Washington Post:
Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.
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If this HealthCare "Plan" isn't good enough for the Congress and The President to be covered by it, why is it good enough for anyone else?
You might want to ask your congressperson that question. But then no good re.thug would let the truth interfere with a good talking point.
In the spirit of Fairness and "Hope & Change", the question should not have to be asked. Asking our "Leaders" to enroll in the same program that they have created for everyone else is not asking too much.
Inertia .. repubs ... inertia !
Ask the Democrats they control Congress
Watched the speech.
Obama has given up on the health care issue. His tone was obvious.
A great day for free America.
Fantasical delusions.
No chance of that happening.
This baby is getting passed....
Go play with your marbles, this is over your head......
He's not a quitter, unlike, well you know...
Must've watched in on Fox with interpretive subtitles.
SludgeReport: Over-exposing himself...
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What do you want the leader of the free world to do when his signature legislation is on the table?
Clear fake brush on a fake ranch.....
I want him to improve his signature legislation.
Hoist a sign saying "Mission Complete".
"Mission Accomplish
Unemployment numbers "went down larger than expected in June".
Can anyone translate this statement?
Self explanatory. If you still can't get it, ask your teacher - we're busy.
heh...
D.E.P.P.R.
If everyone is required to have insurance, does that mean that we no longer need to have worker's comp? No mention of that in this new bill.
You never looked at workers comp reform.
From the article: 'Private meetings with lawmakers will become more frequent and urgent.'
Why in private? Why not on c-span ,as promised. I for one would like to know which politicians are there and what they're saying. Transparency was s'pposed ta be the big change we were gonna see, but, the only publicly aired forum, was a boondoggle, that ended up with single-payer advocates being escorted out the door by a coupla 'crewcuts'. There is no bill, yet, just proposals written in lawyer-speak that noone can fully comprehend. It is difficult to support or oppose any proposals when most are being made behind closed doors, then leaked by third persons. As for the house proposal being released, I am not convinced it will save enough on costs if insurance is allowed to keep making money off healthcare, by providing basically nothing. We need the final bill to debate ,or we need to see what's going on behind closed doors.
Yup, good point....
more on the above...PL
Exactly.
Good points!
isn't phrma promising like $80 bil and getting 12 years exclusive rights on branded products? I'd like to see a cost/benefit analysis on that.
Ping: Overcharging. And doctors are a big reason for the high cost of healthcare.
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Yes, of course. We already know that Tillering doctors is part of the Republican health care plan.
LooktotheLeft says:
bla bla bla . . .
but failed, to do away with the last pension plan in our existence, Social Security.
And now they s*avage Obama, none of it justified, because they see this man w/ a name different from their anglo name, who looks more like one of "them", one of them folks who've come here and taken their jobs, they money, their women, and their way of life.
bla bla bla . . .
Posted 01:18 PM on 07/20/2009
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None of what you posted is true. It's r@ce baiting at best.
How typical of a lib to use "groups" to pit one against another . . . something they deny daily.
Obama is being fought because his policies are destructive, weak, and leave us vulnerable.
You back his plans (also without reading them) because you believe what you are being told, that this is going to help America. Yet, Congress hasn't even read this bill and it's falling apart just like the Stimulus Bill did before it was rushed through and it's turned out to be a terrible thing full of wasteful spending and has yet to do one thing it was supposed to.
This Health Care legislation will be much the same because its being written by the same people, without debate, and without transparency.
Unlike you, I actually read long posts.
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Such rapier~like wit!
I'm impressed.
well i wld have read this tripe, but quite frankly, after urblah, blah, blah, i got bored
Would it have helped if I put in his . . . but Bush this, but Bush that?
"Unlike you, I actually read long posts"
When mommy reads to you it's not really considered reading.. it's called listening.
*Heh*
Brutal!
This is bull**it! Everyone needs to contact their Senator and Rep. Email the Democrats. We can get this passed. Don't let them back down. YES WE CAN!
Exactly. The one effective way of defeating seriously monied interests is the power of consensus, of grassroots support, but Obama also has to rile people up to it as well.
This a.m I was listening to NPR. There was a gov's meeting this past weekend and they were saying that without the stimulus money they have recieved they don't know what they would have done. That included both republican and democrats. Only a small percentage of that money has been distributed so as more gets sent out things will get better.
So for all those whining about how fast the stimulus package was passed - without it there would have been a catastrophy. We might never know how bad things would be if it weren't for the stimulus.
President Obama knows exactly what he is doing and although I would prefer single payer, this is a start that perhaps someday will lead to it.
agree! and fanned for listening to NPR
Then why the talk of a 2nd stimulus before waiting to see if the 1st is working?
From the beginning some economists were saying that the stimulus needed to be larger. President Obama made the mistake of trying to compromise with republicans and it got watered down.
Economist continue to say it should have been bigger and the media picked it up and ran with it.
Right on ruby. We have to walk before we can run. And as far as the stimulus goes, the tax cut that is helping to pay for our vacation next week will be spread across four states, for what that's worth. A lot of people doing a little but can go a long way.
How to turn off listening to Obama on healthcare? Turn of his teleprompter.
If only that would work for you...
That rapier wit of yours just cuts to the bone
No one is forcing you to listen.
Wow!!! That was great!!
Any knock-knock- jokes?
...a whole host of elephant jokes.
We do!
But they're above your pay grade!
My personal favorite, the infamos re.thug "teleprompter" argument. If that doesn't improve the lives of US citizens I don't know what will.
At least he can read something more substantial than my pet goat.
PresBO wants it done before the recess for a very good reason - Congress will get an earfull back in their districts and likely will not be in any mood to take it up again anytime soon.
Nope.
And if that were true, what are you going to do about it?
Other than roll over in 2010..?
Time will tell. Have you noticed the latest polls. If the great Obama cannot get things passed with a 2 to 1 majority in the house and a filibuster proof majority in the senate how will Obama do after the 2010 elections.
Obama is not exactly LBJ or dare I say it . George W. Bush
Yea, because American want this done once and for all.
So true.
How ridiculous is it that we have to consider the "mood" of the Congress?
They are paid to do a job. They have sat on their collective, overpaid back.sides for too long.
Hey, lying and pandering to the layabouts worked to get him elected, why not go at it again? It's not like he's going to get a tough question.
Uh, Dubya left office six glorious months ago today, the day our long national nightmare ended.
Yeah, things are really lookin' up.
But soon, he will have green jobs for all of these people.
So has McCain told anyone how to get OBL yet?
Is Obama in charge of the military?. Is Obama in charge of the intelligence agencies?Some are starting to question
You want to talk lies?
LA TIMES;
Dick Cheney lied to me on war, says GOP leader
Now comes Dick Armey, once House Majority Leader, who described a classified one-on-one briefing in the vice president's hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol where he says Vice President Dick Cheney went beyond that into outright deception.
"Did Dick Cheney ... purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the case...Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happening.
Live with that...the troops do.
Cleaning up Bush's mess is about as tough as it gets.
Am I tuned into Obama or not?
Repugs know this is it........
We will be the last industrialized country to do so and they never go back......
Keep building up that self esteem. You make us all happy with the misspelling of words
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First Posted: 07-19-09 08:21 PM | Updated: 07-19-09 09:40 PM