The Heath Care Reform Bill which President Obama signed into law today leaves many questions unanswered about how the future will shape this bill and especially the effects it will have on the country in the next four years………
•The President, House, and Senators are all EXEMPT… THIS SHOULD TELL YOU HOW BAD THIS BS BILL IS. Why would they exempt themselves from something they think we need?
•We have no money to pay for this bill, the real “cost” issues are not addressed, and there is no “civilized” nation as populated as ours (with 300 million people) that has “socialized healthcare”
•Every American for the 1st time in our nation’s history must PAY, to be an American Citizen or face fine/ and or jail time.
•Taxes begin immediately while benefits begin……… FOUR years from now!
•The Senators and Reps. who voted for the passage of this bill were bribed and bought like common criminals; embarrassing the American Legislative process and showing how awful this plan is, or else their wouldn’t need to be such a massive display of corruption in America’s most sacred political landmark.
•President Obama is a huge, naïve, and egotistical fool, this ensures him as a one term president. When you sign a bill that brings the pain early and backloads the effects then be prepared to deal with the next 2.5 years of angry citizens being laid-off because of his miss-guided bill.
•What happened to Obama’s dog “BO” ? He was all the MSM could focus on for a few short days, suddenly he’s not anywhere in sight…. It may be a coincidence he disappeared right before Obama’s first official State Dinner…. With INDIA!!!
President Obama, in a recent interview with Diane Sawyer was asked what he would give himself as a grade for his first year in office, without missing A beat Obama replied, “ solid B+”.
Now, dismissing the fact that most Presidents wouldn’t even fall into the trap of answering this question, especially when unemployment is continuing to rise every month, “Arrogant Obama” just couldn’t refuse.
Let’s take a look at his first year and try to figure out how Obama’s grading system works and why I couldn’t get a college professor to be as easy grading me as the grade he gave himself.
Obama’s first act of closing Guantanamo Bay has failed miserably. In fact, Obama who signed the Executive Order closing G-BAY on his 2nd day in office, has had so much trouble with this topic that the Democratic Controlled Senate has refused his request for additional funds to upgrade existing prisons within the US, to meet the maximum- security standards which are applied at G-BAY. As of now, the 2010 budget is closed and the prisoners will not be moved until 2011 at the earliest.
Staying on the issue of terrorism, Obama again fumbled the ball along with his Attorney General Eric Holder, who decided to reverse Bush Administration policies and place Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) on trial as a civilian in NYC, instead of using Military Trials.
Obama and Holder allowed their liberal out-look to cloud their judgment and after the Mayor and Gov. of NY publicly spoke out against this awful decision and the cost it would incur on the city in both overtime and tourism dollars, the administration retreated from their original positions and are now in the process of trying to figure out how to escape this predicament.
Obama also wouldn’t come out and admit that the Fort Hood shooting, where Nidal was heard yelling “Allay Akbar” was not a terrorist attack. Wrong.
He also decided to allow the Christmas day bomber to lawyer up after his failed attempt to ignite an underwear bomb over Detroit. It has been reported that he was singing like a canary until informed that he had “the right to an attorney” which prompted him to immediately stop talking. On Homeland Security alone, he should have deducted at least a point.
Last February, Obama insisted on a “nation saving” $787 billion stimulus package in which he vowed would stop unemployment (was at 8.6%) from rising past 10%. Now, we have watched it rise almost every month as it hit a high of 10.8%, worried American’s are still waiting for the “millions” of jobs he promised Main St., as Wall St was rewarded with billions in bailout dollars.
Instead of pursuing an aggressive job creation plan, the President decided to use his majorities in both chambers to push unpopular legislation such as Cap-and Trade and Health Care, which were heavily, influenced by Unions and big money Liberals.
Obama decided to tackle huge problems such as HC and Global Warming instead of creating jobs, which may have avoided losses in VA and NJ’s Governors races, states that heavily favored and supported Obama in the election. Not to mention the embarrassing loss of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat to a Republican.
Obama still has time to turn around his Presidency if he decides to slow the government spending down and focus on jobs. However, this seems unlikely. After his State of the Union, Obama made it clear that his agenda will not be swayed to the middle, which will hurt his party in the 2010 mid-term elections.
This will make passing any major bills even harder and lead to the gridlock which Bush suffered during his last 4 years.
While Obama spent his first year bowing to foreign leaders, making a failed bid to hold the Olympics in Chicago, and blaming Bush on anything and everything, He needs to start getting people jobs and slowing down foreclosures because if not, his first year B+, will lead to a first term president.
President Obama just announced that he is ready to use the controversial practice of “Reconciliation” to pass Health Care if he cannot get an up and down vote on the legislation soon.
Reconciliation is known on Capitol Hill as “The Nuclear Option” because it skirts the Senate rules of a majority vote and instead passes a bill with a mere 51 of 100 votes. Much less than the 61 which the democrats would need to pass Health Care reform using normal procedures.
After Republican Scott Brown’s stunning victory over Martha Coakley in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat, most political pundits and politicians (especially Democrats) conceded that the process of passing major H.C reform was all but dead.
Now, Obama is going to announce passing it through reconciliation. This stunning announcement comes after President Obama recently held a “Health Care Summit” which included members of both parties and proved to be nothing more than a dog-and-pony show, as many predicted it would be.
The summit accomplished nothing and neither party was budging on how to formulate a low-cost, high-coverage plan, which in itself seems implausible. The President is simply not in tune with Middle-America’s concern’s over the tremendous deficit Health Care will add to our already out-of- control debt.
The problem lies with the MSM taking their talking points from the WH and smearing The Republican Party by saying that they are the party of “NO”. However, they and the President miss the point. We all understand that HC needs to be fixed and that costs are indeed spiraling out-of-control, except they refuse to allow Republican ideas be included in “their” bill. Republicans want a cap on Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, which will immediately eliminate many of the unnecessary procedures which doctors use simply to cover their back over future lawsuits. They also want to see a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid fraud which runs rampant and pushes costs up for everyone else paying taxes into the system and Republicans are against state-provided abortions.
There are a few other points as well, but these seem to be the major ones on which neither party will budge. The three buyoffs of Senators continued to enrage an already angry general public and hurt the process as well.
As President Obama starts feeling the pressure to simply pass a “bill”, he has forced himself into a corner, one that will define his presidency over the next three years. He knows that he campaigned on HC reform and will look weak and lost if he cannot get a bill passed, however, if the bill doesn’t appeal to the ultra-liberal left they may abandon him come 2012. Already, the Obama had the chance to pass HC with the advantage of having control over both the House and Senate early in his presidency- and he blew it, then came the unexpected win of Brown, winning a seat that hasn’t been held by a Republican since 1972, which forces Obama to use Reconciliation simply to save face.
Americans are not dumb, but angry and as the Tea Party Protest’s have shown, and sick of being taxed and taxed and taxed. We know this is just yet another tax increase which will kill Middle- America. As Obama finished his HC Summit he stated that “This is what elections are for, If Americans like this bill he shall see in November” with the Democratic party already running scared, the term “Nuclear Option” couldn’t be more fitting- because if it passes, then it will obliterate the Democratic Party.
