret Thatcher bravely cut NHS spending in the 1980s, but current Tory leaders regard criticism of the NHS as too risky. “The Conservative Party stands four square behind the NHS,” its leader, David Cameron, said in response to Mr. Hannan. Read more at online.wsj.com |
Nancy Pelosi is a coward, a bully and a hypocrite — and Barack Obama is hiding behind her skirts. |
Pelosi obviously can’t find enough votes in her own party for ObamaCare, so the House speaker is preparing to approve the president’s health-care bill by legislative legerdemain — that is, by not voting on it. |
And to hell with the Constitution. |
Not to mention President Obama’s long-abandoned vow that the health-care-reform process would be “completely open and transparent.” |
Indeed, Pelosi has just the opposite in mind: She intends to employ an arcane bit of backroom alchemy known as “deem and pass,” in which the House would vote on a few less-controversial fixes to the Senate’s health-care bill. |
Then, under terms of a special rule, such passage would automatically mean that the House “deems” that the entire bill has been approved. |
Its the final round and Barack is ready! He’s pulling out all the stops and getting ready to let you have it where the sun don’t shine. He is a dedicated socialist who knows exactly what’s right for you and yours and he is determined to advance his position in anyway. Yes with him, the “ends justifies the means” and he’s out to stick it to you. He thinks you’ll like what you are about to get and will clamor for more and he will only be too willing to oblige, using your money. Yep, unless you stand up you’re about to get it shoved up your a*s! |
Don’t Worry
I Greased It with the Sweat of Tax-Payers! |
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CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
