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2009-08-12 Home Front: Politix
Failing to reform health care 'truly scary,' Obama says
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Posted by gorb 2009-08-12 00:50|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 The radio said this morning there'd be town hall meetings for two local Reps August 25, and that some of them "had received calls from outside their districts, wanting to know where the meetings were going to be held."

Aha! The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy returns! But they were too busy with the 'news' that Karl Rove really was deeply involved in the Attorney Firings (four years ago?) to tell me where this alleged Town Hall Meeting which I might choose to go to was actually located.
Posted by Bobby 2009-08-12 06:06||   2009-08-12 06:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Supportive? In NH?! What, did they hand pick the attendees or something?

Yes, all of the tickets were given to Democrat bigwigs who then distributed the tickets to the loyal followers of King 0bama I.
Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-12 08:15|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]  2009-08-12 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The guy I work for, a lifelong Democrat, almost went over the edge yesterday. He spent over a half hour on the phone with the IRS to get a copy of a tax notice sent to a client. For 'technical reasons', the IRS wank could not directly confirm that the notice was resent to him or the client.

Finally, he gets off the phone and says "I can't even get a god-damned letter from the IRS, and we're supposed to expect them to run the entire US health care system? This is insane."

One at a time...
Posted by Raj 2009-08-12 08:40||   2009-08-12 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Because the NHS is so good!

/sarcasm.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-08-12 08:52||   2009-08-12 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 "had received calls from outside their districts, wanting to know where the meetings were going to be held."

Any different than Donk imports leading up to and on election day? How many crossed the Mass-NH border to vote in November?
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-12 09:09||   2009-08-12 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Mr Obama, the only major reform required is Tort Reform. All else can be done at leisure.
Posted by 3dc 2009-08-12 09:34||   2009-08-12 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 "We must save the world with communism. God will not forgive us if we fail." -- Leonid Brezhnev
Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-12 09:46||   2009-08-12 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Nice one, Moose.
Posted by ed 2009-08-12 09:55||   2009-08-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 The argument for extortion funded treatment rationing seems to be this...

People cannot afford their own treatment, therefore everyone will pay for everyone else's treatment.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-08-12 11:31||   2009-08-12 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine," Obama said…"It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

OK, the President is promoting the creation of another mammoth government entitlement program. We’re told that by keeping private business “honest” we can lower cost. Don’t worry, we’re assured, the government-funded plan won’t result in the ultimate demise of private business. But how can private companies compete against an entity with such an obvious advantage? Look at the Post Office, the President says, government struggles to do anything efficient.
"Wild misrepresentations" – Indeed!
Posted by DepotGuy 2009-08-12 12:17||   2009-08-12 12:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Everyone has missed the bit where he said that the public/government program will not compete with the private sector because the p/g program will not use tax dollars to fund it. Happened right after his bit about the sweetie he was talking to (yeah right), the "Keep your hands off my medicare" ha ha true story.

Let's be clear - this was a town hall set. Decorations, the 'faces in the crowd' effect at every camera angle. Hand picked, you betchya. But not an audience - props.

Its Billy Zane with a million dollars to spend on the set.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-08-12 12:44||   2009-08-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Claire McCaskill started her town hall with prayer? Oh dear, what will the Noo Yawk Times say?
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-08-12 16:26||   2009-08-12 16:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Probably praying to get out of there ALIVE!
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-12 16:51||   2009-08-12 16:51|| Front Page Top

#14 the government-run Medicare program for senior citizens would run out of money within a decade. About which, Obama has done & intends to do nothing. Instead he is attempting to create an even larger government-run program to run out of even more money.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-12 16:54||   2009-08-12 16:54|| Front Page Top

#15 This is what's 'truly scary': the national & world economy has been collapsing for 2 years now. 3 questions need to be considered by our leadership:
1) What (if anything) was learned about root causes of the crisis?
2) What (if anything) was fixed in the way our economy is managed?
3) What (if anything) will be done to make sure we don’t soon see a repeat of this situation in a slightly different form?
They have given these scant consideration. Instead they are going off on this wild tangent. Further stages of the financial crisis may render the whole 'health reform' plan moot.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-12 17:03||   2009-08-12 17:03|| Front Page Top

#16 30 or 40 new gummit agencies and 650,000 new ACORN affirmative action Chicago style patronage employees created to handle Barry's program will take care of everything. Just give it TIME!
Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-12 17:07||   2009-08-12 17:07|| Front Page Top

#17 Bobby, they are planing to nationalize your body. It does not matter what district they are from. Second point, did they accept money from outside their district to pay for their election?
Third question, What do they care if they do not require Photo ID's to vote?

Put these forward, and for some specification, a local here, John David Lewis picked through the plan. It may be interesting if you could take it to these tyrants from DC:

http://www.classicalideals.com/HR3200.htm

Do not let them get away with it, at all.
Fake compassion is good for true tyrannies.
Posted by newc">newc  2009-08-12 18:16||   2009-08-12 18:16|| Front Page Top

#18 From the same government that wants to take over the country's health care, I bring you this:
The Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals I must admit the program caught 'dozens' of criminals. By now many of those illegally denied benefits have died.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-12 18:34||   2009-08-12 18:34|| Front Page Top

#19 The "Post Office" reference referes to the largest employer in the United States- the Unites States Postal Service, who employes
700,000 plus Americans, and for better or worse, is the "best practice" envy of of the world on a cost per delivered piece basis.
It would be nice if POTUS could at least get the name straight...since it subsidizes all that political mail at least.
Another "thrown under the bus" victim.
Posted by Capsu78 2009-08-12 23:12||   2009-08-12 23:12|| Front Page Top

#20 I've made a rule, I stop reading at "Obama Says".
Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-12 23:54||   2009-08-12 23:54|| Front Page Top

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