Pelosi: Health care has two more votes: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted November 5, 2009 11:45 AM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva

For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who plans to take a health-care overhaul to the floor of the House on Saturday, this week's elections meant one thing:

Two more votes.

With the elections of Democrats John Garamendi in California -- he will be sworn in today -- and Bill Owens in New York -- he will be sworn in on Friday -- the House speaker says the party's hand has only been strengthened in elections which cost the party two governor's offices, in Virginia and in New Jersey, this week.

"Tuesday night, we won two more votes for health care,'' Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a press availability today. "I'm very proud of that because in both of those campaigns, health care was the issue.'''

In the 23rd Congressional District of New York, where the Republican candidate withdrew and endorsed the Democrat after several conservatives rallied around a third-party candidate, Pelosi points to ads that were run against the health-care initiative.

"And our candidate endorsed our bill,'' Pelosi said of Owens.

In California, she said, "John Garamendi was elected in a big victory that was higher than Democratic performance in the district. Again the issue was health care, which was under attack and which produced a great victory for our agenda.''

Critics have challenged the House leadership's health-care bill, which runs nearly 2,000 pages and weighs 20 pounds. But Pelosi says he has "pages and pages of
supporters for this legislation.'' That includes the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the Academy of Pediatrics, the American Nurses Association, "to name a few.''

The AARP also announced its support for the House bill,

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Keep up the good work, Speaker Pelosi. You and President Obama, have America moving in the right direction, once again. The Healthcare Corporations, from Insurers, with their anti-trust exemptions, to the Pharmaceuticals, who continue to gouge America's patients, must be reigned in, or our county's economy will become worse, than what it was, when the Bush&Cheney fringe left !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


Well then Nancy, get it on! you don't need no stinkin Republicans!


Yes Nancy will keep trying to take more money and gain more power so that the corrupt democrat machine can continue to rip off the American people and keep them in bondage. The following is an example of how corrupt these people are:

Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul. One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV3dLt6wmZH4

Makes you just want to trust them with trillions of dollars, don't it. Ahhh well you aren't gonna miss a few billion here and there. In fact you won't miss the several trillion that they have already made go *poof* until its time to pay the bill. What time is it?


Brave and confident citizens are of little use to the socialist, because they have little appetite for government control of their daily lives. People who retain a measure of faith in their own abilities, and their ability to succeed in a free marketplace, are not looking for saviors. When a politician jumps in front of them and declares himself to be their messiah, they’re likely to respond with laughter. People like Barack Obama, and the leadership of the Democrat Party, do not like being laughed at. They are even less willing to tolerate questions about their wisdom or good intentions. Their predecessors left them the keys to a well-tuned machine that suppresses laughter, and questions, with apprehension and dread.

The Obama Administration expects Americans to live every day in fear. We’re supposed to be afraid of the health insurance, energy, and banking industries. We’re supposed to be so frightened of the damage our prosperity inflicts on the Earth that we’ll pay literally any price to make it stop. We’re told that everyone who speaks out against Obama’s agenda is a well-dressed tool of sinister corporations, or the demonic servant of people who hate the President because of his skin color, or the storm troopers of a powerful new Nazi party coalescing from thin air. The Democrats believe they don’t have to win debates, if they can make the public too afraid to listen to their opponents. They insist that their agenda must be implemented in haste, with no time for debate… and what makes people more nervous than being repeatedly told there is no time to lose?

Choice is frightening. The responsibilities of freedom are frightening. Freedom necessarily implies the possibility of failure, because not every action available to free men and women can be guaranteed to succeed. The Democrats present themselves as saviors who wish to liberate you from the burden of choice, and the duties that come with freedom. All they require is your blind faith, for just a little bit longer… until all the choices are made for you, forever, and you become the child of a maternal State that will protect you from harm, and punish you for disobedience.

There is a way to break the Fear Machine, and make it backfire on those who control it: courage. Brave men and women don’t do anything blindly. Courage brings confidence, and confident people never stop asking questions. Confidence brings the wisdom to understand that a prosperous, happy future can be found through the creativity and spirit of millions of your fellow citizens, rather than the tortured and dishonest schemes of a few hundred politicians in Washington. Never forget that people who frantically point out “enemies” for you to fear and hate are usually the people you should be afraid of.

Above all, remember that you are not alone. The Democrats will desperately try to make you feel alone, in the coming weeks. It’s a lie. You don’t have to look over your shoulder to see the great body of Americans who share your values and beliefs, and your determination to remain in control of your health, wealth, and destiny. We’re here. We always have been, and always will be. Be brave, and be of good cheer, because nothing frustrates those who demand fear more than laughter.


The Liberal Mind: Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Dr. Lyle Rossiter

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,”
“Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,”
"A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”


Have we every had a two year president? I mean once this bill is out and the taxpayers start to feel it that is all Obama will be. He can sit in the office until 2012 but, it does not mean anything.


Well well well . . .

Health Care Reform Assumes Millions Would Pay Fine Rather Than Get Coverage

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in its study last week that the House health care bill would bring in $167 billion over 10 years in penalties from those who don't get coverage.


"Ernest Istook, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma who is now a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, calculated that anywhere between 8 million and 14 million people would end up paying the fines.

This raises a few problems, he said. First, if those millions somehow get covered and don't pay the fine, then the health program is faced with a budget hole.

Second, he said, it speaks to a flaw with the insurance packages that are being offered. "If you say people would rather pay $167 billion in penalties rather than buy insurance under your new plan, what's wrong with your new plan?" he asked.

The answer, Istook said: "It's expensive." "


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/04/health-care-reform-funded-billions-penalties-uninsured/


So do abortions get a death panel? Guess not, but we get to pay for it.

Speaker Pelosi’s Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium

http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=666


All of us that opposed your boobies war in Iraq, and its Occupation, paid for and continue to pay for, something we didn't support !! We, who didn't lie and cheat, like the Weasels of Wall Street are still paying for their crimes. Hopefully, they will be prosecuted and forced to make restitution !! We, the taxpayers, deserve that, at least !! That is why we don't take our right to vote, so lightly, that we elect, twice, yo-yoes, like Bush&Cheney. We ultimately pay for their incompetence and their malfeasance !! Thank God, the voters realized this, in our last presidential election and we elected a most capable individual, President Obama !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


Dr. Lyle Rossiter?? The straw that broke the camel's back.

AHAHAHAHAHAH HA HA HAHA

Thomas Paine, I knew you sounded familiar. One of a kind.

http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/2008/09/11/why-it-doesnt-matter-that-sarah-palins-an-idiot/comment-page-11/


What those two seats give Pelosi is to allow two more of her democratic congressman political cover by voting against the health care tax increase.

No matter what your blue-dog or lap-dog democratic congressman votes for or against, they must go in 2010. It is theie pur being the gives Speaker Dimwit her power.


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