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“General consensus is that it was a “substantive” and “productive” event that changed absolutely nothing.”
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I guess that depends on what your expectations were.
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I knew the GOP would show up and demand a redo with out any real input.
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I knew the DEMs would not buy it.
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MY expectations were that after this the Dems would move forward and finally pass the thing. Let’s see if that happens. Then we can discuss “changes absolutely nothing”.
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Why am I always left out of the Consensus?

No shock there! My concern is that Obama had this meeting at all in full awareness that even if he came to the meeting and offered to give every unemployed American $5,000.00, the Republicans would still have said NO.

What was Obama’s real motive? At this point it seems very hazy. The only thing I can surmise is that he wanted the American public to see him trying to get bi-partisan support from the Republicans.

I cannot believe that I once voted almost exclusively Republican—the desperation that reeks from this party stinks. Their attitude is almost “JIHADIST”.
They will do anything at any cost for their cause irrespective of the obvious difficulty and problems a refusal to cooperate with President Obama would cause to regular folk!

Obama should leave these crusty, old stinking fellows alone. He needs to get his party in order and forget these delusions of bi-partisanship. It will NOT happen.

His erroneous expectation of bi-partisan support for Healthcare reform has virtually ended the life of that bill. To move forward in the future, he has to operate differently.

If only more people were aware of the machinations of the media– It is a group of people who for the most part (few are different) constantly foist on us their opinions disguised as news AND many would put pen to paper or fingers to key board and publish ANYTHING which is sensational and will improve their readership.

In politics, truth in journalism is largely non existent.

Despite the continuing efforts of this President to make changes to the American economy and assist the people, the stark opposition and continuing bogus and outrageous polling shows that either many do not get it… or as I always suspected.. sensationalism of news is the only thing that sells.

I hope Obama succeeds, however, he must also fully engage himself in a fight for the minds of the malleable and easily controlled public.

“Death panels”, a fabricated pack of hog wash and nonsense threw the country into a frenzy because it made sensational news.

Obama should be out there making all his own initiatives as “fancy” as they need to be to catch the interest of the public!

Even the grouchy short armed McCain, his presidential opponent during the campaign had enough presence of mind to use, of all people, PARIS HILTON in a campaign commercial to catch the attention of Americans! Yes, he DID!

Obama is well meaning, bright and hard working but he needs to understand the people he has been chosen to lead.
For the most part, many are “sheep”, “sheep” in desperate need of leadership (a determined and focused “Shepard”) and above all, this situation now requires an astute and first rate mastery of high level politics and media posturing.

He needs to be adept in media control, sale of his projects and also be able to drown the TV, airwaves and Internet with massive doses of truth in a way the masses will understand.

Otherwise, his projects will continue to be eclipsed by tea party drinking crusty, establishment entrenched old boy Republican Network— and frustrated by their ability to control the media and their emmm sheep, oops, I mean their ability to control the Republican base and continue to mislead so many in the public by manipulating the media output of stories.

LM

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/stalking-criminality-the-law-and-women/

“Their attitude is almost “JIHADIST”.
They will do anything at any cost for their cause irrespective of the obvious difficulty and problems a refusal to cooperate with President Obama would cause to regular folk!”
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Right unlike Demos. Obama responded to nearly every Repub point with “You make a good point, but hear is why I won’t include in the HC bill”. He finished with if you don’t do what I want we will use reconciliation. It doen’t matter that I screamed about you using it and how unconstitutional it was. Apparently we had a change in the Constitution since he was elected.

Despite the whining to the contrary here, the public at large is not demanding this governemnt takin gof their HC system. The Repubs are doing what the public at large is asking for but the tin-eared arrrogant Dems refuse to hear.
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“Even the grouchy short armed McCain”

SHORT_ARMED? You mean the arm that was broken serving in our military and held as a prisoner of war?

You are beyond Pathetic!

Coburn has made his allegiance crystal clear all along. He is a physician who sides with private health insurers (who contribute lots to his campaigns) over patients. That is his right, but he doesn’t get to have it both ways. You can’t consistently violate your ethical obligations to your patients and to your professional oath, but then claim special status as a professional expert when tough decisions need to be made in the legislative arena. He abandoned any claim to putting the needs of patients first when he single-handedly held up the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) eventually passed in 2008. This bill did not ask for any appropriation–no tax increase, no reallocation of existing funds, nada. It simply makes it illegal for employers and insurance companies to discriminate against Americans based on the genetic hand they were dealt. Coburn felt this was an undue burden on business and the health insurance industry and apparently saw no issue with Americans being denied access to gainful employment or health care simply because of an innocent accident of birth. This willingness to create an underprivileged class based on health status is every bit as wrong as being willing to discriminate against individuals for any other reason. That a physician would be leading the charge is beyond shameful. Here’s background on this sorry episode in Coburn’s career: http://www.stanford.edu/group/hopes/treatmts/lifestyleandhd/ginaupdate.html

Haha…Free in PA. I do not like McCain because of the things he has NOT done in his home state for years! So my descriptions of him will not be favorable here and elsewhere.

BUT it is touching to read you stand up for him on a blog! Haha .
Hmmmmmm….you are not just hilarious, you are plain silly in a nice and funny way.

At this time, I suggest you get a hobby if a funny comment about McCain can get all your knickers in a twist.

I will be making more such comments here about him though!

LM
http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/stalking-criminality-the-law-and-women/

I am sure you will be one of the first to play the race, sexist, homophobe card at the slightest “perceived” wrong to one of thelegions of left wing victim groups.
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I am also sure you will also be one of the first to whine when the patriotism of the left is questioned. Patriotism for the left is a punch line as you have proved.
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If you have political differences with McCain blast away but then again without denigration and name calling your arguments ..well you don’t have any.

Here is one you missed>

The House of Representatives reauthorized the Patriot Act for one year Thursday.

The vote was 315-97 .

Seems liberals only are against protecting the country when a Repub is the Patriotic pinata.

Hahahahaha… You are absurd in a weird way, seriously.

Hmmmm….. I will keep posting as and what I like and believe. You are under no obligation to read what I write.

Also, I will describe McCain as I please here and elsewhere.

However, your continued blog indignation tastes better than my morning coffee. It is silly and so so funny, really.

LM
LM

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/stalking-criminality-the-law-and-women/

If I was less cynical I would be frankly amazed that Coburn’s new idea that the the Federal Government hire a whole bunch of federal employees to go “undercover” into our medical system to root our fraud and waste is not getting bigger exposure.

All day yesterday, Republicans tried to make the argument that they are “philosophically” against new government bureaucracy and/or spending to fix our health care spending. Coburn, however, right off the bat proposed both a massive expansion of what government does and by definition this would involve government spending. To be effective nationwide, we are talking hundreds or maybe thousands of new federal employees.

Coburn’s proposal effectively shows that Republicans are not “philosophically” opposed to government expansion nor spending, and undercuts literally everything they tried to accomplish yesterday.

Maybe that explains why our media are loath to discuss Coburn’s proposal…

If I was a Democratic lawmaker, I would be fleshing out Coburn’s secret agent expansion into a form that could make it to the Senate floor, I would even put Coburn’s name in the bill, just to see how much he and other Republicans freak out over the “massive Federal overreach”.

Hahahahaha… You are absurd in a weird way, seriously.

Hmmmm….. I will keep posting as and what I like and believe. You are under no obligation to read what I write.

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Score another one for liberal hypocrisy and stupidity.

Wow, this is truly weird. All this foolishness on account of your purported indignance at a comment about the great John McCain.

Your remarks are full fledged idiotic and you are the hypocrite, posting all your hostility on a newspage.

hahahaha…. still funny but pathetic. However, I am a good person and I will always do the right thing no matter what the circumstance.

I hereby declare you a nut case but a fuzzy one?? hahahaha

Ciao. I am outta here.

LM
http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/stalking-criminality-the-law-and-women/

Next up? Political police

RE: Rangel. When are the news media going to ask the obvious question–did Charlie pay tax on all these unethical perks? And is the press going to ask Pelosi et alia about whether a guy who blows off his obligation to pay his full share of federal income tax should be Chairman. The other questions that need to be asked are to the political appointees who run Treasury (and hence the IRS). How are ordinary people supposed to feel about paying taxes when senior Congressmen can so obviously flout the rules?

“I am a good person and I will always do the right thing no matter what the circumstance”

An you think making fun of someone with a disabling injury fighting fo rhis country is the right thing and makes you a good person?

What delusional world does someone like you live in? It does explain liberals values– they have none.

freeper: How do you think the Patriot Act originally became law? Sadly, it had Democratic support.

I know precisely how it passed. I also know the left complained constantly about how Bush was trampling the constitutional rights of everyone. Not so much now.

…so, freeinpa, your contention is that if Bush junior (“the decider”) decides to go to Iraq (even if the polls show that the population is against it) and the world is against it (and he comes out and says it doesn’t matter WHAT the world thinks), then it’s a “quest for freedom”? And it’s OK to murder 4200 of this nation’s children, reaping $MILLIONS to those who own industrial/war stocks…
but if President Obama is trying to stop 40000+ people from dying every year! because of no or inadequate health care, then he’s a “whiner”?…

well, it actually sounds like you answered your own question..
and it sounds good.
- What was Obama’s real motive?
=he wanted the American public to see him trying to get bi-partisan support from the Republicans.

Actually, a secondary attitude appeared disjointedly from around the room.
Chair scraping?
Was that Republicans?
And the Pelosi, Biden, Reid fest at the right of Mr. Obama was terrible manners.
I can only surmise that there was similar ‘mini-conferences’ among the Republican camps to balance it, but, again, it’s balancing who can be more partisan than the other.

My take on it was the President was in charge of a room of bickering. I loved it!
Those who were in there must have realized that we were watching them, and that the next voting would substantiate it.
Of course, you’re right (really? Right ?)..
A more formidable stance from the White House would do nicely, too.
The oddest thing about an acute point…and an obtuse point…
is that they are the same point going in different directions.

I for one, applaud President Obama for putting the spotlight onto those Professional Politicians! (on both sides)
And I really want to see more of this!