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Obama Admits Dems May Have Violated Their Pledge On Health Care

By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on January 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM in Current Affairs, Health Care, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Universal Health Care

Tom Bevan posted Obama’s Stunning Admission on Real Clear Politics, discussing the President’s appearance at the House Republican retreat yesterday. He points out that no matter how much coverage has been dedicated to this “exchange of ideas,” or exercise in Presidential bullying, depending on your perspective, no one mentioned this rather shocking tidbit about the contents of Obamacare (Video) Barack Obama said the following:

The last thing I will say, though — let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we’ve presented — and there’s some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.

Bevan goes on to state:

If we take this statement at face value, President Obama is admitting the the health care bills passed by either the House or Senate (or both) contained provisions which were “snuck in” – presumably by Democratic members and perhaps on behalf of certain lobbyists – that would have in fact prevented people from keeping their current insurance and/or choosing the doctor they want.

This was one of the core debates on health care throughout last year: Would President Obama and the Democrats’ legislation allow government to come between citizens and their choice of doctors and insurers? Obama promised it wouldn’t. Republicans said it would, and this was one of the aspects of the legislation that led them to characterize it as a government takeover of health care – the same characterization that Obama chastized the GOP for today.

So even the President is admitting to this. Anyone protesting this debacle was called the dirtiest of names by the likes of the arrogant Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Steny Hoyer because we dared to question their 2,000 page health care monstrosity. The Dems may have snuck it in? Why would they try to do that? Don’t they have our best interests at heart.

I do not recognize this party anymore. Even Dianne Feinstein made the comment that we just couldn’t understand the depth and breadth of this legislation. Apparently, we understood it a lot better than certain folks would have liked us to.

Though the President brazenly behaves as though the American people trust his every utterance, the latest Rasmussen Reports polling on the President’s SOTU speech show just how deep that trust deficit has become.

The president in the speech declared that his administration has cut taxes for 95% of Americans. He even chided Republicans for not applauding on that point. However, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that taxes have been cut for 95% of Americans. Most (53%) say it has not happened, and 26% are not sure. Other polling shows that nearly half the nation’s voters expect their own taxes to go up during the Obama years.

The president also asserted that “after two years of recession, the economy is growing again.” Just 35% of voters believe that statement is true, while 50% say it is false.

Obama claimed that steps taken by his team are responsible for putting two million people to work “who would otherwise be unemployed.” Just 27% of voters say that statement is true. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it’s false.

Perhaps trust might be reclaimed by realizing one basic principle. The time for transparency is before and during negotations on important legislation — not after the fact, when someone has spent the better part of a year trying to shove it down the American gullet, while denying the very thing they now admit to be true. Further, what assurances do the American people have that as health care legislation continues to morph in Congress, more of these types of dangerous provisions won’t be “sneaking in.”

Health care reform is necessary. Congress first needs to prove they can be trusted to repair and improve the current system before we hand them the reins to gut it altogether.

Here’s a hot flash, Mr. President. I like my doctors. I like my health care plan. I don’t want anyone messing with it, especially if what they are offering will degrade the level of care my family and I now receive.

  • AC

    I watched the video.  This is supposed to be a brilliant, eloquent president?  He barely has a grasp of the English language.

  • whoframedrudy

    “And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”

    So if it weren’t for Scott Brown, those provisions would now be the law of the land?

    Imagine you hired a lawyer to negotiate a contract, then your lawyer made this admission after you signed the contract based on that lawyer’s advice.  ”Sorry, but as it turns out that you may have signed away your health insurance.   My bad.”

  • Kbentleyis

    Who is fooling who?  BHO is just now realizing this?  The fact is, he knew all along.  Who would think that Pelosi and Reid or congress, could write the health care bill all on their own.  We know that SEIU and BHO were big motivators in this.  How many tapes have we seen where BHO wanted a single-payer plan?

    He and his progressive cult followers are nothing but liars.

  • Diana L. C.

    Ani,

    Thanks for this post.

    Sometimes I wish I hadn’t had such good, traditional English teachers.  As I was reading the quoted passage from Obama, all I could think was this:  Thank heavens I am not in 8th grade and being asked by my teacher to diagram those sentences (if that is what they are).  They certainly follow no traditional English sentence structure.  It is VERY hard to understand what the ”great orator” is saying there.  No wonder he needs TOTUS so much. 

    And you are absolutely right–the transparency should come before the fact, not after.

    In addition, you are absolutey right that you don’t lead by calling your opponents nasty names and then later admitting they were right and feel that alone is enough to get them to go along with you

  • Ani

    Too right.  Of course he knew it all along.  No matter what his defenders try to say, it makes him look even worse to say that congress, where he has an enormous majority is “sneaking” things in — like he has nothing to do with it.  There are two options — either he is playing golf all day and they are the ones in charge or he is behind this debacle. 

    Just as with the different tales he spun about his attendance at Rev. Wright’s church while not knowing the contents of his sermons, no matter which way you spin it — the conclusion is not good.  So you agreed with it or you didn’t but stuck around for 20 years for street cred  – which is it?

    It is as if he is daring the complicit media to have the guts to come out and call him on his contradictions.  So far he has pretty much been getting away with it.

  • Diana L. C.

    I did have such a lawyer, only it was I who soon realized “his bad.”  When I called him on it, he at first tried to brush me off.  I called the Supreme Court office that oversees lawyer behavior and reported him.  Sad thing was it took him another three and a half years to get it fixed.  They three years later he tried to charge me for that fix, thinking that by then I would have thrown away the letter I had from him admitting his mistake.  I won in the end, but many, many years of my life were spent dealing with lawyers and our legal system–which convinced me that “justice” is not a word it knows.  It really was like hell on earth.

  • jbjd

    Ani, I am confused.  Whom are people supposed to call racist now; the POTUS who signed a bill without knowing what it said or, who thought he knew what it said but did not; the MSM who either did not know what was in the bill or, if they knew what it said did not report this fact; the legislators who ignored their constituents’ stated objections to the bill but who now must concede either they did not know what they signed or they signed the bill and then lied to these constituents; or those people who said opponents of the bill are racist?

  • Sassy

    First Senator Nelson of Florida got exemptions from Medicare cuts for seniors in his districts.
    Then Senator Landrieu hit the lottery.
    Senator Nelson of Nebraska sold his vote for a hefty price.
    Snuck in?
    Even David Copperfield could not hide this carnival money-go-round!

  • Ani

    Yeah, it is kind of dizzying isn’t it?  They truly are running out of people to call dirty names. 

    Great comment, btw.

  • buzzlatte

    Obama’s English is deplorable.  It certainly isn’t the King’s English (or Queen’s for the matter) that my teachers and my mother, who had a degree in English, demanded from me.

    My mother wouldn’t even allow me to say the word, “cheap”.  It was always, “inexpensive”. :)

    “…keep the health insurance you got…”   Try have!  GRRRR!

  • stodghie

    we had a guy in houston run for mayor. now something came out on his shortly before the3 election where he had been ahead and he lost. he later sued regarding this. he carried on a lot about it and the voeters didn’t like that. what true? who can say. the long and short of it was in the view of most voters was simply, if he was that corrupt they didn’t want him and he was so stupid to get himself into a mess like that they still didn’t want him.  same for obama

  • AnnieCarmel

    His grammer grates on my ears too.  He constsntly says “ta” rather than “to”.  I hate that he whistles his “S’s” too…as in “Guys”sssssss.  Oh well.  Just as the snake he is.

  • Lynn L. in Dallas

     “And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”  Got snuck in … who talks like that?
     
    So, in addition to using backwater grammar, he admits to lying from Sea to Shining Sea about certain provisions in H.R.3962/H.R.3590 - later rather than sooner, of course. Not until the House bill and the Senate legislation failed to reach the reconciliation process, due to Scott Brown’s victory in MA, did BO admit that things got snuck in that might have violated his pledges.

  • Jackie S

    Amen!

    I do not have health care at the moment–and I have diabetes.  I would rather go on in my current awkward circumstances than deal with that 2000 page monstrosity.  I took a week to read it. OMG

    There is nothing but the expansion of government control over a large portion of the economy.  And YES there is provision for care rationing it is just euphemistically referenced as cost benefit evaluation. 

    It creates more governement boards to examine the care recieved by people based on their ethnicity etc.  WTF?!?

    There is need for reform: torte, cost evaluation, exclusions etc.  But clear language and concise wording is necessary.  The convoluded legal speak leaves too many questions and way too much room for intrepretation by lawyers.

    I want to choose my doctor.  I want a say in my care.  I do not want some government weenie telling me which meds I should take or what I should eat.  That is my business.  Butt the hell out!  I will bear the consequences of my genetics and what I choose to put in my pie hole.  Have a nice day.

  • Lynn L. in Dallas

    whoframedrudy,
    sorry I repeated points you had already made  very nicely - I didn’t read all remarks before adding my own.

  • AC

    Jackie S,
    If you can see the word delete (light gray) below your comment you can actually delete the other two inadvertent copies.  Just trying to help.

  • AC

    Jackie S,
    If you can see the word delete (light gray or blue depending on where your cursor is) below your comment you can actually delete the other two inadvertent copies. Just trying to help.

  • SHV

    ” I like my health care plan.”
    ********
    I liked mine also until I had to really use it.  It is amazing how creative the insurance company can be in justifying “denials” and other non-payment.

  • propertius

    It’s aprropriate that he met with the Republican caucus – he might as well be a member.

  • Obamastolemyparty

    That was exactly my decision that I wasn’t buying into the Obama fallacy.  I read the Rezko trial in the Chicago papers online every day during the Primary and aside from the fact that it scared the crap out of me that this went on for weeks and the MSM ignored it, I realized that Obama had something to do with it.  I did not know what, but I knew he was either very corrupt or very naive and neither of those are qualities I find acceptable in a leader!

    I still thank Hillary for mentioning the slumlord Rezko during a debate, otherwise I may have never known about it!

  • lark

    Got snuck in … who talks like that?

    I think Bush did. :-E

  • Peggy Sue

    My question would be: knowing what the President recently admitted, would he have sent the bill back had it arrived on his desk?  Or signed it anyway?

    I tend to think the latter is true because the win is everything with this group.  And how duplicitous of the senior leadership to call those who had any criticism of the legislation as chronic complainers, astroturfers or unAmerican.  And then, getting their fur up when citizens ranted about the bill not being read or making things worse.  We were wrong, we were told.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.

    If you remember, our resident trolls went on at wearisome length how the bill was the victim of mindless obstructionism.

    The Dems have a huge job of repairing the public trust.  No one likes being toyed with.  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame . . .

    You get my drift.

  • Docelder

    That is the thing. You really don’t know until you have a catastrophic illness. If you have one of those pseudo health insurance plans funneled through your employers retitrement fund and labelled ERISA, anything is possible. I don’t consider that actually insurance by definition. The administration errered letting congress do all this by themselves. They are corrupt and can’t do anything right. This is Obama’s chance, right now right here. If he ever wanted to be a champion of the people, then turn on the congress, senate and lobbyists right now and champion for the people. Don’t tur on jus the republivans, turn on all of them. Insist on term limits and election campaign reform. Do that, and I would campaign for him myself. But, I am not holding my breath about it.

  • Docelder

    That is the thing. You really don’t know until you have a catastrophic illness. If you have one of those pseudo health insurance plans funneled through your employers retitrement fund and labelled ERISA, anything is possible. I don’t consider that actually insurance by definition. The administration erred letting congress do all this by themselves. They are corrupt and can’t do anything right. This is Obama’s chance, right now right here. If he ever wanted to be a champion of the people, then turn on the congress, senate and lobbyists right now and champion for the people. Don’t turn on just the republivans, turn on all of them. Insist on term limits and election campaign reform. Do that, and I would campaign for him myself. But, I am not holding my breath about it.

  • Ani

    She tried — and was roundly booed for her trouble.  He was protected from all corners — the media, the DNC and his faithful followers.

  • Peggy Sue

    SHV, I found the same to be true when we had a catastrophic injury in our family.  I had a “comprehensive plan,” paid through the nose for it, too.  But I spent months fighting with insurance clerks to get the bills settled, make sure that we received the coverage we’d paid for and that my son got the treatments he so desperately needed.  God help us, if we’d had an HMO.  We’d been put in the poor house. 

    What I learned is that if a disaster strikes, we all need a medical advocate to run interference.  Fortunately, I was available to play that role for our family.  But without that advocacy and/or the willingness to fight those battles, you’ll end up being denied proper treatment and/or totally screwed financially.

    We badly need healthcare reform in this country.  But it has to be sound, reliable and transparent.  Not some middle of the night, backroom deal, where our Reps get paid off for signing on the dotted line. And the President needs to get his hands dirty, jump into the fray and start fighting for the public’s welfare as a whole. 

    Because that’s what presidents do. 

  • jbjd

    AC, I am not certain but, I think saying “ta” instead of “to” occurs only when he is speaking the dialect Senator Reid describes as Negro.

  • Texas Playwright

    Stunning admission, baloney.  bho the fraud is pandering to the GOP and America.  As usual he is playing people against each other, talking a good game, scolding anyone who disagrees with him, then weasling out of any promises, pledges or plans by saying, “See, I said THEY, the Dims “snuck in” some bad stuff; now does everbody feel better?”  Then he will go on lying, pandering and blaming while the honorable pols (yes, there are some in both parties) take the heat and the dishonorable ones continue corrupting our laws and stealing from We the People. 

  • Ani

    I guess what is most “stunning” is that no one is going to do anything about the fact that he and congress lied through their teeth all last year even though hhe just admitted it.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Ani, 2000 pages is a whole of stray cats and dogs sneeking around.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Ani, 2000 pages is a whole lot of stray cats and dogs sneeking around.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Start with “Boneheaded” and go down hill from there.

  • TeakWoodKite

    November.

  • Always Learning

    Will Congress be covered by whatever healthcare reform they ultimately push on the rest of us? If not, why isn’t this issue front and center? How can they even think of passing legislation for American citizens, yet exempt themselves? This concept makes me the most angry.  

  • SHV

    “We badly need healthcare reform in this country. ”
    *********
    Until the public comes to a consensus that Health care can’t be delivered with an insurance model….no real reform is posible.  The insurance companies are in the business of making money and they are using actuarial models.. You get sick, it will cost more, if you cost more you pay more or are denied coverage.  Just like car, home, etc.  That model sucks >$400 billion a year out of health care delivery.

  • jbjd

    “The insurance companies are in the business of making money and they are using actuarial models.”

    Oh, so rate levels are rightly derived from actuarial models.  Hmm… How does this ‘model’ account for the millions of dollars spent on lobbyists and corporate bonuses?

    SHV, you silly goose, you just gave your disingenuousness away.

  • jwrjr

    In order to find out what was “snuck in” to the bill, somebody would have to actually read that monstrosity.  The Dem “leaders” in Congress can’t allow that.  Who, if anybody, knows what else they would find?

  • FLDemFem

    Did anyone ask him if he actually read the bill?? Any version of it..or any part of it. I doubt he had read it. So how would he know what is in it? This man is a fool, and lazy as all get out to boot. I wouldn’t trust him to read my electric meter, let alone a bill before Congress.

  • FLDemFem

    Oh, buzz, your parents did that too?? Mine used to say, “Cheep is what baby birds do, it has nothing to do with price. Inexpensive is what you mean.”

  • FLDemFem

    Annie, I have forced myself to listen to Obama and I hear Michelle on the TV asking for help for Haiti. Do you know what it sounds like to me? Dentures. People who have dentures have the same trouble with whistling their S’s. Perhaps that “great smile” comes out at night. That would certainly explain the whistling S’s!

  • jbjd

    jwrjr, your comment exposes a question I had.  What caused him to ‘find’ that ‘sneaky’ provision?  .I read that right after the SOTU, BO met with health insurers; and now this admission about the flaws in the bill that contradict the D party line spewing from both the Executive and Legislative branches.  Was the purpose of this behind-closed-doors meeting ‘getting their stories straight’?

  • FLDemFem

    This was the red flag for me…an article by a reporter who knew Obama when..read it and you will see why I have always been anti-Obama. Would have been even if Hillary hadn’t been running. This bit alone is worth reading the article for..pre-tingle Chris Matthews…

    Chris Matthews, the MSNBC political pundit, recently grilled Texas State Senator Kirk Watson for supporting Obama despite knowing nothing about the candidate’s legislative record.
    “Can you name any — can you name anything he’s accomplished?” Matthews pressed.
    “No,” Watson, whose district includes Austin, finally admitted. “I’m not gonna be able to do that.”
    “Well, that’s a problem, isn’t it?” Matthews said.”

    Gee, funny how Matthews didn’t have a problem with it himself!! Do read the article, it lays out what Obama was before he became “The One”. Very interesting.

  • WestVirginia304

    I have been reading comments on this post tonight and I git the impression that our group of visitors have a deep love for this English Is Our Language thingy.  So do me a favor, please.  If I fall into my hillbilly “dialect” contact Harry Reid and let him know that I would really appreciate it if he would construct a plausible excuse for my performance.  I’m light skinned, by the way and I don’t mind bringing coffee to my mentors. 

    Now my insurance story.  I spent two days in a hospital.  The bill was $14,000.  My insurance company paid $8,000.  They sent me text to use in a letter that I would send to the hospital when they tried to collect the rest, including $50 aspirins and tests I don’t remember taking.  The letter I sent pointed out how they were trying to rip me off and quoted some legalize that made it clear that I would gladly see them in court.  The hospital gave up.  That was 15 years ago and I don’t know if insurance companies act like your partner anymore.  But that was a cool and empowering feeling.  

  • Ani

    Amen.

  • WestVirginia304

    I think the most important question asked here tonight came from Peggy Sue.  

    My question would be: knowing what the President recently admitted, would he have sent the bill back had it arrived on his desk?  Or signed it anyway?  

    Will we see vetoes of any democrat sponsored bills?

  • Ani

    Hillary wanted is to have the option to opt in to the same plan Congress has.  That’s the difference,  She didn’t do this “okay for thee but not for me” crap.

    This is not all over the news because they refuse to make a big deal out of it.  Those who are watching and paying attention are plenty pissed off obviously.

  • Ani

    Hillary wanted us to have the option to opt in to the same plan Congress has.  That’s the difference,  She didn’t do this “okay for thee but not for me” crap. 
     
    This is not all over the news because they refuse to make a big deal out of it.  Those who are watching and paying attention are plenty pissed off obviously.

  • SHV

    Oh, so rate levels are rightly derived from actuarial models.
    *********
    Of course they use acturarial models that are designed to maximize profits.  They also have “reimbursement models and profiles”  that are sited when they deny payment or decide what they will pay.

    A few years ago, I had sudden onset of blindness in one eye and required emergency surgery.  My comprehensive plan payed $587 on a $17,000 bill.  My lawyer got them to pay 1/3.  Where the insurance companies really screw you is with the “network”.  If you require a service “out of network”,  be ready to write some very big checks.

  • Mark

    Obama went out and supported a document he never read.  Obama thought that all he had to do was give speeches on how great the health care bill was and people would automatically support it.  I was wise to Obama over two years ago others are slow but finally coming around on this guy. 

    As usual, Obama looks to blame others.  This guy has dictator written all over him and he has never done a damn thing in his life.  I know Obama.  He has already stated that he wants the entire country to be under a government health care system.  He felt this would take time to achieve and this plan would be a step in that direction.  Obama wanted a so called government option since he knew the government can lose money and does not have to male a profit.  Once the private companies go out of business the only option is the government. 

  • Peggy Sue

    I have no problem with insurance companies or any other company making money.  But when they suck the life out of people, I do have a problem with that. 

    I have homeowner’s insurance.  And a few years ago when I had my roof blown halfway off, the insurance adjuster was Johnny-on-the-spot, came and inspected the damage and gave me an estimate of what they would pay.  It was a fair evaluation.  I didn’t get the repair for free, nor did I expect to.  But I was treated in a timely manner and I was treated with respect. I’ve had similar treatment with my car insurance agents.  Have an accident, report the event and have the matter handled without recrimination.

    I cannot tell you how enraged I was after paying premiums through the nose and not making any serious claim to my health insurance company since first enrolled [25 years] to be treated like a malcontent, somebody trying to “play the system.” I had a child near death.  The last thing I needed was an argument with some stupid insurance representative.

    How dare they!  And if I was treated like that with a so-called Cadillac plan, I think it’s fair to say that the majority of Americans are equally, if not more at risk and subsequently abused in the hope that they’ll simply “give it up” and go away.

    The baseline is this: you cannot equate a human life with a dented fender or a damaged roof.  To suggest that comparison is absolutely immoral.

    The American public deserves much better.  And as far as I’m concerned, the medical insurance companies have become an obscene joke. 

  • arabella trefoil

    Stray dogs and cats? What will Obama do with these stray dogs and cats? It’s a problem that must be addressed forthrightly.

    First of all, PETA will be all over Obama’s ass. (And as much as I hate Obama, wishing the wrath of PETA to descend upon anyone is not a wish I make easily.)

    First of all, where did these stray dogs and cats come from? Where are the provisos for free spay and neuter clinics. (For the stray dogs and cats, not for the humans).

    Second of all, why did Obama obtain a pedigree dawg for a White House pet, when so many shelters offer animals for adoption. Could it be that President Obama did not meet the criteria for being the guardian of animal? We will never hear the facts, my friends.

    And dare I say that Obama himself could lead the way by adopting some of these stray dogs and cats as pets.

  • I’m a Linda too

    Great post RRRA.  Wow, this shows America Obama is the liar, not the Republicans or the Conservatives, Indes or the Dem’s who called to “Kill the Bill” or the TEA Party Moviement.

    Isn’t it funny?  Obama finds the words WE, not I, when he doesn’t want to take the blame for his directive.  He says I when he wants to take credit for something good.  OH, HE IS A WEASEL. 

     ” For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”

  • Sassy

    The polls on health care legislation have consistently shown that the public does not want this plan.
    Americans, in all age groups, have marched in protest against it.
    Voters, in three state elections, have rejected it.
    Democrats are on the losing end, but they persist in putting us in jeopardy of losing our benefits.

  • Ani

    Thanks, Linda — actually, it’s Ani…

    And yes that’s a great point – I hadn’t noticed his sudden use of the word WE.  Good catch.

  • I’m a Linda too

    OMG…I’m so sorry Ani.  GREAT Post…and now I have to go fix that.  It’s onnly fair. :)

  • I’m a Linda too

    Great post Ani. Wow, this shows America Obama is the liar, not the Republicans or the Conservatives, Indes or the Dem’s who called to “Kill the Bill” or the TEA Party Moviement. 

    Isn’t it funny? Obama finds the words WE, not I, when he doesn’t want to take the blame for his directive. He says I when he wants to take credit for something good. OH, HE IS A WEASEL.

    ” For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”

  • I’m a Linda too

    And of course, now that I did that, it’s on the bottom, not here where you and I commented.

    I think I need some of time…..brain cells not firing properly these days.

  • I’m a Linda too

    And, while we’re talking about Obama’s Freudian Slip, thinking that would make the opponents of his HI MED bill to change their mind and support the bill, knowing full well they will be keeping and adding not just stray cats and dogs, but rats and street kill to the bill, did everyone miss his apology for lying, accusing, name calling all the opponents of his HI MED bill?  Sure flew by me.

  • I’m a Linda too

    o/t but worthy a shout out.

    WOOT, Scott Brown starts with hiring the women!

    “(CNN) – Senator-elect Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, has turned to political veteran Gail Gitcho to oversee his communications operation.”

  • FLDemFem

    He would have signed it anyway. He owes his election to the special interests who would have made million, or even billions, off the bill. Obama doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the average American, he just cares about himself and what he can get out of this gig.

  • FLDemFem

    Arabella, the “stray dogs and cats” certainly explains the listing, in one version of the bill, of veterinarians as “health care givers.” I mentioned that to my vet, who treats my horses, and he said he wasn’t interested in taking on any two-legged patients.

  • Ani

    No worries, my dear!

  • Jackie S
  • Anonymous

    Got snuck in … who talks like that

    The moosh man at the top!

  • FranSC

    Considering that rambling, jumbled, and restarting of sentences in mid sentence that you quoted, Ani, I was shocked and then disgusted when one of the guests on ”Reliable Sources” today was describing how well 0bama did at the republ retreat Friday.  She said something to the effect, “The republicans are probably sorry they invited the president and no doubt forgot *how fast on his feet he is*.  If that’s fast on your feet, that guest has very low standards for that skill.

    It reminds me a little of an exchange between Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee when Sally had a job interview with the man who would later become her husband.  “Can you show me something you’ve written?” asked managing editor of the WP Bradlee.  “I’ve never written anything,” admitted Quinn.  Pause.  “Well,” said Brandlee, “Nobody’s perfect.”