White House: Berwick Appointment ‘Too Important’ to Wait for a Hearing

If this medicare administrative position is..”too important for a congressional hearing”-how long before the position of president is “too important” for an election?

i see

If the GOP didn’t have a policy of trying to obstruct every single administrative action, then we might be able to get a decent hearing once in a while.

“This is too important. This position is too important,’
So, why is the rush for rationing health care so important?

Mary they would have blocked it. And you know it.

“Mary they would have blocked it. And you know it.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which would have had jurisdiction over Berwick’s appointment, said he “requested that a hearing take place two weeks ago, before this recess.”
Google Jake Tapper’s own July 7th blog: “President Obama Attacks Congress for Delaying His Nominees — Is He Right?”
Axelrod lies incessantly. Not exactly a revelation.

I don’t really get it. If the nomination is too important to be held up by GOP game-playing as Axelrod explained, why was it not important enough for Berwick to be confirmed until now, over a year and a half into the administration with the insurance legislation having already been passed over 6 months ago?

as someone who is in the medical field and familiar with Don Berwick;we are in for a lot of micromanaging and severe changes to the practice of medicine;dictated by the new england medical elites.

But it wasn’t too important to wait until the recess. What a bunch of B.S.!

Let me say it as simply as I can: transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” – Barack Obama
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Great quote. Does Barry give himself full or only partial credit for transparently circumventing the rule of law?

Everything is an emergency, too big to fail, the worst economy since the great depression or the worst disaster in oil drilling history! The little boy is crying wolf too often.

Hey Obama! This is too important NOT to hold a hearing!!

“It’s our way or the hi-way, little people.”
I will remember in November.

Dr. Donald Berwick is a defacto one man “death panel” who will make decisions which will have implications for all Americans don’t question him!

What was “too important” was that Berwick not speak out telling what is really in the Obamacare. Lets face it Congress Democrats do not know what they passed, and most people don’t either as the media (ABC included) does not report it in full.

I’m assuming he’s “damaged goods” now? Pretty sure that’s the term Senator Obama used for recess appointments.

Many of the outright lies and total deceptions that are so obvious by this administration are propagated by Axlerod and Emanuel, approved by Obama and instigated by mindless morons like Biden, Holder and Napolitano. To call this ship of fools incompetent would be flattery.

Obama has lost the independents that carried him to victory but he simply doesn’t care. It’s full steam ahead with his far left ideology. He now knows he has only four years to squeeze in as much of his agenda as possible. Get ready for a lame duck Congress that pushes through more “stimulus”, cap and tax, card check, you name it.

“…it is too important to allow that kind of game-playing to go on.”
Congressional oversight? ha!
Balance of powers? pppfffttt!
Constitution? Naaaa
We are talking about…..The One.

Gerwick readily admits that rationing and redistribution of wealth are indigenous to Obamacare. What he is really saying in the case of either, if you are a demonrat, you go to the front of the line. Obamacare, Cap & Trade, Amnesty plus making the Leader of the Free World a laughingstock on the world stage, we haven’t elected a president, we’ve anointed a king.

The White House and democratic congressional leaders need to take full responsibility for not wanting the administration’s choice for this vacancy grilled in public during an election cycle.

Our first Anti American President uses the Constitution for toilet paper and can’t wait to shut down the internet. So speak up whilst you are still able.

more marxist bull from the head propagandist axelrod, truth is that obama is going to balance the budget with health care rationing

For those of you unfamiliar with the US Constitution – both the Rep and Dem parties have abused the power to appoint during a recess. This example is particularly bad because the Dems did not allow a hearing for their own choice. It reads “fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate”, not make the appointment during a recess to get around the process. (actuall wording is in the last paragraph so no one thinks it is taken out of context – I do not think the head of $911 billion department for 2011 of our budget falls under “Appointment of such inferior Officers”)
But hey, why let a document that is not over 2000 pages dictate anything……………….
The Constitution of the United States
Article II – The Executive Branch
Section 2 – Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Tina,
When the constitution was written congress was only a part time job and met only periodically. In addition, travel between states took an unbelieveable amount of time which further limited the amount of time congress met. In other words, the provision for the president making out of session appointments was adopted with these two factors in mind.
Clearly, the appointment of Berwick does not meet the spirit of Article 2 and was done to avoid discussion of his radical positions.

There has been so much Constitutional violations in the last two administrations that it makes me sick. If the Senate and Congress Members have any intent of ever being elected again they need to find a way to stop Hussein Obama. Sue for proof of Citizenship and get an injunction from the Supreme Court against any more appointments until he has produced that proof. If this keeps up I am not so sure we will have an election in November. Obama seems to confident and I think it is because he has found a way to stop the November election leaving him with a Democrat Controlled Congress and a civil war on his hands. Remember he wanted a civilian force as well financed as the Military? What do you think the New Black Panther Party and SEIU are, they jump when he calls. Get ready people, the fun is just beginning.

David Axlefraud is the same fraud who created John Edwards, who is just another empty suit, nothing fraud, like Obama.
America…you’ve been had! And David Axlefraud is laughing in your faces! He thinks he’s a Jedi practicing his mind tricks on you. He feels that he can say anything, no matter how propsterous, and you’ll believe him!
“Two Americas”. “Change You Can Believe In”. Just too empty platitudes Axlefraud came up with to give the morons something to chant.

Agree Bill Fabrizio as well as with Max Conservative | Jul 11, 2010 2:49:40 PM.

It boils down to 3 words.. heed them well…..OBAMA VS AMERICA

What a coincidence!!! Yet another Socialist placed in a high govt. position.

Well, why else are so many people talking about an armed uprising? If there’s no law controlling the New Black Panther shenanigans, there is no law. Let the games begin.

Yes, this appointment is so important that President Obama left the position vacant for almost a year and a half before finally deciding on a nominee.
So, it’s OK for the President to take his sweet time in making important decisions, but when he finally makes up his mind he expects Congress to act on his decisions “yesterday.”

“I find little evidence anywhere that market forces bluntly used — that is just consumer choice among an array of products, competitors fighting it out — leads to the health-care system you want and need . . . Please don’t put your faith in market forces,” Berwick said then. “It is a popular idea that Adam Smith’s invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can do. I do not agree.”
LEADERS WITH PLANS.
Do you think just because some guy’s parents were wealthy and sent him to Harvard, he can tell *you* which doctor is best for your family? Your children will suffer. Their children will suffer. They will cry someday, when they can’t get a straight medical answer from leaders with plans. Ever call the IRS? Ever fly to Canada for some treatment that’s not available now in the U.S.A.?
Whose children do better academically, the children in public school or the children in private school?
Why don’t Obama’s intelligentsia come from state schools? Uh huh, because they’re considered *inferior*. Medicine will be the same way. We’re all doomed to public-school medicine. Those of us who are RICH, like the golf-playing Obama, will simply hire private specialists.
His own children will never know the bitter taste of public school or public medicine. But he shoved it down ALL OUR THROATS.
I am one angry Mama Grizzly.

January 20, 2011
Opening of impeachment hearings to remove the traitor Obama.

Of course the Senate could supoena the guy, and call him into an hearing. If it didn’t come he could then be jailed for contempt.

“The Republican Party has made it a policy in the United States Senate to hold up… as many nominations,” as possible, Axelrod said. “This is too important. This position is too important”
The last thing this professional Liar for Hire and the rest of the corrupt totalitarians in the Obama Regime want is any scrutiny or oversight of Dr. Death Panel.

Yeah Axlerod,
To you, Democracy is a bad idea. It takes far too long for debates and votes. It is much better in the Obama-Axelrod world for a dictator to ignore Congress and the Supreme Court; just do whatever you want. The law be damned.

If it was so critical, why did Obama and the Democrats wait till now to fill this position which has been vacant since before Obama took office? The answer is simple Obama is trying to HIDE the real facts behind Obamacare from the American People. This is the same reason Obama and Liberal Democrats in Congress have not passed a budget!
Do the Democrats in Congress, Obama, and ABC news really think the American people are so stupid to swallow this tripe?
Americans expect a little more from ABC News than to simply act as a moutpiece for this adminstration by spreading their un-truths unchallenged!

NEWS FLASH: Obama Administration finds a possible link between rampant deficit spending and the National Debt. Though not yet reported to the public the 14 trillion dollar projected debt would require 100 years (yes, 100 years) of balanced budgets and payments of 320 billion dollars per year to resolve. The WH has not stated when payments might begin.
Just maybe Berwick’s rationing skills are needed to help with the 320 billion dollar per year payments!
You do know that Obamacare wording does permit both rationing and death-panels. It just doesn’t call them by name.
Remember how long it took us to get “partial birth abortion” called by its rightful name, but we prevailed and will do so on death-panels and rationing.

Let me see if I have this straight..
The man who’s 1st instinct is to DENY health care, is being put “incharge” of “providing” health care??!
The oximoron surge continues…