Free Donald Berwick!
Come on, Democrats. What are you so afraid of? Earlier this month, President Obama circumvented the Senate and recess-appointed health care rationing champion Don Berwick to head the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Democrats on Capitol Hill refuse to bring Berwick out for public hearings. Which closet at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have they locked Berwick in?
It’s time to start a campaign: FREE DONALD BERWICK!
More hide-and-seek games from the most transparent Democrat reign ever. Steven Ertelt at Life News and Connie Hair at Human Events:
Like their counterparts in the Senate, House Democrats are refusing to hold a hearing on the recess appointment of rationing advocate Donald Berwick, whom President Barack Obama named to become the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Obama appointed Berwick without a hearing or vote in the Senate and, even though he complained about that, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus will not put together a hearing.
Now, Connie Hair of the conservative newspaper Human Events reports House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin won’t hold one either.
Both top Democrats are denying public hearings on Berwick even though he will be charged with helping lead the implementation of the new national health care plan Obama signed into law that concerns pro-life groups on abortion and rationing issues.
Rep. Dave Camp, a pro-life Michigan lawmaker who is the leading Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, responded to Levin’s refusal to hold a hearing.
“Apparently, House Democrats are really taking Speaker Pelosi’s ‘we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it’ style of governing to heart. Now, we have to hand the reins at CMS over to Dr. Berwick first so we can later find out what direction he will take Medicare and Medicaid,” he said, according to HE.
“At a time when Democrats have implemented the most radical changes ever to the nation’s health care system, they are refusing to conduct the proper and necessary oversight required by the Committee,” Camp said.
Commenter Rogue Cheddar: “They’re just rationing his public appear[a]nces, you know, to make the heart grow fonder.”
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Free Donald Berwick: A Disclose Act we can believe in!
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They’re just rationing his public appearences, you know, to make the heart grow fonder.
Gee imagine. The Democrats don’t want anyone to have to answer any questions.
Anyone with stones should convene a HEARING in whatever venue…even if its a Senate cafeteria…and MAKE SURE CAMERAS ARE THERE.
I know they can count on Breitbart and PJTV…!!!!
This bho would have never sent this to the senate if he had a doubt the d’s would not hold a hearing! He wants this lower than slug slime berwick and he knows the will get him with the help of the d’s.
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letget,
S/b he knows ‘he’ will get
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The one labeled “Illinois Late Term Abortions”?
That’s no way to treat the “No child left alive!” czar!
Michele Bachmann should make an announcement, “Anyone thinking about a job in the federal government better think twice. We will de-fund ObmamaCare among thousands of other programs. Your potential lazy-lib job will cease to exist.”
Damn if I don’t love that woman.
And there will be no unemployment for ya.
I think that kind of announcement needs to be made after November. Including any radical leftist legislation that the lame duck congress tries to shove our behinds will either be repealed or defunded.
Making that kind of announcement now would probably backfire on her and we conservatives.
But Boooosh did it.
*FREE DONALD BERWICK
*while supplies last
As we are the great, ignorant, unwashed in need of re-education, perhaps Mr. Berwick could come to a public venue and redistribute his vast knowledge of healthcare to us.
I can think of several questions I’d love to ask him.
Rats, I finally get quoted by Michelle and she has to spell check me! (channelling Chris Farley) I’m such an idiot! (slap!)
But there ARE no free goods.
Free BADS, yes…!!!!!
Yeah, that really cheeses me of when that happens.
I love irony.
Irony is so ironic.
Only a RINO would correct Phil’s spelling.
Thanks for posting this Michelle. Everything Obeyme does has to be done in the midnight hour/behind closed doors/in the dark. Sunshine does make the best disinfectant. Berwick is just another sleaze in a long line of them in this administration. Why aren’t the Repubs screaming about this?
I noted Phil’s error…
but I wasn’t gonna touch that…
Ad hoc hearings should be conducted by honest journalists everytime this Communist shows his face in public. Pester him until real hearings are held by real legislators in a real government forum.
In the USSA, the President, who thinks he’s party chairman, figures he can appoint anyone to anything, just like the communists. Unfortunately, many in congress figure that’s fine, in their new socialist utopia.
At least you get quoted.
*In regards to Berwick, as with many other issues, I just wish the GOP would do a more continuous, sustained job of EXPOSING these rascals for what they are and what they are trying to do; They are missing the most golden of opportunities while Michelle, Beck, Breitbart, etc. do all the heavy lifting.
*In regards to Phil’s error, such a thing would never happen in Texas or Tennessee; Look out, incoming!
The post of the week. LOVED IT!
This guy has to be bad of the Democrats won’t even have a kangaroo court for him.
All the transparency of a black hole (no, that isn’t racist!).