Obama: ‘Greatest Hope’ is for Health Reform to be Passed This Year

What I want to know is what are they going to do for SENIORS whos only income is social security, no savings, no 401K’s no pensions to fall back on.
These Seniors need a COLA raise in 2010, 2011, and 2012….I read that they are not getting any in 2010 & 2011 and only 1.5 in 2012. This will NOT work…they are in a depression now…do something to HELP THE SENIORS

The country is organizing to deliver a message in November that heretofore has gone unheard and/or ignored.
“NO!” is a perfectly good answer to an agenda that the vast majority of Americans understand, but do not want, and can not afford.
As a registered Independent who votes, I’m referred to as the “party of no”. Very soon this man will better understand the “COUNTRY OF HELL NO!”.

As a registered Independent who votes, I’m referred to as the “party of no”.
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No you’re not, the Republicans are referred to as “the party of no”. Independents have often said “yes”.
The Republicans have attacked virtually each and every thing the Democrats have done – with a few rare independent exceptions.

“Independents have often said “yes”.”
Yes they have. Like to Republican Scott Brown, for example, in one of the deepest blue states in the country.
Looking forward to November.

Democrats: Party of the People!
—The guest list for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s “winter retreat” at the Ritz Carlton South Beach Resort doesn’t include the price tag for attendance, but the maximum contribution to the committee, typical for such events, is $30,000. There, to participate in “informal conversations” and other meetings Saturday, were senators including DSCC Chairman Robert Menendez; Michigan’s Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Claire McCaskill of Missouri; freshmen Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Begich of Alaska; and even left-leaning Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Across the table was a who’s who of 108 senior Washington lobbyists, including the top lobbying officials for many of the industries Democrats regularly attack: Represented were the American Bankers Association, the tobaco company Altria, the oil company Marathon, the Edison Electric Institute, which has battled climate regulation, several drug manufacturers, the defense contractor Lockheed, and most of the large independent lobbying firms: Ogilvy, BGR, Quinn Gillespie, Heather Podesta, and Tony Podesta.
The retreat’s guest list is a marked contrast to Menendez’s recent rhetoric, which has echoed the White House denunciation of “special interests” and “fat cats.”—(Politico)

“Independents have often said “yes”.
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I mean elected independents have often said ‘yes’ and voted with the Democratic administration.
The Republicans are the party of “NO”.
It has been the Republican party tactic to attack and demonize the Democrats for years now.
Part of the reason Brown got elected was because he distanced himself from the Republican party and professed to be independent – a majority of people do not want to vote for Republicans again. Most had enough of them during the Bush and Cheney regime.

Please provide a source and date for this information.
As far as I know links are not approved here but if you chose to believe that Congress has to abide by the laws they are writting for us I do have some choice mountain prpoerty to sell you in the Sahara desert.

“Obama bows to Tampa Mayor…”
I saw this on Yahoo! News. I’m not sure if more sad or funny… What excuses can the Left offer for this photo?

“Part of the reason Brown got elected was because he distanced himself from the Republican party and professed to be independent.”
Nope. He ran as a fiscally conservative Republican opposed to Obama’s agenda. In his TV ads and on the road, he repeatedly and openly railed against Obamacare and promised to defeat it. There was no nuance. He won overwhelmingly in Ted Kennedy’s and Barney Frank’s own districts. That’s why Democrats freaked following the election.

The economy was supposed to crash if we didn’t get the health deal done by September 2009.. why didn’t the Democratic controlled Congress pass the bill?????
I don’t think Obama cares about this watered down mess… any longer.. it isn’t close to a problem solver.. he has a new ‘hope’ .. the goal of returning to popularity and getting elected again.
I would laugh if it wasn’t such a serious mess that we are in.. I think I’ll laugh anyway.

Mary..you are right..he ran as an independent and yesterday in an interview with Barbara Walters said he is pro choice and for public health care as Mass has health care and it is mandatory. Funny that the republicans do not mention this. He will not be a part of the “purity pact” because of these views. He also said he agrees with some of Obama’s ideas and Barbara asked if he would vote for them and he backed off for fear of not being accepted by the rep. party. He needs to be careful as they will turn on him in a minute if he does not follow the rules. He also won because the dems. picked a weak candidate. She did not campaign and people did not know what she stood for. Many felt she was too confident and had the job without even trying.

I personally believe Obama because he will do everything as it should!

Obama talks about bolshevik plots from the GOP on health care. Well Obama and Reid walked away from Snowe on health care.
Snowe isn’t exactly a partisan right winger. If you can’t be bipartisan with snowe you can’t be bipartisan with anyone. Snowe is concerned about fines to small businesses with more than 50 employees. She has met with maine business owners and they are concerned that it will hurt job creation and the small businesses cut back to get under 50 employees.
The senate free rider agreement also makes it more beneficial for small businesses to hire 20 year olds that can use their parents health care than 40 year olds. Obama didn’t need the house gop. Obama said no to Snowe because Obama is a liberal who had the most liberal voting record and even won’t work with snowe. Obama and the dems filibustered everything with daschle and reid when gop had the majority but not filibuster proof senate.
Obama filibustered tort reform with all the dems. All 55 dems blocked miguel estrada. Dems said no to everything and yet Obama won’t even work with snowe. Gop has senators like lugar, murkowski, voinovich, snowe, collins who have voted for bill after bill to support obama and yet he spits at the gop as the party of now when gop has shown far more bipartisanship and yet obama returns the favor from snowe by excluding her in the process and doing a deal with big insurance companies to stop cheap drug importations from canada.
Snowe sponsored that Bill with dorgan and instead of doing bipartisanship with snowe obama ran to the big insurance companies.
Obama didn’t want to work with snowe after the mass vote he contacted the house dems to pass the senate bill and then fix with reconcilliation process that reid had decried years earlier saying you need 67 votes to change the senate rules.

I give up. Obama, Axelrod, Emanuel act like partisans and won’t even work with snowe of maine.
We need a president like Jon Huntsman a moderate who will work with both sides.
Obama has gotten a boost from Friday from using the platform as a campaign.
Obama meets with union leaders, liberal activists, and big pharma behind closed doors but won’t even do a deal with snowe.
If Obama really wanted bipartisanship he would have invited snowe to the meetings he has with the liberal activists and unions on health care. He would have invited her behind closed doors or open that up to C-Span.
Instead Obama is soaring in the polls because of fake bipartisanship on friday.
Obama had the most liberal voting record in the senate.
Obama’s approval ratings have soared since Friday.
This shows that there is now a liberal majority in this country with the demographic shifts and we will never again have a moderate president that will truly sit down and work with both sides and work with senators like snowe.
Libs you win this is your country from now to eternity. Get used to 9 liberal supreme court justices, courts at every level stacked with liberal justices.
Politics in this country are over if Obama can govern in a liberal way and still soar in the polls.
The liberals like Al Franken and Obama are the majority and there can never again be a moderate president who will work with both sides. We are now a majority liberal nation. The presidency will be decided on who is the most liberal candidate in the democratic primary. I have given up on politics you win liberals, you win.

Stimulus plan was poorly written and instead of money going directly to the projects the congress gave it to the states who used the money on pork.
You could have had more jobs with less than half the money spent but the congress and obama put in so much money for pork and not jobs.
Gop had a stimulus plan half the money more directed at jobs and not pork. But if you disagree with Obama you are the party of no.
What a governing strategy from axelrod, emanuel and obama that if you don’t like their bill 100 percent you are the party of no.
They won’t even work with olympia snowe on health care who is no right winger.
Can someone in the press ask Obama if Olympia Snowe’s is a bolshevik.
Obama used Friday as a campaign platform but he isn’t bipartisan because he won’t even work with olympia snowe.
Obama shows how lefty he is that he and Reid dissed snowe and left her out of the health care negotiations. Snowe has a real work perspective hearing the concerns of small business owners in maine.
But Chris Mathews, Maddow, Olbermann, Ed Schultz have taken over our nation along with Obama administration.
They make you believe that Obama can’t work with the party of no.
That is a lie Obama wouldn’t work with a moderate like Snowe. So Obama calling republican bulsheviks is wrong because Olympia Snowe wasn’t liberal enough for Obama which shows he is a fake bipartisan.
Obama had the most liberal senate voting record and is surrounded by liberals like axelrod and emanuel so to them Olynpia Snowe is some right winger.

Obama’s numbers are up 10 percent since Friday.
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That’s because the President held his own and more in the Q&A exchange with the Republican caucus.
The President defended against all of their attacks and accusations – and the Republicans looked like they were just cherry picking information to score political points.

Obama is too arrogant to learn anything from the MA election.
In his mind we are just too dumb to know a good thing when we see it.
He just needs to explain HC in more simple terms, dumb it down for the bitter peons.

Health care is Obama’s greatest hope for his own legacy.
How many times has he pointed out that 7 other presidents tried and failed?
Why is that so important if it’s the people he is thinking about?
Obama would sign absolutely anything.

My greatest hope is already coming true.
America and the world would wake up and see Obama for the fraud he really is.
Obama intentionally mislead millions of people, pretending to be a different kind of politician that would change Washington.
He’s different alright.
Way worse.

When you have the media behind you Obama can do anything.
Obama in September said no health care for illegals.
Then last month Obama promised rep gutierrez that he would pass an immigration reform bill giving illegals amnesty to fix the health care for illegals.
This came up because the house bill had health care for illegals while the senate didn’t.
So Obama went back on a state of the union promise and yet nothing from the media.
Obama then railed against republicans and their bolshevik fear tactics.
This last week has been as bad as poltiics get.
It shows the more left wing you get the more Obama’s polls rise.
It shows America is now a majority liberal country and no moderate that works with both sides can ever be elected again.
The only president we will ever have is who is the most liberal in the democratic primary.

To tierra we need Jon Huntsman as president.
We need a moderate who will work with both sides.
We don’t need a 100 percent liberal like Obama and advisors like emanuel and axelrod who use a crisis to drive through liberal agenda.
We need a moderate to work with both sides if you really want to change washington.
Jon Huntsman can never be president though because all our future presidents will be determined by who is the most liberal in the democratic primary.

Obama will get 3 supreme court picks with ginsberg and stevens stepping down the next two years.
If Obama gets a second term he will have 6 supreme court justices with three more over 70.
Obama will have his own court for the next 35 years. It will be Obama’s court.
We are now a liberal nation on steroids.
Hope american people love this liberal society.

What happened to transparency and C-Span? Now, Obama is campaigning for 2010 and 2012!
Americans are fed up with HCF and Cap and Trade. We want them to create jobs and reduce debt, among other things.
Obama and the liberals in Congress plan to cram this down our throats, regardless of what it takes. They made deals “behind closed doors” at our expense.
We don’t want this massive, intrusive, corrupt government.

the liberals in Congress plan to cram this down our throats
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“cram this down our throats”
What’s with the sudden oral fixation on the part of the Republican right?
You’re all mouthing the same phrase.
Is that what passing legislation is called these days?

We don’t need a 100 percent liberal like Obama and advisors like emanuel and axelrod who use a crisis to drive through liberal agenda.
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For one who claims to understand politics, you sure don’t understand the left side of it all.
For example, Dennis Kucinich was the most liberal Dem candidate for president, not Obama– not at all. And Emanuel isn’t considered a liberal– in fact the left wing is calling for Obama to get rid of Emanuel.
Obama put forth many centrist policies in his State of the Union address.
Just sayin’
I like Snowe and Huntsman– and guess what? So does Obama. He has good working relationships with both, and Snowe has very pointedly said that Obama is reasonable and gets it.
Again, just sayin’…