Photo: Democrats To Use Reconciliation To Pass HealthCare, Political Suicide?

Calling Dr. Kevorkian to the ER!

Obama’s Latest Healthcare Bill Designed To Sneak Through

Democratic officials said the president’s proposal was being written so that it could be attached to a budget bill as a way of averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate. The procedure, known as budget reconciliation, would let Democrats advance the bill with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote supermajority.

There is a reason that the longer this health care debate has dragged on, more and more Americans have become solidly against Obamacare: the plan has been exposed as a welfare state takeover of our health care sector that can only be passed by the most partisan and venal tactics. If the President was capable of listening to the American people, and learning from August, November, and Massachusetts, then he would abandon the legislative disasters still pending in the House and Senate and start over. That is what the American people want.

Read the rest at the Heritage Foundation

Pass this bill and we will vote you out. Incumbents beware! Remember Massachusetts?

Obama Would ‘Rather Be Really Good One-Term President’ Tells ABC

“I can guarantee that the worst thing we could do would be to raise taxes when the economy is still this weak,”

President Obama, buffeted by criticism of his massive health care reform bill and election setbacks, said today he remained determined to tackle health care and other big problems despite the political dangers to his presidency.

The president tells Diane Sawyer about his first term and poll numbers. “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” he told ABC’s “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview today….

…”I can guarantee that the worst thing we could do would be to raise taxes when the economy is still this weak,” he replied.

Read the rest at ABC News.

In a two party system, the “other guys” are the only choice when the public wants a change. Obama (and the Democrats) misinterpreted their election as a mandate to advance their left wing agenda.

The message from Massachusetts was loud and clear. Being an independent lot, Americans want jobs rather than nanny state health care. They want to take care of themselves, not green socialism at the expense of the economy.

Perhaps the “ONE” has taken his repudiation in Massachusetts to heart. While his fall from grace is no doubt painful, it forces him to listen to what Americans really want.

It remains to be seen if Obama will simply shift his rhetoric and continue on a collision course with a growing number of Americans that prefer substance over style, or get off the perpetual campaign trail and get to work. Americans want a President that takes responsibility, governs from the middle and gets things done.

If that happens he could be a really good one term President and that would be good for all of us.

Sotomayor OK’d for Supreme Court

Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come.

The third woman in court history, she’ll be sworn in Saturday as the 111th justice and the first nominated by a Democrat in 15 years.

The Senate vote was 68-31 to confirm Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, with Democrats unanimously behind her but most Republicans lining up in a show of opposition both for her and for the president’s standards for a justice.

The 55-year-old daughter of Puerto Rican parents was raised in a South Bronx housing project and educated in the Ivy League before rising to the highest legal echelons, spending the past 17 years as a federal judge. She watched the vote on TV at a federal courthouse in New York City, among friends and colleagues.

Why Are People So Pissed?

My parents divorced when I was 10. My Dad was supposed to visit on Sundays. He would frequently be late, or not show up at all, calling at the last minute. This left me in the unenviable position of defending him to my Mother who would say what a jerk he was for breaking his promises. I knew she was right, but he was still my Dad. I’m thinking there are a number of you Obama voters in a similar position.

You hated Bush, would have voted for Mickey Mouse if he was running just to get a Democrat in the Whitehouse, but when you got a real live Messiah, you were gaga!

Hope and change! Openness in government! Fairness! Taxes on the wealthy! WOW! A dream come true.

But something seems to have happened to the promises. Openness in government was replaced by passing a trillion dollar spending bill in the dark of night. The members of congress who voted for it didn’t even read it. Even if you like the bill, no matter what party you are a member of, in your heart you know that it’s bad government.

Cabinet Secretaries are being upstages by czars, specialists on subject matter that report directly to the President, but do not undergo Congressional approval the way the members of the President’s Cabinet do. And lobbyists, the scourge of Washington that Obama said he would clean out make up a number of his appointments.

Huge deficits! The Republicans deserved to get thrown out of office. They doubled the national debt in just 8 years. But the level of spending by Obama and the Democratic majority doubles it again in 7 months! This is shameless. Anyone who is short on cash knows you have to spend less, not more, and in your heart you know that it’s bad government.

The healthcare bill is the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back. The President is in a hurry to pass a bill that cannot stand up to scrutiny, even with the Democratically controlled Congress’s Budget Office, and he wanted passed before the August recess. This caused such a commotion amongst Americans of all political stripes that the Congress could not bring it to a vote. People know in their hearts that rushing to pass hastily crafted, poorly understood legislation of such a significant magnitude is bad government.

America is like a large heavy vehicle moving at high speed. It can go fast straight ahead, but can’t turn very sharply. Sometimes it turns a little to the left and sometimes it turns a little to the right, but not too sharply in one direction or the other.

Obama and the Democratic Congress have jerked the wheel hard to the left. The tires are squealing and the engine is racing. I’m afraid we are in for a big crash if they don’t let loose of it and start turning it within it’s natural ability.

I know many of you feel the need to defend the Obama, it is only natural. After all you voted for him and believed in his promises. It is hard to accept that this isn’t the hope and change you thought you were getting, and hard to accept the broken promises, after all he is still your President.