'Wee-weed up:' White House explains it

There are 2 things I know. Sarah Palin is pro-America and I hope Obama fails.

Mark, exactly what makes Tom Daschle a health care expert? Because he wrote a book? What did he do as a senator that set himself up as a health care expert?

Wee-weed up? Robert Fibbs is taking credit for that now? Man, the man has no stones! Much like the state-run media.

And now ANOTHER vacation for the Obama family? This guy takes more time off than Carson did in his later years!
Worked hard? What exactly has Obimbo done? Actually, I know the answer to that, he's worked hard screwing up the country.

Mark, I hope you go on vacation soon and do a self-examination. Are you a journalist or an Axelrod lackey? Still waiting for the Swamp item on Axelrod's former company and son getting millions in ad business pettline health care reform BS. If this was Rove, you'd be wee-weeeing all over the place covering it!

> 44,230 more people are losing health coverage each week.

> 191,670 more people are losing health coverage each month.

> 2.3 million more people are losing health coverage each year

Republicans know that a successful health care reform that achieves universal coverage will bury them electorally for a generation. Health Insurers and their Lobbyists and Big Pharma know that a powerful public option and a Medicare bargaining for prices will kick them off the gravy train permanently. Republicans and Big Insurance Company propagandists know their scare tactics aren't nearly as scary as reality for the large majority of Americans.

From obama's own writings, we all knew what the "weed" part was all about--

Paulo

What is the republican healthcare plan?

Big Health Insurance Lobby/Republican healthcare myths, get debunked:

MYTH 1: There is no health care crisis
MYTH 2: Health care reform will impose rationing
MYTH 3: Health care reform provides for euthanasia, "death panel"
MYTH 4: Health care reform legislation will cover undocumented immigrants
MYTH 5: Health care reform will raise your taxes
MYTH 6: Health proposals would tax all small businesses
MYTH 7: Health care reform would add $1 trillion-plus to deficit
MYTH 8: House bill would ban private individual insurance
MYTH 9: Obama said he didn't read House bill
MYTH 10: Co-ops are an adequate substitute for a public option
MYTH 11: Obama is pushing a system like the U.K. and Canada
MYTH 12: Obama, Dems pushing "socialized medicine"
MYTH 13: Prominent opponents of health care reform are credible
MYTH 14: Government can't run a health care program
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http://mediamatters.org/research/200908200002

Don't let the Right-Wing haters and smear merchants win this thing people!

Looks like Gibbs wee-weed up another press conference.

When Sara Palin speaks, Obama wee-wees.

Gee most Americans might be pissing themselves because a government that can't deliver mail effectively, get a contract filled on time in budget, control its spending, and control medi care/caid costs wants to take over their health care decisions and control it with inept bureaucrats might make them a wee bit pissed off? mpw

might make them a wee bit pissed off? mpw

Posted by: mpw280 | August 21, 2009 1:49 PM

Yes, if they could only run as efficient as banks, or car manufacturers we would be better off. Hey...and paying these CEOs of Insurance companies about 24 million a year is great.

Come on, you guys - I mean - he just sounded SO presidential. Bet we won't hear this on Letterman. His whole administration is full of wee wee.

little bill? you'll never know what the republican health care plan is because you're trainers never let you read anything subjective or bipartisan.

We know that you're stuck in a dark room and fed little bits of toilet paper with "I hate Bush" printed on it.

What about the Obama - Pharma 180 Billion agreement? you're a huge hypocrite little bill, just stay in your dark room and keep at that toilet paper. You seem never to get full of it.

he is refering to the way hawaian weed makes you feel, he must know lol, you get all wee weed up!!

Another day, another Obama lie on ObamaCare:

"On a conference call with progressive religious leaders late Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged his Republican critics’ “misinformation” blitz, arguing the claim by many social conservative groups that his health care proposal would subsidize and mandate reproductive care is a blatant fabrication, and insisted they were “bearing false witness.”

“You’ve heard this is all going to mean government funding of abortion,” the President said. “Not true.”

But as with many of Obama’s statements regarding his health care proposal, his seemingly forthright claim is simply ‘not true.’ Before a crowd of Planned Parenthood executives and contributors in 2007, then-Senator Obama explicitly pledged to not yield on “the fundamental issue” of abortion, adding that “reproductive care is basic care, it is essential care.”

The right to an abortion, Obama said, “is at the center and at the heart of the plan that I proposed.”

“Essentially, what we are doing is to say that we’re gonna set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don’t have health insurance. It will be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services,” Obama said to applause"

See redstate.com, which has a link to the video of Obama's talk. Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

Well, let's just make a counterpoint to the blowhard goofball that made this statement. "Health Insurers and their Lobbyists and Big Pharma know that a powerful public option and a Medicare bargaining for prices will kick them off the gravy train permanently. Republicans and Big Insurance Company propagandists know their scare tactics aren't nearly as scary as reality for the large majority of Americans.''

Which current White House occupant just cut a $180 Billion deal with the biggest of all Pharmacuitical companies (Pharma). Oh, let's see would that be the hypocrite Obama? So then, tell us who's in bed with the Insurance and big Pharma industries?

Unfortunately for Obama and his blind sheeple, the majority of America is starting to see the light. You sheeple can stay in the dark recesses of the great one's shadow where you belong. You're being given "Minority" status as you should be.

Bring them HOME NOW Don! how's that working for you? Do you have the White House numbers on the murder - death - kill count in Afghanistan & Pakistan today? How about those troops left in Iraq? still waiting for those campaign promises to come true? Yet you still eat up the garbage as truth?

the man (?) was STONED OUT OF HIS HEAD.....
do doubt in my mind.....

I'm sorry that I voted for Obama.

As a Jew and a financial services worker, I can no longer condone either his stance on Israel or his willingness to plunge America into strangling debt.

Our kids will have to pay for this.

We all want health care reform. REFORM. That means *less* regulation, not *more*. Barack Osama doesn't want reform, he wants socialization. That commie needs to go back to his homeland of Kenya and leave us Americans alone.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf

The republican plan is to let people buy insurance out of state. This will bring competition and lower costs. I would also recommend taxing health care benefits and requiring that everyone own health insurance.

ObamaCare Myths Debunked

Truth 1: There is a healthcare problem, but not a crisis.
Truth 2:Once private companies can't compete with the government owned insurance plan, they'll go out of business.
Truth 3: When you give a government total control, they CAN decide when to kill you off.
Truth 4:Illegal immigrants will be serviced because it is the "right thing to do."
Truth 5: Taxes will be raised because who will pay for it?
Truth 6: Small businesses will have to compete with the government plan, or adopt the plan.
Truth 7: If they don't raise taxes, who will PAY FOR IT? The insurance fairy?
Truth 8: The House bill will kill off private insurance slowly between 5 - 15 years.
Truth 9: Obama can read, but chooses not to read it all.
Truth 10: Nothing is an adequate replacement of what we have now. All we need is a mild reform of medical fraud and making private insurances take people with previous health problems without penalty to fix what is broke now.
Truth 11: Obama hasn't done his research well.
Truth 12: Government control of you is socialism.
Truth 13: There is a better way to fix health problems then Obamacare.
Truth 14: Government can't run a health care program and not mess it up with bureaucracy and dead weight.

Will someone please
explain to me,
how the poet
who wrote
the transcendant
"Dreams From My Father,"
could also
say things like
"wee-weed up."

Thank you.

using this "baby" term was NOT presidential. If Bush had done this, the mainstream media would be mocking him ad nauseum and criticizing the remark as inappropriate. They won't do that with Obama. They will just think it is cute since they have so much invested in his success. Without the teleprompter that committed suicide, the president is no where as near as eloquent or lucid. I am so glad he is going "bye bye" to Martha's Vineyard for a week. Hopefully he can't put us further in debt while he is there enjoying the "wa wa."

And citing Media Matters debunking of myths is analogous to citing Obama to prove Obama's right.

Media Matters is on the lunatic fringe. Nice try, though.

Unlike K. who likes to label anything that does not concur with his/her way of thinking a myth, I'll give you some facts straight out of the H.R. 3200 legislation in the House.

In section 102 employers can keep existing policies for present employees but cannot add anyone to it. So new-hires will ahve to go under a whole new policy. As I have managed healthcare in teh corporate setting, that will mean corporations will ahve to shop for an all inclusive policy and you WON"T keep your existing coverage.

In another section, anyone (except illegal aliens who are exempted) who does not have health insurance will pay an additional 2.5% tax

But the real killer is exempting the new Health Car program from FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations). In laymens terms that means that means vendors do not have to be scrutinized for sound business operations.

Now those are cold hard facts straight from the proposed legislation that run contrary to what Obama is shoveling at you.

Please show me where health care by goverment has ever worked? Please show me where socialism has ever worked..how is Obama's plan, whatever it is, different..who knows what the plan is; Obama doesn't ..so just show me one that works..

The vast majority of people without healthcare are either: (1) people who have access to healthcare at work but who do not choose to exercise the options, (2) people who earn more than $75,000/year and choose to self insure, (3) illegal aliens, or (4) people from 18-26 who feel invulnerable and do not want to spend the money on it. Remedying the issues of these four groups does not require destroying the healthcare of the 80+% of the American population who are happy with their healthcare, doctor and system. There are simple things that can be done ranging from COBRA extension, intrastate competition, and giving a choice between tax incentivized healthcare savings accounts plus catastrophic care versus a mandate to show coverage that would eliminate virtually all of the problem. We do not need to socialize medicine. We do not need to subject every doctor, nurse and technician to the same enslaved state of electoral servitude to the Democratic Party as teachers and postal workers. We need simple fixes for simple problems.

I think this administration is full of 'poo poo'. ;)

Why is Gibbs constantly translating for "the most articulate man in history"?

More Obama-talk translations...
"healthcare reform" = government takeover and rationing of healthcare.
"tax reform" = Take money from taxpayers and buy votes.
"climate change legislation" = Energy tax to buy votes.
"science" = Believe what we tell you not what the scientists say.
"cash for clunkers" = Tax your grandchildren to buy votes.
"fix the economy" = Triple the deficit and double the debt to buy votes.

We're fighting two wars, we're trillions of dollars in debt and essentially owned by the Chinese and Saudis due to decades of Democrat AND Republican mismanagement and dishonesty. But we have just GOT to pass this Health Care "Reform" NOW! OR ELSE! Who cares if our reps haven't read the bill through - time is of the essence, as is Dear Leader's legacy!

Only a fool would believe such nonsense. The liberals that STILL stand hypnotized by Obama's hucksterism are of the ilk that bought the farm in Jonestown. Hey, they were Socialists, too.

I love the way people try to blame the Republicans for blocking Health Care reform. The Republicans don't have the votes to block ANYTHING in either house of Congress. But Liberals don't ever let little things such as facts get in the way of their arguments.

No matter what the opinion on the public option for healthcare, the important thing is that its been brought to the forefront. In in the past it's been left alone but atleast now people are debating it and realizing something needs to be done now. Public option or not, we all need some help when it comes to high insurance costs.

With all this bru-ha-ha about Affordable Healthcare and solving it with socialized, one size fits all state run medicine. What's missing and begs to be asked is what caused the high costs in the first place? Why do doctors need the insurance that causes the horrendous costs? The answer, Frivolous lawsuits brought to us by unscrupulous lawyers. We don’t need healthcare reform, we need Tort Reform. We need a cap on lawyer’s fee schedules. They earn too much $$ at our expense.

Hey, bill r. Read HR 3400. THAT'S one Republican alternative!

And this little piggy went wee-wee-wee all the way into our homes.

Since when is healthcare an appropriate issue for the federal government?
Involvement is one thing.
Total control is a another.
No more laboratories-of-the-states?
Take a look at Illinois - universal coverage for children and the number of uninsured never dropped more than a percentage point.

"It's a phrase I use,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said...

Yeah right.

To David Cohen:

As a Jew, I did not vote for Obama and I am a Democrat. What part of Ayers, Wright, ACORN, etc., did you not understand?
Now we have Gates Jr. and the dismissal of the Black Panther case by the Justice Dept. A clear violation of voter intimidation. How could you possibly think Obama was post-racial?

The people I grew up knowing were people whose use of a phrase like "wee weed 'em up" were likely to kick the "weed" in the head and make 'em disappear.

The people I grew up knowing were people whose use of a phrase like "wee weed 'em up" were likely to kick the "weed" in the head and make 'em disappear.

I think this is all good ! Obama is single handedly going to bring about a republican landslide in 2010. The polls are already showing that. People are now realizing what their vote for Abama got them and it's scaring the hell out of them. I know because I'm one of them!

bill, please tell us you are joking! Surely you don't believe the federal government can run the health insurance industry more efficiently than private businesses can. Their attemps with Medicade and Medicare are both enormous failures from an efficiency standpoint and both will have to be dealt with sooner or later. Any attempt to reform health care will be doomed to failure if it doesn't start with tort reform, and I don't believe anything is being said about that. Maybe that is because the trial lawyers are off limits with this administration.

Also, don't get started with hating on Banks and the auto industry. Many of the problems associated with both of these industries result from unintended consequences of federal regulation and intervention placed on these industries. I don't understand people complaining about business when in reality it is these businesses, both big and small and the people who start and operate them that are willing to invest their money, time and talent and risk it all. Then in so many cases lawmakers and other politicos within government seem to do everything they can to make it hard for them to operate effeciently or even stay in business.

Just say NO.

As for the family vacation. Yes he and his family deserve a vacation. No problem there and I hope they can relax and enjoy themselves.

Here is the conservative (NOT Republican necessarily) Health Care Plan. Step 1 - Deregulate the insurance industry to get rid of the added costs by limiting interstate commerce of insurance. Too much power in the hands of federal and state bureacrats that creates limited and inefficient markets that restrict true competition. For those who naively think there is a "free market" for insurance, study up because you are gravely mistaken. Step 2 - Enact strong tort reform and lawsuit caps for malpractice. OBY/GYN's in major cities already pay over $250,000 and more in per year in malpractice insurance. Surgeons and anesthesiolgists pay similar amounts. Fear of litigation, no matter how frivolous, makes doctors practice defensive medicine. ALL of this is a major factor in why the cost of health care continues to spiral up. Step 3 - Stop talking about providing coverage for the alleged 45 million uninsured people in this country. Studies show that 45 million number includes nearly 20 million people with household incomes over $60,000 a year who simply choose NOT to make health insurance a priority and another 7-8 million are illegal immigrants. (Sorry they don't have a right to be in this country so they sure as heck don't have a right to have American taxpayers pay for their insurance). For those remaining who actually cannot afford insurance, include basic but PRIVATE health insurance under the welfare programs that already exist. The government could package and bid it out, awarding it to the lowest bidder. THAT is a plan that will reduce the costs of health care and make the insurance companies (of which there are over 13,000 in the US alone) truly compete in a free market. We absolutely do not need the government to intervene any further into this arena. Look at the financial state of the USPS, Medicare, and Social Security for all of the evidence that you need to see that the federal government is incompetent and unaccountable to run ANY business.

Smilin' Jim: You hit the nail on the head, but Obama doesn't want this talked about at all. Guess where 90% of trial lawyers' political contributions went in the last election?--exactly, to the Democratic party. Think there's going to be tort reform? Think again. There's too many lawyers in Congress. Barack Hussein Obama: signed, sealed, delivered, he's yours.

congressman says "dont confuse me with facts".....

Hopefully Barack Obama's daughters will advise him that the words "wee weed up" aren't very presidential!

Smilin' Jim:

Most every state already has medical malpractice tort reform with fee caps for lawyers - including CA since the 1970's - and I can tell you it hasn't a) stopped BS lawsuits or b) made health care a bit cheaper.

I oppose ObamaCare too, but get your facts straight - tort reform isn't a magic bullet and you can't blame this on the lawyers any more than you can simply blame "greedy doctors."

You sound like a class-baiting Lefty with ill-thought-out and wholly incorrect statements like that. The "white collar suit jerking the blue collar worker around" meme is for Michael Moore and John Edwards.

The politicians are the real enemy - of all of us.

If you just want to class-bait lawyers, "rich CEO's" etc... what makes you different from the "Republicans hate blue collar workers" dude above ?

Someone stated "we all need some help with high insurance premiums" So, I need some help with groceries, gas, utilities, clothes, vacations, etc, etc, etc. Are you proposing that it is someone elses responsibility to help me out with all of my needs? Please read the Constitution and then grow up. This whole issue should not even be being discussed. It is not a federal government responsibility---it is an individual responsibility. Only "adults" should vote. Take the nipple out of your mouths and take personal responsibility. You are in the country with the most freedom in the world---part of that freedom is freedom to make something of yourself or not. Health care is not a right.

Lets remember that when they play the number of 36 million americans are without health insurance, lets make clear as they like to use the phrase, that16 million do not deserve it since they don't pay taxes or have a resident permission to begin with, other 20 million are minority group that only democrats cater to anyways and have their own interest in, I call that a lobbist as well. So what are we left with less than 10% of the population as a whole with out health care, that is a free market and capitalisum at work, we can't ALL have everything but we all can try to work at it, at least for now. So the moto will be Divided Socialist Stae of America, no republic for once it stood, under God, under one nation. Say good bye unless town hall starts taking to the streets in the millions. IIt works for the minority why won't it work for majority.

Im not paying more or losing my insurance so OBAMA can insure his illegal alien buddies. Hes a socialist and destroying my country. Lets have TORT REFORM if he wants to CHANGE things so much. SKY HIGH Malpractice premiums are a huge part of sky high health care costs!!!!

what a jackass...but it's fitting, since he's working for an even bigger jackass!

To those quotinr Media Matters in defense of Obama, you're a joke.

Why not take it verbatim from the White House propaganda room?

Obama is sinking quickly as he tried to push through this massive shift in government control over the people and didn't anticipate resistance from his own party.

This issue has been wasted and will be hard to revive anytime in the near future

The public plan is the best now on the table. Deregulating the insurance industry is exactly the wrong thing to do: it would help to create fewer choices as the largest companies bought up the others to create near monopolies. They would then raise the premiums.

Mr. Obama has a young daughter and has been raising his kids for some time. Anyone who has had kids knows that the term "we-we" is one that comes up now and then.

How can people expect this incompetent government to run a health care system with medicaid ripe with fraud, doctors not being paid and dropping participation. A perfect example of goverment mess trying to run things is the 'Cash for Clunkers' Delaers ot getting re imbursed and forcing them to up the price of the cars to cover their costs, half the dealerships dropping out, mounds of paperwork, and it's near impossible to qualify.

2+2=5

Hey, bill r. Read HR 3400. THAT'S one Republican alternative!

Posted by: dmzrn | August 21, 2009 6:15 PM

HR3400
Official Summary
8/3/2007--Introduced.
Rebuilding America's Infrastructure - Establishes the Federal Bank for Infrastructure Modernization. Authorizes the Bank to make loans to any state, local government, Indian tribe, and regional or multistate organization for the development of certain transportation- and educational- and water and hazardous treatment-related capital infrastructure facility projects. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to:
(1) loan and borrower eligibility; and
(2) compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Buy American Act, and the Davis-Bacon Act (wages) as they relate to the development of such projects.

Is this the plan?

To my fellow commenters:
The “wee wee” incident is pretty silly considering how articulate Obama usually is. You may not agree that he is a good speaker, but he seems to be comfortable with public speaking. I don’t think Bush was really comfortable giving speeches. There are just some people who take to it like ducks to water. How well one speaks as president is important, but for pete’s sake they really are only human.
You may not have health care needs, but many, many others do. I for one can’t afford to go to a doctor, or buy medicine, and I work.
If you immediately equate socialism with communism than you are guilty of hysterical thinking. There is significant differences between socialist and communist ideas. Communism fails because it doesn’t have the checks and balances imbedded in its system that we have in ours. Every system of government involving humans ,needs to have checks and balances to limit the power being wielded by one person, or groups of people. I don’t care which political club is in power, enough of them are going to push their boundaries to see what they can get away with.
We already have socialism here. When you accept Medicare and Social Security payments, pay your taxes, obey government regulations, then you are participating in socialism. Social Security, Medicare, rent and food assistance are successful social programs that have been operating for years. They may not be perfect, or working exactly as they should, but they are socialist ideas and have been around for a while. Don’t forget state medical insurance. Thank socialist thinking for that.
In a country that claims to respect and protect individual freedoms of conscience, a woman can deal with her body as she deems fit. I will fight for your right to disagree with that, and I will fight for the right of women to be free from your religious dogma that claims she can’t.
We are already drowning in debt. The republicans and democrats have brought this state of recession on this country by their actions, or lack of actions. The same checks and balances we apply to political power should be applied to capitalist power. I don’t care what ‘ism you are talking about, humans will always take advantage. That’s why we were sent to our rooms when we were kids. We’re only human.
We should have finished our work in Afghanistan before taking on Iraq. Where is bin Laden?
The day that everyone gets paid a living wage (or bring living expenses down to an affordable level), will be the day that I will support the removal of all social programs.
If you want to settle “what most Americans want, believe in, or need” then how about we set up a national referendum to find out exactly what that would be. It would just be consultative. No commitments, except that politicians and citizens should listen and learn.
I don’t think we have the courage to do that.
Finally, the way people of different political views have been trashing each other (not just here but everywhere I look), is so beyond childishness that I am almost speechless in amazement. I can only point out that as soon as you swear at, belittle, or demonize someone personally or for their beliefs, you alienate them, reduce their ability or willingness to really listen to you, or even care to. If someone says something nasty about something you believe in, it won’t make anything better if you respond in kind. Why be insulting and petty? What does it get us?

Republicans know that a successful health care reform that achieves universal coverage will bury them electorally for a generation.
Posted by: Republicans hate blue collar workers | August 21, 2009 12:33 PM

Why do the defenders of wee wee still make absurd comments like the above? Democrats own Congress, let them pass whatever they want. The voters will then decide pass judgment in 2010 won't they? That's why all the Dems have wee wee in their pants now and want to blame everyone else for their own stupidity.

If Obama "wee weed up" don't you think he would be peeing in his nose? Maybe that is exactly what he needs to do....he isn't making such good decisions like it is.

Anybody that useses that phrase all wee weed up is a sissie. Look at BO and is press sec giggles. These guys are poster boys for the word sissie.

Barry makes another gaffe and Gibbs has to "explain" it.
Perhaps Obama used too much "weed" and must have hindered his vocabulary skills (without teleprompter, of course).

Yes, there are thousands losing their healthcare benefits every month. That's because they're the latest unemployment victims in the Obama Recession.

Are we supposed to forget they were trying to shove this through Congress before the recess? I think for Revisionist History and Doublespeak to work, the Department of Disinformation should really wait more than two weeks to start "reframing the argument". I am fed up with being robbed, lied too, villainized and treated like an idiot by my government.

Thank you, former part-time professor, for dumbing it down so that us ignorant rubes could understand the "messianic" meaning.

What a putz, or should I make that a "wee wee."

Why can't Obama stop wasting money ? The taxpayers are still paying for his stupid trip with his wife to New York.
This guy and Biden are 2 jokers !

The point is, federally run health care is totally unconstitutional. They have no right to reform anything. The Constitution clearly gives each state the right to see to the well being of it's own citizens, but also forbids the federal government from interfering.
This is a power grab, plain and simple, and the government is counting on using people's emotions to help them achieve their goal, while simultaneously suppressing those who read, research, and think for themselves.
Every dictator who ever got voted into office did it by appealing to the masses, and shutting down the free thinkers.

Since the cash for clunkers was so popular can we trade in our clunker president wee weed in for a working model?

Do a close examination of a current federal government run healthcare plan, the Indian Healthcare System for US indian tribes....you will definitely NOT want the feds involved in your healthcare....they have never funded this program (as mandated by law) more than 50% of the required budget so by June the system is out of money. What follows after that is a rationing of care and supplies until Congress deems to find a little more money in the next budget cycle. Fear this plan with your life, for that is what is at stake...

David Cohen,
So it follows, given your fear of the national debt, that you would approve if Barack cut off the $4 billion or so a year that Israel gets from the US Treasury?

Right?

So, things are going badly and getting worse and suddenly it's the Republicans fault, no wait, Palin fault, no wait, the medias fault. No, the administration has this list of people to blame but they're not on the list. Sounds familiar.

It's dead, bury Obamacare.

Actually, by failing to include any reference to abortion in the current House bill, abortions will be a fully covered cost, as will anything else not specifically mentioned for exclusion. All Federal courts have held, including the SCOTUS, that unless specifically excluded in the language, there is no prohibition to an act or coverage for a service. This part of the deliberate vagueness about what this reform bill covers. In addition, while it specifies that non-citizens are not eliglble for coverage under the government option, there is no provision within the bill to verify a persons citizenship status and actually prevents the collecting of any information to verify such status. Again, in effect, coverage is there for non-citizens. One of the more worrying parts of this bill is the specific language exempting the people in charge of the program from ANY judicial review of thier decisions, constructs,implementation rules or other matters concerning the government plan. Welcome to Stalinist America, comrades...

I hope that Obama keeps up his incompetance. It will surely bring real CHANGE come 2010. .... Assuming we are still solvent by then. ....and he hasn't been impeached for corruption and graft.

I can just imagine the outrage of the Elitists if President Bush had used this type of vanacular term in any type of setting. First time I have ever heard this term though. Perhaps it is a term he learned from Rev. Wright?

'Wee weed' up is the term Obama used when he was getting high on weed and cocaine while he was hiding his education and passport records.

It's "whee wha'd". As in, askew, disorganized, crooked (as in "your necktie is all whee wha'd", or "that picture is hanging all whee wha'd"), messed up, scattered about.

Land o'Goshen. Y'all don't know anything about the American frontier vernacular.

Will someone please
explain to me,
how the poet
who wrote
the transcendant
"Dreams From My Father,"
could also
say things like
"wee-weed up."
Thank you.
Posted by: Carolyn | August 21, 2009 5:41 PM
----------

Sure, I will.
You should re-read
Dreams from My Father
which is indeed a
terrific book.
Obama uses every
possible range of
language, from slang
to Biblical to policy
wonk to everyday speech
to expressions from
his African relatives,
plus what they
sometimes call ebonics.
That's part of what
makes it
such a good book.
Now let's calm
down,
let the man
go on vacation,
and not get
all wee-weed up
about this.
Okay?

Many of the problems associated with both of these industries result from unintended consequences of federal regulation and intervention placed on these industries.
Posted by: So Texan | August 21, 2009 6:50 PM

Oh please don't tell me you're one of the CRA people. Cra dosen't say what they claim, nor did it create what they say it did. Please.....minorities were NOT the reason for the housing crisis...greed was.

I think that it is Michelle's pet name for him.

Obama Healthcare = Cash for Caskets!

Can you imagine the snickering and claims of idiocy from the left if Bush had made such a comment?

What a lack of gravitas Mr. Obama shows with each new day.

This statement is almost as good as saying there's 57 States.

So let me get this straight: Obama thinks patriotic Americans who don't agree with socialism and a 9 TRILLION dollar deficit under his "reign" are bedwetting astroturf Nazis.

Hitler was a National Socialist. Enough said on that score.

Lets all be informed about what is really going on.
Single payer= government only.

I dare you to watch the clip. Then pass it around.

http://www.breitbart.tv/uncovered-video-obama-explains-how-his-health-care-plan-will-eliminate-private-insurance/

I love this quote form Abe Lincoln

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift up the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away peoples initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
You can't agree with Abe and Obama at the same time.

DON'T BLAME MY PRESIDENT!!! He's gonna give me a new house and pay ALLLLLLL my bills! Besides, HE WAS ONLY SAYING WHAT THAT LITTLE TV HE LOOKS AT TOLD HIM TO SAY!!!

IN REPLY to 'Republicans hate blue collar workers' Those of us who do not belong to a union are also losing jobs & insurance, so deal with the fact that YOU ARE NOT ENTITLE TO 'CRADLE TO GRAVE' security blanket- GROW UP UNION BABY!

here is a little statistic for people that believe health care should be a major concern. the majority of citizens get their health care thru there employer. unemployment is on the rise and still rising the economy is getting worse do the math. why not kill 2 birds with one stone. fixing the economy should be the first concern. more jobs more citizens will and can afford health care.

I would like to know just how any of the proposed legislation came to be, seeing as they didn't have time to read it before they were expected to vote on it. Doesn't it stand to reason it would take longer to write the legislation than read it? Who the hell wrote it and when? You can bet the whole thing was cobbled together by "special interest groups". Its also a safe bet they weren't affiliated with any conservative organization. Wake up America before its too late, Otherwise our grandchildren may never get the chance to pay for all this "hope and change"

I see no reason for the government to run medial care. Just like the housing projects, Obamacare will eventually be a complete failure. The government needs to do one simple thing, subsidize the purchase of a basic medical insurance plan for those who "cannot" afford it. There are people who cannot afford food, we don't have the government opening grocery stores. There are people who cannot afford electricity, we don't have the government running power plants. Until this is tried I cannot support socializing medicine. It is the wrong thing to do.

What a loser. He's taken how many vacations in 6 months? He wants us to sacrifice and he's taking his family all over the globe. There's a saying for this but I can't remember it right now. Something about being rich or something. One term is one too many. Anyone remember David Dinkens?

Maybe he's hitting the pipe again.

I hope President Obama enjoys his vacation. I hope Spreaker Pelosi can join him their with Senator Ried.
Then the best thing they could do for our country is stay there

If this administration wee-weed up about healthcare, what the he!! are they going to do when we get attacked again?

There are two things I know. Health care reform will increase the number of Americans who are dependent upon government largess and I hope that this leads to a permanent Democratic majority.

I have NEVER heard this comment made anywhere! It's another example of what happens when this president goes off of his prepared speech. It was very strange, and unprofessional. Wee-wee is a term one might use when their child is learning to toilet train, or might use when referring to a certain part of the body when teaching their son to potty train. Very strange, indeed...

Take the Health Care Challenge – just answer each of the following honest, straightforward questions with a reasoned, logical reply and MAKE ME AN OBAMACARE CONVERT!!!
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1. Government supplied and government managed services like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, USPS, Amtrak, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AmeriCorps have been historically and notoriously financial disasters. Each one of these programs has exceeded initial budget estimates by somewhere between five and fifty (yes, fifty!) times. Fraud is rampant - the books at Fannie and Freddie were cooked - helping precipitate the mortgage crisis. For every Amtrak customer who buys a ticket it costs taxpayers an additional $551 per passenger. AmeriCorps is missing somewhere around $2B without so much as a single receipt. The Social Security system is the mother of all Ponzi schemes - the "Lock box" never existed, Medicare will go broke by 2017 and Medicaid by 2013. The US Post Office as mentioned by the President is $4B is red ink and will be closing 1,000 offices. Based on the pathetic fiscal performance of these and other government programs why would the American people trust the other half of their medical services to the government?
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2. There are estimates of between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. Because a majority of these persons work at low wage jobs even those who are willing pay little or no income tax. These same people often show up at emergency rooms for care - and that is one factor driving up the cost of heath care for the rest of us. HR 3200 section 226 does restrict illegal aliens from qualifying for “Individual Affordability Credits” but does nothing to stem the “service on demand” model that is the law for emergency room care today. How is health care reform ever going to hope to control costs if a person can still demand emergency care without insurance or means of payment?
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3. Few would argue that a person injured by an incompetent physician isn’t entitled to compensation. The large cash settlements in high profile cases attract a swarm of those who are looking for big paydays. In the American court system there is little cost involved in losing a medical malpractice lawsuit. It is commonplace for medical malpractice law firms to advertise “you win or it costs you nothing”. The losing lawyer would only be exposed to lost time and modest court costs. This “nothing to lose” approach to malpractice litigation only encourages those with specious claims to “give it a go”. While wholesale tort reform at the Federal level may be unconstitutional, adopting what law professors call the “English Rule” where the losing party pays for the attorney’s fee for the winning party works to dissuade those intent upon gaming the system. The English Rule has been adopted in nearly every court system in the western world except the US. Why doesn’t Obamacare take even simple steps to help lower the significant insurance expense paid by health care providers to protect themselves from the blizzard of often questionable malpractice litigation?
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4. The CBO’s (Congressional Budget Office) recent report shows Obamacare costing $1,400,000,000,000 over the next 10 years….every cent piled on to the Federal debt --- with interest!. This is supposedly going to be paid by taxes on the wealthy. With Federal Income tax receipts falling at the fastest level in the past 50 years and the recession still upon us just how much can you tax the wealthy when the top 1% of tax payers already pay 39% of Federal Income tax?
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5. Why doesn’t Congress lead by example and mandate that they and their families receive all of their medical needs solely under Obamacare?

When he and Congress are on vacation, they can't push more socialist programs on Americans. Let's give 'em all an extended vacation through 2009 - and maybe longer.

How did Civil Rights or the Environmental Movement happen? It was a mass popular push, broad-based, bottom up, that forced legislative change against legislators' will (Civil Rights Act 1968 and Clean Air/Water Acts). It didn't come from the top down. Real change never, ever comes from the top down. Business interests want the public to be quiet and docile, teaching us, subtly, that the extent of our political involvement is to vote in elections. And although Obama was elected on a wave of popular support, insurance and pharma are beating down doors with $1 mil per day. But we know the majority of people support the reforms Obama proposes. WE NEED TO STAND UP AND DEMONSTRATE MAJOR SUPPORT FOR THESE REFORMS.

Business wants you to be disgruntled and politically inactive. And so, it works if you give up on the Democrats, or any representative. This isn't over yet. I believe Obama is practically begging the majority to get up and actively show support for real health care reform. It is a test. It's a test to see whether we'll stand up, and Obama went all-in on it. So get off your blogging ass and help a brother out.

Wee wee'd up? Is our children learning?

What a joke. As soon as the initial report concerning Obama's thoroughly un-presidential, childish and undignified comment hit Drudge, the administration knew the most intelligent man to ever fill the office had "gone off teleprompter" again. Gibbs -- i.e., the SpokesIdiot -- has been assigned to take the hit on this one for the sake of his boss.

Looks like all the drudgereport idiot haters are here! Southern rebels go home! Obama rules and u know it!! Pro-choice rules! Abort all christian babies! christianity sucks! Sarah palin is a dumb moron that abuses power! She is not qualified, just like bush wasn't....

FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF DEMOCRAT

PSALM 20O8-2012

OBAMA IS MY SHEPHERD,
I SHALL NOT WANT.

HE LEADETH ME BESIDE THE STILL FACTORIES.

HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

HE GUIDETH ME IN THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

YEA, THOUGH I WALK THRU THE VALLEY OF THE BREAD LINE, I SHALL NOT GO HUNGRY.

OBAMA HAS ANOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES.
MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME.

SURELY POVERTY AND HARD LIVING
WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF HIS TERM.

FROM HENCE FORTH WE WILL LIVE
ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES IN A RENTED HOME WITH AN OVERSEAS LANDLORD..
*******************
BUT I AM GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN,
I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.
BUT I WISH I WAS A DOG AND OBAMA WAS A TREE

'Obama healthcare = Cash for Caskets'. Mike, that is fantastically funny and unfortunately, true.

Hey Joe. By whose call is it that national health care is unconstitutional. Get your head out of yours @#$! Besides who runs medicare, who runs the V. A. for our vets, who runs the military, the U.S. Government doctors went to Panama when we were building the canal and found out what the hell was causing malaria. The U. S. gave 400,000,000 million last year to John Hopkins University for medical research. Where in the hell do you think all this funding for our university research comes from?? FROM THE TAX PAYER! John McCain wants people to pay taxes on their health care they get from their employer, he doesn't even pay taxes on his 58,000 dollar pension he gets from the taxpayer! I pay taxes on my pension and my social security monies, WHAT THE HELL!! National health care for all now, WITH OR WITHOUT THE RIGHT WING NUTS! whiteagle38

who's going to pay for this bullshit? wake up you moron's I would like a new car too! Or maybe i should have a free lawyer?

Please don't blame Obama for the Wee Weed remark. He is only reading the TOTUS and can't be held responsible for what was programmed in.

I did not know wee-weed means bed wetting. Someone please add this to the dictionary.

Thanks,

http://www.nwvd.org

The whole health care push is being promoted by wealthy elitists who believe in eugenics and population control like the Soros and Rockefellers of the world. Not to mention Holdren, Sunstein, Emauel, and Daschle.

All this is about is population control and health rationing. These are the haters that are driving this managed society agenda, and you will be the slaves!

Right wingers will save you, it's these leftist killers who are the HATERS like K who posted above.

Fearmongering is what is being used to control you for both climate change and health care... they want to kill you folks... Only a right winger will tell you the truth about this.

all the labelled myths are in fact not myths but the TRUTH.

Obama sucks, period.

thank god he is a one-termer.

First he insulted the children of Special Olympics and now it is unfortunate children, humiliated because of incontinence by the President of the United States. Such were also humiliated and killed in another socialist country of the past. This guy is far from presidential or decent and shows no compassion for the unfortunate.

Hey "Media Matters"...your Myth #14, "Government can't run a healthcare program" proves to me that this legislation is geared for government to eventually run nationalized healthcare. In trying to debunk "so-called" myths, you have actually shown us that is exactly what this is supposed to accomplish. WE DON'T WANT GOVERNMENT TO RUN A NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE PROGRAM. Period.

Chairman Obama better get "wee-weed" up along with his ganster Chicago, Communist, Facsist, Socialist crew of thungs, because real men have had enough of his front for Wall St. K St., and hollywood, not to mention the unseen hand. Take your Nationalized Health care and shove it up your ass.

PEOPLE!

Why are the banks getting systematically shut down by the Fed. government???!
77 as of Aug. 15.

Aug. 21 (today) Guaranty Bank shut down. Guaranty is the largest bank to fail in Texas.

Aug. 21 (today) CapitalSouth Bank shut down-
Jacksonville Business Journal

What's all this about? Is this just business as usual? nothing new or "fishy" going on?

"Wee-weed up" -a term used by our regal prez to speak to the lowly subjects who he believes are too ignorant to understand "big" words. Well, Mr. Obama, not only am I all wee-weed up, I am also pretty tee-teed off.

Anybody else starting to think the Clampett's have moved into the White House?

wee-weed Sounds like the koolaid is wearing off and the sheeple are questioning how anyone could deliver on all the health care promises (hint...they can't, won't, and once this mess of a bill is passed it will also be Bush's fault). They need you to smoke some more DOPE, so you will stick to the bumper stickers, not the facts. Who thought Change meant....changing us into a 3rd world country by bankrupting the country. May Obama help us.

Let's see .. foreign banks have looted $23.7 trillion dollars that our grandchildren will never pay off and this is what's on topic?

http://911essentials.com goes into this subject and many more important issues instead of 5 year old potty talk.

This man is a joke. For a President to use these types of words. He absolutely has no class. What other part of our lives to you liberals want governement to run? They have our housing, cars, jobs, and now health care? What next our kids?

Well....seems to me we are at war at home and abroad. We are being destroyed from within and from without. Socialists assault our core values. The media assaults our system of government. Muslims assault our very right to exist. Hm. Nine trillion dollars........your kids kids kids kids.......

Dear "K" aka "MYTH #1 GUY" - you haven't actually READ the bill have you? You probably have your purple Acorn shirt and are being paid after answering the ad on Craigslist to go to websites and sound off your propaganda. Know two things: 1) Conservatives will keep quiet no longer and 2) We will fight you to save our country. Obama and his Chicago community organizers WILL NOT destroy this country. You're time is through.

Health Care is not a civil right nor an unalienable right.

All these "crises" are started by government meddling in the market place.

The poor in the US have it much better than they otherwise would because there are wealthy folks, not despite it.

Get off my back, Mr. Obama! And, get out of my pocket. And all of you who think that I need your oversight to guide my charity: PISS OFF!

All you libtards are ready to follow the Kenyan-in-Chief right off a cliff!

yes.. everything is SO urgent that it must be done yesterday.. but first, let me suck up to nascar drivers, make an after-school special, and take off on ANOTHER vacation on the taxpayer's dime....the audacity !!

The libs idea of a bipartisan bill means: we will write it, and yes it will be a socialist bill. Now ur job in this "bipartisan" process republicans is to vote for this bill. Forget that your constituents are against it and forget that the polls clearly show Americans are aganst it and just vote yes.

For healthcare to be a "right" that one does not pay for, someone else will be legally required to pay for it ---- and the refusal to pay will be defined as a punishable crime under the law. Obviously this is not "free" healthcare, it is simply OhBummer's intent to "equalize" heatlhcare ---- and if it is bad or a budget-busting expense, no matter ---- as long as it is "equally" bad for everyone. OhBummer wants to do for the healthcare industry what the Democrats did for the mortgage industry ---- scrxw it up so badly that it will sink us, forever. If OhBummer is a friend of the American people, then who needs enemies?

Chris wrote: "Public option or not, we all need some help when it comes to high insurance costs."

So here's a great plan for Chris and others:

1. Find a friend similarly situtated.

2. Agree "everyone" needs help with insurance costs.

3. Agree with your friend that you'll help each other pay for your insurance coverages. You give him $50 a month and he gives you $50 a month.

4. But this transfer is taxed by the government, so you get $40.

5. Use the MINUS $10 you've received in net to help pay for your health insurance.

6. Since your insurance payment is $10 less than before, you'll have to get a policy with lesser coverage.

If you've followed this, you should realize that's how government-subsidized insurance will work.

The $50 is the tax increase, the $10 is the government's overhead (very low estimate), and the lesser coverage is the result of rationing.

Seems pretty clear to me that there's no such thing as a free lunch (er, CAT Scan). Somebody has to pay.

Obama is claiming the government can run an insurance plan with lower overhead than a private company. While possible, it seems very unlikely given the history of other government programs.

If Chris wants help with his payment WITHOUT helping others, then what he's saying is that only some folks will get help. Others will pay more (likely a lot more) to help Chris. This is a wealth transfer and is completely in line with Obama's philosophy (recall the "Joe the Plumber" episode) and Chris's too is would appear.

TNSTAAFL,
M(M)M

For the unwashed, TNSTAAFL = There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

Gibbs is full of it, and just pulled that response straight out of his backside. "Wee wee'd" is referencing "The pig cried wee wee wee all the way home". "Wee" is the sound a pig makes when it is scared, and apparently in this case running scared.

I wanna know when I get my check for voting for Obama. The Acorn dude tole me I would get a check. wher in the hell is my check? I bet that dude cashed it hisself. I'm sick and tired of these promises not getting filed. I want my check.

Would somebody call me when my check is available? I needs to payt for my happy pills so I need my checkt.

and whats all this crap abou health car? don you fools kno you just go to to emergentcy room and use get all fixed up.

So wher's my checkd?

Poor lil Obama, he hasn't been getting his way. He was going to claim racism again, but instead he cried wee wee wee all the way out of town on vacation. Obama speaks like a child when he is not scripted on the teleprompter. Who is the puppet master behind the teleprompter of our ridiculous president?

I have to laugh at your statement comments are screened for "relevance to the topic". From top-to-bottom the comments are just the unhinged paranoid ravings of the lunatic right wing. But this is the Trib. 'nuff said.

This is 100% proof that we have CHILDREN in the White House.

Hopefully, the grown-ups will take over in 2012 (don't care if it's Demos or Repubs... just GROWN-UPS!)

@jill- You forgot to throw in that we are racists if we don't agree with him turning this into a socialist country with mega kickbacks for the elitists in power. And we're supposed to shut the hell up about the Chicago style tactics they are using against those who dare to disagree with selling our freedoms for votes.
HOW DARE THEY TELL ME I'M A RACIST BECAUSE I HAVE A BRAIN AND A VOICE.
2010 can't come fast enough for me. Especially since I live in Boxer and Feinstein country. Buh Bye, ladies.

Scott is an idiot. He cannot come up with intelligent arguments against most of the posters so he wee-wees the wall with insults.

People should wade through the Obozo's chief health advisor's (Ezekiel J Emanuel, Rahm's brother) article in the 1/09 issue of Lancet. Not only does this Orwellian creep clearly assign varying values to human beings (for receiving medical resources) but treats human beings as units. I came away with the impression that I had been reading a thinly-disguised treatise on livestock management. Guess who is the "livestock." See URL below

www.thelancet.com Vol 373 January 31, 2009

WOW!

Kool-Aid tastes great!

And EMPTY suits make great leaders!

Mmmmm... Grape Kool-Aid... YUMMY!

what a classless man. a nuevo riche who flaunts it. and could an aide tell him that 'to' is not pronounced 'tuh.' thanks.

haha, i think its hilarious how conservative people get super scared and crazy when a little change comes around. The truth is you are all just greedy basterds. My favorite is the religious conservatives even funnier i love jesus but i wont follow his word. The man if he even existed healed the sick for free!!! Oh yeah and anyone who would call the health care reform socialism ur an idiot, yeah its a socialist idea like the education system and at one point people didnt like the fact that their taxes went to that either but history has made them look like fools too.

Here is the real reform that needs to take place.

American consumers need to spend a lot of time writing letters, calling the companies and picketing the following:

All of the insurance companies
*Insurance companies continue to make record profits

All of the drug companies
*The drug companies for years have put the blame for drug prices on R&D. Did you know drug reps are given Amex cards and they have to spend $5,000 a month on dinners and golf to smooze clients.
*The drug companies all make record profits each quarter

All of the hospital equipment manufacturers
*Hill Rom manufactures hospital beds, IV stands etc, they are also the parent company for the Batesville Casket Co.
*All of the hospital supply companies are always making record profits

Americans have forgotten how to take the power in their own hands, do you really think an over paid government worker is going to fix the problem? I think our Congress and President should have the same health care system, not the posh health care they currently have. I think that would put things more in perspective for them.

"
Obama uses every
possible range of
language, from slang
to Biblical to policy
wonk to everyday speech
to expressions from
his African relatives,
plus what they
sometimes call ebonics.
That's part of what
makes it
such a good book."

Esther, are you defending
a childish term
for bedwetting...
as an example of
Obama's diversity of
expression?

The Audacity Of Wee.

Obama has placed this country in debt to the tune of 9 Trillion (9 million millions) over the next ten years. I hope all you who voted for him are happy now because your the ones who will foot the bill.

Approval ratings that started with nothing to go on at 68%, 100 days later were below 60%, now just over 200 days, they're below 50.

A nice wager would be to bet that by day 300 there will be a world-wide consensus that this is the most wee-weed up Presidency in the history of the United States.

To anyone with a brain screwed on, this was predictable. Obama has no experience that goes beyond shmooze. Unfortunately, 52% of Americans were too starry-eyed to think before voting.

The problem is not the wee-weed up Presidency, it is how he has already wee-weed up this great Nation.

Obama and the dems should be getting "wee-weed up". They are going to start losing elections starting in 2010 and the big one in 2012. People are fed up with this joker and the ones that voted for him are having buyer's remorse. I hope this lying, socialist POS fails miserably. He and his followers deserve all the s**t that is going to hit the fan shortly.

BTW, Wee-weed is a politically correct term to use in place of PIST-OFF!

so you have to read it this way, everyone is getting all pist-off up in Washington. and he is right there are a lot of people who are down right angry over the health care issue. On the right is is because of the excessiveness of the Govt to take over the health care system and tax the people for it or fine em for not having it.

And on the left that tea parties are real people not astroturf, no one wants to support Obama's health reform plan, and they're racists.

sounds fishy to me

He simply means pissed off, the way he gets when someone fails to bow to his royal highness.

Hey, "Republicans hate blue collar workers". If you had more than a cereal box education you'd be able to see what an outright lie you've been hoodwinked into. There is a plan that would subsidize those without health care insurance and not bankrupt your kids and grandkids. The myth that there is a health care crisis in this country has been promulgated by those who want to take away our, thats your and my freedom. It doesn't matter how many people don't have health care insurance now if it means the country becomes a third world hell hole. Blue collar does not necessarily mean stupid and dense, although in your case it seems the exception. Go back to your Captain Crunch box pal!

In case you didn't know it, this is a sterling example of a Harvard education, you know the one that is now taught by people who can't turn a better phrase than "Yo Momma" when confronted by an officer of the law. And note to K, if you check out your so called myths you will find that they are all true, try reading the bill, if you can read.

this man is on drugs.

The President of the United States starting to sound more like Baby Huey everyday.

But thank GOD that idiot from Alaska didn't get elected./sarq

I like how the one guy who quotes the 10 republican myths took his drivel from mediamatters.

That's like walking around the FICTION section and coming out with a new religion.

"Wee-weed up, Bro!" It's Ebonics for being all shook up because you're jonesing for some weed, right? He uses the phrase all the time: I'm sure Gibbs is down wif da dope lingo, yea? BO definitely needs to replace that doughboy with a cool brother.

Is "wee wee'd up" the same as "wee wee'd off"?

We need to get a handle on our debt first otherwise this may all be meaningless.

who's going to pay for this bullshit? wake up you moron's I would like a new car too! Or maybe i should have a free lawyer?

Posted by: Arnie | August 21, 2009 10:29 PM

There were many idiotic posts....but I choose this because he "does" need a free education.

Obama's health care reform will bring the same chaos that rules Europe's health care.

Quality's dropping. Waiting lists are growing. Here in Austria the government-owned health insurances are bankrupt, they're done for (the first thing Austrian, and by now German, doctors ask you is: "Do you have private insurance?") Germany barely avoided a collapse by forcing working people to pay more so that people who refuse to work can get health care. In Britan the NHS has grown too big to be of any use (waiting times for skin cancer surgery: several months; and I've seen veterinary clinics that are better staffed and equipped than public hospitals in the UK.) In Scandinava working people get taxed to death so that the welfare states there can attract more non-achievers, which will ultimately lead to the collapse of the whole system. And in Japan they're running out of pediatricians and hospitals tend to refuse patients when they think they don't have the right staff and equipment.

Yeah, that's what health care for everyone does.

It's a failed idea.

Why are you people so keen to repeat the same mistakes others have made before you? Why is Obama so keen on pulling something through that is clearly not working?

All the people who talk so big about how great health care in Europe is, here's a challenge: live there, actually experience governmental health care in Europe. Without private insurance. Then talk again. Because after that you will hate the idea. I guarantee you that.

We weed up? Barry Hussein tokin' on a blunt? Sounds like Poo-Poo to me.

Doesn't anyone mention that Tom Daschle is a lobbyist?Another campaign promise broken - "There will be no lobbyists in my administration". Obama received 3 times the donations of any other candidate from the Healthcare Industry. Their money will be needed again. There are elections coming up. Thats why the hurry.

The constitution says" there shall be 3 branches of government, legislative,executive and judicial as A SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES" When a lawyer passes the bar exam he becomes a member of JUDICIARY and as such comes under different laws than the other brances. He does not belong in the other 2 branches AS A SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES!! You do not want lawyers making laws for you and you will never get tort reform. NEVER, EVER vote for a lawyer

Oopsie daisy....the big O makes a boo boo. Tells his distractors who are "wee wee'd up" to piss off.

I know a couple of things: first the country is bankrupt. Printing money does not replace sound fiscal policy. Given that we are bankrupt, how can we qualify for and extra trillion for this health care debacle? You know it and I know it...households across the nation are paying off debts and preparing for many rainy days. Our government continues as if we have full employment and every single employed person pays federal taxes. Please wake up...because of our "leadership," we are drowning. "It is fun to spend other people's money" is the mindset of Washington, DC. They don't care at all that it will never be covered by taxes.

If you think Obama is fixing things, look at sites like http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

who are the 141 000 people loosing their health care a month ?
the unemployed - well duuh

but the 'porkulus' was supposed to help

yes we need reform no the OBAMANATION doesn't get to have control - he's an idiot.

YOU libbers wanna impress us independants - than read the bill before you speak about that which YOU know nothing about...

ps mean people suk

The last time I heard the term "wee-wee" my kids were 2 years old. This talk really doesn't bode well for our President or his administration or his policies. Bathroom humor is not Presidential Mr. Obama.

So, now our president is further insulting Americans by calling(according to Gibbs) DC folks, "bedwetters"?
Good move.

Wee-weed up, as in wetting the bed? It sounds suspiciously like dicked-up, as in the current administration.

Despite the overwhelming American disapproval of the health care plan, the Administrations priority is "getting a bill through the House and Senate"?
Are these retards totally tone deaf?
This is classic Democratic Party-Think. "The masses don't know what is good for them, we do."
Their arrogance is breathtaking.

So sayeth the Liar-in-Chief.
Impeach now.

while we are discussing health care:
every time that i hear discussions about health care, I hear about how much money that the US spends on health care per capita. My thought is how much of that health care money is spent on the morbidly obese? Maybe this money would be better spent on health lifestyle education.

One way to solve the high cost of health care is shoot all of the lawyers

Myth debunker debunked: News clip shows Obama saying he didn't read bill when someone asked if they would lose their own insurance. Excuse me--what were you elected for??? Not to just ram it through without anyone reading--or *understanding* all that legalese. Who will be interpreting it? Do they believe in euthanasia???

Our usurper in chief and team are in denial about the widespread, national outcry against this beast. Although the people are protesting, speaking out against him at town halls, and polls reflect a soured public sentiment toward him, he and his cronies say, "Nothing to see here!" Soon they will announce plans to put his face on our currency with the phrase, "In Me you trust." On the back of the bill will be a picture of the teleprompter. If you still think he is the Hope for America, read http://usurper-in-chief.blogspot.com/

The Obama cabinet has some of the brightest working on the health plan, who are less influenced by special interests compared to the Republicans. The healthcare issue is too complex for the average American to understand specially those who are too vocal at the town meetings. The government must go ahead with the plan because the benefits will vindicate them in the long run even if their current approval rating is low.

I would urge the President to extend his vacation for a month. Then he should go and visit President Bush and compare his handling of health care (insurance) refirm with Bush's handling of Katrina.

It's one of either two NEO-LEET expressions

"Everyone in Washingotn gets all oui-oui'd up"

(ie they are all looking at old whack-mags)

- or -

"Everyone in Washington gets all Wii-wii'd up"

(ie being .5% of elites in this depression, they all have two Wii's - how many do YOU have?"

Dear Mr. President:

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy.

Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings -

Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered-

Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage-

Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!

If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes...

All Socialists/Communists in America will soon be six feet under and wondering why the American people rose up to take back their country in the Second American Revolution or the Second Coming of Christ, whichever comes first. No doubt that Obama will soon be cast on the discarded waste pile of the biggest failure and most corrupt American President in our nation's history.

All of you who still believe the free market can efficiently and humanely handle US health care needs, how do you explain that it is the free market that got us into this current disaster in the first place? For-profit health care and insurance are failed and inherently inefficient markets because the laws of supply and demand CANNOT WORK they way they do in other markets. Until the problem of health care insecurity is solved in this county, nobody is ever going to feel confident to spend any money ever again, and we are not coming out of this depression. Oh, and people will continue to DIE, but I guess you creeps don't care about that, do you? You got yours, let the rest of the country go to hell. Well, I'm here to tell you that you won't have yours long - wait until you get seriously sick and then get denied for some bullsh*t pre-existing condition you were not even aware of. Then you'll see what a grand thing free-market health care really is.

I think what it means is 'do we want our citizens and illegal alie -er, undocumented workers beholden to our liberal government for all their wants and needs to ensure that we eradicate all initiative and personal motivation, reward failure, and assure that they will vote Dem indefinitely?'

Well, as the Frenchies say, oui, oui.

Everybody against nationalized health care, must also be ready to give up their medicare benefit in the future? How 'bout your SSI check?

Funny after 8 years of a president who was incapable of speaking in complete sentences, people will write critically about this.

That has to be the lamest explanation for a sitting president to use the term "weeweed" in public media. Because his spokesman uses the phrase, it becomes acceptable? "Family friendly" "bedwetting" completely worsens the aspect on the outside chance that obami meant something other than what everyone took it to mean. This is no way for a President of the United States to talk in public. Rank amateur,

Instead of creating a whole new government health care bureaucracy, why don't they fix the ones that are in place and bleeding money from corruption? Don't you libs understand this isn't an attempt to get health care for everyone, we already have that with medicaid and medicare, and hospital emergency room care for anyone who walks in. It's a Government takeover of American business, first the financial industry, then health care, next will be energy. That is how socialism works, ALWAYS. If you want a recent example look at Venezuela, it was the exact same process. Everything is done in the name of the people over big business, problem is, business is what powers the machine, provides the jobs, and profit is the fuel to create innovation and hard work. Without it you have no tax revenue, and EVERYONE is dependent on the State for their ration of the pie.

Well, it has been 12 hours now AND NOT A SINGLE TAKER of the HEALTH CARE CHALLENGE!!! For all the accusations from the Democrats the opponents of Obamacare are uniformed louts you'd think that they would WELCOME the chance to INFORM the unworthy!!!!

Take the Health Care Challenge – just answer each of the following honest, straightforward questions with a reasoned, logical reply and MAKE ME AN OBAMACARE CONVERT!!!
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1. Government supplied and government managed services like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, USPS, Amtrak, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AmeriCorps have been historically and notoriously financial disasters. Each one of these programs has exceeded initial budget estimates by somewhere between five and fifty (yes, fifty!) times. Fraud is rampant - the books at Fannie and Freddie were cooked - helping precipitate the mortgage crisis. For every Amtrak customer who buys a ticket it costs taxpayers an additional $551 per passenger. AmeriCorps is missing somewhere around $2B without so much as a single receipt. The Social Security system is the mother of all Ponzi schemes - the "Lock box" never existed, Medicare will go broke by 2017 and Medicaid by 2013. The US Post Office as mentioned by the President is $4B is red ink and will be closing 1,000 offices. Based on the pathetic fiscal performance of these and other government programs why would the American people trust the other half of their medical services to the government?
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2. There are estimates of between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. Because a majority of these persons work at low wage jobs even those who are willing pay little or no income tax. These same people often show up at emergency rooms for care - and that is one factor driving up the cost of heath care for the rest of us. HR 3200 section 226 does restrict illegal aliens from qualifying for “Individual Affordability Credits” but does nothing to stem the “service on demand” model that is the law for emergency room care today. How is health care reform ever going to hope to control costs if a person can still demand emergency care without insurance or means of payment?
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3. Few would argue that a person injured by an incompetent physician isn’t entitled to compensation. The large cash settlements in high profile cases attract a swarm of those who are looking for big paydays. In the American court system there is little cost involved in losing a medical malpractice lawsuit. It is commonplace for medical malpractice law firms to advertise “you win or it costs you nothing”. The losing lawyer would only be exposed to lost time and modest court costs. This “nothing to lose” approach to malpractice litigation only encourages those with specious claims to “give it a go”. While wholesale tort reform at the Federal level may be unconstitutional, adopting what law professors call the “English Rule” where the losing party pays for the attorney’s fee for the winning party works to dissuade those intent upon gaming the system. The English Rule has been adopted in nearly every court system in the western world except the US. Why doesn’t Obamacare take even simple steps to help lower the significant insurance expense paid by health care providers to protect themselves from the blizzard of often questionable malpractice litigation?
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4. The CBO’s (Congressional Budget Office) recent report shows Obamacare costing $1,400,000,000,000 over the next 10 years….every cent piled on to the Federal debt --- with interest!. This is supposedly going to be paid by taxes on the wealthy. With Federal Income tax receipts falling at the fastest level in the past 50 years and the recession still upon us just how much can you tax the wealthy when the top 1% of tax payers already pay 39% of Federal Income tax?
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5. Why doesn’t Congress lead by example and mandate that they and their families receive all of their medical needs solely under Obamacare?

Posted by: Consultofactus | August 21, 2009 10:09 PM

There is a government run healhtcare system in place now which provides adequate services. It is the VA Healthcare system. I say adequate because there are too few providers to provide care such as heart surgery in all locations. Those patients in this region have to travel at least 300 miles to get care. Knee replacements are only performed based on age and condition, not on the condition of you knees, so you can't get a knee replaced until over sixty. Many patients in the system opt to use outside doctors for specialist care so they won't have to wait so long or jump through so many hoops. Their private insurance approves procedures long before the VA will. In many communities, your doctor goes hom at night and there is no VA hospital so you either go to a local ER or travel over a hundred miles to the nearest VA ER. Most veterans have to have a second doctor in their local community to see them. The VA won't give many newer medications. The VA does employ a lot of people who tell the people who are giving the care how and what to do. And what they can't do. They are also very good at saying no to almost anything as a first response. Manif not most people n the VA really care, but get burned out because there is not enough medical staff to do what needs to be done.

Wow, they're holding my comment for review. I feel honored, censored for no reason, but honored just the same.

Concerning " Republicans hate blue collar workers" rant about Big Pharma getting kicked off the gravy train, you do realize that Obama has recently made a back room deal with Big Pharma, yes? This is from the Los Angeles Times. "the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will bar the government from using its huge purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices." Where's the hope and change here?

The election of Obama was tantamount to writing the obituary for a formerly great Nation. Obama has been exposed so many times for misrepresentation of known facts, how can anyone now trust the man to abide by any commitment? As the recent presidential polls verify, the American people are far more perceptive than Obama bargained for. Socialism, of which Obama's Socialized Health Care is only a small part, has been an abject failure in every Nation where it has been implemented, so why should we be surprised that, in total, Obama style Socialism would be any different. It's Obama's intention to destroy the free-enterprise structure that has made America the most prosperous Nation in the history of mankind; and, to replace it with the Socialist structure from his native Kenya. A structure where the elite such as Obama and his clan travel and subsist in luxury, as illustrated by the unbounded extravagance on the taxpayer dime by his wife Michelle, while the masses wallow in the misery of a system that confiscates the products of their labor so as to acheive Obama's coveted "redistribution of the wealth". Obama is in fact the "Reparator In Chief"; and, will willingly resort to the thuggery techniques that he employed as a "Community Agitator" in Chicago to achieve his objectives. If left unrestrained, Obama will do irreparable harm to the American economy. Greg Neubeck

Health care is health maintenance. Medical care is what you gets when you don't take care of your health. Accidents and unplanned emergencies are always possible you but, as an individual, are still responsible for the costs involved, not society. If more people took this approach in life we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Vacation? Who are they kidding?
The guy has never held a REAL job in his life. He has never been responsible for P&L, and answerable to the BOD and shareholders. Yet those that put this fool in office are causing all of us to pay the price for their folly.
Who runs the county? It sure ant Obama. Emanuel is pulling the strings in the White House. Pelosi and Reed are his lap dogs. As for Obama he’s too tired from all his work and needs a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard? Considering the economy he might have opted for his home state of Hawaii to set a better image of one concerned over the working people that voted for him that and are now on the street. Martha’s Vineyard is a slap in the faces to those out of work and those that lost their homes and are destitute.
I would like to see any bills he has ever passed or acts he crafted or any group he led other than a bunch of communists called community organizers. There are none. Oh, I know the liberals will be yelling I am racist when in fact it is it is they that are the racist. I don’t care if he is black or red or yellow. I care about this country and the complete and utter lack of leadership.

The bedwetters are really the liberals who can't control themselves when it comes to destroying capitalism. In their minds, they've been a victim their whole life and they have wet dreams thinking of ways to get even with everyone else.

Ron Kessler was on CSpan this morning.

Warning about cut backs in Secret Service budget.

At the same time pointing out that Obama has received 4 times the number of threats as W.

From the self styled "patriots" such as have posted above.

They need to go on the watch list.

Are there any grown up in the Obama Administration?

“Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?" – Rush Limbaugh

It's good to see the President is so "professional".

"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though." ~ B. Hussein Obama

Merely wee-weed up?

Urine way over your head.

Above your paygrade indeed.

Obama is a moron and now all the bedwetting liberals are seeing the failure of a man they ellected. Good job victocrats. Viva La Reagan!

Let's wake up America! Don't be mislead by the disengenuesness of obama and his cronies. If the health bill is enacted, there will be higher costs and ratioming of services for all of us.

Hey Bill r. You are an ill informed idiot.
First of all, what makes you think that our federal government has the power to pass a "health care plan"?
Second, the republicans do have a health care alternative. You will never see it or hear about it because it doesn't fit the script but its been drafted. Do you think the democratic speaker of the house will even send the bill to committee? She wont. Also, like it has any chance of passing with the huge democratic majority.
Last, the democrats have large majorities in both houses of congress. They don't need republican support. The problem is they don't have even the support of their party. That speaks volumes to even the most dimwitted reader.

Hey Jules. When you say it was the free market that got us into this mess, don't you really mean decades of government interference in the free market? You know like Medicare/medicaid, the HMO act of 1973, and over litigation by greedy trial lawyers.
I'm just shocked at the complete ignorance. Health care in the country has not been a "free market" in my life time. I has been overburdened by government since at least the 60s.

Big Union/ Bil Liberal/Big Government healthcare myths, get debunked:

MYTH 1: The health care crisis was created not by the Government control of prices thru the Medicare schedule, but by some backroom schema between providers and insurance companies
MYTH 2: Health care reform not only lift the rationing of the current health care system, but it will be beneficial to tap the unlimited resources of the "taxpayer" to replenish the pool of the commons
MYTH 3: Health care reform provides for selective choice by an appointed council of "experts", who may or may not be providers, that will select what conditions we will cover and what conditions are too expensive to cover, thereby limiting the choices for care to the consumer and the provider (but that is not a "death panel")
MYTH 4: Health care reform legislation will cover not undocumented immigrants, but we won't waste the time to ask a patients status
MYTH 5: Health care reform won't raise "your" taxes, because we have an infinite pool of rich people and business, and you will see no effect when we raise their taxes in the form of raising prices, unemployment, or the eventual spread of the tax pool. Remember: The AMT was implemented to only affect the rich, but look at who is impacted today.
MYTH 6: Health proposals won't tax all small businesses
MYTH 7: Health care reform would add $1 trillion-plus to deficit, because it will add $9 Trillion as noted by Washington sources today
MYTH 8: House bill won't ban private individual insurance, it will just regulate it to the point that it becomes impossible for a private company to provide a plan that
MYTH 9: Obama read House bill, as have all the Democrat Representatives and Senators, just like they did with the ARRA.
MYTH 10: Government is so effective at running programs (Social Security, Welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, Cash for Clunkers) and preventing fraud (Medicare fraud estimated between 3 and 20%), that we should entrust them with our lives and the care necessary to maintain or repair our health
MYTH 11: Obama is pushing a system like the U.K. and Canada, because Congressional Democrats are looking for control in the long-term, and re-election in the first stage.
MYTH 12: Obama, Dems pushing "a plan that will allow you to keep you doctor and your health insurance"
MYTH 13: Prominent supporters of health care reform and the elected officials are experts in providing health care, are credible, and are representing the interests of the American people over their desire to get re-elected or to line their pockets
MYTH 14: Government can effectively run a health care program, or a car company, or a brothel, when it has shown, time after time, that it cannot even effectively run the very few responsibilities allocated to it under the auspices of the US Constitution

Don't allow the left-wing liars to spin a tale of deceit that will destroy America's future, and ruin or children's lives. Questions the intentions and connections for everything they say. They are not acting in your best interests, only their own.

Always ask: "Who is providing you the information? Do they stand to profit or benefit from it? What is the logical conclusion of the steps they recommend to implement? What lies beyond Stage One?"

Slavery was defeated by the 13th amendment. The institution was taken from the Democrat's control, and their Civil War. Do not allow them to re-institute it at a Federal level!

I think the wee wee comment pretty much summarizes Obamas functional intelligence level and highlights his inability to rise above the level of Chicago street trash. It's sad because he's trying to share his lack of class with America and bring us down to the level of Eurotrash wasters. He's already been very successful at gathering masses of morons and idiots to him...how else could someone of his (lack of) caliber get elected in the first place.

Hey Penny moonbat- You are technically correct that Socialism is defined as the government owning and controlling the production of something, sort of like owning the production of the service of providing insurance. Oh wait that would make BO care socialistic. Wait let see another example; Medicare-that’s it that’s the ticket, oh wait the gov doesn't provide the service they control what service you can get-Semi Socialism? Oh Penny Moonbat, every turn the government is involved with on domestic social service programs has a form of socialism in it. But I know lets all do what Penny does lets just change the words and not explore the underlying premise. There now none of what the dimocrats like Penny want can be called socialism.
Now Penny, so sorry you cannot afford health insurance even though you are working- got the answer for you, don't pay your mortgage and buy the insurance- or cut down of the food you buy, the gas you use, the cable TV you buy, the cell phone you use etc. etc. etc. Sorry, forgot that Penny is a dimocrat, she would then ask the government to pay for her phone-pay for her gas-pay for her cable TV- pay for EVERYTHING!!! You see Penny in this day and age we still have a basic American trait, make your choices and live free. If there are 10million 20 and 30 somethings that choose not have the insurance-live free and die if you become ill at 24- your choice in a FREE society. Additional freedoms, have a cell phone like you do Penny, have cable TV like you do Penny, have too much house which payments keep you from buying insurance like you Penny, or drop some of the things you pay for and buy the insurance and let US alone- You see we make our choices and we live with them without asking to be taken care of by you Penny through your tax dollars (do you pay taxes Penny or do you suck at the government teat and steal our tax payments?). Once we had the most self reliant and brave people on the face of the earth- today we are headed to the hell of Socialism-yes Penny the programs are socialistic. I want to remind you of Maggie Thatcher’s response when asked if Socialism is a good system- she said "yes it is, until you run out of other peoples money". Penny- if you have kids, try to make them real people who rely on themselves- if they run into some trouble now and then, a temporary help from our charitable organizations can get them through- or move to Texas, even if you cannot pay, by law county hospitals must treat you- ask all of the illegals that are at Parkland hospital in Dallas getting treated by Texans tax money as I write to let you know you are not compassionate, you are just another sucker that wants other peoples money- are you familiar with the term Leach?

I notice here references to "the failure of the free market" in the healthcare / medical care market sector [I'll call it "medical care"]. This is a lie that must be successfully propagated if there is to be any hope of hornswoggling and bamboozling us and ramming socialized medicine down our throats. The socialists argue that having to pay for medical care out-of-pocket --- or out of my savings --- or with my insurance --- or by being an object of voluntary charity --- or by some combination of the four methods --- constitutes "the failure of the free market" --- because the socialists argue that medical care should be "free." If I haven't the money to pay for my medical care, they say, I can stick a gun in my neighbor's ear and hijack his wallet, to pay for my medical care --- or demand that the government do the same thing ["socialized medicine"]. My neighbor rightly has other uses for his money and has no moral obligation whatever to pay for my survival. I am grateful for his help if he offers it. That is all. By the way, there hasn't been a "free market" in medical care [and medical insurance] since before World War II --- such that the current medical care system in the USA carries very significant government-imposed inefficiencies. To improve American medical care dramatically, one would first kick every level of government the hell out of it.

WOW!! wee-weed up?? What an elitist comment...So well educated?? What a joke...

I'm really getting wee weed off !!! Come on guys, if anyone with a half a brain can't see what is going on I am really scared for this Country. George Sorros makes his billions and billions off of other countries failures and misery. He has poured billions & billions into ruining America so he can make Trillion & Trillions. Did you not hear what he said when our economy was starting to go in the bucket? "This is good for me, I will make a lot of money." He supports, Move on, acorn ,ACLU, Obama,the main stream news media. He started air America that no one listened to. He pours his money into ALL liberal organizations to destroy America... The dems receive huge amounts of money from him and any program Obama can implement in America that will further the ruin of America the better. He has been throwing money to the liberal collages and professors for years to brainwash and dummy down our youth and uninformed. We are now seeing all his investments coming to light and he's counting on the dummies to go along. We that have knowledge can fight the war that has been waged on our freedoms, we can't give up and let them win. With ALL the money he pours in, WE are America and we have won many a wars. Don't surrender Please.

Penny Moonstone:

Lets examine... "I for one can’t afford to go to a doctor, or buy medicine, and I work." Ok, accepting your statement at face value... What do you spend your earned money on? Obviously you have a computer and have extra time to waste posting here, you have chosen to spend your bucks on something other than health care. Like all self-centered liberals you seem to think that since you spend your money on other stuff, the rest of society should pay for your health care.

Before you go spouting off about the benefits of Socialism, how about you go somewhere and try it first? While you are lecturing us on "checks and balances" maybe you could explain how all the new czars fit into that principal.

"Where is bin Laden?" I don't know but I would like to know exactly what YOU have done to help find him. My guess is that you bashed President Bush for every effort he made toward that end.

So, want health insurance? Do you have the ability to "listen and learn"? Quit wasting time on the Internet and go get a 2nd job and pay for it just as most Americans do.

Detect a little anger? I have worked 2 or 3 jobs most of my life and so yup, I get a little POd when some worthless jackass wants me to pay for their health benefits so thay can have more time to sit around and lecture me on the benefits of Socialism.

Don't believe anything Obama has to say.
This man is selling a health care bill that does not exist. Has the government ran, regulated or executed these programs properly:
SEC
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Social Security(broke in 2 years)
Medicare
Medicaid
The war in Viet Nam
The war in Iraq
Veteran's hospitals
Secured our boarders
IRS cut down of income tax paper work
Deficit spending
Cut down on size of government
etc
etc
a shorter list would be what has the Federal Government done properly

Yes wee-wee can! Yes wee-wee can!

Give me freedom, not healthcare. Healthcare is not a 'right', When did this idea actually get cemented into the minds of the American populace. Obama is in over his head, inept and inexperienced. Gibbs is a weasel of a man with a bizarre little giggle and questionable knowledge of the facts. Scary times for those of us who want to think and do for ourselves.

I think OsamaObama wee weed on himself.

Maybe if Dick Cheney would be the spokesperson for health care reform you'd buy into it. After all, you bought into everything else the Bush team told you. The Bush sales people knew how to sell you bs, maybe because you wanted to believe it. And now health care is on the table and it becomes the right wings civil rights cause, limited government causen fiscal conservative cause. Where in the hell were you guys for the last 8 years. Where we're you when Bush was spending like there was no tomorrow? All he had to convince you of was that he was keeping America safe by getting rid of a dictator who had Iran under control, and sadley, it didn't take much convincing. You just wanted to believe. So so what if people want to believe in universal health care? What is so un american about taking care of our own. What's the link between the Nazi party and giving people access
to a doctor? What's so patriotic about worrying if an insurance company will go out of business? Where were you when the bush administration expanded the size of government? I didn't you see any of your armed patriots at any of his rally's. Or is this really just another culture war? If so, you're out numbered.

This situation has become surreal. The government CAN NOT… I repeat CAN NOT be allowed to control health care. Obama’s administration is one of the most EXTREME and OUTRIGHT socialist platforms we have ever seen in the White House. Every time he runs his mouth without TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) we see what he really has inside. The goal of socialism is to reduce all decisions state controlled one including agriculture, transportation, media & entertainment, labor.. etc. The “government option” is simply a smaller step towards the same goal. There is no way in hell I will ever ever accept our government as a health insurance provider. It still has yet to figure out how to officially be a government let along an auto company or an insurance provider. We DO NOT NEED A MAJOR CHANGE ON HEALTH CARE.. THIS IS FABRICATED. This administration simply wants control of all aspects of life per the normal socialist playbook. Don’t make this a republican or democrat issue. Make this an anti-Obama and anti-Socialism issue and nothing more. We must finally make our voice heard and publicly demonstrate like the 60s ! if we do no less then we have no one else to blame for our loss of freedoms.

"Wee Weed Up In Washington" means exactly how it comes across - "We smoke the ganja-mon"

Nice spin attempt Gibbs - you're clueless - you're a tool - a tool that has no purpose!

Maybe if Dick Cheney would be the spokesperson for health care reform you'd buy into it. After all, you bought into everything else the Bush team told you. The Bush sales people knew how to sell you bs, maybe because you wanted to believe it. And now health care is on the table and it becomes the right wings civil rights cause, limited government causen fiscal conservative cause. Where in the hell were you guys for the last 8 years. Where we're you when Bush was spending like there was no tomorrow? All he had to convince you of was that he was keeping America safe by getting rid of a dictator who had Iran under control, and sadley, it didn't take much convincing. You just wanted to believe. So so what if people want to believe in universal health care? What is so un american about taking care of our own. What's the link between the Nazi party and giving people access
to a doctor? What's so patriotic about worrying if an insurance company will go out of business? Where were you when the bush administration expanded the size of government? I didn't you see any of your armed patriots at any of his rally's. Or is this really just another culture war? If so, you're out numbered.

The big elephant in the room is the fact that with few exceptions every program the government runs is a failure at worse or mediocre at best at every level of government, federal, state, regional and local.

And why is that? It is because by and large the people that are employed by government don’t’ have a good reason to be good at what they are being paid for unless they face the very serious prospect that they can be fired for non performance and or corruption. And let’s face, any of them getting fired is about as likely as everyone in the country winning Lotto on the same day.

While I’m on the subject, isn’t this fact exactly why not a few corporations in America are not doing well? Automotive manufacturing companies come to mind, how about you? They have Union employees who don’t have to be good at what they are paid to do because they have nothing to fear either and they make a good living but it's never enough.

They have union reps that leave the plant and to go home and drink beer while being paid by the company for working on Union business and or so called overtime.

And we have the nerve to pretend that we don’t understand why the auto makers end up bankrupt?

This garbage is the plain and simple truth of the matter and everyone knows it but nobody is going to admit it in a public forum for fear their house will burn down or worse.

Americans skee-ru- ing Americans. I hate to broad brush the totality of citizens but enough of us are living this way that at some point everyone is guilty if for no other reason than failing to speak up.

So, what’s our plan going to be? Well, let’s add the most important thing to the list of screw-ups thus far… let’ add our Health Care to the list of government run screw-ups so that next time we are screw-ed we will really be screw-ed – but at least next time death will rescue us from our pain and suffering if we are lucky.

"Wee-weed" is probably how Grandmother Dunham referred to Obama's bed wetting when he was a teenager.

Maybe that's why he threw her under the bus.

Republican Plan

1. Tort reform so that physicans aren't threatened into paying billions of dollars in premiums to malpractice insurers, and passing along those exhorbinat costs to consumers.

2. With over 1000 health insurance companies in the US willing to compete for my dollars, but unable to sell their services to me due to GOVERNMENT over-regulation - the answer is to TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS.

I have been forced into state health care, since my affordable, highly rated university alumni insurance is not allowed to be sold in my state, NJ. I would have to move to any one of 48 other states in order to buy it. The state health insurance is "horrible" in the words of my doctor, who it took me 2 months to find.

My husband was diagnosed with a serious illness in April. Because we could not get him an appointment with a specialist until November, we've had to go BLACK MARKET and call a physician friend out of state to call us in a prescription. It's ridiculous.

FACT 1: There is no health care crisis
FACT 2: Health care reform will impose rationing
FACT 3: Health care reform provides for euthanasia, "death panel"
FACT 4: Health care reform legislation will cover undocumented immigrants
FACT 5: Health care reform will raise your taxes
FACT 6: Health proposals would tax all small businesses
FACT 7: Health care reform would add $1 trillion-plus to deficit
FACT 8: House bill would ban private individual insurance
FACT 9: Obama said he didn't read House bill
FACT 10: Co-ops are NOT an adequate substitute for a public option
FACT 11: Obama is pushing a system like the U.K. and Canada
FACT 12: Obama, Dems pushing "socialized medicine"
FACT 13: Prominent opponents of health care reform are credible
FACT 14: Government can't run a health care program

Republican Plan - 2 Big Fixes

1. Tort reform so that physicans aren't threatened by government into paying billions of dollars in premiums to malpractice insurers, and passing along those exhorbinant costs to consumers.

2. With over 1000 health insurance companies in the US willing to compete for my dollars, but unable to sell their services to me due to GOVERNMENT over-regulation - the answer is to TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS.

We have been forced into state health care, since my affordable, highly rated university alumni insurance is not allowed to be sold in my state, NJ. I would have to move to any one of 48 other states in order to buy it. The state health insurance is "horrible" in the words of my doctor, who it took me 2 months to find.

My husband was diagnosed with a serious illness in April. Because we could not get him an appointment with a specialist until November, we've had to go BLACK MARKET and call a physician friend out of state to call us in a prescription. It's ridiculous, but hey, we "officially" have health insurance, - in name only.

Why do people feel that they are entitled to free health care? Why do people think that free health care is actually free? You want health care, pay for it yourselves you lazy bastards. Are they entitled to a new car for free? Are they entitled to a home for free? Then why should health care be "free"? If a friend of yours gets a new movie on blu-ray, does that mean you are entitled to the same thing? You bed wetting liberals are all the same...pathetic.

i think that its a reference to the little piggies, and the one that "went wee-wee-wee all the way home"

BUT I AM GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN,
I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.
BUT I WISH I WAS A DOG AND OBAMA WAS A TREE

xmarine

I LOVE IT!

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B-ig
A-ss
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A-merica

Hey Bill r. You are an ill informed idiot.
First of all, what makes you think that our federal government has the power to pass a "health care plan"?
Second, the republicans do have a health care alternative.
Posted by: Patrick | August 22, 2009 11:17 AM

Well by all means inform this idiot as to their plan, Bozo! And the last thing we need is another armchair lawyer telling us what the constitution says. All I 've heard from republicans like Palin and others is some "death panel" BS. Talk about dimwitted. If you had a plan...why wouldn't it be up on the RNC website to show that you do? Answer? Cause you don't!

Just say NO to a wee-weed health care plan!!!

Here are two questions I'd like an answer to.

How long will Gibbs be able to fall on his sword for his boss before the White House Press corps can't help but laugh at him when he comes into the room?

When Obama said everyone gets all Wee Weed up what he really was alluding to that controversial issues end up in a pissing match between politicians, lobbyist etc, in DC.

I think we've all used that term at one time or another, but whether it's appropriate for the POTUS to use that term in public is another matter. Apparently the White House has become sensitive to that issue and now the Gibster has to play the clown for the adoring crowd.

But really, Gibbs, you dig your own grave when you try and lie your way out of Obama's indiscretions. Yeah, I know, it's your job and what else are you going to do to pay the mortgage, and beside, can anyone no matter how good they are make a silk purse out of sows ear or chicken salad out of chicken…, well you know what I mean, right?

Second Question.

Why are Unions so gun-ho about health care reform?

Of all the people in the US of A union employees in the private and more so the public sector have some of the best health insurance programs available.

It's not in their self interest to want the public option - they have the best of both worlds now, and let’s face it if we get the public option those employees are risking having to enter the lesser quality variety sooner than later.

So, what gives? Next time you reporters are in the room with Bobby the fibber Gibster you might ask him what he thinks.

It should be interesting to watch him tap dance around that question - or better yet - to try and tell us union employees are really selfless people and they care more about the rest of the folks who don't have coverage than they do about themselves.

I know I said two questions…but.

Have you ever known Unions not to go on strike just when it causes the most pain to the people that depend on their service? Like for example, teacher’s unions in September, California BART employees lately, and manufacturing employees in the private sector when their employer has a contract that contains a penalty for failure to deliver?

Wait…it just occurred to me… It’s 5 years from now and you need an operation for your ailing heart valve…no it’s not that it can’t be covered - you are still a productive citizen so the government has a compelling interest in your health - but wouldn’t you know it - the surgeon and the anesthesiologist are on strike and the nursing staff in sympathy with the doctors are refusing to work too.

Oh my, well, we wish you the best and as for the rest of you good luck with changing your bandage, getting your next injection of pain meds and installing or removing that catheter. Yikes!

I think Oblobo should stay on vaction in Mass., forever & dont poo poo or wee wee in the sea. He might want to flush Gibbs down the toilet after he (O) does some cocky doody. Four years of this idiocy? By 2012 we'll have
diarrhea. Flush the health care down too with Gibbs & the C.D .

I have the right to free health care. If I get free health care I will be able to use MY own money to buy a big screen TV and video games. It does not matter what you believe is right, you are obligated to pay for MY abortion when I decide to murder MY baby.

If you are old then you are worthless and I have the right to be treated first. I can live an alternative life-style and if I get AIDS it is the obligation of the government to pay for MY health care no matter what the cost. MY non-citizen amigos also get free health care before the old and worthless.

The government has the right to rob, cheat, coerce, tax and otherwise get your possessions so they can pay for MY health care, big screen TV and the other things I want. If you are unwillingly to part with those possessions then the government will make up a law and take them anyway.

Is this a great country or what?

The only "wee-weeing" are the perennial liberal bed-wetting thralls crying about the latest sky-is-falling scam the "authorities" on the left have concoted for their hand-wringing "stimulation."

Of late, it's the "planet has a fever" scam that continues to have them wee-weeing themselves -- even as the seasons change as usual and we see ordinary weather patterns and even see falling global temps, these conditioned, easily misled, easily brainwashed wee-wee-ers continue to pull their hair.

Always proven wrong in the final analysis, typical liberals never learn and never shut their endless mouths from spewing the regurgitated propagandist rhetoric they picked up from MSNBC and HuffPo and their socialist liberal-arts professors.

Ignorant, noisy sheep ceaselessly bleating and babbling in support of those who would lead them down the primrose path to totalitarianism.

Man I get sick of seeing paid Obamapologists showing up in the comments section of every news article that Drudge links to. How many paid apologists does this guy have in his "grass roots" organization anyway?

You're not fooling anyone losers!

Chris Matthews asked Obama if his administration can still pass health care reform by the end of the year.

Obama replied "Yes wee weed can".

Matthews promptly wet himself.

The Republicans do have a health-care plan. It's to stop the Democrats from destroying our health-care system.
It's like if the Democrats had a justice system reform plan to kill all judges and policemen. The only plan the other party needs is to stop the Democrats' plan.
Better no plan at all, than a "reform" plan that ruins what we already have.

If you want to know how Obamacare will work...go visit your local tricare or military/veteran hospital. Long lines, not enough staff and if they make a mistake, too bad just try to sue the government. We military families know how bad it can be. My family pays extra just to go to a civilian md.

Take a month off, Mr. Prez. Hell, take a year or two. We feel you deserve it.

Yet other questions which in my mind rank higher than the other three I suggested earlier.

The congress and federal employees will not be part of the health care plan according to reports about the plans now under consideration.

Why not? ! And if not where do these special people think they will be going to get quality health care after the public option becomes the only option and destroys the quality of health care as we now know it.?

Will there be one set of doctors who are the elite of the medical profession available only to the feds and politicians in DC" Will we be left with a bunch of quacks, washouts, neerdowells and medical students as our only choice?

I can see it now medical students will be assigned to the common people and will be paid next to nothing to truly practice on the little people.
If the medical students prove themselves competent they get to advance to intern status and as the need arises may be aloud to join elite service to the highest echelon of our citizenry. These will be the new aristocrats, our rulers and their minions employed by the federal government - employees who will have multiplied like rabibits by the time heath care reform is implemented if the current trend is any indication.

Mean while the equivalent of interns will be reserved for our care assuming Uncle Sam judges us worthy to receive the procedures and examinations when we need them.
Need I mention who Uncle Sam will be paying to decide who is eligible for the procedures when they are needed?

Ah, why not…it will be the very employees that will be accessing a level of care that we are not able to have.

I thought Democrats were all about pulling down the barriers and leveling the playing field. Apparently what they are really good at is tossing around pie in the sky egalitarian ideals that so easily make their target audiences swoon with delight.

Somebody want to ask these questions to the Bobby Gibbs?

So many questions but apparently never enough time or honest answers.

Robert Gibbs is Obamas personal idiot! Let him explain in a couple of moths or years why the nation is bankrupt!

wee-weed up...I believe that is a term used in pit bull fighting which I understand is the national sport in Chicago,

A $9 trillion deficit would make anyone wet the bed. I marvel every time obama opens his mouth and is believed. There must still be a lot of stupid people out there.

I think I will have some bumper stickers printed up that say "Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him!" They should sell quite well.

What ObamaWeeWeed and congress never expected was that the American people would read the ObamaDeathCare bill and they are mad as hell.

Next our prez will be talking Chicago jjive and gangsta' talk. And maybe he can start wearing Chicago gangsta' clothing and using hand signals to show what gang he belongs to. And maybe teleprompter will start turning his speeches into rap talk and the audience can clap to the rhythm.

What a freakin' idiot!

We have a Democrat in the White House, Democrats have a 60-40 majority in the United States Senate, and Democrats maintain a 78 seat majority in the United States House of Representatives, and you're still blaming Republicans for health care not getting passed? Gimme a break. Sounds like you ALL inhaled!

You're not fooling anyone losers!

Posted by: Dennis | August 22, 2009 3:19 PM

By the way Bozo...this is the swamp.......we leave the crud to the crud link.

The concept of insurance is a contract with a client, which provides a means of guaranteeing protection or safety in exchange for a paid premium. Insurance works because the pool of people is so large that paying said premium spreads the risk making it possible to reimburse the individual for losses.

However the idea of health insurance guaranteeing protection or safety to an individual client clashes with the concept of capitalism. In a for profit private health insurance system the ownership of the capital or premiums paid by the pool of people buying health insurance are privately owned and controlled by the company, whose sole interest is keeping risk low and cost down to insure that profits are high and can be distributed to the management and shareholders. To insure these profits, the reimbursements of large health losses for a sick client either require denied treatment, capped amounts spent on treatment or dropping the client altogether. As the client ages the risk to the company of paying more out than the premiums paid require them to continually increase the clients premiums or drop them from the roles.

The concept of health security for an individual in the United States only exists for people over 65, disable people or extremely poor families. The Latter group being paid for by the tax payers the former by social security or medicare premiums.

So you guys don't turn fifty or sixty, have a disabling car accident, get cancer or lose your jobs because you are ill and can't work, the consequence of these events will bring home that you are on your own and it appears that's how you like it. After reading these posts I assume the majority of you believe in the boot strap theory of success as opposed to the boost up one. No concept of shared risk for you younger folks. Pray your company doesn't out source you or can't afford your insurance premiums any more. And all you all that detest your government and think you are invincible, GOOD LUCK. Because you know $%*! happens. And to the health insurance CEOs, CFOs etc. congratulations you won the lottery. Wall Street, pat yourselves on the back for figuring out how to securitize peoples health care. And to those congress members please bask in the cash and favors you are currying from the lobbyists while the other members less fortunate are trying to fix a broken system.

Ineffective leadership in House and Senate for sure.

Bad, or at least terribly scattered and confused, advisors in White House.

A Cecil B. DeMille production.

Someone remember to take the lens cap off.

Yes wee weed can implement socialism, blame Bush, and play the race card. Wee Weed can.

Bill R,
You can always tell when we get a link in from kookooville. In this case the Drudge sewer.

I guess we all need a crash language course in Jive talk.

Wee-weed up ? Are we all two year olds?
As an adult, I don't apprecitate being talked down to like a two year old, and my under age 5 grandchildren don't read the newspapers.