With Obama pushing hard for passage of a Health Care Bill many Democrats in Congress are beginning to weigh their chances of getting re-elected if they go along with his strong arming.
With little to show for his first year in office and the distinct possibility that he will be a one-term President, several are wondering why they should flush their political careers down the toilet on a bill that the American public has clearly said that they do NOT want. It's been quite obvious to Democrats how the voters feel based on several recent elections, most notably in Massachusetts.
Now the President is painting new lipstick on a pig (reconciliation) and asking for an up or down vote, staying away from calling it what it is, "Reconciliation". Even after his much publicized meeting with several members of both Republicans and Democrats to iron out differences, he is forging ahead with plans to invoke reconciliation for an up or down vote on a Reid/Pelosi Health Care Bill.
What a lying sack of shit he turned out to be! He had this plan in his back pocket the whole time he was 'playing' the Republicans to come to his summit. Pelosi all but let the cat out of the bag when she kept saying that she would deliver a vote to the President with or without bipartisan participation. We already know what a piece of work she has turned out to be. She isn't too worried about her chances of re-election since she usually runs strong in her district. But, even if she should stumble and fall (have you ever noticed her chicken walk), it's quite obvious that Obama would make her an Ambassador to some nice sunny place. We can only hope that these three individuals have a short career ahead of them.
One year ago today, President Barack Obama signed the massive $862-billion "stimulus" bill. (You probably remember the number $787-billion, but the official cost estimate has already increased by $75 billion.)
3.3 million jobs have been lost since this day one year ago.
At the time President Obama signed the bill the unemployment rate was at 7.6%
Obama promised it would not go over 8%
Today, the unemployment rate is hovering near 10%.
Now, top Democrat leaders are admitting it did not (and will not) work. And they're calling for yet another round of waste and special-interest handouts - this time they're calling it a "jobs bill," but it's really just more of the same failed stimulus policies. One draft of the new "jobs bill" even included a bailout for chicken farmers in El Dorado, Arkansas at the request of Senator Blanche Lincoln, who apparently can't tell poultry from pork!
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) recently said the problem is that the bill wasn't "as targeted as it should've been" and "we need to go back to this and do this again. We need to do more of that."
Do this again, Senator Dodd?! Your colleague sure doesn't think so (and, like you, he is retiring rather than face voters)...
Yesterday morning on CBS, Senator Evan Bayh said this:
"[I]f I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months."
Once again, it's up to you and me to stand up and stop more of this "stimulus-type" legislation.
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Aside from having to sit agonizingly through his White House press conferences while suffering through his speech impediments that consist of "Ahhhh............Ahhhhhh........ Ahhhhhh...........Ahhhhh" he was totally foolish in thinking that anyone would believe his comment on the Christmas bomber. During an interview on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Robert Gibbs stated that the Christmas day bomber was interviewed for 15 minutes before being read his Miranda Rights and that they got all the available information they thought they would get from him.
Give me a break! Here's a terrorist that just fried his balls with an underwear fire bomb and was more than likely asking for medical treatment. Gibbs wants you to believe that in fifteen minutes they obtained all that they felt they would get? This is just another example of how the Obama administration has weakened our defense.
We've also heard from Senator Chris Dodd. Remember him? He's the guy who remarked back on Dec 23rd "We Will Always Remember This Day!" after 60 Democrats approved the Senate version of the health care bill? Well, he may be thinking about his chances of winning in his upcoming re-election since he is now telling fellow Democrats to "take a breather for awhile". Isn't it amazing what can happen when 40 becomes 41, as in Scott Brown's win in Massachussetts.
So now we move from health care to the economy (apparently surgically-altered Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't get the memo) as the State of the Union address approaches. After one year in office the Obama administration is FINALLY going to focus on job creation. Their stimulus efforts were a failure, to the point that even the reporting had to be altered to fudge the job creation numbers. Obama will be talking about deficit reduction that in his words "didn't happen overnight". That's true, much of it happened over the last year with him at the wheel, bailing out Wall Street, bouying up the auto industry, sending more jobs overseas with his Cap & Trade just to name a few.
It's a laugh when he talks about getting back to
"restoring trust and changing Washington".
It seems that our quarterback, President Obama, can't seem to get the ball in the end zone and we should start considering replacing him with a new one. Consider his failures in campaigning for both New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial candidates who both lost to Republicans, his trouncing on getting the Olympics in the U.S. and most recently, his failure to shore up Coakley's Senate run in Massachusetts.
Yet, in his mind it is still all Bush's fault. He continues to make remarks indicating that he just doesn't get it. When he turned his health care reform over to Reid and Pelosi, all he wanted from them was a bill on his desk no later than his State of the Union address. The two of them, at all costs to their fellow Democrat's re-election bids, strong-armed members to "git 'er done!". I'm sure that the two will be greatly rewarded down the road with some high paying ambassadorship for their now failed efforts. Reid's in big trouble in his home State and should be thinking about buying a used pickup truck to get his belongings back home but Pelosi still seems to be in control of her Democratic San Francisco area voters, however, she may need to tighten up those lines again before another run for her House seat.
How quick the landscape in Washington will change come November as Americans go to the polls and continue to say NO to all the backroom deals and pork that got added to the over 2,000 page health care bill. It will be interesting to see how many copies of the side deals can be shredded before the Republicans get a chance to see the 'secret' bill. I'm sure staff will be told to work overtime and additional shredders will be brought in to accomplish the destruction before Scott Brown is sworn in. Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the garbage dumpster to see how many times it gets filled and emptied with bag after bag of shreddings?
Obama, Harry Reid, and Speaker Pelosi believed that voters had given them a license to do whatever they wished. Now, it looks as though Obama and Reid got the message from Massachusetts voters but poor Nancy Pelosi continues to promise health care 'reform' no matter what. The difference in her continual denial is that she no longer puts a time line on it nor does she say it will be a 'one-piece' bill. It must be extremely hard for her to accept the fact that she will NOW have to reach across the aisle and include the Republicans who her and Reid kept outside of the locked doors. The arrogance that the Democrats have displayed since gaining the 60 Senate seats has come around to bite them in the ass and through the voters of Massachusetts the American public was finally able to send them a wake-up call.
Several, such as New York Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner is advising his colleagues to 'take a step back' from health care reform and concentrate on creating jobs. Others, up for election, are saying "Jump ship............Obama can't help you!" Even Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana is now saying things like "There's' going to be a tendency on the part of the people (Democrats) to be in denial about all this.........if you lose Massachusetts and that's not a wake-up call, there's no hope of waking up".
Voters in Massachusetts have jerked the chain of Washington politicians and reminded them who is in charge as in "We The People"
....in his pickup truck as Americans across the nation THANK Massachusetts for their vote Tuesday.
And what an impact his election has made in less than 24 hours. Already the President has said that the people have spoken and there will be no rush to pass health care (although he still blamed the loss on voters discontent over the last eight years, thus blaming it all on Bush).
Harry Reid has backed off on ramrodding the health care bill through the Senate. Speaker Nancy Pelosi just announced that she no longer has the votes in the House to pass the Senate's version of the bill. Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia said that the Senate should not hold any further votes on health care UNTIL brown is seated. Democratic Representative Earl Pomeroy said "Full speed ahead is off the table" and "We are still very much in the exercise of drawing meaning from the public disquiet".
Obama urged lawmakers not to try to jam a bill through but instead to scale any proposals down to those elements of the package that the people agree on.
What a difference coming out of the White House who had been acting in a dictatorial fashion, failing to head the wishes of the people.
Again, THANK YOU Massachusetts for sending Scott Brown to Washington in his "Made in America' pickup truck with over 201,000 miles on it. This was definitely The 'Scott' Heard Round the Worldas the Speaker of The House was spayed and the Senate Majority Leader was neutered!
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