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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 21, 2010

Broken promises… again.

From Associated Press, SFGate: Final health bill omits some of Obama’s promises:

It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes.

Yet when Democrats unveiled the final, incarnation of their health care bill this week, the proposal was nowhere to be found.

Ditto with several Republican ideas that Obama had said he wanted to include after a televised bipartisan summit last month, including a plan by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to send investigators disguised as patients to hospitals in search of waste, fraud and abuse.

And those “special deals” that Obama railed against and said he wanted to eliminate? With the exception of two of the most notorious — extra Medicaid money for Nebraska and a carve-out for Florida seniors faced with losing certain extra Medicare benefits — they are all still there.

For the White House, these were the latest unfulfilled commitments related to Obama’s health care proposal, starting with his campaign promise to let C-SPAN cameras film negotiations over the bill. Obama also backed down with little apparent regret on his support for a new government-run insurance plan as part of the legislation, a liberal priority.

This was posted yesterday at VotingFemale… Obama Approval falls to 43% on eve of landmark House vote on ObamaCare, so says Rasmussen Reports

BREAKING NEWS, March 21, 2010… from Jim at Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: Catholic Bishops AGAINST 11th Hour Stupak Executive Rule on Abortion Funding …Update: Stupak Group Cancels Presser — then, a bit later, guess what? Stunner… Pro-Life Democrat Stupak Was Lying All Along- Will Support Pro-Abortion Obamacare

On the Stupek abortion flip-flop, check out Michelle Malkin: Reports: An executive order to pay off pro-life Democrats?

Steve at Motor City Times asks the $64,000 question… “If this was such a great bill, why doesn’t anyone want to vote for it?” Check out his post: OVERHEARD: “None of these members wants to be the deciding vote”

From the “you’re kidding, that’s all?” files… CBS News reports that Obama Has Given 54 Speeches on Health Care.

Additional reading:
HillBuzz: Daily Kos in full-on pants-wetting meltdown over “Motions to Recommit”
Charging Elephant: The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform: Obama’s Fantasy Land
Another Black Conservative: White House spams federal employees with ObamaCare emails
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Today’s the Day: Minority Leader Boehner’s “Call of the Roll” & GOP Address… Congress to Vote on Government-Run Health Care Bill (video) and Washington, DC Tea Party Rally Video: ‘Kill the Bill’ ObamaCare Tea Party Protest, March 20, 2010 and Let Me Call You Sweetheart… Democrats’ Dirty Deals & Bribes to Pass ObamaCare (video) and Tyranny USA: Just When You Thought ObamaCare Couldn’t Get Worse… IRS Slotted to Become Obama’s Health Gestapo and Dems Want America to Feel Defeated… Game’s Not Over on Health Care, You Scoundrels — I’m a Diamondbacks Fan & We DON’T Give Up and Phones Continue to Melt in DC Against ObamaCare & Slaughter Solution… Rush Limbaugh on ObamaCare’s Funded Abortions, DC Tea Party Rally Info (video) and High Noon for Patriots: ObamaCare Tea Party Rally Saturday in DC.
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Obama with ‘real’ patriots
CBS News: Crossing a Line in the Health Care Debate?
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Hmm, about the CBO numbers… and ObamaCrapCare Gone Wild!
FireDogLake, FDL Action, Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill
American Thinker: ObamaCare is Tyranny, Not Legislation
Nice Deb: US Bishops 11th Hour Plea: “DO NOT PASS PRO-ABORTION DEMOCRATIC HEALTH CARE BILL” and and Video: America’s Comeback
Warner Todd Huston, Big Government: VP Biden Says Obama Plans to ‘Control Insurance Companies’
The Lonely Conservative: Do they have the votes? and Crunch Time – Let Your Voice Be Heard, America!
Gateway Pundit: Candlelight Protest Tonight at Russ Carnahan’s Office For the Victims of Obamacare and Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA): “The Problem With Socialism Is You Run Out of Other People’s Money” (Video) and US BISHOPS: Do Not Pass Pro-Abortion Democratic Health Care Bill and Report: Pelosi & Stupak Make a Deal… Flashback: Stupak Says He’d Vote For Bill With Abortion Funding (Video) and Pure Evil… Pelosi Prays to St. Joseph to Help Her Pass Abortion-Funding Bill …Update: Pelosi Has Wrong Saint’s Day and Slaughter Time… Dems One Vote Short of Nationalizing Health Care and St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Ups the Ante to Match Radicals In Washington
Radio Vice Online: Democrat memo – don’t discuss health care legislation details
Hot Air: Video: Ryan vs Slaughter on Medicare reform and AP fact check: Premiums will rise under ObamaCare
Legal Insurrection: The Truth Still Matters, Even The Night Before and Pelosi’s Abortion Land Mine May Go “Boom” and So Many Lies, So Little Time
Patterico’s Pontifications: Last Call — Health Care Sale Ends Tonight (Updated) and Health Care: Alive and Kicking (Updated) and Obama’s Great Society
On My Watch — The Writings of SamHenry: Obama’s Triple Header: Health Care, Education Finance and Immigration Reform and Does Obama Health Care Obsession Mean Leadership Loss to Lula in Middle East? and Obama Lied: You May NOT be Able to Keep the Med Insurance You Have.
Flopping Aces: Weekend healthcare vote… but on what, how and is it legal? and A Powerful Message from the RGA
VotingFemale: BREAKING: Pelosi to force Sunday Vote on ObamaCare with only 214 yea votes
GayPatriot: Risks For Senate Republicans in Opposing House “Fixes”? Maybe, but not nearly so great as those for House Democrats Voting For them
The Powers That Be: Pelosi Prays to St. Joseph, Patron Saint of Fighting Communism (pause for laughter) and A Day in the Life of a Protest Sign Request
Rep Michele Bachmann, Big Government: Sabbath: Vote On Abortion
Philip Klein, American Spectator: CBO Confirms That Without Accounting Gimmicks, Obamacare Adds to Deficits
Michelle Malkin: Cave-in Watch and The Deem-o-crats’ towering deception

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