Reverse Midas Touch: House Democrat won’t attend Obamacare Road Show in Ohio; Update: Protesters line streets, video added
Photoshop: Mr Right
Cue The Police: Don’t stand so, don’t stand so, don’t stand so close to me…
Representative John Boccieri, Democrat of Ohio, whose vote on major health care legislation could be crucial to the outcome, will not be attending President Obama’s health care rally on Monday in Strongsville, Ohio, not far from Mr. Boccieri’s own district, a spokeswoman said.
Mr. Boccieri is focusing instead on a major infrastructure announcement this morning at Akron-Canton Airport, where the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, Randy Babbitt, delivered a $16.6 million check for a runway extension and improvement project.
Mr. Boccieri has said the runway project would create up to 60 jobs and lift the local economy. The runway work is part of a 10-year, $110 million capital improvement plan at the airport that began in 2008.
In recent days, Mr. Boccieri has indicated that he is undecided on the current version of the health care legislation. In November, he was one of 39 Democrats who voted against the House bill.
Via the NYT.
The time for talk is over. The time to kill the bill, stop the constitution-butchering slaughter house, and start over is now.
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Protesters are lining the streets in Strongsville — making their voices heard:
Opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care proposals turned out early to protest outside a suburban Cleveland recreation center he plans to visit.
Protesters stretched for several blocks leading to the president’s this afternoon speaking location in Strongsville.
They waved to passing vehicles and held signs including “Don’t stick me with your Obamacare” and “Kill the bill.”
Here’s video:
Apparently, someone fainted again at Obama’s rally (flashback here and here). The pricetag and corrupted process behind this monstrosity should make anyone feel ill.
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Feel the ghost of Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinksy:
She was a fresh force in politics, a former TV journalist who won election to Congress in 1992 from a district outside Philadelphia that Republicans had held since 1916. Promising to oppose new tax hikes and fight to hold down federal spending, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky came to Congress on the back of President Clinton’s coattails.
Then she became the margin of victory for Clinton’s 1993 budget, which actually eliminated the deficit for the first time in decades by raising federal taxes on the middle class. She knew she was committing political suicide but felt it was the right thing to do. As she cast her vote, Republicans salivated at the opportunity to defeat her — filling the chamber with shouts of, “Goodbye Marjorie.” She was defeated in the next election.
Now, as Democrats try to corral the needed votes to push President Obama’s healthcare reform package across the finish line, conservatives have made no secret that they plan to use the same playbook to defeat moderates in usually Republican districts who vote for the bill. Already, Americans for Responsible Health Care — a 527 campaign group funded by a single wealthy individual, the same one that backed Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in his upset victory in January — is running radio ads in seven states — Arizona, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia — warning members of Congress who already voted for the bill once not to do it again.
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Tax hikes didn’t balance the budget during Clinton. That was done with an accounting trick counting Social Security taxes, which supposedly go into a trust fund for the future, as revenue.
Wouldn’t have been possible without gutting the military budget, of course.
Decimate isn’t the right word for what Clinton did. That implies 1 10% reduction. He gutted the Army and the Navy.
Just wanted to clear up that Clinton “balanced budget” talk before any actually believed it.
I do not want to be seen with this bho either! I thought this bho was not going to be on the tube with this bill again, but this bho just has to have his face on the tube daily.
L
Ohio does not want to appear with Blue Lips, Indonesia is dissing the dude, Nicolas Sarkozy (France) is upset with him.
Not a bad day is it?
Ed Mahmoud
Thank you for putting it in the record how things were jerryrigged during the Clinton years before the trolls come out to play.
Another day another speech, or two or…
I’m starting to feel like Alice down the hole listening to the subliminal voices. Scary. But, then, if Odrama Queen (stole that from a commenter over at AT) shut his piehole he’d get into more mischief.
USA, UK MOVE CLOSER TO LOSING AAA
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The best way to get out of debt is to borrow more money–my loan shark said so.
I read this this weekend, unknown who wrote it but it nails this situation we are in right on the head.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
This puts the Libtards and all their ilk in the proper perspective.
I wouldn’t use the term “Blue Lips”.
It could be construed as a racial reference.
Jug ears, that is totally acceptable.
These Congress critters and Senators have alot invested in their offices as well as the people that put them there.Plenty of effort and money goes into each slot and people expect to be payed back.The American people can’t make it any clearer how they feel about this issue.If they want to lose all they have invested for this liberal utopian idea then vote for it and suffer the backlash.They can then join the ranks of us ordinary citizens and help pay for it.
Didn’t Biden say you have to spend more to get out of debt and its your patriotic duty to pay more taxes?
Liberal think at it’s best.
Speaking of Biden. His recent diplomatic trip to Israel was a travesty. The Obama administration is now trying to turn their hypocrisy into a way of pressuring Israel to stop building in Jerusalem after they said 4 months ago they weren’t against it. Read article here!
Was the FAA check a bribe for Boccieri’s vote?
stillontheroad
Your #7 drives the nail home. Wish you could find the link. The country is guilty as charged, all we have left to look forward to is the sentencing.
Undecided on the health care crap sandwich means voting “Yes”.
I wish the above were true. If Obamacare passes, there won’t be any “undoing” of that social giveaway. It’s grip and control on the citizens will become another 3rd rail that politicians won’t be able to touch for generations if past socialist programs are any indication.
stillontheroad
I found reference to your #7 that shows one website carried those words at addictomatic.com…they don’t seem to have a search feature so not sure which article it’s in?
Obama should have offered Boccieri a ride on Air Force One like Kucinich and Fudge so they could all join The Mile Bribe Club together.
Here is the link to the full story folks:
http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2010/03/12/commentary/op-eds/doc4b9a639f16d15825639445.txt
Great video thanks MM…posted it on a few other sites discussing health care. The tide is turning and people are getting out in front of him….more of these are needed at every single congressional office in the country!!
Democrats standing, staring at the edge of the desert, trying to convince themselves forty years isn’t that long.
They should ask themselves how well they’ll tolerate the blistering heat and the blowing sand after cutting their own noses off to site their face.
They can take solace though, the Democrats they leave behind including their President, will sincerely send their hearts with them, into the wilderness.
BHO says the time for talk is over. How right he is. Wish he’s sit down and shut up, finally.
When her husband, Ed, was defeated in 1976 and they did not return to Iowa, I partied for two days. He was a real loser.
And don’t forget the Clinton surplus, which disappeared before Bush could make it from the swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol to the White House.
Fainted, probably overcome with the BHO stench.
As long as we continue to be an entitlement society, where the desire of the people is to be taken care of, we will not be able to undo any of the damage of
O-bow-mao’s regime.
If you want to get even more depressed, try visiting the Gasbuddy website and read the comments sections. It’s enough to drive you to tears.
Just read in the Corner National Review that Obama could only muster 200 folks to listen to his sermon today:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Slacker, aka community organizer.
iamsaved,
Oh, I think you are wrong. I think we will see a “going Galt” moment. Those who are designated as the providers will boycott the “zero liability citizens (recipients without contributing). A lot of states (red ones of course) will vote to nullify and this will become a failed experiment. And that will be the defining moment in Obama’s term.
Buh-bye.
Ed Mezvinsky was more than a loser – he was a crook dubbed “Fast Talkin Eddie.”
Which I’m sure he immediately seized on by saying “This is why we need health care reform”, as he took the water bottle out from his coat pocket.
Anyone else notice how fast the motorcade was moving along?
If those people on the side of the road had been pro Obamacare, do you suppose they would have gone a little slower?
I think so.
On March 15th, 2010 at 5:00 pm, SpeakEasy said:
It’s already started…
Bill Passes in Virginia Exempting Residents from Mandated Health Care
listened to michael medved today on the radio & he mentioned that he believes the fainters are simply plants. people always fainting in the front rows, he always able to pick them out in crowds of thousands, etc.
now, when the going gets tough again out come the fainters.
LOL. This is true.
It honestly amazes me the polls are not higher in showing disapproval of Crock of OBrock health care along with every other giverment program he’s given us. Are there that many zombies out there? I would think maybe 60-65% would be disapproving, must be my wishful thinking.
If this boondoggle passes, conservatives take back control of congress with real conservatives, they have approx. 4 years to get this over turned. While they are doing that don’t stop, start picking apart every other government give away program. Don’t say it can’t be done or it’s hard, JUST DO IT!
Also, we need to follow Virginia’s example and go 10th Amendment on this thing. Hopefully, the movement will spread to other areas of federal overreach. A good showdown is long overdue.
I don’t buy the polls, the majority of the people I know hate this, even some libs. The people who seem to like it that I know or see on the people who live off welfare by choice.
My grandmother HATED getting gov’t assistance, but at her age/condition needed it and had no way to work. Even then it was for the necessities, such has heat. She turned away many offers, and the one she did accept were as local/non-gov’t as possible, such as town assistance vs. federal.
A new billion dollar embassy in london, 5.4 million dollar glasses for embassies made in sweden, and a sec state who hasn’t stopped traveling since the inaugeration. Seems Hillbilly likes that jetsetting spendaholic life almost as much as our spender of other people’s money in chief.
Rush explained the fainting, someone who was protesting hc was being kicked/escorted out, o adlibbed the fainting line..