13 Republican Attorneys General Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care

Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to the AP.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.

"We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision," they wrote.

In a rare Christmas Eve vote, Senate Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama's call to remake the nation's health care system. The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many days Democrats posted a supermajority needed to advance the legislation.

The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. All are Republicans, and McMaster and the attorneys general of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are running for governor in their respective states.

Last week, McMaster said he was leading several other attorneys general in an inquiry into the constitutionality of the estimated $100 million deal he has dubbed the "Cornhusker Kickback."

Republican U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint of South Carolina raised questions about the legislation, which they said was amended to win Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's support. More>>

Media Blackout Threatens Michele Bachmann's High Noon Event

The MSM are controlled by the NWO as is Obama.

Posted by: Sam Mela
Monday, November 02, 2009
Every blog in America should expose the Washington Post and the New York Times as left wing toadies. Here's why:
We're calling it "High Noon". Possibly the biggest gathering of patriots ever to come to Washington DC to protest a congressional bill.
But the Washington Post and the New York Times are calling it nothing. They're just ignoring it.
From Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachman
I’ve never done this before but I am asking people to come to Washington, D.C., by the carload… I’d love to have every one of your viewers to join me so we can go up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, 'Don’t take away my healthcare.'
But will there be a media blackout?
A November 2, 2009 search of the New York Times today, shows nothing about Congresswoman Michele Bachman.
Similarly, November 2, 2009 search of the Washington Post today, shows nothing about Congresswoman Michele Bachman.
Call your local newspaper. Call your local radio and television stations and demand an explanation.
Characteristically, the editors and writers from the "fringe media" publications such as the Washington Post and the New York Times are unaccessable, somplace in their ivory towers, planning the political future of mankind as they think it should happen, not as it really is.
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House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages

It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.

The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. .

And for some members, that may not be enough.

A “robust” public option can’t be found in the bill. Neither can the word “doctor” – save for a few references to degrees. No “cost curve” is bent. No “blue pill” is dispensed.

“Death” and “taxes” are both in there, but “death panel” is not.

The text defines dozens of words and phrases, including “family” (“an individual and . . . the individual’s dependents”), “health insurance coverage,” “exchange-eligible individual” and “Indian.”

And for those who cry “read the bill,” beware. There are plenty of paragraphs like this one:

“(a) Outpatient Hospitals – (1) In General – Section 1833(t)(3)(C)(iv) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395(t)(3)(C)(iv)) is amended – (A) in the first sentence – (i) by inserting “(which is subject to the productivity adjustment described in subclause (II) of such section)” after “1886(b)(3)(B)(iii); and (ii) by inserting “(but not below 0)” after “reduced”; and (B) in the second sentence, by inserting “and which is subject, beginning with 2010 to the productivity adjustment described in section 1886(b)(3)(B)(iii)(II)”. More: including videos

Budget Office: Public Option Would Cost More than Private Plans - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

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The government-run health insurance plan, or "public option," crafted by House Democrats would typically have higher premiums than comparable private insurance plans, according to a new budget estimate. Yet even though the public plan is weaker than liberals initially hoped -- thereby making it more expensive -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with Politico Thursday that she does not want liberals to attempt to make it more "robust."

The analysis (PDF) submitted yesterday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office bucks the liberal argument that a public plan would be cheaper for consumers than private insurance. While its administrative costs would be lower, the CBO reported, other factors would offset that.

A significant factor for the higher premiums would be the fact that House Democrats included in the legislation unveiled Thursday a public option that would negotiate its payment rates with medical providers. Liberals like Pelosi were inclined to include a public option that tied its payment rates to Medicare -- this would have made it cheaper, but moderate Democrats from rural areas complained that doctors and medical providers in their regions would not be paid enough.

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Moveon.org Issues Warning to Democrats Opposed to 'Public Option'(soros)

Moveon.org issued a warning Tuesday to any Democrat who might join Republicans to filibuster a government-run insurance option -- if you oppose the government option you will lose support from the organization.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday that the Senate's version of a health care reform bill will include a so-called public option. Moveon.org issued its e-mail to its supporters threatening revolt one day later.

The group said it surveyed its members over the weekend and found that "93 percent of MoveOn members agreed that any senator who helps block an up-or-down vote on a health care bill with the public option should lose the support of all five million of us -- no donations, no volunteering, and no help getting out the vote."

To ensure conservative Democrats will not oppose the public option, the group is launching an "emergency campaign" to urge them to support an up-or-down vote

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com

Boehner on Speaker Pelosi's 1,990 Page Health Care Takeover

Joe Lieberman: I'll filibuster Harry Reid's plan

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman says he opposes any sort of public option, even with an opt-out provision. Photo: AP

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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.

Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has said the Senate bill will.

"We're trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now."

Lieberman added that he’d vote against a public option plan “even with an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line." More...

Passing a Shell of A Bill: Congress’ Secret Plan to Ram Through Health Care Reform

Leaders in the House and Senate have a plan to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care plan by Thanksgiving without any significant participation by the American public. CNS News has confirmed the details in our September 22nd titled “Passing a Shell of A Bill: Congress’ Secret Plan to Ram Through Health Care Reform.” Nicholas Ballasy reports “a senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told CNSNews.com that it is ‘likely’ that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions—as a ‘shell’ for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting.”
This story confirms the four part scenario that would railroad the bill through the Senate using a very unusual closed door procedure to craft the bill with no input from the American people.
The four stage plan to pass Obamacare has been publicly confirmed and is ready to be implemented. The following is a comprehensive update. Read more:

Doctor admits euthanizing patients during Katrina

A doctor who was working the rounds at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina has admitted euthanizing patients during a crucial shortage of energy and supplies at the hospital.

Despite the revelations, the state prosecution service in Louisiana says it will not re-open an investigation into the matter, the Associated Press reports.

The doctor’s admission comes on the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall on the Gulf Coast, an event that would lead to the death of more than 1,000 people and the displacement of a city of one million.

It also comes at a time when the US is busy debating fundamental reforms to the country’s health system. The specter of “rationed health care” has been raised during the debate.

But in the panic and chaos of Katrina, the notion of “rationed care” was taken to a brutal new level.

Dr. Ewing Cook told ProPublica’s Sheri Fink that he gave the order to give an elderly patient a dose of morphine he knew would kill her.

‘‘Do you mind just increasing the morphine and giving her enough until she goes?’’ Cook says he asked the patient’s nurse.

In a sign of his certainty the patient would die under the morphine overdose, Cook penciled in “Pronounced dead at” on the patient’s chart and left it blank to be filled in later. Read more:

Big Bird has some questions about Michell's husband's birthcertificate.

The Day Obamacare Died, by White Comedian Paul Shanklin

Obamacare Doubletalk--don't be fooled!

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee choose to excise the public option from a health-care reform proposal — but they also choose to include money for abstinence education. In the Focus Action Update, Stuart Shepard asks Tom Minnery to explain what's going on.

Susan in Glendale, California: Her Passion Speaks for Millions

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RUSH: All right, Susan in Glendale, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Rush, it's a huge honor for me to speak to you, and I hope I can keep my -- my voice level, because I am so passionate. I am as passionate as you are about this country. I'm a conservative. I've listened to you for 25 years. I'm married. I have seven kids.

And when you were telling me about how all of the shenanigans that they're going to do in the Senate to pass two different Senate bills then slam 'em together, attach them to some House bill about TARP, and then jam it through and jam it down our throats, I got furious.

And then I listened to what you said about the Michigan mom who was watching some kids before they went to school and how the Michigan state came down on her accusing her of running an illegal day care, and you're right: What they're going to do is they're going to threaten our health and they're going to threaten the health of our children. If I don't comply with their health care, I'm not going to be able to get my children the medicine they need.

RUSH: No, it's not -- whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not if you don't comply with their health care. It's if you're a good citizen in support of the liberals running the country.

CALLER: Yes, sir. And I'm not. I'm a conservative. You know what? I'm 45. I might fall and break my hip in the next ten years. They're going to have to give me a shot because they're not going to want me to be healed and they're going to do this to my children.

It's like you said. They are the party of abortion. They are the party of euthanasia. They are trying to wipe out senior citizens who are maybe not as useful to the Democrat National Committee as they should be, we're not contributing enough to them. And I am outraged and furious. Read article here:

The audacity of the demoncrats! They stick the middle finger up at us again!!!

The Senate Finance Committee spent more than one hour Wednesday morning debating an amendment to a healthcare reform bill that would have required that the committee receive both the legal language and the final Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost and analysis of the bill before a full committee vote.

And in the course of the debate, Democrats may have lost one key Republican, who's vote many thought they had.

The measure, authored by Sen Jim Bunning, R-KY, was promptly defeated on a near partyline vote, with Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-AR, a moderate, joining all of her Republican colleagues in arguing vociferously against committee tradition that normally allows "conceptual language," or bills written in plain English, and not the more technical "legislative language" required by law before final Senate passage, be used to conduct committee business. Any discrepancies between the two are then, theoretically, corrected by the chairman of the committee when the bill is taken up by the full Senate.
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Obamacare: Buy insurance or go to jail!

Ensign receives handwritten confirmation
This doesn't happen often enough.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."
The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup.
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Obama want's everybodies medical records available online

This is a comment from an American Spectator story!

Timothy L. Pennell 9.18.09 @ 7:55AM
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah. This story is all well and good, but, as usual, everybody's got the arguement WRONG. The QUESTION should be: Doesn't it bother anyone, that the guy who is so GUNG HO, to put everybodys' HEALTH CARE RECORDS on line, STILL HASN'T RELEASED HIS OWN? Just like the Public Option Health Care Plan. The REAL ARGUEMENT should be: If this FREAKIN PLAN is so GREAT, why are CONGRESS, and FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, and THE UNIONS EXEMPT? It's not about the COSTS! It's about the HIPOCRACY. My wifes is not from around these parts. And the food her family eats, your dog wouldn't eat. And when she tries to get me to eat it, I tell her: I ain't eating nothing that the dog won't eat. That's what these 'PLANS' are. They're stuff the dog won't eat. If it's 'Good Enough' for US, but NOT GOOD ENOUGH for THEM, than it's not good enough for US, either. WAKE UP, AMERICA! And don't listen to the PUKES on the LEFT. Calling everybody a Racist. They should know. They INVENTED it. And they're still at it. Just ask any POOR MINORITY PARENT in D.C., who's KID is being thrown back in to a DANGEROUS, FAILING, Public School, because OBAMA and his NEA MASTERS, have KILLED the SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM. First rule of Slavery: Never let them learn to READ and WRITE. I guess Pelosi will say that it was Obamas' WHITE HALF that did that.

Reconciliation 101: A "Nuclear" Abuse of Power

•What Is Reconciliation? Reconciliation is an optional step of the annual budget process which allows legislation to be approved by 51 votes in the U.S. Senate, rather than the traditional 60 votes necessary to withstand a filibuster. This may also mean 50 votes plus Vice President Biden as the 51st.This process is a shortcut--limiting debate, including floor debate, to only 20 hours.

•The Purpose? Reconciliation was created to streamline Senate rules to make it easier for lawmakers to achieve the spending and tax levels in the budget resolution. Period. It was not created to circumvent the Senate's traditional role as the "world's greatest deliberative body" and its 60 vote requirement in order to ram through what may be the most significant domestic legislation in our history--legislation whose impact goes well beyond the budget.

Reconciliation 101: A "Nuclear" Abuse of Power

Does He Lie?

Does He Lie? By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON -- You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He ... well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single speech -- the now-famous Obama-Wilson "you lie" address to Congress on health care -- of Obama's relationship with truth.... Read full article »

Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in 'tea-party' demonstration

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Wilson Apologizes, But Still Thinks Obama Was lying!

Rep. Joe Wilson is apologizing for blurting out "You lie!" during President Obama's nationally televised address Wednesday night — but he's not backing down one bit about Obama being wrong in saying healthcare reform won't subsidize insurance for illegals.


"This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the healthcare bill," the South Carolina Republican said in a statement issued shortly after the president's speech to a joint session of Congress ended. "While I disagree with the President's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."



Wilson Apologizes, But Still Thinks Obama Wasn't Honest