Panic at the Team O: Asia jaunt delayed for Demcare
The No-mentum is getting to the White House. News is breaking out all over that President Obama will be delaying his trip to Asia from Thursday to March 21. It’s also being reported that the First Lady and his daughters, who had planned to accompany him, will no longer be traveling with him. Jake Tapper writes:
“The President will delay leaving for Indonesia and Australia – will now leave Sunday – the First Lady and the girls will not be on the trip,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs sent out on twitter this morning.
Gibbs had expressed irritation yesterday with a question during the daily press briefing about this trip being something of a vacation for the family, with Sasha and Malia on spring break.
“It’s not a vacation at all,” he said back to a reporter.
Touchy, touchy.
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The latest on the Demcare devolution…
NYT headline: Democrats Struggle to Finish Health Bill
TPM: MA Dem. Michael Capuano leaning no
Pollsters Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen: You’re on the march of folly, Dems
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Ed Morrissey reminds us what happened last time Obama went to Asia:
He doesn’t have the votes. As with Nancy Pelosi’s bravado, the deadline turned out to be a façade. If they had the votes, the bill would be on the floor now. Not only do they not have the votes now, it seems likely they won’t have the votes next week, either — which is why Obama’s pushing back his long-awaited trip to Indonesia.
This could also be a lesson learned by the White House. Last year, while Congress writhed in agony over ObamaCare, the President took time out to tour Asia — and came back with nothing for the effort but a bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito. Obama took a tremendous amount of criticism for absenting himself for a sightseeing tour while leaving Democrats in Congress to do his dirty work. If they don’t have the votes by March 21st, Obama may have to reconsider the trip altogether.
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The open-borders caucus looks like it’s really going to bolt, via The Hill:
The healthcare bill’s immigration provisions are enough to spur Hispanic members of Congress to vote against it, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said Thursday.
Gutierrez, a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) in which he serves as chairman of its Immigration Task Force, said the caucus still has concerns over the extent to which the healthcare bill excludes illegal immigrants as well as legal residents from receiving benefits in the healthcare plan.
“They are enough to say I can’t support this bill,” Gutierrez said during an appearance on MSNBC.
Gutierrez and other members of the CHC to express concerns about the immigration provisions in the bill, about which they’ve begun to speak out more forcefully as a vote on healthcare approaches.
The Illinois congressman, who was an early supporter of President Barack Obama’s run for the Oval Office, said that the immigration provisions were very unlike the president, and suggested someone in the White House had urged him to back more stringent provisions on immigration.
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The kids being on Spring Break had nothing to do with the timing of the trip? And it’s not meant to be a family vacation at taxpayer expense?
Oh, ok.
These elitist morons actually think we’re that stupid. Then again, we did vote for them.
Hey Michelle — Broken TPM link. I think it’s supposed to be this?
Instead of postponing his jaunt to Asia and Australia, he should reconsider his destination. I hear Belgium is a nice place to visit. Perhaps he’d enjoy a visit to Waterloo.
ZZZZZzzzzzzzz
The National Park Service needs to begin preparations on a Red Square Moscow-style glass sarcoughagus for our own Littlest Lenin. His presidency is officially dead. Begin mummification now.
Maybe they don’t care for him over in Asia either..
OT -but it speaks to truth telling:
Notice how they try to make you think Rangel is an R.
I’m relieved he’s not going. Not because he can do any good here, or even that every time he opens his pie hole, the liberal agenda gets another shot to the ribs. Nope, I’m glad he’s not going because I just cannot take another picture of an American President, (I gag to write that) bowing, scraping & generally kissing the fly-swarmed heinies of third rate despots anywhere in the world. Better the chump stay home than to endure embarrassment like that again.
I’m sorry. Please explain why illegal immigrants should receive anything from real tax paying Americans? Any who advocate for it should be jailed, and if in Congress, they should be expelled. Period.
Ah yes, good choice. Cancel the screw off boondoggle so he can concentrate on his socialist healthcare aberration . . . no wonder the enlightened voters elected him.
Personally, I wish he’d pack up and go back home to Indonesia. He’s over stayed his welcome here, IMHO.
DLTSDHYOTWO. And don’t rifle through the silver at the White House.
While the information in the aforementioned article is quite correct, what Messrs. Caddell and Schoen, along with most other “yellowdog Democrats” (they’d vote for a “yeller dawg” before they’d vote for a Republican), is that the party they are so stubbronly clinging to doesn’t exist anymore. Perhaps they should read (or reread) Zell Miller’s book, “A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat”, to remind themselves what happened to their party when they allowed the Marxist/Socialist/Proggressives to take control of their party starting in the late 60s/early 70s.
So, what is he planning to do…put a few horse heads in their beds? He doesn’t have to do that. He has Rahm to take care of those unpleasant tasks. This man is really really spooky and obsessed.
I’m for the Hispanic Caucus voting against healthcare but their rationale is illogical. What part of the word illegal don’t they understand. That word in and of itself would preclude coverage under any social program the U.S.A. has.
When our leaders had some backbone in the 1950s, there was a solution to the illegal immigrants – Operation Wetback -instituted under Eisenhauer.
We should unapologetically craft all of our laws so that any benefit provided by the government does not provide an incentive, no matter how small, for any person to come to the United States. We should exclude not only illegal aliens, but also recent immigrants from any and all programs that provide benefits at the expense of the people.
We should welcome those who want to come to this country, abide by our laws, and make a better life for themselves by their own effort and ingenuity. We should discourage anybody who wants to come to this country to climb aboard the gravy train.
There is no need to apologize for this. We have no obligation to provide any benefit to people who are not our own citizens. We cannot afford to support the entire World in a style to which they would like to become accustomed.
There’s more arm twisting going on over healthcare than a WWE battle royal.
Michelle O. is probably in one big PMS snit over her cancelled trip, and is back to not feeling proud of her country…and after all of her wardrobe planning to set trends for spring! What a bummer for her and the girls.
Who is O-bow-ma going to bow to this trip to Asia? Perhaps he will try the full prostrate pose to the next Muslim leader. After all, he has also bowed to the mayor of Tampa, for reasons unknown, perhaps to have him seem to be courteous and bowing to all after his Prince Abdulla bow and scrape. He may want to set a trend for everyone bowing to him in return:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/article1070014.ece
I don’t know if y’all are aware, but the student loan take over is now in the health bill. I bet it would boggle the mind to actually know what is in this thing.
I just hope this bho isn’t on the tube every day now that he isn’t leaving on the trip.
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Excellent. Great new moniker.
The Great Uniter in action. Americans, united as one. It’s a beautiful thing…
Rus,
The “R” refers to Rangle’s position in the picture – in other words, the person on the right, or the second person from the right – not his party affiliation.
/joke/ Is your tin foil hat on a little too tight? LOL.
If the mainstream media ever decided to do their job (unlikely), O’Bambi would be done. How does this clown maintain a 40% plus approval rating? Who is it that actually approves, and what are they approving?
I have been wondering that myself! I would guess a more accurate approval number would be in the 30′s. There will always be morons who would follow their messiah over the cliff gladly because they are brainwashed. But most Americans are now on to the socialist agenda of this pos and DO NOT LIKE IT! I seem to be shouting a lot today. I need to take a break!
On March 12th, 2010 at 10:23 am, TigerLady said:
Most are missing another aspect of this.
He was going to see the heads of State of various allies… and now, due to internal NON EMERGENCY reasons, he is playing with THEIR schedules as well.
Sign of Disrespect…. kinda like him always being late to speeches and such…
This will NOT play well with our allies.
Gibbs: “It’s not a vacation at all. Sasha and Malia will be deeply involved with negotiations held at the highest levels of the Indonesian and Australian governments.”
As to O’Bambi’s approval percentages; His support in the Black community still supposedly accounts for about 22% of the 40+/-.
Queen Nancy said; Barack stick your deadline where the moon don’t shine and he said; OK Nancy but do you mind if I hang around a couple more days and root for you and Harry to get my bill passed?
I don’t think he is delaying his vacation for the healthbill. It might have something to do with all of the protests in Asia concerning him. That is probably why he is not taking his wife and daughters.
I dare say that the protestations of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will quiet down quickly and the members will join in lockstep to vote yes at the earliest opportunity. Isn’t it odd, that after a year of near silence, the issue of comprehensive immigration reform has suddenly appeared on the national stage again? Just a little something to throw into the pot to keep the CHC in line? Horse trading does require that you have a horse.
On a different note, I have not heard where the Congressional Caucasian Caucus is lining up on the potential vote. Must have missed it?
They don’t have the votes.
In 1943, when the Germans introduced the “Elephant” self-propelled gun against the Russians, it didn’t take the Russians long to realize one critical detail about the new weapon: it didn’t have any machine guns.
Stories say that when they saw the “Elephants” coming the Russian infantry would leap from their defensive positions and rush to the attack with shouts of joy (“Za Rodinu! Ourrah!”) that could be heard over the din of battle, because they knew they could climb all over and destroy them.
In a similar vein — if donkey-care can be delayed until the Easter recess — I expect the roar of the American People to drown out whatever lies the donks are peddling, and that ordinary folks will climb all over and destroy donkey-care at each and every townhall meeting that any donk would dare to attend.
Za Rodinu! Ourrah!
I’m disappointed for several reasons:
1. If Obeyme’s out of our country I think he does less damage.
2. If he bows and scrapes, as he usually does, he makes more Americans dislike him.
3. If Michelle goes, I don’t have to look at her mug on a daily basis telling us what the latest Spring fashion is.
4. If he goes, perhaps he can find his legal birth certificate and settle the debate.
5. If he goes, perhaps he will love Australia so much he will move there (just wishful thinking on my part).
I’ve also wondered that, especially since Congress’ approval ratings are so low, and you’d think they’d go hand in hand. Because a citizen is represented by 1/435th in the House of Representatives and 1/50th in Congress, they can easily register disgust towards the entire body of Congress as a whole, while they in many instances approve of the job their Congresscritters are doing. However, in the case of POTUS, these same citizens are probably reluctant to criticize someone who they likely voted for. I think there are still a lot of voters out there who don’t want to admit that they got suckered during the 2008 election.
Obviously, by now, Pelosi knows she’ll lose the Speaker’s gavel, and her plush Air Force air limo for weekend getaways, if hell care passes.
But its the price she is willing to pay to nationalize another fifth of the economy.
Marxism never sleeps.
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The longer Comrade Obama (PBUH) is gone the more I like it. Although having him “jawjack” his plans daily just makes them lose more support as people see more of the problems with his “future vision” for the new United Socialist States of Amerika.
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Help color The One long gone in the 2010 and 2012 elections. Teaparty The Messiah and his minions at all opportunities and vote these evil clowns out of office.
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John Bibb
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Barack Hussein Obama is the
First President of the United States
to bow before a foreign head of state.
(Obama also holds the distinction of being the first President of the United States to bow to a mayor.)
Obama bowed before the King of Saudi Arabia, “The Protector of Mecca and Medina.” His bow to the King was a profound bow from the waist.
The explanation for this is that either Obama is clueless as to proper protocol or that his reverence for Mecca and Medina overcame his sense of the dignity of the Presidency. Of course he could have just tripped.
This guy is so far in over his head he should be wearing scuba gear.
sergeantmajorbill: Perhaps he is concerned about getting a reception like VPOTUS Nixon on a visit to Caracas, Venezuela when his motorcade was stoned by anti-American protestors?
If he would STAY gone I would contribute to silver fund-a prayer rug too.
FirstSkirt: Problem is, the Aussies get a say and I can well imagine their reaction — “Not no, but ‘H@ll NO!’”
Don’t count on it. I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again – there is no way they’ll vote against this bill. With amnesty…uh…I mean immigration reform coming up, there is no way they’ll go against Obama/Pelosi/Reid. They may talk tough now, but they’ll fold in the end.
Here’s something else that Hope-a-Dope’s “Don’t worry, you have me” attitude reminds me of — a scene from the movie “Aliens:”
GORMAN (voice over): “…We’re coming in.”
HUDSON (cupping his mike): “He’s coming in. I feel safer already.”
VASQUEZ (sotto voice): “P****o jerkoff.”
Hope-a-Dope’s coming in! Don’t we all feel safer already…?
Is he ^%^$&^% kidding me???? A United States Congressman is “concerned” that this this bill isn’t going to spend tax dollars covering people who are here illegally.
Maybe we should just give ever law-breaking illegal alien that crawls in here a free house, tax free job and a Amex card.
Or maybe these idiots should consider that if Americans want to help people, they will do it of their own free will and not at the threat of imprisonment for refuse to give the gov’t money for this purpose.
It has been oft-said that you don’t want to see sausage or legislation being made, but sausage is at least tasty if properly wood-smoked. This legislation will make us all sick!
time for some humor…
It’s like dealing with Rainman.
“Mr. President, the deficit is unsustainable.”
“Five minutes to DemCare.”
“Sir, real unemployment is over 16%. People are getting desperate.”
“Five minutes to DemCare!”
“President Obama, they are throwing molotov cocktails in Athens. Iran is openly enriching uranium to weapons grade. Detroit looks like Dresden, after the bombing.”
(starts beating himself) “AaaaAAAAH!!! AaaaaaHHHHH! FIVE MINUTES TO DEMCARE! FIVE MINUTES TO DEMCARE!”
I agree RedDog. The idea that Americans should pay anything for criminal aliens is a strange concept, and support, sustenance, encouragement, etc. for illegal invaders should be a treasonous crime…how the hell could it possibly be incorporated into our laws? Any congress person, senator, judge, president, etc. who suggests such a thing should be fired, at least, and perhaps clapped in irons.
But, wouldn’t it be sweet justice if the the treasonous beliefs of some proamnesty congress critters helped to scuttled Obamacare?
Hugh Ambrose the author of the book, The Pacific “Hell Was An Ocean Away” was on Imus This Morning. Seems the Author of the book, that the series that Tom Hanks has been humping doesn’t agree with Mr Hanks, comment, the reason we wanted to annihilate the Japanese is because they were different. You can watch Hugh Ambrose Video HERE..
If you haven’t read George Friedman’s “The Next 100 Years”, you should.
Errah; truth be known that he will really be in town on March 21st to watch ole Auntie march in the ammnesty parade.
“Dammit Barak, if you can’t get this $h!t fixed, then I’m stayin’ home!”
I’m sending the keyboard and monitor screen cleaning bill to you.
and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
On March 12th, 2010 at 10:35 am, letget said:
I believe that was a trade-off to gain the support of the Democratic Socialist Progressives who were angry about having to give up on the “Public Option”. They gave up their preferred route to single-payer, but Pelosi assured them that the “exchanges” will accomplish the same objective (she said so herself in the press conference), and in exchange for giving up the Public Option, they get to take over another part of the economy: Student Loans.
On March 12th, 2010 at 12:48 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
Exactly. 150 years of failed “utopias” in other countries, and “Progressives” are still trying to force more Marxism upon us.
That is why we can never sleep, either. Our freedom requires eternal vigilence.
Remember:
OUR government is more concerned with the concerns of citizens of OTHER countries who are in OUR country ILLEGALLY than they are with the concerns of the CITIZENS of the U.S.
We have gone down the rabbit hole…..
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy/s