Quote From: kustomladyThis is the rhetoric Obama consistantly used in order to defeat other Democrats running for the nomination last year, and so it appears that the president has infact changed his mind of healthcare reform...
"Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has been one of Obama's staunchest critics on this issue. He says the president opposed meaningful Republican legislation while he still a member of the Senate.
"I want Americans to be clear that I have introduced major healthcare reform every year I've been in the Senate. Barack Obama did not introduce any that I'm aware of. He voted against Republican reforms that would have made it less expensive and more accessible for individuals to have their own insurance if they didn't get it at work," DeMint points out. "He's done everything he can to maintain the status quo so that he could call for government intervention -- and we need to expose that to the American people."
DeMint says healthcare overhaul is a critical battle for Americans and there is no need to rush to pass such important legislation. He recently released his new book Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism.
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In past administrations some Democrats have blocked every common sense true insurance reform move made by moderates and Republicans. They have remained low-key and patient up until this administration. They're fighting desperately for this healthcare takeover because they know once this key part of the economy is under their control, the USA is forever changed into a socialist state.
Just opening the competitive field by allowing patients to shop for coverage in other states would cause improvements. Tort (sp) reform and privatizing entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare should be what we are discussing.
When you understand why the far left does not want these sorts of reforms, their actions become clear. They WANT a socialist system with a huge bureacratic central government. At a time when Germany and Russia are becoming more capitalist, the USA is in danger of losing our free capitalist republic.
Bill Mahr made a comment on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien while he was deriding O'Reilly for calling him a pinhead. He said the USA needs a third party- the Progressive Party. This could be the rumours I've heard of a third major party being born. I had thought it would be a third party of constitutional conservatives, but I may have been mistaken.
I hope the secular DO form their own party. It will get them out of the shadows of both the Republican and Democrat parties. They've polluted the traditional values of both parties for far too long. If they "came out" we would all know who they are, and what they really stand for.
The funny thing, I think, about the "progressives" is the way they portray themselves. They're whole attitude is that government should provide everything and make all of our decisions for us, for our own good. This is repressive, not progressive.
And that is exactly the way they act too. Take for example the way the true grassroots protests have been ridiculed and labled by the so-called "progressives" in power. Their latest retalliation? To pay some of their organized communities to show up at townhall meetings to out shout us. The SIEU goons and busloads of ACORN members will not and cannot be as passionate about their cause as the rest of us. And if they attend to the questions and the obvious evasions of the questions, they may learn something, such as how they are being used and manipulated by the unscrupulous.