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POPSGreat Communicator and his MOUTH
President Obama, though, has yet to master the art of communication and leadership necessary to convince Americans he has a vision for the country, Fineman says. Instead, he's embarked on a risky gambit with a make-or-break piece of social legislation still unwanted by a majority of the public, according to polls. “Barack Obama hasn’t convincingly made the case to everybody, which is why the polls are where they are, but that’s not stopping the Democrats from going ahead,“ Fineman says of the president’s healthcare push. “Far from being the ‘Great Communicator’, I think we (the media) are questioning whether he knows how to communicate at all because he hasn’t ever successfully explained how the healthcare reform system actually is going to work, and that is why people are so skeptical about him.” Fineman says the question has never been whether the healthcare system in the United States needs overhaul. Leaders in both parties agree on that. The issue for the American public i
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POPSA Must See Video Before the Finale Vote On Healthcare Reform Thom Hartmann is one of the most influential and knowledgeable person on the Liberal Left. He is unabashed and blatant with his factual opinions... I have wanted to do a video on one of his shows... This disgusting display of hate by the teabaggers against a Parkinson’s diseased man and the healthcare bill afforded my an opportunity to tell America about The Thom Hartmann show... http:www.thomhartmann.com
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POPSIt might be too late.......!!! They didn't listen! Who are these people, playing games with us.? What kind of a freak show is this......? Who do they think they are?..........not following the Constitution, NOT listening to us.......and worse LYING to us., robbing us blind. It's close to being over............and OUR representatives are DEAF to our wishes........ Cowards who sold us out......led by a snake oil salesman. Mark my words.
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POPS Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Saturday, March 20, 2010 With the House vote expected tomorrow (Sunday), Rasmussen Reports will release our latest tracking of support for the health care legislation tomorrow morning rather than waiting until Monday. Thirty-four percent (34%) now say health care reform is the goal the President is most likely to achieve. Voters still say deficit reduction is the most important and the least likely to be achieved.
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POPSNew FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released Halpern admitted passing classified US documents to AIPAC but refused to name his source: http://irmep.org/ila/economy/03071986DHALERN.pdf FBI interviews of key AIPAC employees involved in handling the classified US government information (full document listing): http://irmep.org/ila/economy/ According to research director Grant F. Smith, the newly released files present startling new insights into AIPAC's activities in the United States. "These files, available on the Internet for the first time, reveal activities that undermined rule of law and governance. They have wrought massive economic harm to American businesses and workers. We urge all concerned Americans to carefully review and ponder the implications of these FBI files and other documents now available from the Israel Lobby Archive." Wow, this is bad! Many more documents at source.
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POPSOBAMACURSE...I mean CARE! “The insurers still rule,” Lynch said. “Were just pumping subsidies into the current system, but that won’t drive down costs.” The Congressman says he also opposes the way in which the House Democrats intend to pass the legislation, bypassing a traditional vote and opting for the so called Slaughter rule of “Deem and Pass”. Lynch, has said that the parliamentary move would be “disingenuous” and would fundamentally harm the credibility of Congress. He added that the move “may be unconstitutional.” “It’s a stretch,” Lynch said. “I think it hurts our credibility to try to pull a prank like that. We should stand up and tell voters where we stand.” As we reported yesterday, president Obama glossed over questions surrounding the process, stating “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or the Senate.”
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POPSVirginia, Idaho Will Sue Federal Government Over ObamaCare We are also expecting to receive a letter shortly that Cuccinelli is sending to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warning her that using the so-called “deem and pass” procedure to pass the Senate health reform bill in the House would open the measure to additional constitutional challenges from the states. The above link has the text of the letter Cuccinelli sent to Nancy Pelosi. Idaho isn’t taking this lying down, either. AP: Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states. Constitutional law experts say the movement is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states. (Via Weasel Zippers) http://twitter.com/KenCuccinelli
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POPSImpeach the president The Slaughter Solution is a dagger aimed at the heart of our system of checks and balances. It would enable the Democrats to establish an ominous precedent: The lawmaking process can be rigged to ensure the passage of any legislation without democratic accountability or even a congressional majority. It is the road to a soft tyranny. James Madison must be turning in his grave. The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy. It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.
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POPS Unambiguous Malign Intent
Could the President face impeachment, if the Supreme Court strikes the 'Slaughter Solution'? What is Joe Public supposed to make of that unambiguously malign intent? Its secondary purpose is to remove accountability from members of Congress " this from the administration of a president who was swept to power promising an end to Washington deal-making and a new era of transparency in government. Has anyone before, in the entire history of the United States, ever attempted to deny citizens knowledge of how their Congressman voted on a highly contentious topic? It is, of course, profoundly self-defeating. When the sweating, cornered rats from Capitol Hill face the public in November, they may be able to bluster that they did not actually vote for the Senate Bill in the House. “Maybe not, pal,” will be the obvious answer, “but you sure as hell supported the subversion of the American Constitution and, in my bag, that is far worse.” The term “Slaughter” may come to have
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POPSStates Take Aim To Block Healthcare Plan approval on the November ballot. No anti-health care reform legislation has emerged in Democrat-dominated states like Illinois and New York, according to the NCSL. Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter signed a bill on Wednesday allowing the state's attorney general to file a lawsuit opposing federal healthcare legislation requiring individuals to buy medical insurance. Otter sees federal legislation as overreaching and bound to add to medical expenses of state governments, spokesman Jon Hanian said . TENTH AMENDMENT ARGUMENT Many states cite the 10th Amendment, which says "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states," as proof that the U.S. government cannot set their healthcare laws. Robert Natelson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Montana School of Law, said it would be easier for states to argue for standing to file a lawsuit that claims the federal government has ....
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POPSCall to Arms: Join Me in DC Saturday to Stop ObamaCare Chaos: Stupak proposal riles pro-choice Dems but shows Pelosi may not have the votes March 19, 2010 An attempt late Friday by Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Michigan Democrat, to change abortion language in President Obama’s health care bill riled pro-choice lawmakers who vowed not to allow the revision. The move by Stupak, who holds a crucial bloc of Democratic votes that if released would clear the way for the health bill, threw Capitol Hill into confusion late Friday, less than two days before the House is set to vote on the landmark legislation. Stupak, leaving the Capitol, said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s willingness to talk to him about his idea shows Democrats “don’t have the votes, or they wouldn’t be talking to me,” he said in an interview with The Hill’s Molly Hooper. It was not entirely clear how exactly Stupak’s proposal would work. Stupak is reportedly trying to change the abortion language through a procedure called a “concurrent resolution" .....
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POPSBoehner vows his speakership would be a new era for GOP While Boehner doesn't thrill me with his leadership, I think he is believing the polls that show the people are not in favor of this Health Care Bill and that the overall rating of this Congress is the lowest ever. The people are ready for "Change" again. I know there is going to be some in the state where I live. I *do* wonder how fiscally responsible Congress can be after this huge financial fiasco we've had this past year. I wonder if there is anyway to turn this train wreck around.
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POPSMYG | D-day fast approaching for health reform bill as GOP leader girds for final battle
BLOGATORIAL | I think I am going to sorely miss the theater that the health care debate has brought to our living rooms this past year. Catching an Oscar for his performance in this season was Rep. Boehner, House minority leader, who often tips the rhetoric scale like none other. According to this account: While pursuing a string of mostly symbolic challenges on the floor, his team is colluding with Senate Republicans to figure out a way to trip up the bill if and when it hits the other chamber. And Boehner himself is eating up camera time faster than the president, seizing some semblance of a bully pulpit to try to frighten Democrats into having second thoughts. "If anyone thinks the American people are going to forget this vote, just watch," Boehner told reporters Friday, before walking away in a somewhat dramatic fashion. ___ MYG | MY GOV WATCH | http://tiny.cc/iweblogger ___ @ltaTOPIC | “Political Blogs” | http://tiny.cc/altablogs ___ AMPLIFIED | MYG | htt
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POPSObamacare Grants IRS Perilous Power, GOP Says The Ways and Means report portrays healthcare reform as having a wide-ranging impact on how the IRS operates, including: * IRS agents would be tasked with determining whether Americans had obtained the insurance coverage required under the individual mandate. * Individuals could be fined $2,250 or 2 percent of income, whichever is greater, if you are unable to prove you have "minimum essential coverage." * The IRS would be empowered to confiscate tax refunds if necessary. * Audits probably would increase as a result of the legislation's new requirements. * The budget for IRS operations will balloon by $10 billion in the next decade in order to administrate the new program. * Nearly half of the new individual mandate taxes will be paid "by Americans earning less than 300 percent of poverty, $66150 for a family of four.
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POPSImpeach the president? "sidecar" amendments to fix the things it does not like. This would enable House Democrats to avoid going on the record voting for provisions in the Senate bill - the "Cornhusker Kickback," the "Louisiana Purchase," the tax on high-cost so-called "Cadillac" insurance plans - that are reviled by the public or labor-union bosses. If the reconciliation fixes pass, the House can send the Senate bill to President Obama for his signature without ever having had a formal up-or-down vote on the underlying legislation. Impeach the president? The 'Slaughter Solution' would violate the Constitution http://bit.ly/9PEdMP
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POPSPelosi's 'Whip' Calls Health Care Vote Plan ‘Disingenuous’ Other Democrats have countered that the “deem and pass” tactic has been employed before, including when Republicans were in the majority in Congress. But Republicans yesterday were ripping into the plan. “It is absolutely astonishing that Speaker Pelosi would consider advancing a multitrillion-dollar piece of legislation that would completely overhaul one-sixth of our nation’s economy without even holding a vote in the House of Representatives,” said U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who vowed during his campaign in January to be the “41st vote” against President Obama’s push for health reform. Other members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation were grappling with the pending House vote to effectively concur with a Senate version. In an e-mail alert to constituents Tuesday night, Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Somerville) said he’s still undecided on the legislation. Like Lynch, he expressed concerns that the bill could hurt Massachusetts’ new universal ....
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POPSThe Democrats' Tyrannical Abuse of Power She is proposing to overtly circumvent our Constitution by way of the "Slaughter Solution." Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairman of the House Rules Committee, proposes to pass legislation using the "self-executing rule," which will allow the House to accept the already-passed Senate health care bill by presumption alone, thus negating a formal up-or-down vote by House members. Chart House HealthCare Maze of Orwellian Bureaucracies to Administer and Police The New Fascists Command and Control (including the IRS) click to enlarge jpg image http://pal2pal.com/BLOGEE/images/uploads/housestatisthealthchart1109.jpg Most of the Leftist-controlled political and popular debate about the Democrat proposal to turn over to the central government control of more than 17 percent of the U.S. economy, is focused on one question or another -- what will it cost or save, who will pay and who won't, who will be covered and for what, will there be enough physicians to support this in 10 years ....
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POPSWhy Obama Can't Move the HealthCare Numbers Why can't the president move the numbers? One reason may be that he keeps talking about details of the proposal while voters are looking at the issue in a broader context. Polling conducted earlier this week shows that 57% of voters believe that passage of the legislation would hurt the economy, while only 25% believe it would help. That makes sense in a nation where most voters believe that increases in government spending are bad for the economy. When the president responds that the plan is deficit neutral, he runs into a pair of basic problems. The first is that voters think reducing spending is more important than reducing the deficit. So a plan that is deficit neutral with a big spending hike is not going to be well received.
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POPSMedia Critic: Baier's Obama Interview Antidote to Brian Williams' Bow Zurawik contined: Baier was asking the hard questions of a journalist, while Obama was already directing his answers to the historians -- trying to craft their narrative for them. Baier was impressive, nevertheless, in pushing the president on the special deals that were cut for such states as Louisiana, Florida and Nebraska -- and the near-total lack of transparency about them. When the president insisted that "everybody knows" which deals will be in and which will be out in the legislation that Democratic leadership seems likely to try and pass in the House without an actual vote , Baier started going through the states one by one and asking Obama, "In or out?" And the president himself couldn't answer with any precision on at least two states. Still as a journalist and media critic, I salute Baier for putting the president to the test and respectfully challenging him on his contradictions and reversals --
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POPSPayTheFine, BuyInsuranceWhenYouGet Sick. Nothing done to look at the actual health care COST! The whole thing has been a misnomer, the process a diversion. When does someone raise the issue of astronomical HEALTH CARE C-O-S-T? The profit margin on bio-tech is 29%!!!!! Now we've only encouraged that cost to rise - RISE - in order for them to compensate for the tax device providers will have to pay. And, back to rationing, how thin will elder services become? So we'll take our lollipop of easy-entry insurance regardless of pre-existing cndtns. (that IS a good thing) and we'll put up with the rest. And the window is wiiiiiide open for gov. cntrl. over the rest of industry, economy, our lives, etc!
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POPSHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "He wants to be here for the history" The GOP has steadfastly opposed Obama's plan from the outset. It would restructure one-sixth of the economy, covering 95 percent of eligible Americans, in the biggest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare was created in 1965. It would also impose new obligations on individuals and businesses. Beginning in 2014, most Americans would be required to carry health insurance. Medium-size and large companies that don't provide coverage for their workers would face stiff financial penalties.
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POPSNext Up For SEIU’s Obama – Amnesty The Time to Act Is Now Every day that Washington fails to address our broken immigration system and broken economy, Americans become more angry and frustrated with their leaders. Every day that we put off reforming the immigration system more families are torn apart, workers endure more abuse, our national deficit grows as billions in tax revenue are lost, and the rule of law is undermined. Every day that Congress and the President fail to address the growing economic distress in American communities is another day in which American families struggle unnecessarily. Practical and Doable This is the right moment for Congress to show it can pass bipartisan legislation by fixing the broken immigration system and fixing the economy. Americans are demanding that Washington produce practical solutions to real problems. Comprehensive immigration reform is such a solution. It will strengthen our families, improve conditions and wages for all
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