If Repubs Filibuster, Obama Will Pass Health Reform Through Reconciliation

According to the Plum Line blog, if the Congressional Republicans try to filibuster ObamaCare in an attempt to get Obama to start over with the goal of producing a more modest bill that tries to curb costs and helps small businesses and people with health problems secure coverage, the Democrats will use parliamentary procedures to ram the package through anyway.

Health insurance coverage and medical care in this country will be changed dramatically with no input from anyone who opposes the plans. Plans overwhelmingly opposed by the American people will be slipped through the cracks in the floor, the voters be damned.

Among Obama's recently announced "improvements" is a plan to let the federal government control how much your insurance company can charge you for insurance. A Federal panel will monitor and block exorbitant rate hikes and other unfair practices by the insurance industry.

This sounds good on the surface; but of course, there will be no definition of "exorbitant rate hikes," so Obama can block any rate increase for any reason, including political reasons.

Remember Humana insurance, who sent an e-mail to customers about potential changes to their service as a result of these "reforms"? Are they in line to have their every cost increase labeled "exorbitant"?

You will be forced by law to have health insurance whether you want to or not, and Obama will tell you how much it will cost you. One person in the federal government will get to determine what your health plan covers or doesn't include and it will be illegal for you to pay a doctor for a service on your own. Sounds like America to me, doesn't it?

According to Plum Line, Eric cantor (R-VA) sums up the Obama/Reid/Pelosi health care juggernaut well:

The Obama plan costs a trillion dollars, puts government in control of personal health decisions, and allows the government to set prices in the private market. That mirrors the Pelosi/Reid plans that have already been soundly rejected by the bipartisan majority of Americans."

Is this really the Hope and Change you voted for America?

President Obama: I Will Pass Health Care Overhaul Unilaterally

President Obama plans to pass massive health care legislation that will affect every single American citizen without considering the opinions of legislators opposing the measure:

"Sometime in September we're going to have to make an assessment" about whether to keep trying to negotiate with Republicans, President Obama told MSNBC.

Well, so much for the new tone in Washington under Obama. Another broken campaign promise.

Like the planning and execution of the "stimulus" bill before, Republicans Need Not Apply.

We will just have to get him to break that promise about taking over the health care system.

NPR's Mara Liasson Tells What is Wrong with the Liberal Agenda

National Public Radio's Mara Liasson asked one of the more foolish questions I have ever heard at a presidential press conference (or any press conference, for that matter).

At President Barack Obama's live press conference on the "stimulus" package Monday night, Liasson asked Obama about the Republican opposition to the "stimulus" package.

If it is this hard to get more than a handful of Republican votes on what is relatively easy: spending tons of money and cutting people's taxes how will Obama work with the Republicans on more difficult issues.

A soundbite that will dominate conservative talk radio for days to come.

By Liasson's thinking, and that of the Liberals in this country, spending billions or trillions of tax dollars on a spending package with a 30% chance of failure is a no-brainer..

In one statement, Liasson summed up the Democratic Party and Liberals in general. It is easy to throw other people's money at a problem, and there must be something wrong with anyone who could find fault with that notion.

Obama Wants Republican Cover; Not Cooperation

In his photo-op meeting with Republican House Leadership today, Obama is reported to be courting Republican support for his "stimulus" package.

The news media are gushing about how this "outreach" is "change," and is so refreshing that Obama wants a bi-partisan solution.

Wrong!

Obama doesn't need a single Republican vote to pass this package. So why is he begging for votes in an unprecedented meeting with the Repubs?

Obama doesn't want bi-partisan co-operation; he wants bi-partisan blame when this plan fails and when the American people find out what is really in there.

Sorry Obama; fraudulent tax "cuts" that aren't cuts, $4 billion in "community development funds" to ACORN, hundreds of billions on contraceptives. You take the credit for this disaster. Help yourself.