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Tell Obama this at the Healthcare Pow-Wow...
Topic Started: Feb 8 2010, 10:18 AM (304 Views)
Joan Foster

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32646.html

Mr. President, the American people do not want Obamacare. Furthermore, we cannot afford it.

CASE FREAKING CLOSED.

What else is there to talk about?

:dh: :dh: :dh:

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The 19 Televised Pleadings by Obama to the GOP on Health Care

http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2010/02/08/the-19-televised-pleadings-by-obama-to-the-gop-on-health-care/


Posted by Dan Perrin (Profile)

Monday, February 8th at 7:07AM EST

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The Dem-only, GOP stiff-arm that the Trillion dollar President has been treating the nation to for the last year on health care is supposed to go away in one televised meeting. After forcing the end of the only bi-partisan process in Congress and insisting that Congress go the Dem-only route — here are the 19 things the Trillion dollar President is really asking the GOP to help him do:

1) Please won’t you help us spend $2.5 trillion we don’t have?

2) Please won’t you join us in enraging the independent voters and your base?

3) Please won’t you believe that if I will agree with any of your policies, I can get Senator Reid and the Speaker to enact it?

4) Please help me take over the health care industry?

5) Please help me feel better about my repeated violations of my transparency campaign promises, hence, appearing on TV today?

6) Please help me out of this wheel-chair I’ve put myself in, after I broke my own back on health care reform?

7) Please help me appear as if I am listening to you and the American people?

8 ) Please help me force employers drop their employee health benefit and force workers into the government run health care system — er, exchange?

9) Please, please help me fund abortions with taxpayer dollars?

10) Please help me give illegals health benefits, paid for by citizens?

11) Please help me tax health insurance premiums, but not for my pals, the unions?

12) Please help me set up an “exchange” to control all aspects of every health insurance policy we will let an insurer sell?

13) Please help me cut Medicare by half a trillion dollars, and use it to fund the destruction of our health care system?

14) Please help me force every American to buy health insurance — whether they can afford it or not?

15) Please help me pay for my government take over of health care by taxing the young and the married?

16) Please help me empower the Secretary of HHS to put restrictions on Health Savings Accounts?

17) Please help me create a health care database that tracks gun ownership?

18) Please help me put the government in charge of rationing care?

19) Please help me feed the moral arrogance of Democrats by allowing me to lecture you and the American people on health care one more time?

In these situations, after being pilloried, ignored and attacked by the President, who now says he wants to talk to Republicans in front of the cameras, “You just don’t get it, do you Mr. President?” is not an unreasonable response.

But really, it is a last gasp of desperation on the part of the White House, where the next verse will be — see, we tried to work with the Republicans and they just said no — just what the American public wants.


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11) Please help me tax health insurance premiums, but not for my pals, the unions?

Where was that conference held?
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Joan Foster

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Feb 8 2010, 10:30 AM
The 19 Televised Pleadings by Obama to the GOP on Health Care

http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2010/02/08/the-19-televised-pleadings-by-obama-to-the-gop-on-health-care/


Posted by Dan Perrin (Profile)

Monday, February 8th at 7:07AM EST

29 Comments
The Dem-only, GOP stiff-arm that the Trillion dollar President has been treating the nation to for the last year on health care is supposed to go away in one televised meeting. After forcing the end of the only bi-partisan process in Congress and insisting that Congress go the Dem-only route — here are the 19 things the Trillion dollar President is really asking the GOP to help him do:

1) Please won’t you help us spend $2.5 trillion we don’t have?

2) Please won’t you join us in enraging the independent voters and your base?

3) Please won’t you believe that if I will agree with any of your policies, I can get Senator Reid and the Speaker to enact it?

4) Please help me take over the health care industry?

5) Please help me feel better about my repeated violations of my transparency campaign promises, hence, appearing on TV today?

6) Please help me out of this wheel-chair I’ve put myself in, after I broke my own back on health care reform?

7) Please help me appear as if I am listening to you and the American people?

8 ) Please help me force employers drop their employee health benefit and force workers into the government run health care system — er, exchange?

9) Please, please help me fund abortions with taxpayer dollars?

10) Please help me give illegals health benefits, paid for by citizens?

11) Please help me tax health insurance premiums, but not for my pals, the unions?

12) Please help me set up an “exchange” to control all aspects of every health insurance policy we will let an insurer sell?

13) Please help me cut Medicare by half a trillion dollars, and use it to fund the destruction of our health care system?

14) Please help me force every American to buy health insurance — whether they can afford it or not?

15) Please help me pay for my government take over of health care by taxing the young and the married?

16) Please help me empower the Secretary of HHS to put restrictions on Health Savings Accounts?

17) Please help me create a health care database that tracks gun ownership?

18) Please help me put the government in charge of rationing care?

19) Please help me feed the moral arrogance of Democrats by allowing me to lecture you and the American people on health care one more time?

In these situations, after being pilloried, ignored and attacked by the President, who now says he wants to talk to Republicans in front of the cameras, “You just don’t get it, do you Mr. President?” is not an unreasonable response.

But really, it is a last gasp of desperation on the part of the White House, where the next verse will be — see, we tried to work with the Republicans and they just said no — just what the American public wants.


That is a genius post!
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Joan Foster

Off to a great start! :emm: :crh: :crh: :crh:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/house-republican-issa-cha_n_453398.html


President Obama's health care reform outreach to congressional Republicans got off to a bumpy start on Monday morning, when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) blasted a statement to reporters headlined: "First Question for President Obama: Did You Lie About Moving Forward on Malpractice Reform?"

It wasn't as brazen as Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) shouting "You lie!" while the president addressed Congress last September, but it's a sign of how difficult it will be to reach any sort of consensus.

Issa is the highest-ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His gripe with Obama is over tort reform -- proposed changes to the judicial system to prevent medical malpractice lawsuits from driving up health care costs -- one of the top health-care reform priorities of the GOP. Obama, in a September address to Congress, said that he directed the Department of Health and Human Services to "move forward" on some tort reform pilot projects.

"Now, finally, many in this chamber -- particularly on the Republican side of the aisle -- have long insisted that reforming our medical malpractice laws can help bring down the cost of health care," Obama said. "Now, I don't believe malpractice reform is a silver bullet, but I've talked to enough doctors to know that defensive medicine may be contributing to unnecessary costs. So I'm proposing that we move forward on a range of ideas about how to put patient safety first and let doctors focus on practicing medicine. I know that the Bush administration considered authorizing demonstration projects in individual states to test these ideas. I think it's a good idea, and I'm directing my Secretary of Health and Human Services to move forward on this initiative today."

An Issa staffer attempted to get some information from HHS about malpractice reform and was told that tort reform "is not a priority with this Administration," Issa charged.

"The first question I have for President Obama is if he still stands by his call for tort reform or was he just lying to Congress when he directed Sec. Sebelius to pursue an initiative addressing the costs of defensive medicine," Issa asked. "When HHS is telling me that malpractice reform is not a 'priority of this Administration,' I have to question the sincerity of the President's commitment to working with Congressional Republicans on a bipartisan basis. A clarification from the Administration would tell us if he is sincere in his effort for bipartisan discussions or if this is just another exercise in futility aimed to make the American people think the White House is serious about bipartisanship."

Spokespersons for the White House and HHS didn't immediately return requests for comment, but one thing at least is clear: Obama did instruct HHS to move forward on a specific tort-reform initiative, which is a major concession to the GOP and a setback for trial lawyers. We know that Obama did so because he made the instruction in public, in front of both the House and Senate and, for what it's worth, C-SPAN cameras as well.
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kbp

"First Question for President Obama: Did You Lie About Moving Forward on Malpractice Reform?"

Maybe not the best approach to make it appear you're open to helping the people somehow ...but, it is within the rules the leader of our nation has clearly established.

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Joan Foster

People don't BELIEVE this will help them. Be not afraid, little R's....you have been rewarded in three elections for being the WALL between us and this odious Bill.

Ask him about his admission that probably we will NOT be able to keep our insurance as is.

Ask him if HE and Congress will be required to submit to the same "insurance?" If not why not?

Ask him about the deals , the lack of "openness."

Ask about the Canadian Premier coming here for healthcare.

Tell him, the AMERICAN people do not want this.

WHO ARE YOU to try and impose this on them?

Tell him we don't want him spending the money! STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY!

If these idiots are going to go there and schmmoze..I hope they are all voted out...ASAP!
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brittany

P-L-E-A-S-E use the correct term. It is a healthcare summit, not a pow wow. Is he serving beer at this summit?
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Joan Foster

brittany
Feb 8 2010, 02:08 PM
P-L-E-A-S-E use the correct term. It is a healthcare summit, not a pow wow. Is he serving beer at this summit?
Well, I hope there will be a Knockout POW...to his ever-receding WOW. (Polls down again today) :bunn:
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kbp

I saw that poll on Drudge; 44% approve.
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Mason
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Seems like the fact that Obama admitted that the underlying basics of his plan - that you will be able to keep your current Doctor and Current Insurance, if you wish - were false, loom very large. That's why the media has shut it down and will not report it in any fashion.

Obama slipped there, and the Press is covering for him.

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Joan Foster

YES!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/top-house-republicans-throw-co.html?wprss=44

Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate in President Obama's proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over.

In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) expressed frustration at reports that Obama intends to put the Democratic bills on the table for discussion at the Feb. 25 summit.

"If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate," Boehner and Cantor wrote.
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