Sunday, March 28, 2010
One Term
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Is this a Surprise?
(WASHINGTON, DC) - In what will likely be recorded as the greatest political hypocrisy in American history, President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have exempted the entire Administration along with House and Senate leadership and committee staff members from participation in their new federal healthcare gulags, while forcing rank-and-file House and Senate staff out of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) and into the restricted federal health insurance pools, along with the rest of working Americans.
"This is such an incredible affront to every principle of equality in this country that it demands an immediate apology to the nation by the President," says House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter. "That should be followed by a straight up-and-down vote in the House and Senate on a bill requiring every Member and staff in both Houses and the Administration be included in this new monstrosity, with no exceptions for leadership, committee staff, the President's cabinet, or the President. If they think this crap is good enough for Joe the Plumber, then it should be good enough for Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, and Tim Geithner."
HR 3590, signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, removes House and Senate Members and their official staff from FEHBP, forcing them and the rest of the country into the new federal exchanges. However, the bill was amended by Reid in the Senate to exclude all leadership and committee staff, who along with the President, Vice-President, Cabinet Members, thousands of Obama Administration staff, and an unknown number of Czars, would be allowed to remain in the superior FEHBP program.
Carter, himself a member of the House Republican leadership with staffers that would be included in the waiver, says the law should be applied equally to all, or none.
"Either every Member of Congress and the Administration and their staff at every level should move to the federal exchanges, or no American anywhere should be forced to do so. Senator Reid's actions speak much louder than his words on what this bill was really about," says Carter.
Nothing these people do anymore surprises me!!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Shell Game
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Weany Dodger
Tempers are flaring and heated rhetoric is flying as Congress tries to wrap up legislation overhauling the nation's health care system.
Things got tense Wednesday night on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," when New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner — an outspoken advocate of universal health coverage — repeatedly shouted that host Bill O’Reilly was "making stuff up" about the enforcement of the law. At one point, Weiner glowered silently on camera, then shouted "Watch this" to O’Reilly, pointing to his mouth in the course of explaining that the IRS was not going to assess fines on citizens refusing to comply with the individual mandate to obtain health insurance.
Yahoo website featured this & made it seem totally out of control, but I watched the whole debate and came away with a different impression. Bill O’Reilly asked If a citizen refuses to take this forced insurance coverage from the dem.nanny gov. what department was going to enforce it the IRS? I'd like to know myself wouldn't you? So how come Anthony Weiny dodge the question over and over?
Gore & Global Warming
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Long title for Blog
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