Where does one even start in trying to respond to Barack Obama’s highly hypocritical, irresponsible, blame Bush, pander to independent and angry voters, and a veiled attempt to make Republicans look like the ones responsible for not taking care of the middle class speech?
Ahhhh! Let me just come down for a minute and say that I think that Obama’s far left policies, after campaigning from the center, have so deeply traumatized many who trusted him into office that it doesn’t matter what he says from this point on. He is in between a rock and a hard spot and the only thing that can save him is doing the right thing for America. But instead of taking accountability (he did have a passive admission that some of the criticism was merited, although not specific) he blamed Bush nearly the entire time by reminding us that he “inherited a crisis.”
Well, Mr. President, I don’t care how much you try to diffuse the damage you’ve done in the minds of those who so blindly trusted you….you’re not going to talk your way out of this mess. What happened in Massachusetts was NOT a warning from the people that you and your cronies in Congress better get your act together, as Howard Dean suggested it was with his psychological “jedi mind trick”, rather it was a clear statement from Americans that they are through with you and your party. All it takes is 1 year of your administration for people to wake up and smell the bull crap coming out of your mouth!
Many of us warned those who lack sound judgment that this, what we are seeing today, would be the outcome of your administration. We would have joyfully voted for Hillary over you. And as it has been leaked from some of your top aids that you spend time surfing the web reading articles and opinions peaces written about, which they also said affected your judgment, I hope you are reading this piece you unashamed deceiver of the people.
And how can you take a slap at Republicans for opposing the bill, indicating that THEY are the ones playing politics and suggesting that that is the reason the GOP won in Massachusetts, not because the people actually disagreed with you trying to shove a health care bill down their throats that they, The People who put you in office, highly opposed?? Do you really think that is what the angry voters who sent you the message in MA wanted to hear Mr. President? How can you play the saint, making Republicans look like the bad guys, when you wouldn’t keep your promise to make health care a bi-partisan issue? Don’t you remember all the promises you made on the campaign trail about expounding the health care bill on c-span?
You Pelosi and Reid wouldn’t even open to any Republicans. Did you notice during your hit piece on Bush that you challenged Republicans to provide you with ideas on health reform, as if they had none? Have you really been that busy apologizing for America that you were unaware of all the recommendations to take out the public option, take out the kickbacks and favors and to slow down so we could actually understand the full measure of the bill? No! In a manner that was very alarming, you tried to ram it through as if there were things in the bill you were afraid we, the American people, would find out about that shouldn’t be in there. This resulted in a huge loss of trust and a major withdrawal from our emotional bank accounts. WE DON’T TRUST YOU ANYMORE MR. PRESIDENT!
Some of us never trusted you, based on your own record and background, but many whom you fooled into voting for you in 2008 will not make the same mistake in 2012 -mark my words.
America isn’t in need of a President that shifts with the political winds, she needs one who will stick to his principles regardless of what the polls say. You’ve sold your soul in that you have not only made bad decisions for America, you have insulted your voters by insinuating that their decision in MA was not based on principle but on anger toward you, which you took as meaning you had to shirk responsibility in an attempt to restore yourself in their eyes. You judged wrong. These are the people whom you were supposed to give HOPE to. Instead, you have given them despair.
Look out for Mitt Romney in 2012.
A LINE IN THE SAND – From jacksmith – WorkingClass
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/21/fixing-health-reform-through-the-reconciliation-sidecar-13-improvements-6-ways-to-save-money-4-important-benefits/
http://firedoglake.com/2010/01/21/ma-voters-seek-more-and-faster-change-economy-jobs-top-concern-taxing-health-insurance-very-unpopular-poll-says/
My Fellow Americans and People Of The World
A strong Government-run MEDICARE like Public Option is STILL! CRITICAL!
We have had a long hard struggle to find out what would be the BEST! that this congress and the Whitehouse could do to fix our highly dangerous, poor quality, most costly, and MOST! disgraceful healthcare delivery system in the world. It is clear that congress can do much more for the American people than what is proposed so far.
It is clear that congress can pass a strong GOVERNMENT-run public option CHOICE. Available to everyone on day one. Expand Medicare and not levy any new taxes on workers healthcare benefits and plans. LET THIS BE YOUR LINE IN THE SAND!
Lastly, there can be NO! INDIVIDUAL MANDATES without a strong Government-run MEDICARE like Public Option CHOICE. Or the American people WILL! and SHOULD! revolt with an all out CIVIL WAR against congress and this Government.
House and Senate progressives and the tri-caucuses should aggressively push for the inclusion of a strong Public Option, Medicare expansion, and no new taxes on workers healthcare benefits and plans. If the obstructionist kill meaningful healthcare reform, then you should kill this bill. Because it will be far worse than the healthcare disaster we have now. It’s failure will be on the obstructionist heads. And they will be punished and replaced.
WITHOUT A PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE, THIS BILL WILL KILL FAR MORE AMERICANS THAN IT WILL SAVE.
What is proposed in the Senate bill is the worst case scenario for health-care reform. It would shift trillions of taxpayer, public and private dollars into the hands of the private insurance industry (The single most costly, deadly and dangerous product sold in America). And it would compel by law millions of Americans to financially support this oxymoronic criminal enterprise. You cant have a individual MANDATE WITHOUT A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE!
You will have NO! realistic way of controlling cost and quality. Cost will continue soaring through the roof bleeding the American people dry, and KILLing our economy. And our quality of healthcare will continue to decline below our current ranking of “WORST! quality of healthcare delivery in the developed World”.
From the very start, the American people have been crystal clear about what they wanted. They wanted a humane single payer system like the rest of the developed world has (HR676). Or at least a humane strong GOVERNMENT-run public option CHOICE!! This is what the American people gave the democrats control of the house, control of the senate, and control of the Whitehouse to do.
Those of you that can, should prepare now to remove every member of congress that fails to support YOUR healthcare reform with a strong Public Option, Medicare expansion, and no new taxes on workers healthcare benefits and plans. Run against them in teams if you have to. But take them out. And replace them with a strong single payer or PRO PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE candidate.
Now! is the time to bring maximum pressure on your members of congress. Contact your representatives and spread the word.
The Public Option http://tinyurl.com/yfftf76
H1N1 IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
I have to tell you now that the H1N1 virus is a man-made WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION! and TERROR! It is a WEAPONIZED version of a flu virus. It has swept the planet infecting millions. And causing a global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands, and injured millions.
The H1N1 virus is the product of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! It was released in the U.S. in Texas in early January of last year, but not recognized until around April 2009 in California. The reason I know this is because when it came to America, it came to see me FIRST! How sweet…
This was around the time the MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! assaulted the Whitehouse with all their devils deals to cripple and weaken YOUR! healthcare reform. Especially your right to have a single payer system like HR676 (Medicare For All) which most of you wanted.
They don’t even want you to have your HUGE!!! compromise position of a strong government-run MEDICARE like Public Option CHOICE. To compete with their DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, MURDEROUS, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT PRODUCT (The single most costly, deadly and dangerous product sold in America).
They also wanted to take away your rights to have your government meet it’s responsibility to use it’s full power to regulate, negotiate, and control drug cost, healthcare cost and quality. Something every other civilized country in the developed World has done for it’s people. Their Greed! moral degeneracy and lack of patriotism knows no bounds.
Many of you will remember that before we knew about H1N1. I posted a open message to the President and Congress warning them to be vigilant about their health, and cautious about any medical advice they received. As I said then “they will not hesitate to try and hurt you”.
The U.S. and the World have been under a BIOLOGICAL TERROR ATTACK! for over a year now. It is CRITICAL that We The People Of The United States take away control of our healthcare system from the GREED DRIVEN MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!
For our own National security, and the security of the world.
A Strong, government-run, MEDICARE like Public Option CHOICE. Available to everyone on day one, with the full unfettered power of the federal government to regulate, negotiate, and control cost and quality. Would be the most workable way to deal with this global crisis at this time. Including patent suspensions as needed for national security or the greater good.
As an American I invite the peoples of the World to help us fix our healthcare crisis. And bring pressure on our government to meet it’s responsibility to protect global security by controlling, and removing the corrupting influence of GREED and the PRIVATE FOR PROFIT motivations from healthcare in the U.S. and around the World.
I call on the governments of the World and the global intelligence community to track down these MASS MURDERERS, and bring them to justice. CONNECT THE DOTS! And be vigilant that they don’t slip in another viral strain on you under the cloak of H1N1 sequestration.
Further, the proposed patent protection on biologic’s must be stripped from the US bill. And greatly shorten/restricted, or abolished completely. This is a grave danger to humanity and global security.
I think President Obama is doing the best he can at playing the disastrous deck of cards he inherited from the previous administration. And I think he is doing an excellent job. But the wolves and devils of the medical industrial complex! are trying to exploit, and take advantage of his good heart, and desperate desire to help suffering Americans. But we must be strong and insist that healthcare reform be done right for the American people. Or everyone loose’s.
This is all I can say in a message post. I’ll try to find a way to tell you more later.
God Bless You My Fellow Human Beings
jacksmith – Working Class
p.s. The so-called nominal H1N1 virus is designed in such a way as to make it more lethal to children and young adults. The medical community must be more vigilant of secondary bacterial infections in the young caused by H1N1. And remember, a viral infection is also a transfer of genetic code to you. Think about it, and be vigilant.
Really?? Then why did the people who put them in office vote against them in the last 3 elections, the biggest evidence of anger over this bill being that election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts! I spoke to a Canadian the other day who told he their health care system is a disaster because there is not guarantee if you can be treated in a timely manner. It is pure socialism!
You are way off base. Yes, Dems were elected to focus on “Health Reform”, but the bill they tried to ram through Congress and the Senate was not what they wanted. They didn’t want a public option and they did not want to lose their private insurance.