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Who Killed Obamacare?

By David Catron on 2.5.10 @ 6:09AM

Mr. President, thou art the man.

Obamacare is dead. The politicians, journalists and bloggers who continue to talk about passing "reform" via reconciliation or some other procedural skullduggery are like those characters in the comedy, Weekend at Bernie's, who lug a corpse around pretending it's still alive. It is, of course, possible -- even likely -- that the Democrats will pass some anemic health care bill that will allow the President to declare victory and give his congressional accomplices a talking point for the midterms. It will not, however, be the grandiose program that everyone expected Obama to sign into law. So, it's worth considering how a piece of legislation whose passage seemed all but inevitable less than a year ago met with such an ignominious fate. What, or rather who brought about the very timely demise of this nanny-state abomination?

Searching for telltale signs of the "real killer" amidst the scattered debris of last year's tumultuous health reform debate, it is difficult to miss the trail of blood that leads to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As counterintuitive as it may seem, a preponderance of the evidence suggests that Obamacare met its unexpected end at the hands of the President himself. Obama killed his signature initiative by creating what he referred to in his State of the Union address, with no apparent sense of irony, as a "deficit of trust." He has broken virtually every campaign promise he made concerning reform, presided over a series of shady back room deals, and treated the voters like an irritating group of poorly behaved and dull-witted children.

At the beginning of his presidency, Obama famously enjoyed a "surplus" of trust. Shortly after his inauguration, however, significant shortfalls began appearing between his rhetoric and his behavior. Having promised that his reforms would not force Americans to give up insurance plans they liked, the President signed off on a congressional proposal to kick millions of seniors off Medicare Advantage (MA). He then reversed his position on the individual mandate, suddenly endorsing a bad idea he had rejected during the 2008 presidential campaign. Next came his brazen flip-flop on the "Cadillac tax." Despite running a series of campaign ads denouncing John McCain for a similar proposal, Obama made it clear that he favored taxing "high-value" health benefits.

These broken pledges added to the trust deficit, but they didn't bust the budget. Complex issues like MA funding and the individual insurance mandate are susceptible to nuanced rationalizations. Even the Cadillac tax can be justified, with some plausibility, by sophisticated advocates. A much larger problem than any of these policy pirouettes was Obama's failure to honor, or even acknowledge, his C-SPAN promise. Obama's pledge to negotiate the details of health care reform in front of Brian Lamb's television cameras could not be finessed. In one of the more delicious ironies of the reform debate, the voters spent the holiday season watching innumerable YouTube videos of Obama making his C-SPAN promise while they noted with increasing dudgeon the conspicuous absence of similar footage of the actual negotiations.

When the sordid character of those closed-door negotiations became generally known, the deficit of trust skyrocketed. Obama's implausible claim that he "didn't make a bunch of deals" notwithstanding, it was blindingly obvious that his people were in on the wheeling and dealing from the very beginning. The administration was, for example, intimately involved in the negotiations that led to Ben Nelson's infamous "Cornhusker Kickback." The Washington Post reported at the time that two administration aides, Jim Messina and Peter Rouse, worked on the deal and "relayed their intelligence to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who monitored the talks from a dinner in Georgetown." There can be little doubt that the President and his people were also involved in the "Louisiana Purchase."

And there is no doubt whatsoever that Obama himself participated in the backroom deal that produced the union exemption from the Cadillac tax. The various labor unions began grumbling about this 40% tax on some health insurance plans when it first surfaced in the Senate Finance Committee last fall, and continued to so when it remained in the bill passed by the full Senate. Big labor is, of course, an indispensable source of campaign contributions for the Democrats, so Nostradamian prescience wasn't required to predict a special dispensation. Sure enough, less than 72 hours after a gang of union bosses descended on the White House to vent their displeasure about the President's support of the offending tax, a "Labor Loophole" was announced.

That sleazy deal destroyed what remained of the public's trust in the President's leadership on health reform. Less than a week later, Scott Brown pulled off his "Massachusetts Miracle" by promising to use his vote to kill Obamacare. Shortly thereafter, a CNN poll found that 70% of Americans were glad the Democrats had lost their supermajority. Incredibly, Obama responded to this rebuke by talking down to the voters. His patronizing attitude was neatly summed up in his State of the Union address. Commenting on the failure of reform, he looked straight into the camera and offered the following mea culpa: "This is a complex issue… I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people." In other words, he didn't speak slowly enough for the knuckle-draggers out in flyover country to get it.

The President's health reform project might yet have a pulse if he possessed the wisdom of Senator-elect Brown. Brown pointed out, in an interview conducted the day after Obama's speech, "People aren't stupid … leaders should figure out they're better informed now than ever." They are indeed. Yet Obama still insists on treating the American people like idiots. Just this week, he answered a question about the C-SPAN ban by claiming his administration was the most transparent in modern times. It was such insults to our intelligence, combined with broken promises and shady deals, that did in his pet program. The "real killer" of Obamacare wasn't the "party of no," Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party movement, insurance lobbyists or even Scott Brown. Obamacare was killed by Barack Obama.

topics:
Barack Obama, Obamacare

About the Author

David Catron is a health care revenue cycle expert who has spent more than twenty years working for and consulting with hospitals and medical practices. He has an MBA from the University of Georgia and blogs at Health Care BS.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (172) | Leave a comment

JimP| 2.5.10 @ 6:45AM

I agree completely. We also are seeing narcissistic denial on full display with Obama's blatant lies and misinterpretations. I find it laughably pathetic and scary at the same time.

Deborah D| 2.5.10 @ 5:45PM

The progressives running our government (who should be called "regressives") are scaring normal Americans who are paying attention. Let's stop them before they make over 50% dependent on the government.

Obama's rudeness, arrogance, and general dislike of the American people has finally focused the country on what he's really saying and doing. The thrill is gone. He did kill health care (thanks, Pres. O!)

breeze| 2.5.10 @ 8:26PM

Obamacare is dead.

We over-estimated his abilities

http://www.udtek.com/laptop-keyboard-c-3.html

JohnMD1022| 2.7.10 @ 7:19AM

Don't expect the Mohammedan in Chief to do anything in the interest of the U.S.A. He's shown, repeatedly, that he does not believe in the American system. He considers the Constitution to be an obstacle to his "world view" of how things should be.

Mike Donahue| 2.7.10 @ 5:54PM

Although I should be reluctant to put this in print, but I've seen it in print several places; and it really needs to get out there so it can be well understood: Barack Obama is the first Affirmative Action President. He had no qualifications or experience; but we were all clearly told by the mainstream media like Chris 'Tingle legs' Matthews and Keith 'Doberman' that voting against Obama would be 'racist'. Obama's failure will be a terrible burden for all the well experienced and very bright Black Americans out there who could have done a great job. Instead, because of the threats and push from the far left, we got Barack Obama. How long will it take for us to recover; and how will competent minority candidates ever live him down?

Kenneth Fox| 2.8.10 @ 4:18PM

Don't be afraid to speak the truth. I have believed for some time now that he is the first Affirmative Action President, and I would have no hesitation to state it publicly if necessary.

Jon B| 3.8.10 @ 11:16AM

I agree. I is laughably pathetic, and scary that HMO's could take over the health care debate after spending over $1 billion on lobbyists and political campaigns to get the bill THEY wanted. Obamacare was never on the table. It's HMO-care with very few concessions. It's just as laughable and pathetic, even scary that you and others seem too ignorant to see through what's going on and would rather blame a political party in the cesspool of your hatreds instead of finding the source of the problem

no suprise| 2.5.10 @ 6:59AM

Did anyone hear the Won say earlier this week
that we indeed would not get to keep our doctor?
Deficit trust. Now where did that come from.
Is the man a moron?

Kelly Staples| 2.5.10 @ 7:34AM

Oh, how far He hath fallen! Let us resolve that He will not take this great nation down with Him.

jj| 2.5.10 @ 12:51PM

what makes you think that? dont you think he's trying his best? I would like to see you try to rule a nation.

Zero Establishment| 2.5.10 @ 1:53PM

Kelly doesn't need to respond to your riduclous comment. Obama is trying his best for all the wrong reasons. You can't compromise with policies that are destructive to our nation. That's why he and his thugs must be stopped at the polls ASAP!

Stan Redmond| 2.5.10 @ 2:37PM

Is this sarcasm??? "RULE" a nation??? That is EXACTLY Obama's approach. A ruler. This country is not to be ruled.

Sir| 2.5.10 @ 2:58PM

Wow, jj !

The pace at which you rushed right into that thoughtless comment betrays the emptiness with which you weigh your continued support of Barry Hussein. I suppose next you'll say that we're being mean to him and that he's only had one year... give 'im some more time.

Twit.

Flee| 2.5.10 @ 3:08PM

Effort is all we are to expect? You sound like the type that wants all participants to get a trophy whether they win or lose. Maybe don't even keep score so the less successful can maintain their self-esteem. Giving himself a "solid B+" is typical curved grading and refusing to see reality. His mirrors must not be functioning because he refuses to see himself as he is and not as his yesmen and women tell him he is. He is not our ruler, he is to govern the nation not rule. Congress sets the rules in case you forgot.

Jim Hlavac| 2.5.10 @ 10:22PM

Uh, JJ, he's supposed to protect the nation from foreign attackers -- um, failed (somewhat, not promising future wise)
And he's supposed to manage what limited other duties the Constitution gives to him - like the post office, which he specifically admitted was not so hot.
But rule? We are not a nation to be ruled. We are a nation of free people, to do as we wish, with whom we wish, when we wish, or not, as we wish, -- and it's none of the president's business what any of those wishes might be. Nor do I give a rat's behind what his vision of our nation is -- we are not a blank canvas for the new ruler to repaint as he sees fit. My vision for my life is sufficient for me -- thus it should be sufficient for the president -- my vision is no more or less important than his - -that's what equality is about.
But we do need someone to be the night watchman -- the president. Instead he's busy envisioning what I should do, Bah!
Rule? HA! Sit in the corner, O, serve your term, go home. Done.

JohnMD1022| 2.7.10 @ 8:24AM

From now on, when you hear Mr. Obama speak, try replacing "let me be clear" with "let me lie to you," and see if it makes more sense.

Occam's Razor| 2.8.10 @ 8:06PM

What makes her think that, jj? Hmmm...he has appointed a top aide who idolizes Mao, another one who claimed himself to be a Communist, his preacher is a scumbag, his political career started in the home of an American Terrorist. I don't know what makes her think Obama doesn't have the good of America at heart. Is it because he's the first President, EVER, who stated that America has no special purpose?

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Indy Voter| 2.5.10 @ 7:53AM

Let's not let our guard down, they will break it into piece parts and slide it in with other legislation. I don't trust Congress nor this Administration.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.5.10 @ 7:56AM

During another recent interview on national TV Obama claimed he had closed the revolving door on lobbyists. The facts are he has 7 lobbyists on waiver in his cabinet and 30 on waiver in his administration and the doesn't include Eric Holder, another former lobbyist.

The only transparency in the Obama administration is that Obama is a pathological liar who looks upon others as dolts too stupid to see through his transparent lies.

Megalomaniac.

elainej| 2.5.10 @ 7:57AM

Great article and comments. He would be better off to keep his mouth shut--but every time he does, he just drives another nail in his political coffin. So, let him talk---it's good entertainment!

Mouthpiece| 2.5.10 @ 6:39PM

VP 'foot in mouth' fits right in....

saleboter| 2.5.10 @ 8:13AM

I don't think he will ever 'get it'. He's no bill clinton and the demos are starting to run from him in droves.

Shamus| 2.5.10 @ 8:25AM

It's too early to celebrate. Democrats have until April for reconciliation to be used to push through the bill. If nothing has happened by May, then the health bill can be given last rites.

Ret. Marine| 2.5.10 @ 8:39AM

What I got out of this entire mess called obamascare, idiots do as idiots are. Hey your highassness, can you hear us now? Welcome to our real world, I'll bet it looks nothing like yours, gee a pity party is about to breakout through out this great Country, NOT.

Curly Smith| 2.5.10 @ 8:55AM

The blame is shared by the White House and Ted Kennedy. Since the article discusses the White House's role, let's talk about Ted.

In 2004, the law in Massachusetts governing Senate vacancies was changed from the Governor appointing a replacement to fill the remainder of the term to a special election. As you recall, John Kerry was going to move up to the White House and the Republican Mitt Romney was the Governor. A Democrat is now the Governor.

In May 2008, Ted Kennedy announced his diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. He elected to remain in office to fulfill his legacy. A special election could have been held in November 2008 that would have certainly elected a Democrat to fill the seat.

In Sept 2009, the Massachusetts legislature amended the Senate Vacancy Law to allow the Governor, a Democrat this time, to temporarily fill the vacancy left when Ted Kennedy died in the saddle. Without a filibuster proof majority the Senate would never have taken on ObamaCare, it would have remained idle until the new Democratic Senator from Massachusetts was in harness.

Kennedy's ego would not allow him to step aside and let somebody else take up his "signature" legislation, to finish his "lifelong work". His lasting legacy is that he killed Mary Jo Kopechne and Nationalized Health Care.

Had the Democrats not changed the law in 2004, we'd have nationalized health care.
Had the Democrats not changed the law in 2009, we'd have nationalized health care.
Had Ted Kennedy stepped aside in 2008, we'd have nationalized health care.

Clearly, Scott Brown is to blame for Obama's failure because politicians are never to blame for the results of their actions.

Tim| 2.5.10 @ 9:14AM

Andy Stearn the president of the SEIU International Union is to blame.

Obama's decision to make him the "Union" poster child that was going to bring the working masses to a new uthopia just simply was the wrong move mainly because Stearn represents public-sector workers on the Federal Payroll.

Obama was entitled to pick a Union Leader to help run the show but he would have been better served had he picked someone from the Private Sector.

Most Private Sector Unions are in bed with the Companies that they represent and would have crafted legislation that helped these Companies grow.

Stearns wants every taxpayer to pay for his lavish Golf outings and lifestyle while the Private Sector Union leaders want their own members to provide such lavish lifestyles so they know that to do that these private unionized companies have got to keep people employed and in my book thats a big difference between the two Union Sectors and is one big reason Obama has fallen on hard times.

Obama Chose the Commie Union Leader when he should have chosen the Business/Union leader to run the show in his White House.

Tex Expatriate| 2.5.10 @ 2:47PM

Obama chose the Commie union leader because Obama is a Commie himself, and has been trained to be so since he was four or five years old. No rational person should expect Obama to behave other than Obama behaves.

JohnMD1022| 2.7.10 @ 9:38AM

"Most Private Sector Unions are in bed with the Companies that they represent and would have crafted legislation that helped these Companies grow. "

As the UAW did, I suppose....

njre| 2.8.10 @ 3:08PM

Obama chooses the commie union leaders because he himself is a commie! If his bad choice caused him to fail, then he is the one who is responsible for the failure. In addition to the list in the article (arrogance, lies, deficit of trust), he being a commie, among others, is also why he fails!

Rmm| 2.5.10 @ 10:04AM

Everyone living outside of the Beltway certainly knows that Washington needs reform, not our healthcare delivery system.
Until our not so illustrious leaders fess up and admit they are the major problem with most of our issues, we will continue to spin on a dime.

Carpenter| 2.5.10 @ 10:20AM

We are very fortunate that the radical moonbat foisted on us by a vengeful populist vote in 2008 turned out to be such a dishonest incompetent. The only thing transparent are the lies - maybe he hasn't caught on yet that such a large percentage of intelligent voters have both a memory and an internet connection.

davelnaf| 2.5.10 @ 10:24AM

As a self-indulgent narcissist Obama’s instinct has been to push as hard as he can for what he wants. He will continue to do this until enough Dems in Congress are politically able to turn their backs on him. Until that day arrives debt keeps piling up and he will continue to damage US foreign policy as well as undermining the security of the country. Politicians of both parties are heading into unknown territory with this president but Democrats in particular are on course to disaster.

Grant Johnson| 2.5.10 @ 10:24AM

I think an Honorable Mention (or is that Complicity to Commit?) also needs to go to the main stream media, another unlikely suspect.
Warning signs were popping up all year that the public was restive, and had these warnings been heeded by the president and congressional leaders, they might have been able to adjust and still nationalize health care.
But the MSM, in their dishonest, biased and arrogant cheerleading for Obama and nationalized health care, led the Democrats to believe all was well. "The tea partiers are just fringe nuts", "protests are just astroturf by the insurance industry", "special election losses were due to local issues or bad candidates" and "the pollsters are biased right-wingers". The president has never known much about middle America, and he doesn't get out much. The poor guy actually believes what he reads in the New York Times! How could he and his team succeed when they were so badly informed about the political landscape?

hoads| 2.5.10 @ 10:30AM

Don't discount Obama's comment to the lady at a televised "healthcare townhall" referring to her 100 y.o. mother: "Maybe she needs to take the pain pill instead." I think that statement alone got people's antenna up.

Mike| 2.5.10 @ 11:01AM

" Obamacare is dead. "

What nonsense ..

Nick| 2.6.10 @ 12:31AM

Mike,

ObamaCare IS dead.
Buh-bye, ObamaCare, buh-bye!

Nah-nah-nah-nah.
Nah-nah-nah-nah.
Hey-hey-hey, Good-bye!

JohnMD1022| 2.7.10 @ 9:48AM

Who's the leader of the thugs
That wanna make us pay?

B-A-R-A-C-K O-B-A-M-A

Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
Socialism's on the way

B-A-R-A-C-K O-B-A-M-A

Forever let us rue the day
Day Day Day

Come along and sing a dirge
Pray for the USA

B-A-R-A-C-K O-B-A-M-A

David Dennis| 2.5.10 @ 11:30AM

I agree that Obama is primarily to blame for the failure of his signature initiative. By leaving the bill to Congress, he guaranteed a hideous mess. If he had learned the lesson of the stimulus and given Congress clear direction through his own program, he might have created less of a monster.

But truthfully, I think this gives too little credit to the excellent people, such as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the tea party movement, etc, who worked very hard to defeat Obamacare. He made it possible by helping create a horrendously bad proposal, but we all had our role in defeating it. So anyone who attended a tea party, wrote their congressman, etc, should take a bow.

What does everyone here think of "The Small Bill"? I like it a lot and think almost everybody (on both sides of the aisle) should be able to support it:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/small-bill

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.5.10 @ 11:31AM

Mr. Catron,
How can you write such a splendid essay, then come to precisely the wrong conclusion quoted here?

"" The "real killer" of Obamacare wasn't the "party of no," Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party movement, insurance lobbyists or even Scott Brown. Obamacare was killed by Barack Obama. ""

All of the above mentioned folks have played a serious part.....maybe not "killing" Obamacare... but darned sure shooting a whole lot of 30 caliber holes in the SON of a beautiful Labrador.

You, sir, may take a deserved bow for your shots as well. Thank you.

roseburgh| 2.5.10 @ 11:57AM

Rmm's comment is the best. Washington reform, not healthcare reform! I totally agree.

cooper52| 2.5.10 @ 12:45PM

I hope I live long enough the read the many books that will be written about this failed presidency, the arrogance and lies promoted by the media, the welcome ascent of political involvement by those heretofore vaguely aware of political processes, the blueprint Obama and his minions planned to follow long before Inauguration Day that threatened to lead us down the nanny state path, the insults to our intelligence, the inability of the intellectual elite to reach us stupid middle Americans because we are so stupid, and so on. What will be even more interesting to read is why centrists and conservatives fell for this charade. It was clear that Obama wanted to redistribute wealth and power, strengthen unions, skewer free enterprise, wage a worldwide apology tour to 'make up' for past U.S. indiscretions (putting it mildly), put Cap and Trade and universal healthcare into place, in general expand his liberal base to ensure harmful progressive policies would continue, ad infinitum.

A 2008 Wall Street Journal article listed each one of Obama's goals. Countless articles and verbal commentary backed up the WSJ's assertions. While Obama hasn't accomplished most of them (and we hope he doesn't go much further) he has acted exactly as promised. Let's hope we have learned our lesson and let's hope someone else has better leadership ability and good centrist/conservative solutions to prevent a repeat of this debacle. Next time could be worse.

Sir| 2.5.10 @ 3:01PM

I had the privilege of watching "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" this past Sunday. It makes evident that the media are every bit as guilty as the critters that are sent to Washington on lies.

Term limits would be a good start.

ralph| 2.5.10 @ 2:34PM

It's a shame that our first black president has been such a disappointment. It's been said that miracles never cease, however, and maybe in the next 3 years something will arise that Obama will be able to tackle and so redeem himself.

Tex Expatriate| 2.5.10 @ 2:54PM

As a comitted Saul Alinsky-trained Marxist, Obama cannot redeem himself. Most Americans abhor socialism of any type: Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Progressivism, ad infinitum. Obama-the-Devout will continue to pursue establishing an American Socialism, and will continue to alienate more and more Americans.

pugsley| 2.5.10 @ 4:41PM

Tex-you are spot on. To be redeemed, you have to first admit you made a mistake. The lawn jockey is doing what, to him, is the right thing. He just is in stark disbelief that the people of this country don't fall into line and 'just go for it' as they say in The Quiet Man.

Honest Abdul| 2.7.10 @ 9:56AM

B. Hussein Obama

1/2 white
7/16 arab
1/16 black

"First black president"? I think not.

Wasn't Bill Clinton the first black president?

Obama may be the "last of the Kennedy brothers" and the first Mohammedan president, but he is NOT the first black president.

rogelio el contrario| 2.7.10 @ 1:53PM

It is sad that the readers of American Spectator, like her editors and journalists, are hoping that the Obama presidency will be a failure. Personally I am hoping that Obama will still succeed, for America's sake. Because I love America and her ideals.

It seems to me the evidence is overwhelming, though many seem blinded to it, that Obama is a man who wants the best for America. For my erstwhile conservative friends I would urge you to consider that the Bible calls us to first pray for those in authority over us. Are we praying for our President Obama? If he fails, we will be the ones who fall. I advise prayer and reflection.

Margie| 2.7.10 @ 8:54PM

Hmm. Let me see. Yes, I've prayed. Yes. I've reflected. My eyes are opened. (Actually they were already open, but I digress). Since what I see is an evil man who is DEAD set upon destroying our beloved FREE country and his DESIRE is to turn it into a Socialist heap of ruins for all but the powerful low lives who call themselves czars, I have decided to speak to everyone that I know, and then some that they had better WAKE UP and starting with the 2010 elections now, and in 2012 they had better vote Republican if they want to save what is left of the country after all the DAMAGE this man and his minions have wrought.
We are in serious trouble and God gave us our ability to reason and to ACT accordingly.
We need to VOTE these creeps out!

Corpse-Man (McGrath)| 2.5.10 @ 3:24PM

Corpse-man McGrath reporting for duty, awaiting orders from the Great One, whose affirmative (action) climb from the (quota) hallowed halls of Harvard (unquota) - from which he refuses to release his transcripts - to the rapturous world of Illinois party politics (where his light skin and ebonic-free parlance, not to mention street money from communities he helped to "organize") plopped him into the U.S. Senate(!) and prepared Him well to now guide our Ship of State.

This well-rounded (well, actually skinny) renaissance man has learned, well and good, how to advance as far as possible on the public dole, and shall surely be a bane to all who support him, and a continuing source of guffaws and well-deserved derision by all who find him a clownish poltroon, blissfully unaware of the Complete Tool he has made of himself.

Corpse-men the world over have at last been recognized by a POTUS. We've waited long for this shining moment. Sadly, such other moments are likely never to happen again, as the Twit in Chief's handlers will have no choice but to use phonetic spelling on the Teleprompter.

Sir| 2.5.10 @ 3:59PM

I felt for you corpse-men this morning when I heard the clip of Mr. Eloquent Teleprompter-Reader saying that.

Whatever Barry Hussein says, God bless you, McGrath, for your service.

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jr| 2.5.10 @ 4:08PM

And every corpse-man in the nation should be proud that the deceit is dwindling fast. I think it utterly amazing that he continues to say the same crep that he said a year and a half ago -- intelligent? Don't think so.

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RodgerDSmith| 2.5.10 @ 7:24PM

"Barry" (he has more AKAs than your average conman) is The Premier, not "president." Let's get on the same page here, Comrades!

Britethorn| 2.6.10 @ 12:21AM

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying about what's c going on with health care:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb7aBO6SJnk

Yosemeti Sam| 2.6.10 @ 12:28AM

" Who Killed Obamacare? ...."

Russian Roulette machiavellianism practiced by
the democrat party under 'leadership' of BHO!

Oops!

LOL.

yvonne Moultrie| 2.6.10 @ 1:37AM

and no one senses the weird ironic twist in entitling this article "obama(care) is dead" - parentheses added...?

this has been the circulating meme for several weeks.

scary, turbulent times are ahead.

Yvonne Moultrie| 2.6.10 @ 1:39AM

pugsley| 2.5.10 @ 4:41PM

"Tex-you are spot on. To be redeemed, you have to first admit you made a mistake. The lawn jockey is doing what, to him, is the right thing. "
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wow...blatant bigoted talk and it's not even removed from this site?

appalling.

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Osamas Pajamas| 2.6.10 @ 2:55PM

A cursory look at all that has been said and done by OhBummer and the OhBUmmer Wrecking Crew suggests that joining The Party of NO is clearly the most rational act of self-defense one could make today. Too bad the Republicans haven't [yet] hijacked and sworn fealty to more libertarian ideas. It would improve their alternatives to the Democrats very substantially, and an honest nod to their source might actually win more votes not only from libertarians but also from the broader public, who evidently have discovered that patriotism for OhBummer means "Here, carry this piano, oh --- and shut the f___ up about it, too!" Strike while the iron is hot, lads!

Don'tpaymyway| 2.6.10 @ 5:06PM

Mmm .... Mmm..... Obama ....?????
Barry I call you OUT on your birth and raise ya ten....
Can we now STOP with shoving it down honest hard working red blooded American's throats.....WE SAY NO WAY!!!!!! ...But you say YES ? and because YOU SAY..."YOUWON"...you will make it go down....one way or another? NO!!!!!! STOP IT!
Don't think you'll be sitting in our White House much longer mr. Usurper and family. WHAT was the voters thinking? That he would keep us safe and sound? We were bluffed a TRILLION times over....
He needs to be CALLED OUT NOW...
Before some thing major happens AGAIN and we wished we removed him in time! Oh yea... he's having another...."Super Bowl Party"...on us... Maybe his daily, weekly, monthly parties have something to do why none of them have their thinking hats on stright... it could also be something they might be smoking or snorting... I believe that's 1/2 the problem we are facing. Just laugh in our faces and filter out our wants and needs....You are tearing up our County...and you can Just STOP now! And go to your home in Chicago...where you belong...if not in jail? That may be the new home of the one....and friends...I feel it is getting ripe and he is getting scared...but were not scared and we will keep driving in the wedge....can ya feel it? I hope so .....Cus we feel you 24/7 and we do not aprove ....

Speedypete| 2.6.10 @ 6:00PM

What killed it is the legislation is full of paybacks Nebraska, Louisiana, and protection for big drugs and unions that want to be big again---AND we had time to read it and cry out, WHAT ARE YOU FIXING?

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Sarah helped kill the ObamaCare abomination, too!!

She 'death paneled' it. Go Sarah!!

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The kindest thing one could say about Obama is that he has "cognitive disconnect disease". Others might not be so kind, and call him a congenital liar.

However one assesses the man, the fact remains that his actions rarely match his oratory. Is this the result of his naiveté and inexperience as some have suggested, or is this the result of an ideologically driven man who is calculating and devious?

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