Live from the GOP’s Anti-Obama Health Care Launch
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 12:21 pm
On Capitol Hill right now, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is moderating a bicameral “response” to President Obama’s health care push, which heads to ABC News for a TV special tonight. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) are promoting their own health care plans; Rick Scott, the controversial multimillionaire who runs Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, is sharing a table with the members and with former McCain campaign economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
“A major American company is making a contribution to the Obama administration in the form of an infomercial,” said Norquist, explaining why they’d organized the event.
Price marked the administration’s priorities as a potential “death knell” for private health care and worried that positive media coverage of the president was slanting the gameboard. “If the fourth estate in this administration remains in the tank for this administration,” he said, attacking ABC News, “it does endanger the future of our nation.”
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Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
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Comment posted June 26, 2009 @ 11:03 am
Tom Price has his own health care plan? I've visited his web site. There is no mention of any plan. I've also visited the RSC web site, again no plan.
I suspect their plan is no plan.
Look, Price is a free-market guy. Even though he lost his shirt in the recent stock market debacle, he still clings to the false notion that markets work best without rules and regulations. He probably opposes regulating hedge funds and derrivative trading. Some people never learn.
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Comment posted July 23, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
I hope someone is listening, when did American agree to Socialism?! Why is the American public allowing this President (who should have been an actor with the amount of time he likes to spend in front of the camera instead of doing his job) to both create irrevocable harm with huge debt levels for future generations as well as target the working/educated population of this country as his meal ticket. Has everyone lost sight that this leader (I use that term lightly) has never been involved in creating any legislation and now he is pressuring the country to pass tremendous reform with little more than a few weeks time to review it. IT IS MANIC BEHAVIOR. He is only pursuing such a strategy because the Dems control both t he House and Senate, but to date everything he has pursued has failed. A leader is not someone who just spends money on many types of ideas (TARP, TALF, PIIP) hoping something sticks so he can say his is right, a leader is someone who is decisive. WE all have serious issues in this country and it is not the time to now talk about Health Care; where are the jobs he promised? Where is the “green economy”? All he has done, due to his naivety, is put this country in unimaginable debt, make us beholden to China that we actually entertain conversations of a “Global Currency”, and has made us the laughing stock of N. Korea. I beg America, create balance in the House and Senate in the next election so true, thoughtful legislation may be passed. Stop this President's Manic behavior (as well as his comrade in arms Pelosi, her ego has inflated her job description – who voted for her as “President”) and/or just refuse to pay taxes. If we, the target masses of Mr. Obama for his funding needs, stand together and stop paying taxes and/or form a “working America rights group” maybe he will understand that he is destroying this country. You have all worked hard for what you have, why are you letting a socialist take it from you? Change is needed, he was not it! Restore balance to the political system, one party should not govern with an iron fist.
Comment posted September 10, 2009 @ 4:57 am
Health care is a privilege not a right and I for one dont want to pay more than I already do.Our forefathers didnt put an amendment in the constitution that every American will have health coverage and that the people will pay for it.There is nothing wrong with my health benefits now.I agree there should be some stricter guide lines for insurance companies, but government run healthcare is a bad choice for America and everything it stands for.Say no to socialism.My dad grew up under socialism in Hungary and till the day he passed away, he always preached to me that socialism doesnt work, and the healthcare is terrible.God help us all that this community organizer we call president does not make it to a second term.Impeach Obama.
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