Healthcare's final vote: Congress done

Those of you with dictionaries or who have ever studied history - the democrats have won a pyrrhic victory.

Prediction - their spin will be that b.o. is a visionary, who sees far into the future and knows what we must do, yada yada yada.

31 weeks 4 days and counting until the midterms.

Obama accomplished more in 1 year than Clinton did in 8.

Well, ladies and gentlemen of America, we have finally knocked that Corporate boot off of our necks, and off of our Constitution. America has spoken and she has said, loud and clear: Corporate America, your days of dictating to America are coming to a close. I don't care how much money you have thrown around this good country, to incite, to scare, to intimidate, we shall not be moved, we shall overcome.. Get used to it !!
Today, Americans can now feel a little more secure, a little prouder and a whole lot safer, now that they have, or will shortly have, real healthcare and real protection from the Healthcare Insurers and their bureaucratic, healthcare rationers. As all of America will come to see, through the heavy smoke of the many, and frequent lyings of their " leaders ", healthcare reform will be the best thing our government has done for us, since Social Security and Medicare, rolled into one !!!
Welcome to a better day, America and thanks to the millions of Americans who supported President Obama and Vice-President Biden. They couldn't have done it without us. We, in turn, are thankful for their leadership, along with Speaker Pelosi and the good Senator from Nevada, Senator Harry Reid. They are a winning combo and I know, the next national problems they tackle, with the help of the good Lord, they will find sensible and compassionate solutions. Keep on, keeping on, all you good Americans.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE.NOW.

Let's see if I got this right. The loony liberals in Congress attached student loans to the healthcare bill to move 34,000 jobs out of the private sector into the government sector. At the same time using the revenue generated by the student loans to prop up the numbers in the healthcare bill. But if the student loans are removed from the healthcare bill we generate a negative balance in other words adding to our national debt from the get-go. And another strange twist by the loony liberals in Congress is to not attach the doctors fix to the healthcare bill because that would add to the national debt. Do the loony liberals in Congress really thank they are pulling a fast one with the doctors fix? The majority of the voters (meaning non-liberals) see this for what it is just more liberal lunatic fringe trickery. Already 55% of the voters favor repeal of the healthcare bill. And 49% support the lawsuits against the healthcare bill.

Great! Let's move on to more important stuff like: jobs, energy, and finance reform now! Since, healthcare reform is over now, don't look back in the mirror. Stay focus- if we don't create more jobs through innovation, there will be no food on the table soon. If we don't control the price of oil, the average Joe won't have money to pay for their premium healthcare. If we don't reform our finance industry, they will just be too big to fail again! Don't let the politicians distract us. . .from these issues. Obama needs to put this issues on his posted board and keep hammering! Keep up the good job, Mr. President!

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I hope Obama continues his arrogance. Already, two new polls show the overwhelming majority of Americans want Obamacare repealed. First, yesterday's CBS poll (which even skews Democratic in its sampling) shows that a staggering 62 percent of Americans want Congressional Republicans to keep challenging the bill, while only 33 percent say they should not do so. This includes nearly two in three independents who want the GOP to keep challenging. Even 41 percent of Democrats support continued challenges.
Second, today's Rasmussen poll conducted on the first two nights after Obama signed the bill, shows that a whopping 55 percent of voters favor repealing the legislation. Forty-two percent oppose repeal. What does it say for the Democrats that a solid majority of voters don't just hate the bill it took them a year of lies, bribes and thuggery to pass, but want it repealed as soon as possible? Let's keep the pressure on, Americans, until we can eliminate more of Obama's foot soldiers in November.

Should we now subscribe to an ideology where government creates rights, is solely responsible for delivering these artificial rights, and then systematically rations these rights?

Do we now believe that government’s role is to equalize the results of people’s lives?

We are fast approaching a tipping point where more Americans depend on the federal government than on themselves for their livelihoods – a point where we, the American people, trade in our commitment and our concern for our individual liberties in exchange for government benefits and dependencies. This is not who we are and it is not who we should become.

Is this wrong?

That's odd. I saw nothing in there about tort reform, or allowing actual INSURANCE to be sold rather than the cover-it-all coverage we've had for decades and that has driven prices up.

For a "fix it" bill, it doesn't seem to be doing anything to address the actual problems with the health coverage in this country.

But then, neither did the first monstrosity.

An AP story of today points out something the Democrats who work in the media don't want mentioned:

"The health care overhaul will cost U.S. companies billions and make them more likely to drop prescription drug coverage for retirees because of a change in how the government subsidizes those benefits.

In the first two days after the law was signed, three major companies — Deere & Co., Caterpillar Inc. and Valero Energy — said they expect to take a total hit of $265 million to account for smaller tax deductions in the future.

With more than 3,500 companies now getting the tax break as an incentive to keep providing coverage, others are almost certain to announce similar cost increases in the weeks ahead as they sort out the impact of the change.

Figuring out what it will mean for retirees will take longer, but analysts said as many as 2 million could lose the prescription drug coverage provided by their former employers, leaving them to enroll in Medicare's program."

No, Congress is NOT done with this thing. It’s going to remain the rope in an endless game of tug o’ war. Republican’s are going to continue to offer amendments to it to ameliorate what they view as wrong with it. Their continued failure to change the law through legislation will provide ammunition for upcoming elections. Even for those who supported the bill, endless amendments are bound to be necessary to fix the unintended consequences of this sprawling monster. Don’t fool yourselves, folks, Congress’ job regarding this bill has just started. It will turn out to be the full employment act for legislators and lawyers alike.