Obamacare: Code Blue
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We need a Do Not Resuscitate order for the flailing Democrats’ health care takeover plan.
It’s Code Blue and Team Obama is in panic mode.
Certain sign of desperation: Summoning the nutroots to help.
And another from Mark Knoller, who reports that the White House has moved up Obama’s health care statement today to 12:15pm in the Rose Garden.
And now this from Reuters:
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has canceled its Tuesday debate and vote on healthcare legislation but has kept a Wednesday meeting on its schedule.
Good. This will give Obama time to study the plan he supports — a plan that he admitted he’s not familiar with when asked about the provision that would effectively kill off the individual insurance market.
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Philip Klein tosses the politics card back at the White House:
Obama’s health care push is hitting a rough patch because moderates in his own party are skittish about the price tag and tax increases. The Congressional Budget Office determined that none of the Democratic bills do anything to rein in costs — the primary rationale for his health care drive. And the Mayo Clinic, which Obama has routinely praised as a model for the health care system, has blasted the House legislation. Yet Obama wants to rush legislation through so he has a victory going into an election year.
In fact, as CNN reported, “The Senate Democratic leadership and the White House are putting heavy pressure on the Finance Committee to adopt its health care plan before the president speaks to the nation (on Wednesday).” So in other words, Obama is trying to pressure the Finance Committee not to write the best legislation its members can, not to reach a bipartisan compromise, but to pass whatever bill they can before he goes in front of the television cameras to give a prime-time news conference.
Yes, it is about him.
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First!
Maybe TOTUS can help THE ONE catch up with what he believes…
Good – but let’s not give up on hammering Congress with our calls and emails and visits. I say with this issue we keep hitting ‘em while they’re down.
Paging Dr. Kevorkian. Need you in Congress, stat.
I would like to know why bho needs prime time tomorrow when he is on the tube 24/7? Gads, he makes me want to up-chuck!
L
Keep up the pressure:
He’s backing off….
Obama Administration: Code Blue
LOL
or is it Czarinistration?
Remember, as a moderate or a Fabian, he is MUCH MORE DANGEROUS.
I bet TOTUS has read the bill. POTUS not so much
The progressives are starting to attack the moderate democrats. What few there are.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/21/baucus-leading-recipient-_n_241712.html
Will they also be getting the “Palin” treatment???
I know a moyel that could take care of the plan. He doesn’t require pay–he only takes tips.
Yes! The New Thought Police have absolutely no sense of humor.
They are most vicious with defectors, and they will whip anyone who deviates even slightly from the party line.
The only thing that can counter their pressure is the perception by the “moderates” or Blue-dogs that they are facing political death if they support the ObamaCare plan.
Which makes a more moderate plan that pries open the door to Statist control of health care MORE is so dangerous now.
No POTTOTUS has ever been given the number of opportunities to propagandize and promote their personal agenda or get a pass on real socialism.
I have the blue dog whip (Heath Shuler) on my cell phone. I will call his office at lunch!
“As minister of propaganda, I wanna report that the people —” “I am not INTERESTED in the PEOPLE!”
- Larry and Moe (I’LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN, 1941)
The fell influence of Cheddar… Spacey has been infected.
Nothing new here. It’s the same strategy as Day One; sew the seeds of panic, push it through before anyone can read the details, and use thug politics on anyone who might waver.
You have a government that is totally out of control.
The Hate Crimes bill passed by the Senate was tacked on to the Defense Appropriations bill by the Majority Leader. That bill was NEVER sent to the Judiciary Committee for review.
That bill has HUGE legal problems with it that the Judiciary Committee could have discovered. What we have is unnethical, perhaps even criminal conduct by the leadership of this country.
In the meantime on the Health Care takeover we have people like Senator Grassley who is hallucinating thinking he can find “common ground” with these politcal thugs. Republicans are living in a fantasy world that no longer exists.
There is no common ground with them.
Nothing more need be said.
It has never existed…and they have been living in it for at least the past ~40 years.
There is no doubt in my ex-military mind that in the end, all the democrats and the usual RINOs will vote for this bill. Obama will threaten these cowards and they will fold as usual. I will hear from my congressman that he wasn’t threatened, he voted for it because it’s good for the country.
We are working to get rid of this jerk, but the Republican Party isn’t helping at all
Sorry, Ragspierre–the unfettered fromage has not influenced me in the least…
I was demented to begin with.
Rogue & I share a delight in 3 Stooges and ‘Dune’, though.
“Laughing-yet, we are here!”
- Moe (TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM, 1941)
Ever notice the sense of delight in woman over any joke that starts with…”Something something moyel…”
and that it induces a flinch in the males present? Even guys who have no idea what a moyel is or does?
Kind of OT but:
/me is dealing with my company health advocate right now so he can deal with the stupid insurance company. How does it cost upwards of freaking $15,000 to cut an infant out of my wife’s stomach? Honestly!
Not to mention the fact that my insurance left me with a $3500 bill (It has to be wrong).
*sigh*
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!!!
“We’re not ordinary people… we’re morons.”
- Curly (THREE SMART SAPS, 1942)
If Obamacare is so grand, why must He prevaricate to get us to take the pill? It’s because it is poison and not good medicine. Choke on it Teh One.
“Can I help it if I ain’t Cousin Basil?”
- Shemp (BRIDELESS GROOM, 1947)
Dr. Howard, the Saint Bernard in room 23 has a coat on his tongue. What shall we do?
Give him a vest and a pair of pants, and take him for a walk.
I hear this is coming also from the rich democrat districts like in California. The estimates that a married couple in California who make over $1m a year will be paying 56% taxes. They have gotten skittish. What with BHO making it increasingly hard to hide money, they now realize they will have to pay their fair share!!LOL. I think they really thought fair share meant other people, not them. Dem reps don’t want to run the risk of having their richer constituants paying to have the other guy get the prize.
Rush opened his show just minutes ago with a very serious warning that we are at a dangerous juncture WRT ObamaCare.
THE most dangerous thing that could happen now (given that we think the proposal on the table now is sunk) would be a “moderate” version.
Incrementalism is VERY effective.
See: Fabian Socialism
Check out this video of a Democrat tool getting laughed at and jeered by his constituents at a townhall meeting promoting ObamaCare.
Pay particular attention to the middle aged woman in the blue striped shirt in the video. She’s grinning smugly through the whole thing. Then, when Kevin Jackson calls out “If it’s so great, why isn’t Congress on it?” Her face falls like a melting glacier.
Of course this ass clown is in a rush. The more time given to examination of this Bill, the more people will understand the trash that it is. It’s a rush to get as much socialism in before the mid-terms when treasonous dems will be tossed from office in high numbers.
If my state representative, state senator, Lt. Governor, Governor, Congressman, both U.S. Senators, the Vice President of the U.S., and the President of the U.S. all pledge IN WRITING that they will insure themselves and their families via the public option contained within this bill, I will support it.
If it is such a good idea, I am SURE they will all leap at the opportunity.
Excellent post, Michelle. DNR is right.
“What are you shakin’ about?” “I don’t know – I’m in a hurry all over!”
- Moe and Curly (3 DUMB CLUCKS, 1937)
But it applies to everything THE ONE has done. NOBODY read and considered TARP.
ObamaCare is no different.
More like CODE RED!
I agree with the people afraid of even a “moderate” plan passing. ANYTHING that passes that involves any form of Obamacare is the camel’s nose, and would be a huge victory for the collectivists.
They know this. Perhaps their anger is a smokescreen. They scream bloody murder that the whole enchilada won’t pass hoping to get scare up a compromise and get at least the “moderate” version in. Once that is in, they eventually will get the whole thing.
His rhetoric is going to change. Now he is going to try to sell this by citing the ‘evil insurance companies’
It is no longer going to be about ‘health care crisis’. It is going to change into blaming the evil insurance companies for paying claims and providing revenue to the hospitals.
Yep.
“Salami tactics” are how we’ve ended up with the sewer of a society we have now; and why we’re now poised on the brink of socialist-guided disaster.
Yes. Also remember that social programs only grow, they are never repealed; expand, never shrink.
Any socialist medical program must be stopped.
Damn!
I’m an American and I am entitled. Now what am I to do? I was so looking forward to having the government subsidize my mortgage, subsidize my job (or better still pay me not to work), pay for my health care, and have me share the country undocumented foreign nationals made into new US citizens. All this while saving the planet by keeping it green. Utopia is slipping away. Michelle Obama must have been right. “We’re a country that is just downright mean”.
/sarc off
My best friend is a paramedic. He told me that doctors complain about having to raise costs because claims like medicare and medicaid many times will not pay the total bill and there is no use in going after the government for payment. What are they going to do when all they have is the government? We are going to lose all of the good docs as they move to India or Brazil. We will be getting second rate 3rd world country type of care.
Nothing in this Obamacare mess makes any economic sense or has the slightest possibility of improving health car and/or lowering costs. I think what is driving the Dems position is as follows:
A nations greatness is not measured by the strength of its people or the greatness of their accomplishments. Nor is it a function of it’s dedication to liberty and personal freedom. And economic prosperity and power is certainly not an indicator
What make a nation great is having 100% of the people dependent on government largess. Once this is accomplished we can at last be proud.
Did you notice not one person went out with him to the teleprompters?
Re: Code Blue
I have just watched five seasons of ER on DVD over just a few days so I am ready with the lingo!
SUX 20
I’ve had recently, a close personal insight on the ramifications of Obamacare.
An uncle of mine, in his mid-eighties, recently passed. He had a bad heart and was told he had a choice (note the word, ‘choice’) of doing nothing and perhaps having a few more months to live, or take the risk of surgery, from which he might not come out of alive, but if successful, could help him.
He chose (note again He chose) surgery, from which he did not live through. That is unfortunate and our loss, but he, not a government-run ‘health care’ program, had control over his fate. I suspect that Obamacare would have denied my uncle the right to make his choice as he would be deemed to have been too much of a risk and thus not worth the physician’s time and taxpayer money.
That smacks very much like eugenics to me. Wonder why Congress doesn’t understand that.
Is it acceptable to say about Obama — in this context — that we need to “crack his chest?”
This legislation is ectopic. It needs to come out stat!
Please…no more big initiatives from Obama. We need to close to trauma.
ex-expat
Got that right! Not only will we pay for abortions but deny treatment to those over a certain age as not being cost effective. You can call it eugenics but also ethnic cleansing.
The problems within our health care system were CREATED by our government. Very few people have any understanding why employers are involved with providing healthcare coverage. The fact is that employer provided healthcare grew out of government regulation due to wage freezes during WWII.
This benefit was something that employers back then could offer to recruit and retain employees when they could not raise wages. By exempting this benefit from taxes, government rewarded employers and employees to continue to offer this type of coverage.
Prior to this point in history, we were largely pay for service. Then along came Ted Kennedy that forced the HMO ACT of 1978 down our throats that forced business to offer health benefits to its employees. Kennedy said this was going to reduce health costs and lower insurance rates. It in fact resulted in skyrocketing health costs as well as forcing over 2200 private hospitals to close and the HMO industry became a cabal with the Governments blessing. The Congress had to change anti trust laws to enact the HMO Act because what they were mandating was illegal at the time.(anti trust law)
The result over time is that there is virtually no competition because the Federal Government tell insurers what hey can and cannot offer and the consumer has no idea how much the procedures and Rx’s cost because the HMO is paying for it all. In short, they have mandated semi socialistic fascist health care already. The reasons costs escalate is that there is no competition.
How about dropping all government spending (including tax benefits on coverage) in the area of healthcare. After all, it is a power not granted to the government in the constitution anyway. How about a return to pay for service based system?
This would force the insurance companies to offer creative and affordable plans at an individual level, with more choices than you see from your employer-negotiated plans today. Ending government spending in healthcare is the only way to return healthcare costs to reasonable levels.
Besides how do you like the way the post office, airport security, or any other government program is being run?
Besides how do you like the way the post office, airport security, or any other government program is being run?
Well, I don’t know…the military is a highly successful government program.
Its mission, of course, is to kill people and break things. I think Obama care could manage in these areas.
I suspect that Obama is NOT running the show. No one person can be so dense that they would ignore provable facts in opposition, use morons to send out mixed messages, preach moderation, all while personally conducting himself in contrary fashion. Plus, the man cannot speak contemporaneously, and must be scripted to wax poetic.
Who are the manipulators behind the curtain? Believe me…there is someone or some consortium behind all this social re-engineering being implemented. It just doesn’t feel right!
This usurpation of American liberty cannot be allowed to continue….
Ignatius Reilly:
Yes, this is one thing that more or less throws my pure libertarian philosophical argument for a loop (and one reason I am not a pure libertarian).
I often wonder if private military corporations could be more effective. However, even if it were true it could lead to all kinds of abuses and maybe a march toward corporate oligarchy.
How about military run health care? LOL. TRICARE!
Looks like Healthcare might be the third rail.
Obama’s goin’ down. We need to pig pile on his poll numbers and do whatever it takes to get him and his ilk out of office.
I had the opinion that the birthers were a wee bit nuts before the inauguration. If the dems nominated him, it seemed there was no going back.
Do the democrats play fair. hel no. I say, the lack of a long form is something – esp. with the state of our nation under Obam’s thumb.
Obama spent more time picking the family dog than he has analyzing the data regarding cap and tax, healthcare or a stimulus package. He’s a putz, pure and simple.
You stimulated a thought that I haven’t heard addressed, yet.
If this socialistic health care system gets enacted, will some government employee decide who will “qualify” for an abortion (in any trimester,) and have the authority to deny, or approve “therapeutic” intervention, whether or not the “health” of the mother is in question?
One one hand they have no qualms about executing any unborn child, and on the other, they rail about programs to cover health costs “for the children.” They is some fatal flaws in their thinking.
Zero…have you been playing “Hawx?”
right_on:
No what’s that? A video game? Is it any good? I am a die-hard Battelground Europe fan.
http://www.battlegroundeurope.com
I have been playing it for months more or less exclusively with a bit of a break to beat GTA4.
At the risk of being paranoid, I have had the same thought over the past year. Ever since he won his party’s nomination.
Successful, yes, but not necessarily efficient. If it was then we wouldn’t have thousand dollar toilet seats.
right_on:
I found it online. Looks kewl. Though I doubt I’ll get it. Modern jet combat sims are not my thing. Besides, I barely have enough time for anything these days with the newborn.
John:
Yah, good point. As much as the individual soldier, regardless of rank or position deserves a measure of respect for his service; the military as a whole could be said to be a massively inefficient government entity. However, as mentioned earlier, PMCs have a whole host of serious issues.
What I can surmise is that this plan for killing off America has all been thought out a looooong time ago. The Demoncats were waiting for the proper moment to bring about all this Super Changy Stuff. As I’ve mentioned in other threads, Tom Daschle was the Assumptive Czar of Health and Human Svcs (until the pesky tax stuff turned up) and was ready to step in with his plan for cutting out care for the elderly, etc. — Look it Up: “Critical – what we can do about the health care crisis.”
The book’s premise is that all health care is broken. There’s a way to fix it, but there will be sacrifices (and, of course YOU have to sacrifice, but not the Congress members). This is a plan for a takeover of an Oligarchy.
I understand that Nancy Pa-lousy et al were going to introduce this back last year, in June, but I am sure that they figured they should wait until they got Obama elected by hook or by crook.
All I can say is thank goodness for the IRS going after Daschle’s taxes – or else this would have been rammed (rahm’d) down our throats so fast.
I thought those $1,000 toilet seats were just to obscure secret slush funds to pay for Area 51 and fake moon landings.
Or at least that is what I hope.
Chapoutier:
No see, $10 is for the seat; $300 is for the sub-contractor; $400 is for the lead holding the government contract; $200 is for pre diem and lodging for the guy that actually turns the wrench; $50 is for fees; and $40 is to actually pay the aforementioned wrench turner.
Of course, I am just joking around.
*per diem
I think Barry Soetoro is the puppet of the Rockefeller CFR/Trilateral Commission folks for a One World Government.
They are not loyal to any one party, both parties are infested with these commie traitors.
Go to the CFR website and read their position papers. Most of their policy recommendations end up being passed by congress sooner or later.This was true under the GWB administration too.
Obama picked Trilateral Commission wonder boy Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury. The rest of the team are protégés of Robert Rubin, also a Trilateral and former Treasury Secretary under Clinton.
Obama’s top foreign policy advisor has been Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller.
Obama has packed his cabinet with either CFR members or Trilateral Commission members. I find this fact to be Treason since the members of these groups seek to overthrow the USA.
well…I think if our folks in the military were as tough as everyone claims they are, they could do without toilet seats altogether. And toilet paper also seems an unnecessary expense when there is perfectly good leaves and shrubbery around.
But we have the Air Force and Navy…
so…
(kidding)
Chap:
Oh, don’t get me wrong, us military (and ex-military in my case) types are hardcore. We can poop in a hole we dug with our bare hands no problem. It’s just that poop doesn’t mix well with big war-rooms a la “Dr. Strangelove” or “Dragon Tanks” (see link):
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/video-fix-gates-goes-overboard-cuts-essential-tank-project/
Be sure and watch the video.
You aren’t seriously on board with the “Dragon Tank” cut backs are you? Do you hate America? Effing Commie.
Let us return to some serious stuff…
FDR WANTED…BADLY…to impose a health care system on the US. His advisers told him that even his Demoncrat Congress would kick out the traces if he tried.
Truman wanted it, too.
LBJ wanted it, but settled for the incrementalism of Medicare/Medicaid.
The Collective has had this as a wet dream for over half a century, and has NEVER hesitated to lie about it, as they did with Social Security.
Now, they think their day has finally come.
You know too much. Your location has been detected. Just relax and wait for the men in black suits.
agent 235C12
‘…Tanqueray & chronic/yeah I’m f#@d up now…’
Speaking of Kevorkian, this morning Rush was focusing on a provision in the bill which requires mandatory “end of life” counseling for the elderly.
We need to provide “end of political life” counseling to our Representatives if they don’t shelve this bill.
The e-mail I sent this morning to my Congressman, Gene Taylor, a Blue Dog from Mississippi:
Now I ask you, is all of this by our president, by our senatros, by our congressmen the intent of the oath of office whereby they all swear to “Defend the Constitution of the United States.”?
Wy wife has been in the health care industry for over 25 years (see calls on hospitals)and is one of the few who understands the system. She’s kind of fun to watch when she listens to Obama talk about ObamaCare. All she does is scream at the TV, “That’s a lie!”, over and over.
I’m convinced that this so-called healthcare plan is nothing more than a smoke screen to make this country even more socialistic with the “elites” in Washington in charge. It doesn’t matter to them, what it says, as long as they control our medical care and the health industry.
Yes. It’s a brand new game (Ubisoft),a Tom Clancy inspired flight combat simulator type, with the premise being future conflicts (2014) are fought by private armies…I think.
Ya think?
Are you dissing Nancy Pelosi, and John Murtha? Aren’t their names synonymous with slush funds, and “waste?”
Area 51, A.K.A. “Pelosi’s Nether Regions,” and Murtha’s “moon” landings, and toilet seats…ew!!!
Just got a multi page letter from my traitor rino rep. Returning the letter with a note – no point in reading a letter from a rep who can’t read a bill before voting, since what he thinks he’s voting for may not be what he is actually voting for.
BO, MO, the girls and BO_2 have a vacation on Nantucket to get to.
congressman carnahan from a blue collar district of st louis was ridiculed and laughed off the stage when he tried to tell a batch of out of work uaw chrysler employees and a large bakery store owner and workers that obamacare would actually make money over 10 years. this was funnier than any 3 stooges, and rivalled caddyshack.
Interesting that Obama feels the need to rush such an important issue through the process without even knowing whats in it. Either he doesn’t care because he will create chaos and use it for power or he is really afraid he won’t have the power to do it later.
Why would he think that? He must know he is hosed for the next election. He knows he will lose the Congress and he is trying to get everything done while he can. If it is bad, then he will use the chaos to create more power for himself to fix it.
It’s heartening to know that he knows politics are not working in his favor.
Well, remember Rahm said to never let a crisis go to waste. Maybe if you don’t have a good enough crisis you have to create a better one (or maybe a few).
Huh? You are not aware of his modus operandi? THAT was how he got Porkulus, the Omnibus and Cap and Trade bills passed. Haven’t you heard him say “Let me make this clear… It is of utmost importance… We cannot afford to wait on such a matter of importance…” over and over again? He did not want anyone, even members of Congress, to read what’re on those bills. No wonder nobody wants to hear another speech/news conference from him. All we could expect: MORE LIES. He never live up to his promise. Citizens want reform of healthcare mainly to reduce costs. He wants his Socialist plan in place, and complete trashing of current health insurance instead! NOBODY wants that. Nobody wants to hear his lies anymore.
Go to http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/07/cbs-obama-news-conference.html?success&dsq and read the enlightening comments. ;D
High Five, Rambler! We did the same with the mail from Nancy Pelosi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A154BmAkryQ
You’ll be seeing a lot of that crap out of the White House thugs.
Ditto
Why is it impossible for socialists to answer even the most basic of questions on Obama’s government takeover of confidential, personal health issues and what is it that forces them to complete and total dependence on DNC ads?
The answer, folks?
It’s a vast left wing conspiracy. Obamas lying and Americans will be dying. The politics of personal destruction. Political paybacks, back room deal making, no transparency, no bid contracts, fascism, politics of corruption. The Knucklehead in Chief.
These are the weapons of mass socialization. Health care reform used as a biological weapon. What is Hugo Obama’s misery index?
Heads up!
My local CBS affiliate is plugging an upcoming story on CBS Evening News which, as I heard it, is that Sarah Palin has been judged by some Alaskan entity to be have improperly used campaign funds to pay legal fees.
It is unusual for my local station to plug upcoming network news stories in quite this way.
This sounds like something that will make my head explode. It had better not be that Sarah was guilty of nothing. Then she was hit by a barrage of politically inspired charges. Then she was found to have illegally taken money from the wrong pile to defend herself from the bogus charges.
Well…nothing. She posted a DNC lie-fest.
But here’s the answer to, “What is the conservative plan?”
Let people and their providers deal directly with each other.
Let people make decisions and choices about their health, their health care, and how to pay for it.
Let them act within a market undistorted by the destructive effects of Federal intervention that have exploded costs over the years since FDR first caused the distortions of WWII.
Easy.
Try this Rebublican plan from Paul Ryan (R-WI). Remember, the Dems refused any Republican input in their plan.
http://www.waukeshagop.org/editorials.html
And the MSM won’t cover the Repub ideas.