Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 17, 2010

The left-wing Seattle Times hates ObamaCare almost as much as conservatives do… The U.S. House should reject the health care bill and start over:

Thirty million dollars is being spent on ads to persuade members of Congress to vote for or against the health insurance bill. This is all aimed at a few uncommitteds, such as Rep. Brian Baird, D-Vancouver. Call it a million dollars a vote.

To this cashophony, we add our 75 cents. For years, this newspaper has favored health care reform. We still favor it, done at the right time and in the right way. We do not favor this bill and urge Baird and his colleagues to vote against it.

Right now the government’s goal should be the revival of business investment and the creation of private-sector jobs. This cannot be put off. It has to be pursued now, and it has to be President Obama’s major concern.

A good health insurance bill might help the economic recovery. But it would do this only if it controlled health care costs, so that when an American worker received a raise, he or she might actually see some of it. But this bill offers no real control of costs. It is all about coverage.

Also from The Seattle Times… President Obama, Congress should set health-care reform aside:

The health-care dance in Washington, D.C., has gone on long enough. Congress needs to focus on the economy and set health care aside.

This is a change of position for us. This page supported Barack Obama for president, enthusiastically. We have supported the health-care effort until now. We still support universal coverage as a social goal.

But the longer the fight goes on, the more it feels that the timing is all wrong. The economy is wounded. Employers are hurting. The time to think about loading employers with new burdens is when they are strong. Not now.

Right now, Congress needs to focus on the economy. It needs to follow the lead of Sen. Maria Cantwell and re-enact Glass-Steagall, the law that separated investment banking from commercial banking and for 50 years helped maintain sanity on Wall Street. It needs to bolster the antitrust laws. It needs to lower the estate tax.

It needs to target the rest of the stimulus money at things that really stimulate — all of these actions to provide breathing room to small- and middle-sized family businesses that were once the backbone of the economy and can be again.

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President Obama has promised that any health-care bill he signs will not add one dime to the deficit, which already has swelled beyond anything since World War II. The president has put himself in a position where he cannot keep that promise. He has let each house of Congress come up with its own health-care bills.

The result has been chaos: The public option is in then out; the Medicare buy-in for 55-year-olds is in, then out. When the congressional dance stops, the Senate may have 60 votes, but for what? It will satisfy neither Obama’s frugal promise nor progressives’ lavish hopes. Already the Democratic Party’s former chairman, Howard Dean, says the bill is not worth passing in this form.

You know he’s right when you hear statements that something has to be passed, for political reasons. This issue is too important for that. It should wait for a unified proposal and an economy on the mend.

Cue up the ominous organ music: All is not going well for Pelosi and Company, no matter how many pairs of rose-colored glasses the Liar of the House is handing out to the mainstream media. To ask POTUS to delay his fun, all-expense-paid international vacation (oops, make that “very serious presidential trip”) overseas to Indonesia, Australia, and Guam twice suggests that the Democrats are panicking.

Duh.

This just breaking... Gateway Pundit, House Dems Want Obama to Delay Trip Again:

House Democrats want Obama to delay his trip to Guam, Indonesia and Australia again.

He originally was set to leave on Friday… Now it’s Sunday… And, they want him to be here if a vote is held next week.

Keep phoning Washington, patriots… you’re making a difference.

Related reading:
Legal Insurrection: Pick Up The Phone and Slaughtered By Self-Execution and The “All You Can Eat” Reconciliation Buffet
Publius, Big Government: Health Care Reform Meets the Chicago Way
Gateway Pundit: Democrat’s Use Of “Slaughter Rule” Is Unprecendented and New Poll Finds Americans Really, Really Don’t Like Obamacare and Key Democrat Says Using Slaughter Rule Is “Wrong” and Obama Off by Over 3,000% on Insurance Premium Savings and Liar Obama: Your Insurance Premiums Will Decrease by 3,000% Under Obamacare (Video) and Rep. Van Hollen Admits Dems Will Use Unconstitutional “Slaughter Rule” to Ram Through Obamacare (Video) and House GOP Whip Eric Cantor: The Slaughter Rule Is Unconstitutional (Video)
Frugal Café Blog Zone: House Floor on C-SPAN: Rep. Pence Slams Pelosi & Dems for Trampling on the Constitution with Health Care Plan, The Truth on ObamaCare Costs (video) and “Lack of Political Guts”… Jack Cafferty at CNN Says Pelosi’s Slaughter Solution Is Beyond Sleazy (video) and Pelosi’s Woodstock Flashback: Peace, Love, & ObamaCare Will Let You Quit Your Day Job to Be an Artist or Writer! and Obama’s Math Lie: Health Care Premiums Will Decrease 3,000%, So You Should Get a Raise When/If ObamaCare Is Passed (video) and Another Slimey, Complex Dem Scheme to Force Through ObamaCare… Will Ram “Shell” of Health Care Bill to Pass It Through Budget Committee for Reconciliation and St. Louis Patriot Uprising: Thousands Turn Out to Protest Obama & Dems’ Health Care, Some Dem Leaders Avoid Obama’s Fundraiser (video)
Ztower: How about this, Mr. President: We “deem” you greater than Abraham Lincoln and you just stop all this nonsense?
On My Watch — The writings of SamHenry: Health Care and Financial Reform and What Next? Obama Piling it On and Congressional Guerrilla Tactics and Laws Leading to Job Loss
Hot Air: AP fact check: Premiums will rise under ObamaCare
VotingFemale: Pelosi does NOT have the votes to pass ObamaCare, no matter what ANY Progressive says
Philip Klein, American Spectator: Latest Dem Bill Raises Medicare Tax for Fourth Time — Before Even Being Enacted
The Lonely Conservative: No Lie Too Big for Obama: Health Care Reform Will Decrease Premiums By 3000 Percent and Pelosi: When We Pass ObamaCare You Can Quit Your Job
Diary of a Mad Conservative: They are about to find out how stupid we really are and The Soft Bigotry of the Democrats abortion legislation
Half-Baked Sourdough: Practicing To Do Evil
Patterico’s Pontifications: Pelosi: I Like This Unconstitutional Sleight of Hand for Passing ObamaCare and ObamaCare: Lazy WaPo bloggers relay bogus Dem talking point and The Constitutionality of the Slaughter Solution and Health Care 101 and Democrats may have Health Care Deal; Choose Student Loans Over Babies
The Powers That Be:Obama: Pass Health Care Bill and Employer Premiums Will Decrease 3,000 Percent and You’ll Get a Raise!
Nice Deb: Video:Obama Tells Ohio Audience “Premiums Will Decrease 3000% Under ObamaCare”… and Latest ObamaCare News
The Conservative Pup: We’re Deemed! We’re Deemed!
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