For the Dems, What a Difference a Year Makes
In the House, Republicans hold only 177 seats, but Democrats hold 49 seats in districts won by John McCain in 2008. And George W. Bush won 255 House districts in 2004, a year in which he won the popular vote over John Kerry by 2.4%. At the moment, the GOP leads in the generic party ballot for Congress by 4% and 6% in the two most recent surveys. Obviously, a margin for the GOP in that range in 2010 would result in a large pickup in the House and a chance at winning back control.
The president and Democrats in Congress still seem hell-bent on advancing their agenda, particularly health care reform, a prospect that fails to earn 50% popular support in most surveys. There has never been as significant a piece of domestic legislation that has been pushed through almost entirely with the votes by members of only one party in Congress and as narrowly as occurred in the House vote on the health care reform bill. Momentum for any bill that approaches the grandiosity of the House version appears to be waning in the Senate. In the end, Democrats may be forced to choose between giving their assent to a very unpopular legislation or having it die along with their progressive dream of government control of health care.
The new deficit number for October, a startling $176 billion, combined with the $1.4 trillion deficit for 2009 and the $12 trillion accumulated public debt, has made many Americans wary of a new federal spending package of well over a trillion dollars in ten years for health care reform — especially since total spending for ObamaCare may go well higher than that.
In October, the federal government spent $311 billion and collected $135 billion in revenues. In other words, revenues covered 43% of spending and 57% needed to be borrowed. Lots of Americans may not be very good at math, but they know these numbers are unsustainable. It is no surprise, given the polling numbers, that there are now reports that the president will pivot and attempt to convince the American people in his January State of the Union address that he plans to focus on only two things: job creation and bringing the deficit down.
For a president who has spent more on new programs in nine months than Bill Clinton did in eight years, it might be a tough sell.
The initiatives of the administration and its Democratic allies — health care reform that will raise premiums for companies, new labor rules, cap and trade, abandoning free trade agreements — all are job killers, particularly for small business, the engine of job creation. The goodies have all gone to the public sector — government workers, teachers, community organizing groups — that live off the government dole.
One final issue may weigh down on the White House. The murder of 13 soldiers at Ft. Hood by a jihadist has unnerved many. While writers like Joe Klein are attempting to deny the obvious, most Americans understand who Hasan was and what he was trying to do. If the investigations that are upcoming in Congress, the intelligence agencies, and the Defense Department reveal that Hasan got a pass due to political correctness (tolerance for Islam of every shade), or that the various government agencies failed to communicate with each other (a repeat of pre-9/11 mistakes), it will not go down very well. The president has conducted a very public charm campaign to reach out to Muslims and Islamic nations. Did his administration get the message and as a result leave our soldiers at risk?
Republicans are finding it a lot easier to recruit candidates and raise money. They have a fierce wind at their back, a highly energized base of conservative voters, independents shifting to the GOP in large numbers, and two big wins in governor’s races (with a 20% shift away from the Democrats in one year in both Virginia and New Jersey). Add to that a strong anti-incumbent mood and storm clouds for the administration on all of its major policy fronts.
What a difference a year makes.
I fear the 2010 elections will not come quickly enough. In my 33 years of voting history, I’ve voted for more Democrats than Republicans. Never have I seen a President who is so inept and unwilling to listen to the other party. He has taken a bad enonomy and made it far worse. His #1 domestic priority, health care reform, as written is a job and freedom killer. Tort reform and portability will work, government run health care will not. Go Republicans! Your country needs you.
What the hell does, “Jobs saved or created” mean? Has anyone, anywhere tried to pin Obama down long enough to get any sensible explanation of what it means? On it’s face, from beginning to end the statement is an insult to anyone with the IQ equal to or higher than an animal cracker.
One year into Obama’s administration there should not be one single Democrat standing anywhere. Congress, state legislatures, governors, dog catchers; all of them – if they’re a Democrat they should now be afraid to come out from underneath their beds.
They’re not. Yes there’s been change in a year, but not enough. Republicans are having to “stretch” everything to the maximum to keep any kind of momentum going.
Foot Hood, Texas. A Muslim Major in the U.S. Army slaughtered 13 American citizens and wounded dozens more.
That should be the end of the statement. It isn’t. And that is why when the Republicans do gain back some control over this mess it will be by a frail, thin, easy to break thread.
Unbelievably, Barrack Hussein Obama still has plenty of strong support.
Cheering the Republicans with factoids and illusions is not going to reverse the irreversible. Just wait for the Census . . .
While I hate to rain on the parade, something has begun to make it’s self clear to me. While the public is continuing to move hesitantly to the right we are still sitting almost even on important issues. If there is a majority it is still a slight one with almost half the people polled on either side.
How is it that with the abysmal job performance so far people continue to support this administration. In the AP Gfk Poll of Nov.1 2009 a majority (slim mind you) of people agree with the administrations stance on Terrorism, Health Care, the situation in Iraq, the Environment, Energy, Relationships with other countries. Further down on the poll a full 62 % believe that the CIC is a strong and decisive leader, inspires confidence, can manage government effectively, can bring the change the country needs, is honest and trustworthy (61 to 38), shares your values (53-47), cares about people like you, is a person you admire, is a person you admire, is not a typical politician, is an effective world leader, will unite the country (51-48 now that’s united)
And apparently a majority thought he is doing enough cooperation with Republicans but they by 31-67 % are not doing enough cooperating.
While I realize that polls and their results are easily skewed, I meet quite a few folks who just gush about the great job “the one” is doing and how wonderful he is. So I wouldn’t get too excited, apparently at least half of the country has drunk the koolaid.
If the Republicans continue to go down the Democrat-lite route they’ll be in bigger trouble than the Dems.
America has had her fling with “progressivism”. It was the bad boy that looked so attractive after years of (comparatively) humdrum, dull governance. All her friends (the media) urged her to do it, as did all her neighbors (liberal European allies).
Today she has awakened to find herself abandoned, her credit cards and car stolen, and behind on her rent and utilities after he promised he’d take care of her. She feels abused and rightly so. He lied about everything.
As she cries alone, she makes a silent vow, “never again”…
President Obama with the help of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi & Senator Harry Reid have severely overplayed their hand beginning with the vaunted so-called stimulus” bill that spends more into total than all previous 43 combined; coupled with the false stimulus’ failure to stimulate the economy since it is in fact an appropriations bill marketed as “stimulus” from President Obama make the bill’s failure all the more a reason it must be cancelled or repealed under new leadership. The stimulus is really Porkulus–nothing but pork–that must be eliminated. Porkulus will also haunt Obama throughout his tenure as each rotten egg with hatch into unintended consequences or Harpies as I call them. The Harpies will claw, scratch, & follow Obama like a shadow until they cannot be ignored.
The Democrats have shown their true colors: Red as in Communism. The Statists want to control every aspect of our lives which is why the public option Health Care is important to be passed into law to them; they want absolute domination over every one else, although they themselves have been shown to be incompetent, arrogant, corrupt boobs. The Health Care bills in the Senate must be worked & this will take more than a couple of months & the finished bill must be voted in the Senate. The House bill that abruptly passed last week cannot be fully synthesized with the as yet completed Senate bills; therefore, the Health Care fiasco is yet another time bomb set to explode for any who vote for the bill. 2010 will make the Health Care bill(s) obsolete since the politiicians will be getting ready to run for the mid-term elections. I hope the Health Care Fiat is dead. But we must be vigilant & not let our guard down since the corrupt Democrats will try every dirty trick in the book to pass the Communist ObamaCare.
For these reasons & others I have not mentioned is reason enough why the Republicans have the wind at their backs. 2010 will be a political bloodbath for the Democrats & any RINO Republicans who go along with said Democrats. None are safe.
Vote that rascals out! (if we’re allowed to vote in 2010, that is.)
As much as the dems suck the reps will find a way to squander away what ever trust they muster in the voters when elected. The leadership is more interested in being power brokers then it is in being representatives of the people. Until we have statesmen and people really interested in representing us the same things will continue to happen. What we need are people who will cut spending and socialism in this country, People who will do what is right for the country and not what is right for furthering their career.
The GOP also has Hurricane Sarah with them too.
Don’t miss ‘must-see TV’ today when the Cuda sits down with the big O today at 4:00pm. That’s Oprah for you country-club folks.
You might want to stir the tea leaves again if you want to predict the success of either party. The elephant brand is down hill with no leadership forward and a history of issues. The donkey brand with their tax and spend illogic has yet to meet the full force of the American independents when the bills come due. They survive on charisma and stealth revolution.
Americans voted for Obama with his promise of changing business as usual in D.C.. Nancy got her votes on health care by offering to bribe congressmen with our money.
Give me something better than hope-n-change or compassionate conservatism. Give us a real AG who is independent of the office of the president. Give us a 3rd party. The politicos may never be able to sell “transparency” again.
With all due respect to Mr. Baehr, regarding the first sentence of the first paragraph in the main article, I wish that Constitution-defending patriots would start doing the following. I wish that they would start making a distinction between political power and constitutional authority of which the Democrats have very little.
8. Don’t worry. What’s the worst that could happen? If they try to cancel the vote, rebellion occurs in the streets, and then they’ll permit the elections for fear of getting shot, or they’ll get shot.
Vivo:
“…..Just wait for the Census . . .”
Because you hope Rahm and ACORN will be able to rig it, right?
If the popular capital punishment in Jesus’ day had been hanging would all the chirstians in the world be wearing nooses on chains around theri necks?
This presidency is effectively over.
Period…
Yes, at the moment the Dems are tanking, and this is good for Reps…by default. However, don’t get too optimistic. IMO this trend is based primarily on the high unemployment number. As economic trends are cyclical, it’s entirely possible the unemployment number could drop prior to the 2010 (or certainly the 2012) elections. What then? IMO it’s not enough to watch the Dems self-destruct with their absurdly far-Left legislation. We MUST also have positive alternatives from the Reps. Don’t just “hope” the voters vote against the Dems…give them a reason to vote FOR the Reps. Reps should focus on a message of personal freedom/liberty which would encompass lower taxes and smaller govt, and smack the Obama ideology of rampant Statism in the face. And stay away from those social issues (particularly the nutty religious fundamentalist stuff) that tend to alientate Independent voters.
The left served up a cold platter of wishful promises….but 2010 will blunt this progression to statism. kiongozi wangu
Don’t know that I trust the Republicans enough to vote for them again.
The Contract With America was supposed to end the corruption in D.C.
All the GOP did in ’95 was change the lock on the executive washroom door…they were sent there to abolish it.
Think I’ll vote third party…I can sleep at night. At least until the Democrat thought police come and arrest me.
Commie scum VIVO-”just wait for the census”. Who are you ,Vivo, ACORN? GOD? Who put your smelly commie arse in charge? The “census” didnt help Corslime in New Jersey or that idiot from Virginia did it Vivo? You sound like you think you are threatening someone Vivo. Well, Go ahead, make my day. You will disappear as fast as a hood in a dirty Harry flick.
#17 JohnR – There is no guarantee that the unemployment numbers will improve by 2010, or even by 2012. They thought the same thing during the Carter years. It took Reagan two years to get it under control, and he suffered in the mid-term elections as a result.
As for staying away from “the nutty religious fundamentalist stuff”, this is a Democratic trope that it offends them. It only offends them, because the MSM has told them it is offensive. In actuality, the overwhelming majority of America considers itself religious. When a candidate speaks of his sincere beliefs, most people don’t have a problem with it. It is nice to know the candidaet has SOME values. It only becomes a problem when the Media makes it a problem.
Besides, they voted for the Party which stays away from that nutty stuff. How’s that working out for them? Maybe they should try the nutty Fundies. God knows, there are few enough truly decent men and women in Congress.
Many of the posts above raise excellent points about this article.
I am struck by how poor the Republican leadership has been in Congress. I also think that the rumored Presidential candidates are thus far unimpressive.
That being said, if Republicans will back conservative candidates like they supported in Virginia, things may begin to turn. I have had it with the RINOs to the point where the party gets no more money from me. Conservatives need to promote a streamlined policy of reduced spending and borrowing, the unleashing of capitalism and free enterprise, support for our military, and rejection of the nannyism that the Dems trot out as a personally conducted tour through life. Repeated polls show that these themes resonate with people.
Meantime, with 15 million Americans without jobs & Millions more working temporary & part time jobs , the invasion continues, no Liberal Politician will address the 500 pound gorilla in the room, and millions of invading, plundering, welfare loving, prolific breeding, Illegal Aliens taking millions of jobs that should be American jobs and 100,s billions of dollars in social services that should be for American citizens!
One cannot be political correct and admit that Illegal Aliens are an large part of the problems in this Nation.
Their negative impact extends to every area from Sub-par loans & defaults, Underground economy, Massive document fraud, Lower standard of living, Crime, Overflowing prisons , Bankrupted hospitals, Failing schools, Property Taxes, Insurance costs, Environment, Culture, Welfare costs, Welfare fraud, SS fraud, Voter fraud, Disrespect for our laws & country, our Constitution against invasion and even Balance of payments occurring from oil and other imports to support the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens in this country!
One has to only look at Calif. which is basically mostly an Spanish speaking, Bankrupt state that cannot afford to provide Welfare, Schooling, Medical, Prison cells etc. for millions of MS-13 Gang bangers, Drug dealers, Rapist and other assorted Criminals and uneducated, Prolific breeding, third world rejects from Mexico!
In a very few years it will be impossible to see where Mexico ends and Calif. begins as both will be an third world cesspool!
Failure to secure our borders and reward the Invading horde for their invasion and their relatives in an never ending chain with American Citizenship is nothing less than committing National Suicide & will assure our future is an over populated Spanish speaking third world Nation that is an Cesspool of Corruption, Crime, Poverty and Misery modeled on Mexico!
2010 important because Obama will be back on the ballot in 2012 and the liberal lemmings will be out in force. Time now, for some Pub leadership to be a real opposition party on every issue that is taking away our free enterprise system, stopping the use of our own domestic energy resources, taxing and spending ourselves into permanent bankruptcy, and appeasing our enemies while actually offending our allies. The Gitmo decision and the NYC trial is one more mis-step. The Pubs are the only alternative and especially now that it is finally showing some distinctions between the socialist pacifist Dems and any idea of a third party is nonsense. They screwed the pooch the last time they had power, but my guess is many Pubs have learned their lesson and will keep the RINO’s from weakening their reaponses.
I think the majority of Americans are starting to really see that the Chicago thugs that surround Obama (i.e. Axelrod, Emanuel, Jarrett, Dunn, etc) are the ones running the agenda and political strategy. It is all Olinsky tactics and the people are tired of the blatant lies. We are not THAT stupid!! We know that the answer is to restore a bit more balance of power to prevent them from the power grab that is occurring. You watch, amnesty will be on the agenda soon!
No. 20 Snots or Knots..
You and vivo need to get a room.
Anyway Rich.
Good article. This President, and his congress, need to wake up and smell the power. No matter how much the right complains, they must be kind of relieved because this president, like his predessor ( president bozo) has not really doing anything either.
I can promise you that the right wing already hate him (like that is a surprise) and the left is beginning to wonder where he is.
Its not good all around …or is it?
Nice of the author to point out that the mood of the electorate is anti-incumbent not pro Republican. There is a difference. If the “toss the bastards out” thingie catches on or more properly finds a voice in a legitmate national candidate all the incumbents are gonna have problems.
The blame goes to the main stream media. They let Obama and his administration get away with everything they do.
Saved jobs? Give me a break.
KSM in New York? Unreal development.
Bowing? Naive to say the least.
The USA needs newspapers and evening newscasts that present today’s happening in a fair way. When Obama is wrong, which is often, it needs to be broadcast and printed.
This list of 45 Communist goals appeared in the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963. The list is taken from The Naked Communist, by Cleon Skousen (who began his intensive study of communism during his 16 years with the FBI). The list confirms the “line” being pursued in Communist publications in this country, such as The Worker, the People’s World, and a number of front publications. The checklist provides an interesting opportunity for each individual to determine how much enemy medicine he/she buys himself/herself, and to observe the sources, both national and local, from which it is merchandised in quantity. Distribution in quantity is based on the theory that a few-grains-of-poison occasionally might kill us, but larger doses repeatedly can be positively lethal. At least we ought to know what it is we are asked to swallow. This list shows the depth of the Communist effort to subvert the United States.
Current Communist Goals:
1. United States acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. United States willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the United Nations.
8. Set up East and West German as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the United Nations.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the United Nations.
11. Promote the United Nations as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the UN as by Moscow. Sometime these two centers compete with each other as they did and do in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the United States Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teacher’s associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms”.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling it “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity, as normal, natural, and healthy.
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch”.
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violated the principle of “separation of church and state”.
29. Discredit the United States Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to co-operation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the United States Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man”.
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of United States history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture”. Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any Socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture, education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political, and social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so that the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
I voted for Obama. I was given a choice of McCain or him and at the time it wasn’t a hard choice. Now that time has passed I grow increasingly frustrated, not because of all the hyperbole, but because he has FLAT OUT missed opportunities to lead. The stimulus bill should have been sent back to have the pork removed and more infrastructure work put in. This alone would have shown the nation that he was not owned and would lead. Next, Gitmo should already be closed. He is bowing to NIMBY pressure to do what should already be done. The beer summit was nonsense. On and on the silliness goes. It’s not the screw up Iraq was but darn he had no where to go but up. Seeing where things are now I can hardly believe this is the same candidate.
Senator Bayh,
> As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the
> health care bill before Congress. I actually have read the
> bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the
> government’s proposed involvement in the
> patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the
> government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous
> and certainly not helpful in designing a health care system
> that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that
> we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed
> bills currently making their way through congress will be a
> disaster if passed.
>
> I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look
> at the following troubling lines that I have read in the
> bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are
> in the best interests of the country and our fellow
> citizens.
>
> Page 22 of the
> HC Bill: Mandates
> that the Govt will audit books of all employers that
> self-insure!!
>
> Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE
> that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
>
> Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
>
>
> Page 42 of HC Bill: The Health Choices Commissioner
> will choose your HC benefits for you. You have no choice!
>
> Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non-US
> citizens, illegal or otherwise.
>
> Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to
> individuals’ finances & a ‘National ID Health
> card’ will be issued!
>
> Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to
> your bank accounts for elective funds transfer.
>
> Page 65 Sec 164: Is a payoff subsidized plan for
> retirees and their families in unions & community
> organizations: (ACORN).
>
> Page 84 Sec
> 203 HC bill: Govt
> mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the
> ‘Exchange.’
>
> Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels
> for Plans –
> The Govt will ration your health care!
>
> Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic
> appropriate services. (Translation: illegal aliens.)
>
> Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups (i..e.
> ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC
> plan.
>
> Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels
> for Plans. (AARP members – your health care WILL be
> rationed!)
> Page 102 Lines
> 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid eligible individuals will
> be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. (No choice.)
>
> Page 12 4 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price
> fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt
> monopoly.
>
> Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical
> Association – The Govt will tell YOU what salary you can
> make.
>
> Page 145 Line 15-17: An
> Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan.
> (NO choice!)
>
> Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for
> part-time employees AND their families.
> (Employees shouldn’t get excited about this as
> employers will be forced to reduce its work force, benefits,
> and wages/salaries to cover such a huge expense.)
>
> Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k
> & above who does not provide public option will pay 8%
> tax on all payroll! (See the last comment in
> parenthesis.)
> Page 150 Lines
> 9-13: A business with
> payroll between $251K & $401K who doesn’t provide
> public option will pay 2-6% tax on all payroll.
>
>
> Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn’t
> have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of
> income.
>
> Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is
> exempt from individual taxes. (Americans
> will pay.)
>
> Page 195 HC Bill:
> Officers & employees of the GOVT HC Admin.. will
> have access to ALL Americans’ finances and
> personal records.
>
> Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: “The tax imposed under this
> section shall not be treated as tax.” (Yes, it
> really says that!)
>
> Page 239 Line
> 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will
> reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors.
> (Low-income and the poor are
> affected.)
>
> Page 241 Line
> 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors: It
> doesn’t matter what specialty you have trained yourself
> in — you will all be
> paid the same! (Just TRY to tell me that’s not
> Socialism!)
>
> Page 253 Line 10-18: The
> Govt sets the value of a doctor’s time, profession,
> judgment, etc. (Literally– the value of humans.)
>
> Page 265 Sec 1131: The
> Govt mandates and controls productivity for
> “private” HC industries.
>
> Page 268 Sec 1141: The federal Govt regulates the rental
> and purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
>
> Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS -
> Cancer patients – welcome to rationing!
>
> Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for
> whatever the Govt deems preventable (i.e…re-admissions).
>
> Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors: If you treat a patient during
> initial admission that results in a re-admission — the Govt
> will penalize you.
>
> Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on
> ownership/investment. (The Govt tells doctors what and how
> much they can own!)
>
> Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion.
> (The Govt is mandating that hospitals cannot
> expand.)
> Page 321 2-13:
> Hospitals have the opportunity to apply for exception BUT
> community input is required. (Can you say ACORN?)
>
> Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: The Govt mandates
> establishment of=2 outcome-based measures. (HC the way they
> want — rationing.)
> Page 341 Lines
> 3-9: The Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance
> Plans, HMOs, etc. (Forcing people into the Govt plan)
>
>
> Page 354 Sec 1177: The Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of
> ‘special needs people!’
> Unbelievable!
>
> Page 379 Sec 1191: The Govt creates more bureaucracy via a
> “Tele-Health Advisory Committee.” (Can you
> say HC by phone?)
>
> Page 425 Lines 4-12: The Govt mandates “Advance-Care
> Planning Consult.” (Think senior citizens
> end-of-life patients.)
>
> Page 425 Lines 17-19: The Govt will instruct and consult
> regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc.
> (And it’s
> mandatory!)
> Page 425 Lines
> 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: The Govt provides an
> “approved” list of end-of-life resources; &
> nbsp;guiding you in death. (Also called ‘assisted
> suicide.’)
>
> Page 427 Lines 15-24: The Govt mandates a program for
> orders on “end-of-life.” (The Govt has a say
> in how your life ends!)
>
> Page 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced-care planning
> consultant” will be used frequently as a patient’s
> health deteriorates.
>
> Page 429 Lines 10-12: An “advanced care
> consultation” may include an ORDER for end-of-life
> plans. (AN ORDER TO DIE FROM THE GOVERNMENT?!?)
>
>
> Page 429 Lines
> 13-25: The GOVT will specify which doctors can write an
> end-of-life order. (I wouldn’t want to stand
> before God after getting paid for THAT
> job!)
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> Page 469: Community-Based Home Medical Services =
> Non-Profit Organizations. (Hello? ACORN Medical
> Services here!?!)
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> Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover marriage and family
> therapy. (Which means Govt will insert itself into
> your marriage even.)
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> Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining,
> creating, and rationing those services.
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> Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything
> possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about
> the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues
> are debating.
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> Furthermore, if you vote for a bill that enforces
> socialized medicine on the country and destroys the
> doctor-patient
> relationship, I will do everything in my power to
> make sure you lose your job in the next election.
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> Respectfully,
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> Stephen E. Fraser, MD
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> Dear
> Reader,
> I urge you to
> use the power that you were born with (and the power that
> may soon be taken away) and circulate this email to as many
> people as you can reach. The Power of the People can
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> following generations.
My Lords of Pajamas, Ladies, and gentlemen:
Please, leave Vivo in ignorance.
The longer he believes in the fantasy of statism coming to America under the aegis of His Divine Obamaness, the easier it will be for the conservatives to win in 2010 and 2012.
Let’s let him keep his head in the sand, mmmkay?
Let’s see… in our youth my parents taught me to: say whay you mean, mean what you say… so, now fast forward to 11/2009… and think back to 11/2008
did Obama say what he meant? Hell no! pick a topic and track his flips.
Did Obama mean what he said? funny, he’s saying the same thing today he said to get elected, so I guess he didn’t mean what he said.
the absolute hypocrit and feckless fool, and we’re the victims.
The American public better rise up soon or we’ll all be swallowed up by Obama’s leftist movement. Think about, who would have thought 2 years ago that this nation would come to the point where a bill was passed in the House that provides for 5 year prison terms for those who refuse to buy a health policy and further refuse to pay a large fine for having refused to buy a policy? Seriously, isn’t that evidence that way too power has been handed over to the Dems?
I asked myself today, why put KSM on trial in a civilian court? He’s “plead” guilty multiple times, no real benefit can come from some show trial other than spending millions of dollars and provivding a stage for a mass murderer. Then I realized what’s the most powerful tool of the party in the White House? The ability to change the top story.
As this article lays out the Dems have plenty of problems; the Cap n’Trade fiasco, a 2000 page “reform” bill, confusion about the mission in Afghanistan, failure of the stimulus package to generate jobs etc… so keep an eye out for more of the same type of political moves. Cynical yes, but the “show trial” will be pay back to the far left who see this as a proxy to put President Bush on trial and they knew that any move like this is waving red meat in front of conservatives….
The reason the Obama Administration will NEVER admit or acknowledge openly that Hasan is a terrorist and that his shooting rampage was an act of terrorism is because that would then tell the American public that under Obama’s watch, we had a terrorist attack, while under Bush, there were no terrorist attacks after 9/11.
That’s why we will all continue to hear that Hasan was just a criminal or a whacko.
RE #29/Mr. UnPC:
Your list of 45 Commie goals cannot be successfully implemented without the assistance of “useful idiots”, Kumbaya, Berkeley-in-the-sixties and Port Huron dolts, who have been tirelessly trying to saw off the very branch on which they so nicely live, i.e. this industrious country which provides them tenured jobs whose pay is unequalled in the world -
So again, the useful idiots must always be pointed at, and shamed – in case this is possible -
Dear Rich Baehr,
Thank you for your article. I thought the research aspect of your piece was excellent. However, I think your suggestion of future Republican wins are wrong. Yes Independents are swinging to the GOP but mostly when there isn’t a viable 3rd candidate. Just look at NY 23rd. When was the last time an Independent congressional candidate received those kinds of numbers. Sadly it was when Bernie Sanders was last elected to the House. Almost every single poll I’ve read shows the DEMs losing support but with no real increase for the REBs. Maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part but maybe this country might finally have a multi-party system. And after the disastrous administration of FP Bush and after what’s happened so far under President Obama, does anyone really think a DEM or REB can fix this countries’ problem.
Obama will be effectively neutered in 2010, almost like Clinton was in 1994, except that the Democrat losses won’t be as bad as are being predicted right now, BUT, if the Dems do manage to hold on to their House & Senate majorities, they will be razor-thin and will not be able to lose more than a handful of votes to pass anything. That’s difficult to do, especially with renegade Dems claiming to be conservative BlueDogs. Another difference will be that Clinton was politically savvy enough to govern from the center, move the Republican agenda (e.g. NAFTA, welfare reform), take credit for the good things (e.g. NAFTA, welfare reform, from the right’s standpoint), and pass the blame for the bad things (e. g. NAFTA, welfare reform, from the left’s standpoint). Obama isn’t smart enough to pull that off, as Clinton was/is.
1. Americans are NOT socialists and will NOT be forced into it.
2. If polls of the public regarding their support for Obamacare excluded those that already receive taxpayer paid benefits or who pay no federal income taxes I would expect the opposition to be much, much higher. It’s easy to support government “freebies” when someone else has to pay the bill.
I want an investigation of Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR):
Arkansas supported McCain 59% to Obama’s 39% in the November elections. If the vote were held today the result would likely be even more lopsided and Lincoln knows it.
Arkansans overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare and Lincoln knows that too. If she votes for this bill I want to see an investigation launched into her finances and post Congressional career offers should they prove to be exceptionally lucrative.
The only reason she would have to vote for this unconstitutional takeover is in the expectation of a big payoff after she loses her seat next Nov. There is simply no other reason to not vote the way your constituents demand you vote.
I’ve written to the WSJ and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette demanding Lincoln be investigated if she supports this monstrosity. And I will continue to demand the same via conservative blogs.
A year can make a huge difference, and who knows what a difference the next year will make. The 2009 elections are not necessarily a harbinger for 2010, even though 2005 was a predictor of 2006. Most of the stimulus will be spent in the first 6 months of 2010. That has to have some economic effect, and if the easy money from the Fed continues to stimulate, unemployment could be below 8% be election day. Of course, it could just as easily go to 11% if the stimulus fails. We just don’t know. Also, some really big event between now and then could totally change the subject the way 9-11 changed it 8 years ago and Katrina changed it 4 years ago. Obama could go from zero the hero in just a week, and hit 90% in the polls.
The good news: Obama and the democrats are so wedded to their agenda that they are incapable of “recaliberating” to get off their track of taking America over the cliff, so they continue to prepare their demise at the next election.
The bad news: Obama and the democrats’ highest priority for 2010 will be to “amnestize” all of the illegal aliens they can find in America (to include all they can allow to cross illegally in the meantime), and then get everyone of them registered to vote for the 2010 elections.
Look, we’ve seen it happen before. It’s the history of affirmative action. To assuage guilt over past injustices you elevate someone who is just too inexperienced and (dare I say it) not truly qualified to take a job that more appropriately would have gone to someone else.
OK, it’s not fair to the other people, but they have to pay the price for the legacy of discrimination that the evil US has had against the ancestors of the affirmative action applicant. Well, OK, in THIS guy’s case, his mother was white and his father didn’t leave Africa until he was damn good and ready – but you get the drift.
Now we’ve all been there – we kinda sort of have come to expect these people to screw up. But it’s a big company, one guy who has been elevated far beyond his Peter Plateau isn’t going to be able to hurt it much. We’ve all seen these things happen, and we’ve always survived them
The country is strong. We have had disastrously bad Presidents in the past – aand the country survives them
I’m not sure the Democratic party will though.
6. BackwardsBoy:
Today she has awakened to find herself abandoned, her credit cards and car stolen, and behind on her rent and utilities after he promised he’d take care of her.
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an empty bank account and numbers of credit lines for more than she’ll ever make opened in her name and maxed out.
The question is not whether Obama is the worst President in history, he has certainly secured that dubious honor. Now the question is he the worst person in American history. Given the long term and permanent damage his insane ideological policies are doing to this country the answer is more and more looking like yes. The term Obama will go down in history as ideological incompetence of such a scale the world has never seen. Ronald Reagan vs Obamanos. There will be no democratic party by the time this fool is done
ACORN again! Yes we can!
This time an ACORN office in LA advising how to get a loan for setting up a prostitution ring:
http://video.foxnews.com/11668376/hannity-exclusive
RE #40/Eric:
[...] support for Obamacare excluded those that already receive taxpayer paid benefits or who pay no federal income taxes I would expect the opposition to be much, much higher. It’s easy to support government “freebies” when someone else has to pay the bill. [...]
If the government takes from Paul to give to Peter, sure all Peters will support that government.
chuck post 39:
You forgot the dot com boom. Without the dot com boom the Cliton years would never be as fondly remembered as they are. Anyone who could network two computers together was making 100k a year and getting rich on IPOs. I see no boom on the horizon for this lemon of a president. He is the anti-boom.
14. Bohemond:
20. Knotacommie:
32. ConservativeWanderer:
“…..Just wait for the Census . . .”
The Census will show you the new demographics and how your country has changed. Just letting you know before you cry out of shock. You can waste your money in campaign funds or invest it in a producing business. Your choice.
During previous administrations, I do not recall pollsters asking seperate questions regarding the presidents policies and his likeability. It appears our emotional involvement with the symbolic meaning of Obama’s half white half black ancestry causes us to be oh so careful in not appearing to dislike him.
vivo, after Obama is done there wont be any “producing business” to invest in.
50. Funny thing about demographics, you can’t draw political conclusions from them. Today’s young people have no loyalty to the Democratic party, nor to Barrack Obama. They voted for Obama because he appealed to them, but as they see the disaster that Obama is making worse, they’ll abandon ship for another who will galvanize them, like Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin or someone like Ron Paul.
There will be no democratic party by the time this fool is done
I have to disagree.
To quote P.T. Barnum – “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
That’s more than enough to keep the Dems in business.
#54 Real Deal – Maybe, or maybe not. I submit to you how poorly are fairing the MSM. They are getting crushed as people wake up. On cable, FoxNews gets more than half the market. They are even beginning to surpass the mainstream ABC, CBS, & NBC.
The MSM is becoming marginalized. People are going elsewhere to get their news. Without the MSM, the Liberal lies and whitewash cannot get propogated. They cannot provide cover. They cannot hide the truth. That’s death to the Far-Left.
#41 Eric: Blanche doesn’t need a payoff after she leaves; her husband is a doctor, earning probably north of $200K, and she’ll get a pension (at taxpayer expense, of course) for the rest of her life, + health insurance. She’ll have many options: lobbying, consulting, lobbyist/consultant, consultant/lobbyist, public speeches, possibly a book deal, etc.
Her sole interest is her political hide. Another thing is that she’s got what, $4 million+ in her war chest, which will presumably grow between now & May & November (assuming she makes it past May). And don’t candidates for federal office get to keep what’s left over? So she could spend $3M, and still have a cool mill left over, which should be plenty to send her twins to any Ivy League school.
#49 kimbr: You’re right, the .com boom did help Clinton, as he has got to be the luckiest pol ever. But it later went bust, including a few companies before his term ended. It wasn’t just the .com boom that helped him, though; there were other factors, including the fact that the Republican Congress cut off his credit cards, i.e. they limited his spending. Dems always say glowingly the Clinton years ended with a surplus, but that wasn’t him, it was the Republican Congress who did that.
53. myth buster:
“50. Funny thing about demographics, you can’t draw political conclusions from them.”
You are correct to a point. But what happens when WASPs decrease, current minorities increase? Haves are thriving, but Havenots are suffering? Illegal immigrants become citizens? Baby Boomers retire? Millions become new voters?
#30. OZ, if you had really paid attention during the campaign you would not be surprised now, except for his thoroughness at being a total loser.