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It was one year ago today, that the President Obama began the push for getting his massive health care reform plan passed. In some 3-4 more weeks, a vote is possible. Looking equally as possible right now is that there will no vote and this proposal will just stall. 

Remember how it originally had to passed by last Spring and then the Christmas Eve vote and all of the other urgency?

The President has said that this is his last big push - if this doesn't get it done he move on to something else.

While I don't know what else he can propose after the bailouts, the health care, and the cap and trade, that we could possibly like, as long as health care is a dead issue, I guess we can tackle the next challenge.

I sure hope we can take him at his word on this. It will be nice to see this just die away and not be the topic of everyday conversation.

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The President is behaving like a desperate man - as if panicking that his beloved health care makeover plan won't pass.

He continues his relentless speeechmaking and now is throwing in everything he can think of to try to win converts.

Did you hear the latest? This plan will give American more control. That one is too funny to even address.

He cites Medicare losing money and on the brink of bankruptcy, yet the Senate plan robs from it. Can't have it both ways.

Aside from health care being unconstitutional, aside from it being an egregious spending plan, and aside from it being something we don't want, the begging, pleading, and pandering continue. Not too becoming to the Chief Executive.

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If Obama passes his health care plan without a single contributing vote from the Republicans, we'll see it for exactly what it is - a big spending, deficit enriching, potentially bankrupting, unconstitutional attempt to do what shouldn't be done. So don't you dare participate, Republicans. This way it also will be easiser to repeal in January.

OK, so now the President is all-of-a-sudden open to including 5 provisions that Republicans wanted. Do you really think he wants them included? Or do you think he just wants his plan passed and will do and say whatever he has to to get the votes?

I'm going with the latter. This is another great reason to steer clear of supporting this.

Next year, if the new Republican Congress wants to consider health care reform - and they may not want to do it - they can start from scratch. My suggestion - if you do write something keep it under 10 pages.

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Everyday it's health care. The President won't let up, and because he won't I won't. Not a day goes by that he doesn't lobby for health care - something that the vast majority or Americans didn't ask for and don't want as proposed.

While the President is so fixated on getting health care passed, he seemingly is ignoring the other issues facing us. Come to think of it, health care isn't even an issue so he's spending an inordinate amount of his time unproductively.

When was the last time he talked about our Afghan strategy, the national debt (other than what he keeps adding to it while telling us he's reducing it), progress in Iraq, our showdown with Iran or North Korea, weaning ourselves from Middle Eastern oil (for economic and national security reasons, not environmental), or any of the issues that are truly Presidential?

Spending all of your time lobbying for a premise that is blantantly unconsititutional - not to mention unpopular and grossly expensive - is a horrible waste of the President's focus.

I really hope the proposed health care legislation goes away soon so we can begin to concentrate on really important national issues.

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President Obama is hosting his health care summit/media event/photo op tomorrow. He would like to get at least one Republican to sign onto his plan so he can proclaim that he has bipartisan support.

However, bipartisanship - true bipartisanship - means that there is a general consensus or agreement on the concept. There is none. It means that it is good for the country, is necessary, and has broad-based support. Not true either.

Just saying that you want bipartisanship because you think people want it and you campaigned on it is meaningless unless you actually can deliver. This is a bad bill at an even worse economic moment to undertake anything like this. Oh, and have I mentioned that this is unconstitutional anyway?

Bipartisanship would be nice to see - on something that really does matter for our country. This is not it.

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Remember as a kid pretending that we weren't listening or that we couldn't hear something? What did we do? We covered our ears and loudly sang - as if to drown out what was being spoken - lalalalalalalala!

Remember the scene from Beverly Hills Cop (the original movie)? Same thing.

Well, Congress is doing this to us. They have to be doing it. They aren't listening - that's for sure.

How long are they just going to keep going and going after this health care bill that only they and the unions want?

The voters in Massachusetts voted against it when they elected Scott Brown. The Senate only reluctantly passed it anyway. The House couldn't pass it again if the vote were taken now. Poll after poll shows it is not desired.

Nevertheless, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the President will not be deterred. Pelosi used her lame "gate-pole vault-parachute" argument as her determination to get this passed at any and all costs. Not a day has gone by that Obama hasn't been stumping for this someplace. Reid still believes that people want it - which is why he likely will lose his seat.

Enough already. I don't want to hear about this anymore. Lalalalalaalalalalalalalalalalala.

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Now that the labor unions have been told that they will have an exemption for paying the excise tax on the "Cadillac" programs, I have the perfect solution. The rest of us unionize - but just for health care.

I was working on a clever acronym, but that can come later. Just think about this for a moment.

If everyone belongs to a union - a wide ranging one with every employee, proprietor, or independent contractor in the country (not already in a union), including management and professions - then there would be no one left to tax except the poor. H.R. 3590 would fall flat.

Comrades, we must all unite.

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The Dems in Congress should give up on passing the Health Care bill, but they won't. It is ill-timed, ill-advised, and unnecessary. The unions don't want it, but they may get an exemption. The Amish are getting an exemption. The young people are getting an exemption for a small fee. The poor get an exemption.

Where's the equity here? Equal protection under the law? The pie is getting pretty small to float this monstrosity.

Who does this leave to pay for the bill which is going to be huge? Small businesses and the American people who can't get an exemption.

The American people never demanded health care reform - the President and his campaign advisors created a made-up crisis during the campaign and ran with it.

What American would like to have is tort reform and lower premiums for their existing plans. This has never been discussed.

It's not worth ruining our country for something we never wanted in the first place. Let it go.

November 2nd is getting closer every day.

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Let's look at the health care debate and so-called reform. Congress won by passing it (a House version and a Senate version), and the President won by proving he could get it passed. But hold on, we the people might ultimately win.

By the way, just what was all that hurry about before Christmas to get the Senate to pass the health care bill? It had to be passed by Christmas  - or what, I'm not sure. The urgency was so great that Harry Reid scheduled two Sunday sessions in the past month - nearly unheard of. Then, he held the 1:00 am vote last Monday during a driving 24" snowstorm that paralyzed Washington. Then, he held the 7:00 am vote on Christmas eve to get it approved. It turns out that the last time a vote was taken in the Senate on Christmas eve, originally reported as 50 years ago, was in 1895 - 114 years ago!

In typical "cry wolf" Obama fashion. the health care care had to be fast-tracked. You recall that originally it was supposed to be passed before labor Day. You might also recall that he interrupted Senator Brown from Ohio during his bereavement and had him flown back to the Senate on a government jet to vote on his Stimulus bill. Then he was allowed to return to Ohio for his Mother's funeral.

So, the deed is done. the Senate passed its health care bill by Christmas - giving Reid, Obama, and Pelosi a big Christmas present. They all won.

Pelosi had already delivered the House bill.

It appeared as if Pelosi was going to accept the Senate version, get it approved in the House, and sent to Obama for his signature. But hold on. This is where it gets interesting.

Now that there is a conference committee - I wonder how many Republicans will sit on it - the House and the Senate versions will be "reconciled" and then each body has to approve the compromise bill.

Democrats in the House that previously approved the bill plus the 8 Republicans who also voted for it have a chance to do the right thing now and vote against it.

Senate Democrats - after giving Obama and Reid the vote they wanted and needed - are now free to vote against the bill.

Obama keeps reminding us that Presidents since Teddy Roosevelt have been trying to get health care reform passed. Maybe there is a reason - the people don't want it or the country can't afford it, or both. If FDR couldn't get it passed with the control he had, I question why we are doing this now.

I know some people feel that this is a solution that they need, but the detrimental aspects of this bill for personal choice, free enterprise, capitalism, small businesses, Medicare, taxes, and competition are so prominent as to undermine any positive aspects of the bill.

We have several opportunities for this bill to go away, and conservative Republicans and Democrats in Congress are beginning to line up against it. Remember too, only 309 days til November 2nd.

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First, the President wanted his Health Care bill passed in late spring or early summer - don't read it, just pass it.

Then the House finally got the narrowest of approvals a month ago - after working Saturdays (to make up for the other days during the week when they don't work). The deadline for passage kept moving back all summer and fall because Pelosi couldn't get enough votes to secure passage until then.

All the while, Senators were saying that their bill couldn't be voted on until sometime next year. That was good because it meant likely defeat since no Senator up for re-election would want to go on record supporting a bill that the public doesn't want.

Now, however, it's full speed ahead. Harry Reid is holding an unusual session tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. He is determined to get this voted on (and he thinks passed) this month.

This quality of this bill doesn't improve by rushing it through - actually it gets worse. The page count keeps expanding to include all of the new amendments.

If more Senators actually took time to read the bill and stood up to Harry Reid, the billl would die. Motion to recommit anyone?

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