Rep. Paul Ryan Responds to Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan (video)

Rep. Ryan reams Obama and his fake partisan deficit reduction plan.



VP Joe Biden fell asleep during Obama's address.

Cutting the Deficit the Progressive way

Did you ever wonder how progressives would cut the deficit? Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has offered her alternate proposal for reducing the deficit. She claims the plan would cut deficit spending by $426.95 in fiscal year 2015. Progressive Rep. Schakowsky wants to reduce the deficit by socking it to corporations, the wealth and the Defense Department.

The plan includes (pdf):

$276.8 billion in new taxes; including $52 billion from Cap-and-Trade (she calls some of the new taxes "tax expenditure savings")

$110.7 billion in defense cuts

$10 billion in magical savings from implementing in a robust health insurance "Public Option"

$7.5 billion from reducing federal agricultural support by 50%

$200 billion in new stimulus spending that takes place before 2015 and isn't subtracted off any alleged deficit reduction amount

Shocker: White House Doesn't Like Republican's “Pledge to America” Plan

Republican are unveiling their “Pledge to America” plan. This plan includes tax cuts, repeal of Obamacare, Federal hiring freezes and spending caps. Not surprisingly, the White House immediately attacked the plan.

The Politico reported:

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, writing on the White House blog, said Republicans “doubled down on the same ideas that hurt America’s middle class,” listing tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, tax hikes for the middle class, “cutting rules and oversight” for financial services, health care and oil, all while adding to the deficit.

Republicans would counter that they are trying to cut taxes across the board and save taxpayer dollars by a federal hiring freeze and caps on spending. The agenda will be formally unveiled at an event in Sterling, Va., Thursday, in a rollout reminiscent of the 1994 Contract with America

Jerry Brown Has a Big Plan to Balance California's Budget? What is it? It's a Secret!

The San Francisco Gate is reporting Jerry Brown has a three-ring binder containing ideas on how he will balance the budget if elected Governor of California. Of course, its all secret and Californians have to elect him to find out what is in it. This sounds a lot like Nancy Pelosi's "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" Obamacare strategy. We all know how that has worked out in the minds of voters.

When the state attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee recently visited The Chronicle's editorial board, he brought with him a large three-ring binder with his ideas on how to bring state spending back into the black. But he wouldn't tell us what was in the book.

I asked him what he, as governor, would do that state employee labor unions, which are spending millions to get him elected, won't like. He answered, "Well, I'm certainly not going to tell you now." (emphasis mine) Read more here.

With the current level of voter discontent, the "Trust Me" strategy is likely to as popular with voters as root canal without anesthetic.

Is President Obama's Bizarre Behavior a Plan?

The man who promised to bring us together has been engaging in angry, bizarre and extremely partisan behavior. This behavior is turning Independents and the elderly off. Has Obama gone mad or is this a sane plan to fire up the Democratic base in November? Gary Andres breaks it down over at the Weekly standard. I have excerped part of the article, but the entire piece deserves a read.

The Weekly Standard reported:

President Obama’s behavior over the past year, and particularly the last month, borders on bizarre. The candidate who promised to bring people together and move beyond polarization has morphed into a divisive and defensive president.

His sinking approval numbers underscore the growing public disappointment in the gap between his campaign rhetoric and his governing style...

Obama Adviser Admits Real Reason for Pushing Amnesty: Ensure "Progressive" Rule

SEIU International Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina explains why comprehensive immigration reform is the best way to grantee "progressive" rule.

From WND:

"We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters," stated Eliseo Medina, international executive vice-president of Service Employees International Union, or SEIU....

Democrats Formulate Emergency Plan For Obamacare

Democrats are panicking about a Scott Brown win in the Massachusetts Senate special election. If Brown wins, they lose their filibuster proof majority in the Senate. The only way to pass the current bill would be to ram it through the House with no changes. There is little guarantee that desperate attempt would work.

AP reported via Breitbart:

A victory by Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley would give Senate Republicans enough to block the bill with a filibuster.

A newly discussed fallback would require House Democrats to approve the Senate-passed bill without changes. President Barack Obama could sign it into law without another Senate vote. House leaders would urge the Senate to make changes later under a complex plan the would require only a simple majority.

House Republican Leader John Boehner : Weekly Republican Address

Boehner outlines the Republican health care reform plan and blasts PelosiCare.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) Delivers Weekly Republican Address (video)

Who runs the most heartless health care plan? Medicare does.

Democrats criticize and vilify health insurance companies as heartless capitalists. In July, Nancy Pelosi said of insurance companies, "They are the villains in this. They have been part of the problem in a major way." President Obama has criticized insurance companies by using a false story about a man who died after being denied cancer treatments from his insurer. So, what insurance plan has the highest medical claim rejection rate? Medicare does.

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Isn't Medicare the public option for seniors?

Democrat’s Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare

According to this article from Human Events, the Democrats and Harry Reid have a plan to pass Obamacare without using reconciliation. Of course, it is a sneaky, dirty rotten trick.

From Human Events:

President Obama and liberals in Congress seem intent on passing comprehensive health care reform, even though polls suggest it is unpopular with the American people. And despite the potential political risks to moderate Democrats, the President and left-wing leadership in Congress are determined to pass the measure using a rare parliamentary procedure.

The Senate plans to attach Obamacare to a House-passed non-healthcare bill...

Baucus unveils health-care reform plan without Republican support

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus unveiled what was supposed to be a bipartisan health care reform plan. However, he has failed to get any Republican to support his plan so far.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus unveiled a much-anticipated health-care reform plan Wednesday that would require nearly all Americans to carry health insurance while barring insurance companies from discriminating against people based on their health status or denying coverage because of preexisting conditions.

Although Baucus held more than 100 hours of meetings over several weeks with a bipartisan group of Senate health-care negotiators known as the "Gang of Six," he was unable to secure a public endorsement from any of the group's GOP members -- or any other Republicans -- before releasing the plan.

At least one liberal Democrat is refusing to support the plan.

Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a member of the Finance Committee, said on a conference call Tuesday afternoon that he would not support the health care compromise proposal of committee chairman Democrat Max Baucus.

"There is no way in its present form I will vote for it," Rockefeller said in a call co-organized with the liberal Campaign for America's Future. Though he said he's worked closely with Baucus in the past, he said, "I cannot agree with him on this bill."

Rockefeller cited the lack of a government-run plan as the main reason for he couldn't support it, but also said the proposed tax on high-end health plans would affect every coal miner in West Virginia.

Democrats are sharpening their knives in preparation for the committee mark up.

Baucus should expect to see many amendments from Democratic members of the committee, said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).

“There will undoubtedly be amendments in the committee process – and probably a lot of them,” Kerry said. “There’ll be some big fights over different components of this.”

Asked whether he could vote in favor of Baucus’s draft proposal that senators discussed in their meeting Monday evening, Kerry said: “I’m glad I don’t have to answer that because I know it’s not going to be the bill that we’re going to vote on because we are going to amend, we are going to have a tug-of-war still.”

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): Give All Americans Same Health Care As Congress (Video)

Rep. Darrell Issa has a one page health care bill Americans might like. He wants to provide every American access to the same health care plan Congress has. They would have a choice of over 300 Private Health Care Providers at affordable rates, without respect to pre-existing conditions. Nice. Why won't President Obama and Democrats get behind this bill?

Rep. Issa talks about his bill at the 3:45 mark.


From the video:

Rep. Issa: "I have a simple bill. It is only one page that simply says, every American can have the same health care that Congress has without preexisting conditions, without any problem changing plans. It's one page to give every American a choice of over 300 private plans that are all affordable.

What is Team Obama's Plan for ObamaCare Now?

Democratic Representatives are getting thrashed at health care town halls during the August break. The tide of public opinion has turned against the current Democratic bills before Congress. The Democratic Party base exploded at the possibility of a compromise. The only option the administration may have left is to follow James Carville's advice and go down fighting.

Put a bill out there, make them filibuster it. Make them be what they are — the party of no. Look, we spend — the truth of the matter is, we spend about $8,000 per person in the United States on health care. The second — the country that seconds the second most is Switzerland, they spend $4,000. That means you have got $4,000 per person more that we spend on health care, that is $1.2 trillion, 4,000 times 300 million. And you know what? Run on it. A lot of people — and we're not producing any kind of results that double that money provides. Let them kill it. Let them kill it with the interest group money, then run against them. That's what we ought to do.

Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove of Obama

Rasmussen's latest poll shows Fifty-two percent (52%) of likely voters now disapprove of Obama.



Only 42% favor President Obama and the Congressional Democrat's health care reform plan while 53% are opposed. Other data shows that 51% fear the federal government more than private insurance companies.

Obama's Plan to Eliminate Private Health Insurance

President Obama and Democrats in Congress have spoken in favor of a single-payer health insurance system. They deny that is their goal with the current health care reform legislation. However, the current bills in Congress would eventually force everyone into a "public option plan." How would that occur? First, they make if advantageous for private companies to get out of the health insurance business. Second, they plan rules that will likely bankrupt private health insurers.

According to the New York Times, President Obama is planning an "August offensive against the insurance industry." It is "a campaign of increasingly harsh rhetoric against the insurance industry" that is "intended to drive home the message that revamping the health care system will protect consumers by ending unpopular insurance industry practices, like refusing patients with pre-existing conditions."

That part about pre-existing conditions gives the game away. Health insurance companies refuse to cover pre-existing conditions for the same reason that you can't insure your automobile after you crash it. Insurance is a form of financing for the unexpected and unpredictable. It is not a mechanism to force somebody else to pick up the tab for expenses you have already incurred.

Do the Democrats even understand what insurance is? Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum muses that "Health insurance is a weird industry…. They don't do research, they don't perform surgeries, they don't change bedpans, and they don't make diagnoses. They're just middlemen. All they do is pay the bills…. But for some reason we're supposed to care about whether they continue to exist or not."

If people could insure their automobiles after they crashed them, wouldn't that bankrupt auto insurance companies? Of course it would. The same thing is true for health insurance companies. The public option plan won't have to worry about bankruptcy. Your taxes will be raised to support it.