Calling Obama Out on Health Care Reform
At his nationally televised address to Congress on Sept. 9, President Obama talked long and hard in an effort to sell his grandiose health care scheme. Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the room representing the town hall protests across the country sat quietly, waiting to be acknowledged. Unfortunately, for the majority of the country having serious concerns over health care “reform” no acknowledgment was forthcoming.
The speech was delivered as though the month of August never happened. Obama’s preaching missed the context upon which millions stand. Not one respectful word was uttered to the dissenting majority. There was no apology for trying to rush through over 1,000 pages of unread, bureaucracy-creating legislation before the August break.
There was no apology on Sept. 9 because Obama made it clear that he tolerates no honest disagreement:
Put simply, our health care problem is our deficit problem. Nothing else even comes close. These are the facts. Nobody disputes them. We know we must reform this system.
Nobody disputes his facts? Is he for real? The likes of such arrogance normally is only witnessed in totalitarian regimes from which people are not allowed to dispute the facts. For heaven’s sake, the Congressional Budget Office disputes the facts. The CBO’s research effectively reveals that Obama’s numbers don’t add up.
Call the American people stupid, but most people don’t believe deficit problems are helped by borrowing and spending more money on government entitlement programs.
Yet in the age of Obama dissent is not tolerated. It is not possible for opponents to have legitimate positions after reading the proposed bill. No, all opponents must be demonized and their claims framed as bogus:
Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Such a charge would be laughable if it weren’t so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.
A lie? That is a pretty strong word. Mr. Obama has long been a master of diffusing the real issue by pointing to the obvious with which no one can disagree. Of course none of the drafts read as follows: “Under this provision the heretofore mentioned commissioner is hereby authorized to set up death panels. Said panels are granted the power to kill off senior citizens in the interest of solving the deficit problem.”
Once again we must revert to common sense and observe that health care rationing has been inevitable in all “progressive” countries in which government has overextended itself in the health care industry. No, Mr. Obama, your dissenters don’t believe the government intends to kill off seniors; it’s just that unintended consequences flow naturally from the pens of well-intended yet sophomoric politicians who haven’t a clue as to what they are doing in the real world. By the way, how’s that stimulus bill working out?
The president’s tone in the congressional address was dictatorial and condescending. Frankly, the following threat is a little scary:
But know this: I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it. I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out. And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.
Off topic,how will the inevitable financial audit of ACORN play out?What if OWEbama is dirty?Will the old media not cover it(again)?I demand FULL DISCLOSURE…
Sorry PJM… its hard for us rightwing terrorist mob types to confine our racist comments to guidelines!
The liveleak link was removed by the uploader.
Here’s a youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fax2lFzkRTQ
Not only will ‘We the people’ not be heard (or even barely acknowledged) by 0bama & Co.-(CONspirators) but it looks like ‘they’ plan to ram it through no matter what.
How blatantly corrupt IS this administration?!
Will Pelosi hinder the process to de-fund ACORN? After all, I don’t doubt 0bama still intends on building that Civilian Security/Truth Squad as ‘well funded’ as our own Military.
Sickening.
“Nobody disputes his facts? Is he for real?”
Barack Obama has a few screws loose—and I say that in all seriousness. Our current White House occupant is coming unglued. What else, for instance, explains his decision to be a guest on countless TV programs this weekend? Does this behavior seem like the behavior of a sane man? Obama is rapidly becoming a marginalized figure in American politics. Red and purple state politicians of both major parties are abandoning him. In their heart of hearts, if not even consciously, none of them believe that Obama has his act together.
The president appears to be a dangerous narcissist. His ego will not be able to handle this lessening of widespread adoration that he has long taken for granted. We will soon be discussing how best to transfer Obama’s responsibilities over to Joe Biden. The odds are roughly 50/50 that this will occur before the end of the year.
It is no longer possible to avert our eyes from the truth. Barack Hussein Obama isn’t an honest, well intentioned but deluded man; he’s a bad man, an aspiring tyrant who’s intent on doing bad things to the United States. The sooner conservatives can bring themselves to say so publicly, the sooner we can neutralize him.
“Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the room representing the town hall protests across the country sat quietly, waiting to be acknowledged.”
Why should the President acknowledge an 800-pound gorilla that is made of medical insurance companies, greedy lawyers and pharmaceutical lobbies that do not want the welfare of the American people?
Take a look at one cog in the wheel:
http://www.freedomworks.org/about/about-freedomworks
This President has the most unusual approach we’ve seen in quite a while. Many concluded some time ago that he was overexposed so he went away on vacation and decided to do more of the same?
What an interesting time for him…his “defenders” are turning him into the one thing he never wanted to be, the black President. He is talking more, listening less, and is the darling of the media that people are paying less attention to than ever before.
Several thoughts come to mind but the one that seems to fit best is “familiarity breeds contempt”. The President needs a stronger team around him, he is making too many rookie mistakes.
Why should Obama pay any attention to those opposing his healthcare reform plans? He knows two things are certain.
He knows that he has the unwavering support of those that got him elected in the first place; outcome based educated drones with the intelligence level of an animal cracker, the social habits of a zoo cage full of pooh-slinging monkeys, 3 foot tattoos and rings hanging off every body part or orifice of their unsanitary skin that it’s possible to drill a hole through.
He knows that the Republicans will continue cannibalizing each other long after there is any chance for them to do a damn thing together to stop him.
“You’re a liar!”
Whose the idiot that said that?
Ugh.. that was your husband Joe; Ms. Wilson.
Let the crucifixion begin.
Poor Joe is dead.
Long live the king; Obama!
“No, all opponents must be demonized and their claims framed as bogus”
You must be joking. Compared with the hatchet-job the last guy did on anyone who questioned his basis for war, the current whitehouse is walking on eggshells. The people hurling the serious abuse in this debate are on the other side. Obama accuses his opponents of wanting to kill an important reform – which happens to be true. They accuse him of being a communist, wanting to kill old ladies, wanting to destroy america and indoctrinate children – which is basically nuts.
But I want to get another discussion going again here. I thought this was going well:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/considering-obamacare-consider-the-nhs-horror-stories/
I reckon the australian case shows that public health care can work extremely well, and save a heck of a lot of money. If anyone has any more “well, what about…” questions, I’m happy to try to answer them with facts (and references, if I can find them) – because so far I think our system is stacking up pretty well, for something that actually exists and has been running and evolving for decades. I can’t speak for the NHS though – I’ve never lived in blighty, so don’t ask.
Months ago, Bill O’Reilly called it. He pointed out that Obama has never had to face criticism. It shows.
If Obama were truly interested in reform he’d show an interest in reforming the specific area in need of reform. Instead, Obama is obsessed with expanding the role of government in Health care. They are not the same thing.
There are only a very few specific areas in need of reform. There is no need or a top down complete restructuring of our excellent health care delivery system. The problem is with the middlemen sitting between the patient and the doctor. Government replacing these middlemen with its own bureaucracies solves nothing and only has the potential to make it worse.
The end result is that I have no trust in what Obama says on the matter – no matter how many times I’m called a racist for not falling into line.
vivo:
Why should the Conservatives acknowledge an 800-pound gorilla that is made of George Soros, Moveon.org, greedy lawyers and the Chicago Mafia that do not want the welfare of the American people?
The deficit is health care?…wow. Such nonsense. Ahem…I think the deficit was started a “few” years ago…by a couple of wars and the “tax incentives” to big business by another president. By the way, the health care reform act has not even passed yet. Just wanted to let you all know.
“Months ago, Bill O’Reilly called it. He pointed out that Obama has never had to face criticism. It shows.”
I think that’s a fairly shrewd story his opponents are selling – it ties nicely with the ‘all style, no substance’ line from the election. All I see is obama-haters, and they’re even more unhinged than the bush-haters were.
So how SHOULD obama deal with pundits spreading disinformation and scare-tactics on prime-time? What’s he supposed to do? Just sit quietly?
He should be attacking what they say. It’s wrong, it’s misleading, and it’s serving the interests of massive interests that know enough to keep themselves well out of the spotlight. Obama should just say so. That’s not “not dealing with criticism”, that’s just facing up to his opponents. He should ignore criticism of himself, that’s for sure – if he started whining about the nasty mean things people say about him, then that would indicate that he doesn’t deal with criticism. But I don’t seem him doing that. He has his problems with Fox, sure – but that goes way back, well before his presidential bid. They earned that dislike, just like dan rather earned his.
He could just ignore the propaganda, but then the other guys would have the pulpit to themselves, and they seem to be using it pretty darn effectively to try to kill a reform that could be extremely good for america.
I know one thing – the last few months have killed dead (for me) any notion of The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy controlling america. That’s a right joke. The media conspiracy is vast, alright – but it’s not left-wing. There IS a left-wing media, but it’s apparently small beer compared with the conservatives. That myth should be put to bed.
I agree with David Thomson and Fancis Porretto. Obama is pathological and his pathology renders him incapable of dealing with ‘others’ whom he feels unable to control and manipulate. That is, he can’t handle dissent
He’s a severely damaged narcissist; he doesn’t live in the real world of direct interaction with reality; he lives in a ‘rhetorical world’ which he controls. If he can’t control it, he feels threatened..and his first reaction will be to threaten the Others who are not submissive to His Will.
His handlers, the Democratic Party who chose him for his charismatic salesman powers have to deal with this narcissism – which is rapidly becoming unwieldy. Obama requires more and more and more ‘evidence’ of his Being Adored; so they are having to put him on daily TV, talk shows, speeches..all carefully programmed and scripted to keep him in a cocoon of adulation and immune to direct questions and criticism.
Handling Obama is becoming a Full-Time Job for the Democrats. They are trying, now, the ‘race card’ in an attempt to stem the criticism and enable Obama to feel righteous and a victim. Will it work?
David Thomson suggests Obama might have a nervous breakdown. This is possible..Obama has never, in his life, exposed himself to Others; he’s managed to live in his Fictional Cocoon, where he controls and manipulates ever contact aroun him. This is the first time he’s had to deal with criticism and rejection.
What does a pathological narcissist do in such a situation? He’ll first try to regain control over you (his speeches where he denigrates,insults you and tries to assert his Control Over You)..and then, he could move into an enraged state.
Can the Democratic Party prevent this rage? Possibly – they’ll need more Adulatory Scenarios to Feed Obama. ..and they’ll have to pass a Health Care Bill. In any form – or, Obama will feel a failure.
As to his resignation… I don’t see that happening. How would his ego deal with that?
My favorite part of Obama’s speech was how he plans on paying for “health care reform”.
Reduce waste and fraud in one government health care program to pay for another! …LOL
Only in Congress where they play with other peoples money can this make any kind of sense, surreal.
15. ETAB:
agreed …but nervious breakdown, the narcissist has an amazing capacity to delude themselves. ergo no need for a breakdown. a few more whopper lies and carry on.
“David Thomson suggests Obama might have a nervous breakdown.”
Nope, there is no “might” about it. I believe this is to be highly probable. The odds are that it will be quite obvious to the majority of Americans before the end of the year. As matter of fact, a lot of talk is likely to begin Monday morning—after Obama’s weird weekend TV guest appearances. This sort of behavior is downright goofy. One does not need to be a marketing expert to realize that the president is overexposing himself. It literally will make Obama look like a fool. He will be the butt of countless jokes.
“As to his resignation… I don’t see that happening. How would his ego deal with that?”
Barack Obama will resign due to “medical reasons.” This will not only be the truth—but it will also allow him to save face.
like the fable “the emoperor’s new clothes” Joe Wilson called out the truth that every one could see but could not challenge. Thank you Joe, I do agree that it may not have been in the “right taste” but need to be done.
I think it is worth reading….previously I thought obama was just a marxist but now I see that he is a retard …well mentally sick anyways.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
it goes a long way explaining the path of obama. lies are just a part of him. Victor how can you square the circle when dealing with a narcissist ?
A necessary article. Thanks for writing one. God Bless, Congressman Joe Wilson. If not for him the propaganda would go uncontested. If the Congress wants to have the opportunity for the President to speak without opposition, then there should be no cheering or other forms of approval either. To allow applause and cheering but prohibit dissent, is to give the impression that there is consensus and approval where it does not exist. If those are the rules then the Presidents speech to a Joint Session of Congress should never get any TV, Taping, or press coverage whatsoever.
As for Health Care, the people have given their opinion and remain in opposition to govt. option and Coops as they are intelligent enough to realize that it is a Trojan Horse to a complete govt. takeover and all of the American People’s concerns.
As for the epithet “Rascism” or “Rascist”, the liberals need to look at themselves. The complaints by the public are not specifically directed at the President, but is in fact directed at the government. The concerns are more with the Democratic majority’s unyielding, unreasonable, and in many respects uncomprehendable approach to their proposed Bills. The lack of Bipartisanship stems from an unwillingness of the Democrats to consider Republican changes to their Holy Grail.
The stakes could not be higher. The government takeover of Healthcare will fundamentally change the relationship of the federal governemtn with the people. The outcome would be a fait acomplis change of America from a prosperous free market based Democratic Republic to a socialist, and I believe ultimately bankrupt poverty stricken Socialist country.
Is this change we can believe in?
While President Obama continues to live in his imaginary world, he continues to scrape off the facade to reveal his true dictatorship-self in his condescending speech; he lectures, scolds, yet is clear Obama himself is coming more & more unglued as the weight of being a leader is a task he cannot perform. The Greek Titan, Atlas has a better chance holding the weight of the world on his shoulders than Obama being a leader. To Obama, the August town halls did not exist since he did not see or experience any of them; all of his town halls are staged like a strange Kabuki theatre of the absurd to give his ego something to claim. The fact remains Obama cannot deal with the real world. He will crack before the real world intrudes into his imaginary one. We are witnessing Obama’s meltdown now. He is already overexposed, yet he still wants to go on most of the Sunday talk shows to still talk about his ObamaCare which the people have outright rejected. Obama does not get it. He never will until it will be too late to save his face.
President Obama has confused being the POTUS with a tin-pot power mad dictator; they are not synonymous with each other. In America, WE THE PEOPLE have the power–not the politicians. We can easily take the power away from them. However, Obama & the Democrats are seeking to concentrate their power in DC & take it away from us. We are stopping them with our protests & town hall meetings. The sunlight will always out the corruption; the truth will out. Obama cannot handle the truth.
Matthew #14 –
No left-controlled media? How do you explain the silence of the media on Van Jones until the moment he resigned? (Hint: The New York Times claims it was “short-staffed,” even though they managed to post two reporters to Boston to pre-report the non-story of Joseph P. Kennedy II’s run for Ted Kennedy’s seat. He later said he wasn’t interested. Also, the picture of Joseph the Times ran was actually of his brother Max. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/van_jones_unfit_for_print_4fliXu4hcB1lqAqQmWV8NO
How do you explain their failure to cover the explosive discovery that slavery could be alive and well in America, thanks to a taxpayer-funded organization?
(As if I need to ask. Of course it’s because they’re reasonable and we’re racist.)
Obama does not have a few screws loose; he’s stark raving mad! If he just had a few screws loose, he would not be confusing himself with Jesus! A man who thinks he’s God’s partner in matters of life and death has no sanity whatsoever.
A loudmouth white redneck from South Carolina, (the first state to fire a shot in the Civil War, the state which in 1962 placed the Confederate battle flag on top of the South Carolina statehouse by vote of the all-white legislature and did not remove it until 2000, the state that produces GOP operatives like Mike Green who write “JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT’S WHITE AND IT WORKS” and Rusty DePass, who wrote about an escaped zoo gorilla:”I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”), calls the first black president a liar in the middle of his speech, and we’re not supposed to connect the dots?
The South generally, and SC specifically, is a puddle of filth.
And you people are shameless, shameless cretins.
Dale (#24), ad hominem attacks is a stale old story; this means you have nothing to say except you have contempt for people who have different opinions than your own. Why don’t you join a Communist collective & live by your own words? Cuba, North Korea, & China are all Communist nations. Go join them in their misery. Otherwise, you need a new script. I have read this one before & know the ending.
Also, if you want to say something, read the article & rebut it with your own examples to back up your opinions. But you can’t. So you go with the ad hominem attacks. Boring, man. Really, think of something original. I know this will be difficult given you will have to actually think for yourself, but you might as well try.
According to Hotair.com, Olympia Snowe has bailed out on the Senator Baucus plan; therefore, this will leave the Democrats in a lurch without a single Republican to support ObamaCare:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/16/snowe-bails-on-compromise-obamacare-bill/
Is ObamaCare dead? I hope so. ObamaCare continues to slide down in the polls as Obama makes more appearances. Obama needs to get a clue: Scrap it all & start over. This will mean ObamaCare might get somewhere in 2010 if not for those pesky mid-term elections in November of next year…
On second thought, ObamaCare is dead.
Well since all criticism is labelled as racist,go underground and record everything this administration does and says.Take notes.
Furthermore why is it that govt takeover of the financial system and companies is bad but govt run healthcare is good?Let the Left wrap their little minds around that problem and see if they figure it out.Talk about talking out of both ends of the human body.
To allow applause and cheering but prohibit dissent, is to give the impression that there is consensus and approval where it does not exist.
To give a false impression of consensus is the whole point, and that’s a very good way of putting it.
“Obama does not have a few screws loose; he’s stark raving mad! If he just had a few screws loose, he would not be confusing himself with Jesus!”
American politics really has hit a wall, hasn’t it? It started with clinton – the right was hating clinton well before the left started hating bush, and man the right knows how to hate. Then the left got its own back with bush, now it’s the right’s turn to pay it back and then some. Is anyone over there actually interested in policies anymore? Or is it all just partisan slap-fighting like this? The anti-obama hate-fest makes the bush-haters look like mary poppins. I don’t recall any public figures openly calling for bush to die. Things have moved up a level.
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“No left-controlled media?”
Um, no. That’s not even similar to what I wrote. Read it again.
“How do you explain the silence of the media on Van Jones until the moment he resigned?”
I suspect that nobody on the center or left-of-center actually believed it was a story. That whole business looks ridiculous to anyone not american and not right-wing. He didn’t quit because he signed a petition – he quit because obama doesn’t want distractions from health care, and if VJ didn’t go there’d be nothing else on cable news. The charges against van jones are pretty ridiculous. The petition thing was just a stupid childish tantrum. He shouldn’t have signed it, but he’s clearly not a truther. The rest of it is irrelevant. As it happens, he held an apparently minor portfolio, so clearly they decided he was expendable. I think the non-ridiculous media was actually blindsided when the guy quit – they really didn’t think it was a real story. But they can’t really admit that, can they?
“How do you explain their failure to cover the explosive discovery that slavery could be alive and well in America, thanks to a taxpayer-funded organization?”
You’ll have to explain that one to me. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Why should the President acknowledge an 800-pound gorilla that is made of medical insurance companies, greedy lawyers and pharmaceutical lobbies ”
Um, vivo:
The insurance companies are ON BOARD with Obama. So are the drug manufacturers. They’ve actually pooled $150 million to advertise FOR OBAMA!
The lawyers? LOL! They LOVE the plan. The plan in the house would allow trial lawyers to sue for other reasons that are currently restricted. Trial lawyers were the biggest contributor to Obama.
Pull your head out of the sand! The insurance companies, drug companies and lawyers WANT THIS–THEY ARE ON OBAMA’S SIDE!
Now, don’t you feel a bit misinformed?
“He shouldn’t have signed it, but he’s clearly not a truther.”
I was not here. I clearly did not type this comment.
LOL
I’ll believe your quote when pigs fly.
Obama lies, adjust reality to his objectieves – se e bellow his lates lie:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/obama-used-faulty-anecdote-speech-congress/?test=latestnews