Virginia Could Screw It All Up for Obama’s Health Care Mandates, Other Melting Points Reached for ObamaCare… Make Your Voice Heard!
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 8, 2010
This is supposedly the last big week for Americans to make “their voices heard” on ObamaCare (although, we’ve heard that before and crikey, what does Congress and Team Obama think the townhall protests and tea parties for the past year were all about?).
Call, fax, and/or email your congressional reps, attend a local tea party protest. If Obama is swooping into your state this week, try to attend to protest. We’re being told that a congressional vote will be conducted on March 18, ironically only three days after the historical “Ides of March” when dictatorial Roman leader Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in 44 B.C. Caesar, after assuming control of the government, had begun extensive reforms of Roman society and government.
It ain’t over ’til it’s over, patriots.
Virginia appears to be the first state to have the courageous cajones to pass legislation against this federal government power grab…
From NRO, via Boston Globe, Virginia Says No to Mandate:
Here in the former capital of the Old Confederacy, where resistance to the supremacy of federal law has a long and tortuous history, a new battle is being waged over a question that could undercut a key part of President Obama’s health care proposal: whether Washington can require that most Americans have health insurance.
The Virginia Legislature this week is poised to become the first state to pass legislation that says citizens cannot be required to have medical insurance.
Dozens of other states are considering similar measures, possibly setting the stage for one of the greatest tests of federal power over the states since the civil rights era.
If states are allowed to opt out of the mandate, the foundation of Obama’s effort would be undermined, turning the nascent revolt here into one with national implications.
Link to revealing, audacious post from last June: Obama Socialized Health Care Infomercial on ABC-TV Bombs; POTUS Drones On and On, Admits He May Not Want It for His Own Family… government-run health care is good enough for America, but not good enough for Obama’s family?
More shameless audacity from the Man-Child president…
From Gateway Pundit, LOCKED OUT!… Obama Won’t Let Public In to Hear His Health Care Speech in St. Louis– PROTESTS PLANNED… go to the blog for details on St. Louis protests:
Make Your Voice Heard—
President Obama is coming to St. Louis on Wednesday to push his “angry mob unpopular” nationalized health care bill. But, you won’t get to see him.HE’S LOCKING THE DOORS ON THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC.
President Obama and Missouri Democrats including Senator Claire McCaskill, Governor Jay Nixon and Russ and Robin Carnahan want to ram their toxic health care bill down your throat but THEY DON’T HAVE THE GUTS TO FACE THE PUBLIC!
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The Second Protest planned by the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition is planned for 5:30 on Wednesday night downtown in St. Louis across from the Renaissance Grand hotel.
Things are falling apart in the White House — infighting ensues…
From Human Events, Emanuel Helping Obama Unravel:
Rahm Emanuel, famous for declaiming that a crisis should never be allowed to go to waste, is now engaged in an epic battle not only with President Obama’s closest advisers but with the president himself.
White House infighting isn’t unusual, especially when the president’s agenda is failing or he’s in re-election trouble. Obama isn’t yet an endangered species whose extinction is predicted for 2012. But he is at a low ebb, and — if Congress doesn’t accomplish Obama’s nationalization of health care before the March 29 Easter recess — it likely won’t be able to for the remainder of his presidency.
Obama’s health care bill is in real trouble. It may not pass the House because the vote scares Democrats whose November fortunes may be sunk by it, and because of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) principled stance against abortion funding. Obama’s decision to put Attorney General Holder in charge of the war against terrorists is failing spectacularly, and the reversal of Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other 9-11 planners in New York City is imminent. And the president’s spending tsunami — linked to the health care “reform” — has Democrats running for cover all across the fruited plain. This is not the mid-term campaign year Democrats were expecting.
From Riehl World View, Dems Doubt Health-Bill: Why Obama’s Roadshow Will Fail:
For starters, Obama has not even been able to convince many members of his own party in DC that his health care bill is a good idea. Meanwhile, what’s the narrative behind Obama’s many forays out of the White House in the last year? You can’t point to a single one that has generated any success. When he went to Nevada for Harry Reid recently, it didn’t raise Reid’s numbers a bit.
Obama’s campaign for the WH was a non-stop PR event aided by a compliant press. Since taking office, Obama has managed to disappoint the American people time and again. Yet, he’s given more speeches and been in the public eye, sans press conferences, of course, more than any other chief executive in modern times. None of his many appearances have done him any real good.
There’s a saying in America, fool me once, shame on you, etc …. If America’s response to Obama’s new roadshow gets a standing ovation, it’ll sound more like a Who concert, than a state of the union address: they Won’t get fooled, again.
From Pundit & Pundette, Obamacare Plot Twists:
America is bone-tired of this endless saga. But the president, unable to let go of the conviction that his personal charisma is the key to building support for his repellent agenda, continues to campaign. Seriously. He’s holding rallies in Philadelphia today and in St. Louis on Wednesday. A certain blogger we know has a ticket to the Philly event and we’re looking forward to her report. Will she be able to restrain herself from Wilsonesque utterances? Stay tuned.
From Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Obama’s Stalingrad, Not Waterloo:
We have bled jobs while Obama has tried to force through a program the American people do not want. Had Obama’s health care agenda had popular support, the legislation would have been signed into law long ago.
The health care fight has drained the Obama administration and agenda, and the entire Democratic Party. Right now, the Democrats are pushing forward only because they are in too deep. Having continued the battle despite the lack of popular support, Democrats have left themselves no way out.
There is no path to victory for Democrats in this battle. To fail to pass “something” will be a mortal blow to Obama’s prestige; to pass “something” will be a mortal blow to Democrats in Congress in the November elections.
For Democrats, health care defeat has become defeat, and health care victory has become defeat.
More reading:
The Powers That Be: Postal Service May Ration Mail Delivery: Welcome to a Glimpse of Your Possible Government Health Care Future
HillBuzz: Question: Is the Democrat Party balkanizing into all out war on multiple destructive fronts?
Gateway Pundit: Obama Flashback: Dems Should Not Pass Healthcare With 50-Plus-1 Strategy (Video) and Obama: Dems Will Use Nuke Option to Ram Through Obamacare and Matt Damon Disappointed in Obama; He’s Not Radical Enough and Dems Call to Pass O-Care With Simple Up-or-Down Vote and Gergen at CNN: Republicans Just Had Their Best Day in Years (Video) and Top Dem Says House Will Pass Obamacare With More Votes the 2nd Time Around and House Republican Leader John Boehner: Obama’s Health Care Proposal Jeopardizes Summit
Michelle Malkin: The Chicago Way: Judgeships for Demcare votes? and Here comes the reconciliation “nobody” is talking about; Update: Oba-kabuki lab coat props reappear; “Make your voice heard” and Dems: Screw bipartisanship, full steam ahead on Obamacare hara-kiri
Flopping Aces: Pelosi – A Bill Can Be Bipartisan Without Bipartisan Votes and Obama Continues to Push Health Care When Country Needs Jobs
Conservatives4Palin: It’s Official: Obama Will Attempt to Force ObamaCare Through Reconciliation
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Rush Limbaugh Applauds Rep. Paul Ryan: Decries Cynical Dem Gimmicks & Says “ObamaCare Is a Ponzi Scheme That Would Make Bernie Madoff Proud” and Dems Itching to Power-Ram ObamaCare Through & Ignore American Voters… Queen Pelosi Says “Time Is Up” but Rep. Paul Ryan Says She Doesn’t Have the Votes (video) and If Looks Could Kill: Obama’s Face During Rep. Paul Ryan’s Dismantling of Dems’ Health Care Costs (video) and Olbermann Will Freak Out & Call These Health Care Protesters “Racists” & Obama’s Nose Picking During Summit (video) and Obama’s Health Care Summit at Blair House: Big-time Snoozeville, Bring a Pillow — Highlights and Lowlights (video) and Kill the ObamaCare Beast… “Fiscal Gimmicks and Gamesmanship,” Krauthammer’s “Masquerading Travesty” Analysis (video) and Republican Whip Cantor & Rush Limbaugh Let Loose: Breakdown of Obama’s Health Care Plan (video) and Showdown Time: Obama’s Health Care Plan… Congress, Like It or Lump It… 78% of American Voters Believe Health Costs Will Skyrocket and How Much Are Americans Willing to Pay to Insure Everyone on ObamaCare? Most Popular Poll Response: “ZERO”
Charging Elephant: Health Care, the Stalingrad of Legislative Efforts
Patterico’s Pontifications: Democrats’ Newest Strategy: “Chicken!” and ObamaCare: Burning down the House and Obama Gets Schooled and “Because I’m the President”
On My Watch — The writings of SamHenry: Obama, Failure-in-Chief and Pelosi Making it Hard for Dems to be Loved
American Power: Blair House Reject: No Deal at Health Summit
VotingFemale: Obama’s Two Faces of Reconciliation aka the Nuclear Option and Pelosi’s Cultist Suicide Pact Recruitment Underway
Nice Deb: Video: Rep. Paul Ryan Says The House Still Does Not Have The Votes To Pass Obamacare and A Majority of Americans Say “Scrap the Bill” – Dems Determined to Ram it Through, Anyway and By The Way – Obama Was Wrong About Insurance Premiums
RedState: Never Let Facts (Or The Will Of Your Constituents) Get In The Way Of Greatness
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Stafford Hospital caused ‘unimaginable suffering’
The Substratum: Rule By Tyranny. Senator Byrd’s (D-WV) Thoughts on Reconciliation
Diary of a Mad Conservative: WSJ: Abuse of Power
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: “Much Smaller” ≠ “Much Smaller” and Don’t Believe It Or Not Believe It
GayPatriot: Will Paul Ryan’s statement (that government doesn’t have the answers) come to define the boring health care summit?
Another Black Conservative: ObamaCare 3.0?
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This health care bill is a joke. Why do the government keep trying to force it on us? I hope all states succeed in doign what VA is doing. Would be a slap in Dear Leader’s face.