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Moments ago, Rep. Tom Graves was arguing that the amendment to defund the implementation of the national health care would stop the law dead in its tracks.
If it’s adopted, Graves said, “government bureaucrats cannot lift so much as a finger, move a paper clip, send an email, if it has anything to do with ObamaCare.”
At that point, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz interjected with a parliamentary inquiry, and was eventually recognized once Graves was finished speaking.
“In two previous gentlemen’s statements on the amendment, both of them referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as ‘ObamaCare,’” Wasserman Schultz said. “That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. It is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. It is clearly in violation of the House rules.”
Her argument did not go anywhere, and Republicans continued their references to ObamaCare.
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Richard Baker| 2.18.11 @ 10:30AM
This offends her? What a mental midget.
solidground| 2.18.11 @ 10:35AM
It appears the Dems are becoming waaaaaaay overly sensitive. I guess that happens when one's back is surely heading toward the wall.
Clint| 2.18.11 @ 10:40AM
Maybe, Little Debbie Socialist can run & get The PC Thought Police to arrest Graves for Free Speech.
Tim the Enchanter| 2.18.11 @ 10:48AM
Sit down and be quiet, little girl, while the adults are speaking. You have very bad manners. No cookies for you.
Jose Luis Stecca| 2.18.11 @ 10:50AM
Question for AS readers -
If given a choice, would you put on a set of headphones and listen to ...
A) Debbie Wasserman Schultz
or
B) Fingernails raking across a chalkboard
my answer is "B"
Humphry Dumfries | 2.18.11 @ 11:54AM
LOL
David W| 2.18.11 @ 12:37PM
I would quietly and without anyone noticing unplug the headphones... However, under Schultz vs. David W the Supreme Court ruled that there was no choice in the matter and I would have to listen to Ms. Schultz.
JmsA| 2.18.11 @ 10:52AM
What a shock! Another democommunist trying to suppress free speech.
Curly Smith| 2.18.11 @ 10:56AM
To be fair, the House Democrats never once referred to the "Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001" or the "Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003" as "the Bush Tax Cuts". Maybe a billion times, but not once.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.18.11 @ 10:57AM
OOPS, sorry Debbie. We won.
Dennis Wasserman Schultz| 2.18.11 @ 10:58AM
I object to your disparagement of our leader!
megapotamus| 2.18.11 @ 11:01AM
Does it slander the man or the law?
talkradio55| 2.18.11 @ 11:11AM
Two points to make here:
1. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a blithering idiot.
2. See number 1.
Badger1911| 2.18.11 @ 11:25AM
Okay, let's call it "Failed Euro-peon Idea 4,381"
Sparky| 2.18.11 @ 11:33AM
To associate the President or anyone else with that putrid law clearly is to disparage them!
Gregg| 2.18.11 @ 11:34AM
If Obamacare is so fabulous - as I'm sure Rep. Schultz thinks, why would she want to distance O from it and it from O?
luanne| 2.18.11 @ 11:39AM
If "Obamacare" is disparaging to the President, imagine how disparaging it is to those who must use it.
John| 2.18.11 @ 11:42AM
Anyone want to count the number of times Democrats used the words "Reaganomics" or "Bush Tax Cuts" rather than the proper lame of the legislation in Congress?
Kelly| 2.18.11 @ 11:43AM
I'm almost positive I saw her on TV when they were passing HC that HC and jobs go hand in hand, you cant address one and not the other...HMMMM
Illogicbuster| 2.18.11 @ 11:44AM
She's right!
Call it ... ObumblerCare
Dave| 2.18.11 @ 11:47AM
Yes it is disparaging. Precisely as intended.
If the shoe fits...
scoty| 2.18.11 @ 11:47AM
Would you prefer "HEALTHSCAM" It is more accurate.
Tom| 2.18.11 @ 11:48AM
Shut up Wasserman.....Commie Troll
BP| 2.18.11 @ 11:49AM
This broad is an idiot. She talks out one side of her mouth and quacks out of the other.
She is one of the biggest hypocits in congress.
Her nwm also, what is up with that?
who does this crap with a name. If you don;t like your name or your husbands name, then why get married and ubject your kids to explianing why your mom has an odd name.
Joe Doakes| 2.18.11 @ 11:50AM
Captain Chaos . . .
September 7, 2010
Captain Chaos . . .
September 7, 2010
Dear Captain Chaos AKA President Barrack Obama,
Reading your last economic address reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Cannonball Run. In this movie, a merry band of lead foot drivers blast from one coast to the other wreaking havoc upon the nations roads; kind of like liberal democrats and the body politic. Back to Captain Chaos. This fellow had a mental disorder that he would soothe by putting on a costume and taking on a presumably difficult task. Thus, I crown you, Captain Chaos. The honor comes with a cape, funky boots, and of course a speedo. I recommend you only wear the speedo in private, as it may make a NY Times reporter pass out and the rest of us puke. So the next time you are going to deliver a speech that frankly no one cares a lick about, just step up to the microphone and scream out, “Captain Chaos to the rescue!” At which point the citizens of this great nation will then be on notice to take cover, and use extreme caution.
Let’s take the healthcare bill that my representative John Hall voted in favor of. This is one piece of legislated chaos an order of magnitude higher that would make a Nazi proud. We don’t need death camps, we need chaos and confusion, as doctors and patients wait to die, or die from waiting, a unionized bureaucrat will be there with form 42-B to inform the concurrent parties that the Tylenol that is so desperately needed will not be available until next weeks allocation comes through the factory - which is on strike because the unions think they are underpaid, and the lawyer that is needed to fill out the waiver for the Tylenol is on sabbatical studying yoga. Cogito ergo sum Chaos!
Now let’s take financial reform. I have been investing and dealing with money in a mostly responsible way my whole life. Like most people I strive to learn from my mistakes. Like that first year at ASU, that should have been my first year in the Air Force, when that broad in the tight t-shirt, with Citibank emblazoned across you know what, asked me if I wanted a credit card, I said “how many can I get?” I promptly used that card to buy everything I was not supposed to. I made the monthly minimums on time and in cash with the odd jobs I picked up while at school. By the time the summer rolled around I was doing three to four jobs to cover the bill, but I did it. Is the Congress and are you, Mr. Obama, telling me that grown people are incapable of understanding that they are going to have to pay for what they buy, and if they don’t they will be charged interest. Are you all nuts? Don’t answer that. I know the answer. Recently you signed the Financial Regulatory Reform Act, that would among other nasty things, increase the minutia that a borrower would be faced with and create a higher burden for the companies to raise rates on borrowers; in short you are treating adults like children, and this will only lead to more chaos, and not to mention less credit.
You see Captain Chaos Obama, We The People, get to vote last, while you get to bully us when ever you desire with or without the cape and the funky boots. I am well aware that your ilk has been maneuvering in chaotic fashion to make each vote not about forming a more perfect union, but about administering to the government induced chaos; and the last election, like trained seals, people voted for Democrats, wrongly thinking that they are better at managing the chaos. We The People, are coming to the conclusion that the ordered chaos that evolves out of the free market is far more desirable than the one that the federal government manufactures, with the willing help of unions, via pitting one economic class, or one race against another. We The People are coming to the conclusion that we would rather have a hospital room and insurance at some price, than none at any price, we would rather have a seat on a flight at some price than none at any price, we would rather have a Big Mac at some price than none at any price, we would rather have credit at some price than none at any price; and so on for everything we rely on to lead our modern, and productive lives.
On November 6, 2012 - we will be choosing a new President that understand all of this and is willing to represent these convictions with authority.
Respectfully,
Joe Doakes
BP| 2.18.11 @ 11:51AM
Who make a rule like that anyway, oh yea, DEMs to portect Obama nbut not Bush.
Hypocrite!!!!!
NMark W| 2.18.11 @ 11:57AM
I could be wrong about this but before Christmas I thought I read something about a White House group that was doing some initial work on implementing the Health Care Act and they were using the term "ObamaCare. Anyone know to what I am referring?
Alan| 2.18.11 @ 11:57AM
Is the term O-wordcare (his name is terribly offensive to me) considered derogatory because o-word is complete trash making the name offensive to the bill or is it because the bill is complete trash and it is offensive to the o-word? Either way the name fits.
JG| 2.18.11 @ 12:07PM
Thanks Tom Graves, who happens to be my Congressman, for actually doing what I asked of him. As for Debby the Dem, she is use to the term but was trying to stop the House from listening to Tom's clear way to stop Obamacare. We need to push all our Reps and Senators to use this method...
Dave| 2.21.11 @ 10:43AM
So, the term "Obamacare" disparages the president? That's as it should be. This president has worked long and hard to be disparaged. It's the one thing he has done successfully.