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Top Democrat calls for bipartisan healthcare bill

July 26, 2009 by  

Top Democrat calls for bipartisan healthcare bill As the battle over healthcare reform heats up, two influential congressmen appeared on a Sunday talk show to call for cooperation and compromise.

Despite assurances from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Democrats in her chamber have enough votes to pass the bill, Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat and chairman of the budget committee, said Republican support will be needed.

What is more, he suggested a bipartisan legislation would also be desirable, saying on ABC’s This Week, "We’re probably going to get a better product if we go through the tough business of debate, consideration and analysis of what we’re proposing."

Appearing on the show alongside Conrad was South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint, who, although he clashed with his Democratic counterpart on many issues, sounded a similar note when he said that "We could have a plan in a few weeks … if the goal is not a government takeover."

In DeMint’s view, removing the proposal of a public insurance option will facilitate a compromise across the aisle and result in a reform that has a broad political support.

President Obama and the Democrats want to introduce the bill before congressional summer recess begins in August.

However, commentators have suggested that even if the Democrats – who have 60 votes in the Senate – manage to push the reform through on their own, such a partisan legislation might spell political trouble for the party as well as President Obama in the years to come.

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  • Mark

    What in the world is a Top Democrat? I believe this is an oxy moron statement. Where, who, and what is a top Democrat? Would someone really publish something on this because I am missing the point. The same can be said about Republicans. What is a top Republican?

    Where is the leadership in this country? It can’t be from top Democratics or Republicans because they don’t exist.

  • http://Denis Denis

    The right approach to health care is a combination of public and private health care insurance. I am from Ontario Canada and I have both. If I visit my doctor,about three times a year I present a health card, no cash required. If I have an emergency (about three times in the last five years) and go to hospital I present my health card not my credit card(s) and my needs are attended. Almost all tests ordered by family doctor or a specialist are covered under the public health insurance program. If a person needs long term hospitilization as a result of a dibilitating injury or sickness no one will lose their home or go bankrupt trying to pay hospital and doctor fees. All members of my family are covered. My private insurance covers extras if required for my health.

    The question is.” What’s the problem with the Ontario Health Insurance Program”

    The answer is,”not a heck of a lot for 99.9% of the people.”

    This is where private insurance is needed to cover those special or unusual circumstance.

    So cut out the right wing rhetoric about the left wing views on health, both parties move to the center and develop a system of health care that serves the all American people not a selected few.

    • Smilee

      Denis on July 28th, 2009 at 5:43 pm:

      Thanks Dennis, my friends and relatives in Canada tell me the same, we have a bunch in this country who hate any form of government and seem willing to put up with the terrible health care delivery system we now have and it costs double of what you describe and many are denied coverage. I have been to oodles of benefits put on by friends and relatives to help pay medical costs and it is usually not enough, also many times they set up funds at the banks where people can donate to an individuals medical costs. We have a terrible system now and most here are fighting tooth and nail to keep what we have or to change to anything better than what we have. GoFigure!!

  • Valverde

    The only kind of Healthcare we need is one that is not run by government and it doesn’t take any bipartisan crap to achieve it, just for enough of those opposing it to vote against it. Throw it back in Obamavich’s face. He’ll never know where it came from. He is too busy looking at himself in the mirror and telling himself what a grand fellow he is. G-a-a-a-a-ggg! He makes me sick.

    • Smilee

      That’s what we have now, one not run by the government except for Medicare A & B for seniors, and it is double the cost and Managed care, HMO”S, PPO”S and fee for service are networks that restrict what doctors and hospitals you can see and some have waiting lines and rationing now and Insurance companies constantly finding ways to not pay or cover you, and you people seem to be satisfied with that and what happens to those who can not get coverage or cannot afford it go to the emergency room at four times the cost and the government pays for that but it is run by the private sector. Now Medicare, you go where you want and if you buy the right medigap plan regulated by the government and all your medical costs are paid for no copay’s or deductibles. Here in Minnesota we have the Mayo Clinic and about half the population cannot go there because they are not in their network, this is not true for those on Medicare they can go there. Medicare premiums are about half of regular insurance. I was on COBRA for 18 months when I retired and then I went on Medicare and the restrictions were then lifted.. I paid $590.00 a month for cobra and had to stay in the network and now four years later I pay $290.00 a month for full coverage and go where I want including Mayo which I could never do the last 20 years I worked and was on COBRA. Why people want to pay double for less coverage and more restricted coverage is beyond me. The other thing that I find funny is that everyone bitches about government run plans despite this and they never have a suggestion as to how to resolve our health care as do not the conservatives or republicans who seem to have none at least none that will solve the problem, also I think many here have no idea how our health care plans work, government of private and speak based on their ignorance . Sad

  • Carol Dines

    Health insurance, like any other type of insurance is a bet! You bet you will become ill and will need financial assistance and the Insurance Company bets you will not and if you do, you will die before it costs them more money than you have paid them. If you don’t place a bet, you pay and get nothing.

    Health Care is not a right in the Constitution, it is available and, by law, it cannot be denied anyone who seeks it, but they will be sent a bill and expected to pay for services rendered. You can pay as you go or have Health Insurance. You have to set up payments you can meet.

    In the Health Care House Bill, there is provision for both abortion and counseling sick and elderly people toward suicide! I guess that the House has decided that murdering your progeny and parents is an ok thing., we treat murderers in prison better than this. If this bill passes they will prove Obama was right when he said we are no longer Christian or Jewish! Both suicide and infanticide are offensive to God, according to the Bible I have read. Oh, thats right, no wonder the leftists don’t want any reference to the Ten Commandments.

    What we need Congress to do is fix what is broken in the system we already have, leave alone the things that work and take a few years to do it with input from the people who actually work in the Healthcare industry, not just jump into absurdity and force us all into bankrupsy with all the mess they are creating in their latest bills, and not even reading them before voting.

    It should be a rule that if members of congress do not actually read a bill, it is an automatic NO vote! All members of Congress should be alloted a certain reasonable amount of time to read all bills based on the length of the particular bill, and no additions allowed after the reading is done and/or after the votes are taken.

    I believe Jefferson wrote a rule about this which they used for years but now have rescinded because the Democrats are in power, no matter who is the majority, this should be the rule to protect those of us who they are SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING!

    Solyent Green, here we come! Commit suicide and feed the poor all in one convienent package.

  • James Corbin

    Wonder why people come here from Canada for medical care! My brother-in-law
    went to one of the cancer centers. There wre people there from canada and other countries. They couldn’t get to see a doctor. Perhaps, the younger get service first!

  • Tom

    YOU PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS.. WITHOUT A PUBLEC OPTION THE FOR PROFIT HEALTH INSURERS WILL CONTINUE TO PILLAGE THIS COUNTRY.. NO ONE WOULD GIVE UP THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE JUST LIKE NO ONE IN CANDA WOULD GIVE UP THEIR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.. ONE OF CANAD’S LARGEST LABOR UNIONS JUST SENT LETTERS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND CONGRESS PROTESTING THE LIES BEING TOLD ABOUT THEIR SYSTEM TO THE AMERICAN PUBLC. tHEY SAY THEY ARE PROUD OF THEIR SYSTEM AND BLESSED TO HAVE IT.. SO DON’T BE DUPED BY POLITICIANS WHO RECEIVE HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES TO PREVENT THE PUBLIC OPTION ..WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF??? IF THE GOVERNMENT IS AS INCOMPETENT ANS THEY SAY,, JUST WAHT ARE THEY AFRAID OF… I’LL TELL YOU WHAT IT IS,, THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO COMMITT THE AUTROCITIES THEY HAVE COMMITTED OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS.. THEY WILL FINALLY BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE WITH A PUBLIC OPTION.. WITHOUT IT,NOTHING WILL CHANGE!!

    • Robin, Arcadia, IN

      DixieConnie… You are so right! So many people voted without any research on the candidates at all. And, we are in a mess….a big mess. We must contact our Senators and Representatives. I have already told those in my state that when I vote at the next election, I will be looking at their voting record and then I will vote!

      • DixieConnie

        Good for you and I will be doing the same in my great state of Texas.

    • Robin, Arcadia, IN

      Tom… I think everyone thinks that the health care system needs to be changed, but that’s also what many thought when they voted for the big O. We can’t just agree to whatever they are proposing. That’s how Barry got in. I don’t like what he is doing. Transparency is what he promised, but that is not what we are getting. I don’t want big government. I don’t want the ‘change’. His promises were hollow. I don’t like him and I did not vote for him. He lies….

    • Smilee

      Tom on July 28th, 2009 at 3:27 pm:

      Thanks for pointing out the truth, but doubt most here are willing to listen to it and learn from it, conservatives are obstructionists and will do all they can to prevent reform including spreading tons of misinformation in hopes of accomplishing that and if we do not get good reform they will still be the ones who bitch the loudest about how horseshit things still are and most likely blame someone other than themselves for this failure.

    • Valverde

      Let the Canadians stay in Canada and we’ll stay here in the US, okay? and don’t tell us what to like and what not to like. I’m sorry if some people told what you think were lies about your healthcare, but I don’t think it’s all that great from what I know of it. We don’t need it and don’t want it. Let it stay in Canada.
      PS Tom, perhaps the idiot is you. Learn how to spell and quit writing in caps and your points might have a little more credibility, though I doubt it. It’s spelled Canada. Not CAND OR CANDA Besides, what the hell are you talking about? Are you saying that the government should run things or shouldn’t. Seems like your trying to say both. Re-read your palaver and see if you can figure it out. I can’t or I would have been much more pointed in my criticism. Smilee, STFU

      • Smilee

        OH!! what a hateful old woman you are, I would think he would know more about Canadian health care than you you as he lives it and I doubt very much you know much about it as you say say you cannot figure it out despite how simple he made it and as the only thing you can say about is the talking points and misinformation manufactured by the conservative think tanks and talk shows who are paid to protect their rich friends in the corporate world, Insurance companies etc. and supported by those of you who cannot think for themselves referred to by many as “DITTOHEADS”

      • Valverde

        Can’t you read or make a coherent sentence? I think you are losing it Frownee.

      • Smilee

        Valverde Reply:
        July 28th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

        Can’t you read or make a coherent sentence? I think you are losing it Frownee.

        TALK ABOUT COHERENT!!!!!

  • Marty

    Get this… My Doc (an Ear, nose, and throat guy)… wonders why Obama hasn’t been blow away yet.

    To say “docs are pissed off over Barry’s vision of the medical world” is an understatement I think.

  • Dale

    I can very much agree with what people are saying against the congress. For years and years congress has screwed up on programs they try to run. Teddy couldn’t run a whore across a bridge.
    My suggestion folks is to QUIT electing lawyers to run the country.

  • Tom Johnson

    Bipartisan to the libs means do what they want. What a sham.

  • DaveH

    Bipartisan? Does anyone buy that crap? I want my representatives to vote against any kind of health-care bill. I want my representatives to roll back the size of government, not increase it. Since when have the Democrats been bipartisan? Only when they can’t get their way with Democrat votes alone.
    Bipartisanship was invented by the Democrats to get the bigger and bigger government that they crave. I don’t vote to have my representative compromise. I want him/her to decrease the size of government and compromise doesn’t get that done.

    • Smilee

      DaveH

      07-09 Democrats controlled the senate by one vote and the republicans using the filibuster rule during these years and set a record for its use and this is considered obstructionism or refusing bipartisanship, republicans now hold the record on this. Democrats didn’t invent it and it has been used by both parties for years but not to the extent the republicans used it in the last congress. I don’t know how old you are but it has been years since real bipartisanship has worked and definitely not since 1994, both parties have done it but since the rise of the conservatives in the republican party who do not believe in it, it has all but died. Sad

      • Valverde

        Smilee, what you apparently do not understand is the fact that one cannot be bipartisan when one party is crazy. I’m specfically talking about Obamavich’s talk at Notre Dame where he called for pro-life people to try to get along with the pro-death people. It couldn’t happen, bub. The stakes are too big. That is what is going on here. It’s not a little give and take, it’s a lot of take and no give. As for abortion, our skinny little Pres. thinks it’s okay to kill babies, no, he thinks is good to kill babies. I don’t agree with the skinny SOB and can’t, not and live with myself. That’s the kind of crap he’s trying to dish out. If you look at where he’s headed from that point of view, it’s a whole other ballgame.

      • Smilee

        Valverde Reply:
        July 28th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

        How the hell did we get from bipartisanship in the congress to abortion, but people cannot get along if their position as yours is my way or the highway, in other works no give and take period. Stuff it!!! Name calling puts the brakes on intelligent discourse also. I don’t see the crap you are dishing out as in anyway a problem solver either. I doubt you will ever realize you are part of the problem and not part of the solution. I also believe he says he is pro choice and not pro abortion as you say, why not try listening to him when he talks so you can hear what he is really saying, but I suppose when your heart is so full of hate for him that would not be possible.

      • DaveH

        Smilee,
        As I said, we can’t downsize the government with bipartisanship. So, I am glad if it truly is gone. I don’t vote for people that are going to grow this huge economy-sucking government.
        Liberals rail about crooked business, but grow government ever larger. Of course, only honest people seek government jobs (I am being sarcastic). Naive.

  • http://www.readwhatisee.com P Alfonso

    What the Republicans need to give the Democrats and the Obama administrations is not a compromise but a defeat. If Obama looses on this one he is doomed.
    Their entire agenda needs to be stopped cold right now on Health Care. If Republicans sell out on this one it will be the end of the Republican Party.

  • http://www.readwhatisee.com P Alfonso

    What the Republicans need to give the Democrats and the Obama administrations is not a compromise but a defeat. If Obama looses on this one he is doomed.
    Their entire agenda needs to be stopped cold right now on Health Care. If Republicans sell out on this one it will be the end of the Republican Party.

  • ONTIME

    This Congress has the most persistent parasites of any since the Civil War, thes clons just cannot stop trying to scam this country’s voters out of their hard earned money, while they want to live high on the hog and pay for nothing out of their own pocket, our elite parasites are much to expensive to maintain and seem to have lost track as to who they were hired by and work for….I believe it’s time for acountability lessons.

    We can require they tax their own campaign contributions at a 50% rate, instill term limits and ask for yearly public audits from those we elect and their appointees, we can create a more responsible electee and one who remembers that they are our representatives and not their peasants.

    Fix medicare and medicaid, make it more efficient by clearly stating “no illegal need apply or be allowed”, enforce the laws and stop the massive fraud then you can pay the doctors a bit more and more will accept the program. Those citizens who need insurance and are hard pressed need to have their COBRA plans subsidized or offered a program to help them get thru hard times. There is no need to destroy what we have just to fill the coffers and grow the power of the government and the parasites that run it.

    STOP THE FRAUD!

  • Sherry

    I think some of the Dems are realizing that this bill is a colossal nightmare and don’t want the full responsibility on them.

    Have you seen the commercials? “A little cooperation, a little less politics” and we’ll have a healthcare bill. Sickening — this bill isn’t about healthcare — its about getting rid of so-called “useless” persons. I don’t understand why people think that they are “owed” from the government or that government can run anything — look at their track record.

  • Mary Oele

    People need to realize that the health care bill is not about health care as much as it is about control. There are many items in that bill that have nothing to do with health care. People should be reading it and contacting their representatives so that it is known that those who vote for this bill will do so at the cost of their political careers. Then we need to follow through.
    So many people don’t take the time to inform themselves because it is unpleasant.
    Suck it up and do it anyway people. If you don’t, you will be sorry later.

  • Jack Kinch(1uncle)

    Bipartisan sounds good. Hopefully it will not contain pork for things having nothing to do with health care, Also, it should not cover illegal aliens except in emergency and then only long enough to get them back to where they came from- families immediately following. Congress, not doing its sworn duty and protecting our borders, should personally pay for any costs of crime and health care of illegals. Maybe this should be in an amendment to the constitution if the states ever decide to take back some of the power the feds usurped.

  • ChuckL

    Bi-Partisan is defined in the liberal dictionary as anyone who votes my way. The antonym is obstructionist.

    Note: These are definitions made from observation, not by Webster.

    • Smilee

      Mary

      I suppose you want us to believe that you have read it. The bill is not even in its final form so whats to read as yet. Rumors galore are flying around, most do not reflect what is really going on but people like yourself try your best to make us think you know what you are talking about. Sad

      • Laura

        Smilee,

        You may want to know your facts before you accuse others. If Mary is speaking as though she has read the bill, then she probably has. And the fact that she is saying that people ought to read it for themselves and then contact their representatives, only goes to show that she cares that people educate themselves before speaking. Something that you have not done and obviously don’t want others to do. SAD… FYI anyone can go to senate.gov (the official website of the US Senate) and read the text of H.R.-3200 – Health Care Reform. I have, but don’t take my word for it look for yourself. READ THE BILL, EDUCATE YOURSELF, AND YOU JUST MIGHT FIND YOU AGREE WITH MARY. If you have any kind of education (including being self-educated), once you read this bill. if you do not agree with Mary, I would be shocked.

      • Smilee

        Laura Reply:
        July 29th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

        Its still a work in progress to date. Have contacted my representatives and given my views and ideas. I am very educated on this matter and fully understand what we have now and what we need, despite your assuming I have not done that, be informed I have. Reading it now is a waste of time, when it is in its final form then is the time to read it. reading it now will not chance their minds, letting them know what you want is what they need. If more people understood the problem and told their representatives the changes we want instead of trying to understand what they are doing would be more helpful and I encourage people to do that. Read the bill is a code word by the conservatives that you are not educated and that is hogwash. Lots of ideas out there, what is important is letting them know what you want and in the end what becomes law becomes law. Reading what they are in the process of doing will not educate us as that only tells us what they are talking about now. What we want by telling them might, I do not buy into reading what they are doing is an education, letting them know what we need is an education for them and is all that counts. If you do not know what changes are needed that tells me you are not educated. I don’t shock easily, not even from all the garbage tossed out on this venue and If I new what Mary was saying she wants then i could determine weather I agree with her or not.

      • Laura

        I understand it is still a work in progress and is making its way through multiple committees. I also understand it will go through many changes before final product. I too communicate with my legislators, letting them know what my views are, my concerns are, and suggesting changes I would like to see. I also read the bills, to see what the legislators as a whole are throwing in. This allows me to readdress with my legislators additional concerns I may have. I would like nothing more than to wait to see the final version before reading. IF my President would only stick to his word (what was it..oh yeah transparency..) and allow it up on line for 5 days before voting on it, I would do just that. I read it during the process as lately a bill is finalized at 3:00am and voted on by 10:00am. The speed in which all legislation is flying through these days is ridiculous. I’m assuming you are not a conservative, as read the bill to me is less about being educated, but more about getting people to be less apathetic. It is interesting to me that when I make a suggesting that someone read the bill and also educate themselves, you conclude that I do not know what changes are needed and that I am uneducated. How wrong you are… I am highly educated, highly motivated, and am the only one of my college educated friends that pays attention and gets involved. Most of them are liberal and most are apathetic. Personally I don’t care which ideology anybody is, I would just like to see people involved, instead of being sheep.

    • Smilee

      ChuckL on July 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am:

      Go get your eyes checked you obviously need glasses

  • Joyce Duke

    All Americans should be aroused and angered by this proposal that the legislators have exempted themselves from. Let the legislators know that if they pass something that they are unwilling to abide by themselves, they are on the way out the door! From what I have seen of our esteemed President’s helpful actions so far, it looks more like harmful actions, harmful to all of us and to this Nation as a whole. Expect mandatory swine flu (and other vaccinations) this fall. Obama has already promised
    us 3 swine flu vaccinations! Refusal means up tro $250,000 fines and/or incarceration. If WHO declares this pandemic, we are immediately under UN and World Health Organization rule, and their rules are not necessarily improve our health.

    Are the two appointed to Homeland Security even citizens of the USA, native born or immigration? Do we now have foxes watching the henhouse?

    Racism is still alive & well, but it isn’t all only “whites” showing it! If any white male or female had made the remarks attributed to Sotomayer, they would have been disqualified long ago! This implies that the old “double standard” is alive and well but not only in “male vs. female”. It seems that “racists” is an adjective to be applied only to “whites”. Personally, I have worked alongside both outstanding human beings and outstanding a——- of various colors of skins!

  • http://Yahoo.com L Huff

    Call it what you want or you can out and out deny it’s there but Euthanasia(1233) is definately part of the along with forcing those who do not support birth control or abortion to go along or be punished.There is just plain not enough understood or read by most specially those who support it to know whats really in it…

  • Dolores Franta

    What is wrong with “we the people” why don’t “we the people” get Obama and his gal pal Nancy Pelosi booted from office and replaced with people who will uphold the constitution, these 2 anti-Americans are destroying all of us.
    His healthcare bill STINKS, I heard when all the Democrat representatives were asked to also take the healthcare bill they are trying to push down our throats they all refused, why should they give up their cadillac healthcare plan that you and I are paying for for a crappy one like they want to give us???? Do you older Americans realize that the government will REQUIRE all of us to be screened every 5 years and refuse us treatment for serious health issues because we are too old and not worth living? What government would do that, isn’t that up to God to say when your time is up and not your government? Time is wasting we must act now to remove these leaders that are hurting our people. America needs to not stand for another minute of this abuse to our rights. THEY ALL NEED TO RE-READ THE CONSTITUTION THEY SWORE TO UPHOLD and IF THEY DON’T UPHOLD IT AS THEY SWORE THEY ARE GONE!

    • s c

      Impeachment of b o and forced removal all his flunky pals [republican and democrat] may be our only hope. Obviously, taking an oath means nothing to b o. It means nothing to the slimers in Congress. Any elected official who helps pass legislation without reading that legislation is guilty of the highest level of voluntary incompetence (starting with Queen Pelosi). Few of those self-made retards in Congress have any right to be there. We are taxed without representation, and our sold-out government is working hard at enslaving us. Only Soviet-style useful idiots, wannabe
      elites and political robots can’t see it.

    • Smilee

      Dolores Franta on July 28th, 2009 at 10:27 am:

      More conservative fiction, the Majority of “WE THE PEOPLE” have spoken and you lost so can your wishful thinking it will solve none of this countries problems. It is clear you also do not understand the constitution or wish it to be something it is not. Sad

  • Rosenlundkv

    The drone goes on with hopes that we fall asleap while they push this bill. Lets understand that the CBO figures are more than likely conservative. Key points are missing from this is uncharted ground. It will cost us Trillions.

    But this is not about Health Care it is about Power to tax the public. This money is earmarked to go to Bank of the World as out lined by the goals of Bilderberg Group. Barack Obama is a sitting member on this scam. We get to pay for his participation just like the other junket to New York, Paris and Martha’s Vineyard. Clearly if the Congress cared they would have read the bill. Ask any Congressman and the ones who have not read it are those in favor of it. All we need is the List of Cap and trade voted for list to start the replacement list of Congressman.

  • http://Hotmail Mark

    Obamas Change

    State takes over the Banking Sector
    State takes over the Auto Sector
    State takes over the Health Care Sector
    State takes over the Education Sector

    His only CHANGE is to turn America into another red communist run counrty like China and Russia. I’m sure he dreams of their power at night.

    • Guy

      You forgot to mention China’s government is running toward the way we USED TO BE just to survive. Communism is when the government controls the means of production. Facism is when the government tells business what to do. The all encompacing term coined by Anne Rynd is Statist. Government sticking its big fat nose in everyone’s business and bedroom.

      Being interracially married I find it offensive when some idiot with common sense inversely proportional to his lefty education attempts lecturing me on race.

  • NObama ‘healtcare’ is exposed

    CALL YOUR REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE AND TELL THEM: OPPOSE NObamaCare UNTIL IT’S NOT TOO LATE!

  • NObama ‘healtcare’ is exposed

    The American Spectator
    July 24, 2009
    By Ben Stein

    We’ve Figured Him Out

    Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

    Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

    The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

    They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

    They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

    The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

    Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

    The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

    Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

    The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

    These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

    Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.

    There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

    Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.

    • Patricia Henson

      Ben Stein reply, I totally agree with you. The only good thing about this whole thing is that I beleive that when all of these nut-jobs are done using Nancy Pelosi that she will be thrown under the bus. I don’t understand how people can totally ignore facts like the Earth has been actually cooling down for the last 10 years in the case of global warming. As an American citizen I don’t want to have to pay for abortions and sex- change operations that the healthcare bill will cover, I also don’t want to have to pay for healthcare for illegal aliens who have never paid a penny towards anything that benefits this country or it’s people. I am tired of being called a racist or a terrorist because I speak out on these issues. I am tired of the name of Jesus Christ being nothing more than a dirty word when this country was built upon Judeo- Christian princibles. Under Obamas healthcare bill the government will pay for expanded coverage for the young and healthy by denying treatments to the old and sick. Our countries seniors, and the physically and mentally handicaped will have rationed healthcare while the government hopes they die before receiving treatment. There are just so many things about what’s happening in America that’s wrong that there is probably not enough time to speak on all of it. The thing that I worry about the most though is, is the fact that no one is reading these bills before they are voted on. Just a day or two ago John Conners said that no one should even read these bills unless they have two attorneys present to translate it for them. Thank you for being one of the people that are speaking out against some of these things going on. Patricia Henson

      • Mary Oele

        Response to Patricia Henson: I could not agree more with you. I find it comical that our president thinks that if he just keeps saying the same thing, it will become truth. How long will we need to be ostracized by the minority when it is the majority in this country that don’t believe taxes should pay for abortions? At what point will we have had enough?

      • Patricia Henson

        Mary Oele reply, Thanks Mary for your response. I guess the President feels that if he says it enough that maybe he will beleive it hinself. I think that what you refered to as minorities are now becoming the majority. More and more people are becoming less enamored of our president and are now starting to speak out. All I can suggest that you do now to help is to write, call, and E-mail your elected officials and I mean really flood their offices with how you feel about all bills coming before them to be voted on and ask them to either pass or fail them depending on the bill. I wrote mine 6 letters in 1 day the other day. I hope that they get so tired of hearing from us that they will start to really hear us. After all the people ARE the government and their job is to represent the will of the people. Those that can’t or won’t need to find other jobs as their terms will be short. Thank you Mary and may God bless. Patricia Henson.

    • DixieConnie

      Nobama: I don’t believe people ignored all of the above, I think they simple did not take the time to research and educate themselves on who they were voting for. Its sad to see herds of people doing stupid stuff i.e. Jim Jones and Gianna. They wanted to believe and they choose that way. Now, look at the mess we are in. I fear this health care program is a disaster waiting to happen.

    • Jeff

      You are right Mr. Stein. The only real thing the government will do for us is, well, nothing. The liberals really don’t care about Americans in my opinion, they just want to control us. They want power for themselves and have set aside justice, morality and Godliness. The freedom and wealth of the United States is being prostituted. We, as a country, must get back to our God and Christ.

    • http://personalliberty.com Julie

      You are so right, Mr. Stein.

      I believe Obama’s plans for us are sinister. Aren’t we all so pleased that the American people, in their wisdom, chose “change?” Well, we’re getting it, all right. And, just as Michelle promised, “Barack will never let us go back to our lives as they used to be.”

      For anyone who cared to look, it was there to see during the campaign. If Gates Gate doesn’t seal it for you, I don’t know what will. At the risk of being called names by the entire nation, I’m going to say it: Obama and his wife are racists…probably always have been, at least since sitting in the pews of Rev. Wright.

      But of course that’s not all. He is also an arrogant narcissisist. There will be the laws for us, and then there will be”the elected elite,” for whom the laws will not apply. Look for a Hugo Chavez maneuver at the end of his term.

      ObamaCare will cut costs by refusing service to older, sicker Americans. Know why you don’t hear about how they are going to cure the social security problem? It will cure itself when we all die before age sixty-seven. Mandatory and regular end-of-life counseling should tie up any loose ends, and presto!, problem solved! No more social security or medicare problems.

      To paraphrase Michelle’s infamous statement, “For the first time in my life, I am afraid OF my country!”

    • Al Shaw

      I would wish the Government would stay out of our business we don need or want National Health care and we shold stop paying for the Ins the Gov . Officials have . I dont see .them gettin in line for the National progam. Let us have the ability to or not to have Ins. and who we waNT TO HAVE IT WITH COMITITION WILL THE BEST WAY TO GET BETTER CARE AND LOWER COST. iT SEEM THE GOV. CAN’T DO WHAT THE CONSITUTION HAS TOLD THEM THE HAVE AS A RESPONSIBLITY SO DON’T MESS WITH OUR HEALTH CARE.

      AL SHAW

  • s c

    Does Queen Nancy not know that libs hold a majority in Congress? She is proof that being the ‘top’ lib has nothing to do with knowledge or ability. Because the libs hold a majority, they can pretty much do what they want (she doesn’t know that?). Is there anyone left who doesn’t know what bipartisan really means? Bipartisan means integrity-for-sale. A grade school kid should know that much. Maybe she’s a victim of public education, and she’s been able to brown-nose her way to ‘the top.’ Try as she may, her methods show her to be a closet communist – or worse. Libs must define ‘the top’ as the top of a septic tank when they mention her. If she’s #1 at anything, it’s due to brown-nosing, suck-up politics. If she ever had much knowledge or ability, she has found many ways to forget everything she knew.

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