The Presidential Planner
EmailFrom Sunlen Miller:
President Obama will hold his fourth health care event in two weeks, when he travels just outside the beltway to Fairfax, Virginia today to speak at George Mason University. The president’s visit today follow health care related events in Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania over the last few weeks, as the administration pushes into the final phase of reform.
Yesterday, the White House announced that the president would delay is trip to Indonesia and Australia until June, in order to be in Washington, DC as the House casts a vote this weekend. He was to have left this Sunday – right when it is anticipated voting will start.
“The president believes right now the place for him to be right now is in Washington seeing this though,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said at yesterday’s briefing.
Back at the White House in the afternoon, the President and the Vice President will have their weekly private lunch in the Private Dining Room.
-Sunlen Miller
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Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | March 19, 2010, 7:36 am 7:36 am
This is no longer about healthcare, this is the re-election of Barack Obama..Bravo to the white house and the press for re-framing the entire debate.Time to stand up for the constitution folks…as Leonardo said to Kate as they clung to the stern of the sinking Titanic..”this is it!”
Posted by: cindy | March 19, 2010, 8:25 am 8:25 am
One day your children will ask how, on your watch, economic freedom was compromised, income taxes skyrocketed to pay for a massive expansion of intrusive government, and people began to serve the state, instead of the other way around.
Posted by: jordan | March 19, 2010, 9:26 am 9:26 am
There’s a good article in Forbes today by Bruce Bartlett about the tea party and a recent poll conducted Its called, “the Misinformed tea party movement: for an anti-tax group they don’t know much about taxes.”
As another Steve Benen of Washington Monthly’s Political Animal notes: “There were no questions in the survey about health care policy, but it stands to reason that these same folks are basing their opposition to the Democratic plan based on little more than confusion….this is also a group that seems to actively eschew reality, deliberately rejecting the truth because facts are perceived as having a liberal bias… how can credible people take nonsense seriously and hope to come up with a meaningful result? How can policymakers actually address substantive challenges while following the advice of angry mobs who reject reason and evidence?
The bottom line seem inescapable: Tea Party activists have no idea what they’re talking about. Their sincerity notwithstanding, this is a confused group of misled people.”
The Republicans are basically tea partiers nowadays.
Onward. The status quo is unsustainable. We need health care reform and we can’t let the misled drown out the voices of truth, reason and pragmatism.
Posted by: progressive mama | March 19, 2010, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Latest result of CNBC’s street poll show 75% not in favor of Obamacare, and 25% in favor of the bill.
Posted by: austin | March 19, 2010, 11:34 am 11:34 am
JERUSALEM – A poll released Friday shows that Israelis overwhelmingly have a favorable impression of President Barack Obama, despite a grave diplomatic feud with the U.S. over east Jerusalem construction . . .. seven out of 10 Israelis share a favorable view.
Posted by: tierra | March 19, 2010, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
Now that the Health Care bill races to this magical passing maneuver, I am wondering if, once we all are covered….will be also be forced to still pay for medical coverage on auto policies, home policies or workmen’s compensation coverage. It seems to me, by makeing this thing mandetory, we would not “have to pay” for duplicate coverage under any other policy. Mandatory coverage would delete the necessity of all these other policies, would it not?
Posted by: cjvwise1 | March 19, 2010, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
Posted by: austin | Mar 19, 2010 11:34:14 AM
The Kaiser Health tracking poll tells a different story. check it out. We’re divided but the numbers favor passage.
Onward. The status quo is unsustainable.
Posted by: progressive mama | March 19, 2010, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm
The Kaiser survey found that: “Forty-two percent say “Congress has debated health care reform long enough and it is time for them to take a vote.” Thirty-six percent would like lawmakers to “go back to the drawing board and start over again on a new proposal.” And 20 percent say “Congress should stop talking about health care reform and move on to other topics.”
Posted by: 4civility | March 19, 2010, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
post by progressive mama 4:19 pm
Here are some additional poll results:
CNN: dated 2/24 ” Twenty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say Congress should pass legislation similar to the bills passed by both chambers, with 48 percent saying lawmakers should work on an entirely new bill and a quarter saying Congress should stop all work on health care reform.”
Gallup poll: date 2/8/10 , approval rating for Obama handling of HCR 36%
ABC poll (New Haven, CT) date 3/19/10, 29% in support of HCR, 70% against HCR
Posted by: austin | March 19, 2010, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm