Key Democrat Expresses Concerns About Obama Tax Proposal to Fund Health Care Reform

Maybe some sanity?

There’s a great article in BusinessWeek today from Ben Steverman called ‘Did Obama cause the Stocks to Slide’. Google it if interested. Worthy read. I’m pleased to see people waking up to this guys agenda. I want out country and it’s people to have success…I want O’s liberal agenda w/ Pelosi & Reed’s fingerprints all over it to fail miserably unless it is changed for the greater good of the people and the country. Everything I’m hearing right now sounds like it’s becoming a Ca. state reinvention and living in LA, I’ll tell you it stinks! Republican governor and Democratic House and everything in between! God bless America.

To be clear, Baucus may express doubts now to show evenhanded disagreement. Then he will relent once the storm has passed.

UK Times
“It was all going so well. The dresses, the brains, the Vogue cover shoot – everything so far about Michelle Obama has left us wide-mouthed in admiration. It seemed there was no end to her fabulousness. Then Mr and Mrs Brown came to stay.
Like all good guests, Sarah Brown arrived bearing gifts for the children, Malia and Sasha. And they were really nice presents. A bit of thought had clearly gone into choosing them: Top Shop dresses (with matching necklaces) and a selection of books by British authors. Lovely.
Mrs Brown may have two boys but she certainly knows the way to a little girl’s heart. These were gifts chosen in the true spirit of present-giving: to please the recipient, not the giver.
In return Mrs Obama gave the Brown children, Fraser and John, two toy models of Marine One, the Presidential helicopter. Fair enough on the helicopter part, always a popular choice with small boys; but Marine One? It’s not as though anyone needs reminding that Barack Obama is President or that he has his own helicopter. Short of giving the boys Action Man models of her own husband smiting the evil forces of neoconservatism, Mrs Obama’s gesture could not have been more solipsistic or more inherently dismissive of Mrs Brown.
Not only did she demonstrate that she spent approximately three seconds contemplating the needs of the Brown boys (having an aide pop to the White House gift shop for a piece of merchandising does not imply a great deal of thought), she appeared to show a most uncharacteristic lapse of judgment. “

Kay, please tell us exactly what experience – besides campaigning and community organizing – you thought Obama had that qualified him to be President?
The results of what we’re seeing is exactly what those who opposed Obama tried to tell you. But we were branded as “racists” who were touting inexperience to coverup for the fact that our real problem with him was the color of his skin.
Obama’s marketers sure used the wedges of race, class, and partisanship to win the American Idol crown!

Obama disses Brit PM
Rosslyn Smith–American Thinker
The press does not seem happy with the way President Obama treated Prime Minister Brown during his short visit to Washington, DC.
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post noted that
Somewhere in the British Embassy, a bronze bust of Churchill was turning in its storage crate.
British Prime ministers are just not treated this way by American presidents. They are personally greeted at the airport. THey are treated to state dinners or overnights at Camp David. Their private meetings are always followed by a long joint press conference in which members of each nation’s press get to question both heads of state at length. If Milbank is a bit sour, his British counterpart left scorch marks. Alex Massie of the Spectator wrote .
Obama is not on the campaign trail any longer but his press strategy does not seem to have switched to governing mode yet.

Baucus is right. The stimulus had to be done quickly, voted on before anyone read it, so that the public would not realize what a destructive nightmare it was. Let us not forget the Obama congressional budget office, hired by Nancy Pelosi, told us it would make the economy worse.
Does the economy look worse to you?
Making the economy worse was not a concern of Obama. Passing the social programs, giving handouts to ACORN, Unions, and every special interest, with payments to these people for the next decade, thereby securing return favors in elections was his priority.
Does anyone actually believe he cares that the stock market is plummeting (not gyrating) each time he announces a new plan or new a decision.
He will secure his radical agenda, economy be dam@ed, and then maybe he will worry about our lost retirement plans, our lost savings, our lost jobs.
Did you think there were jobs in the stimulus package? It will create a relatively small number of jobs over the next decade at a cost of over 300,000 per job. That is the slowest job growth of any non-depression president. Oh, did you think the money was to benefit the country? Fooled you , huh.
Do you enjoy being lectured that you should pay more taxes by tax cheats Tim Geithner, and Charlie Rangle.
Obama must be laughing his ### off at the public as he gets up and flat out lies about his concerns, earmarks, no lobbyists, most ethical, most transparent and so on.
Elections have consequences and we are going to suffer the consequences of this last one.

You know it is so sad that now everyone is truly seeing Obamas agenda..it is not for the good of the people; but for the good of his radical party. He like all other politicians said only what people wanted to hear with no intentions of fulfilling those obligations. What frightens me the most…is if he continues with his radical spending he will bankrupt our country weaken our defenses and then if you read his books it states his loyalty will always be to his people and those people are not the people of the United States…look at the big picture! His plans are in motion!!!! If you’re not frightened you should be…Don’t give up any more of your rights and whatever you do continue to bear arms…..we may need them. Our forefathers must be rolling around in their graves everything they fought for and died for is being destroyed over night..GOD BLESS AMERICA

“Stimulus had to go through very quickly, there was just not much time to do it for a lot of reasons, this is something that’s much more thoughtful and it’s going to take a lot more time working through it.”
Really? I, for one, would be interested in hearing some of the reasons…Perhaps Speaker Pelosi needed to catch a flight to see the Pope in Rome at taxpayer expense? Obama certainly wasn’t in a hurry to sign it.
“We’re America, we are not Canada, we are not other countries, we are the United State of America,” Baucus said.”
No, but I’m pretty sure after Obama gets done “reforming” healthcare, we’ll look a lot more like Canada than we do now.

Obama is doing a great job – this is exactly why we voted him in – to fix the messes that the Republicans caused or were too craven and coomplacent to clean up when they had the chance.
Go Mr. Obama! We LOYAL & PATRITOIC Americans are behind you 100%!

Concerns about health care? What about all of his other liberal, socialistic policies? Obama is the last thing that America needs. If only to prove as what not to be, Obama may have that purpose come 4 years time.

Republicans are total scum. Obama should shut them out of the decision making process completely. They are worthless obstructionist clowns clinging to the same failed ideology that got us into this mess in the first place. America is sick of the GOP and their useless whining. Obama has the votes – he should shut out the GOP entirely and do what needs to be done to get the country back on track. The GOP will go the way of the Whigs very soon…

Melissa what a lady you are! Why are the Democrates so defensive? We Republicans are jsut stating facts like we see them. Obviously you voted for him so you can receive more freebies! Some people have to work and make a living and support those who don’t. The Democratic party has and always will be strong because they give away to those who won’t work in return for their votes. Wake up!

The funny thing is that I was never even very political before the Bush years – I didn’t even vote during the ’90s. But now I am so angry at the GOP that I will make sure to vote against them every chance I get for the rest of my life!

Okay Melissa… facts are… we will use the welfare system as an example….welfare was created to be used in times of Emergencies. Examples of that are layoffs, sickness, death, etc. It wasn’t meant as a way of living; yet everytime a Democratic President comes into office more freebies are handed out as payout for ones vote. I’m sorry dear but those are the facts. So quit standing in line and get a job like the rest of us. I’m tired of paying for all of those freebies!!!!!

Faith – your rhetoric is out of date. Don’t you remember that the welfare system was reformed in the ’90s to avoid just such abuses? Once again you confuse your nonsensical opinions with FACTS. This is why nobody takes you Republicans seriously anymore – all you have is a bunch of stupid, outdated rhetoric and no grasp of the current reality. God you people are predictable!

Obama lied, the economy died.

Why is this surprising. Here is a bit about Baucus’s political record: Baucus is one of the more conservative members of his party, frequently breaking with the majority of Democrats on the issues like taxes, the environment, and gun politics. Max Baucus has voted in favor of big oil companies on 67% of important oil-related bills, according to Oil Change International. These bills include Iraq War funding, climate change studies, clean energy, and oil import reductions.______
Baucus voted in favor of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and was at President Bush’s side as he signed it. He has fairly consistently voted against repealing the portions of that bill and more recent tax cut bills that benefit upper income taxpayers. __Baucus also took Abramoff PAC Money____On December 20, 2005 Baucus’ office announced that he was returning $18,892 in contributions that his office has found to be connected to indicted former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. (Source: Wikipedia)

Liberals need to pay up their taxes, they run states that have little or no income, sales or any other local taxes. No wonder their states fail FAIL to provide decent health care, schools and infrastructure. They need to quit looking to the fed and the states that PROVIDE for the people. Quit being so greedy liberals and start at your state levels. Why should a state that properly funds those basic services have to pay for the liberal states that allow its citizens to squander their money? Why should a state that actively has state programs have to accept citizens from another state that has caveman care? Why should states that provide the basic care then subsidize that basic care via a federal tax? The liberals want to have everyone else pay for their tax cut. Greed nothing but greed on the liberals part. Step up to the plate liberals and start paying up because that greed is making us a third world country.

there is no free lunch for middle America on this health care reform. According to peter Orszak, the budget director, about half of the fund will be from the revenue on the so called emission cap tax, this in turn means higher cost for electricity generation which is more than 70% from burning natural gas and coal, as well as cost of ground and air transportation using internal combustion engines or jet engines.