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Arrogance and Hubris on Display

This man has absolutely no humility. 

Starting over on health care, President Barack Obama knows his chances aren’t looking much more promising. A year after he called for a far-reaching overhaul, Obama unveiled his most detailed plan yet on Monday. Realistically, he’s just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency.

The 10-year, $1 trillion plan, like the current Democratic version in the Senate, would bring health insurance to more than 31 million Americans who now lack it. Government insurance wouldn’t be included, a problem for Democratic progressives. Republicans are skeptical about where the money would come from - and about Obama’s claim that the plan wouldn’t raise the federal deficit.

Posted by Owen at 2107 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

1. How do you get repudiated terribly by the American public on this healthcare mess and then show up with the same plan 30 days later?

   All this guy has to do is take some small GOP ideas.  Add maybe one small Democratic idea.  Pass the bill and claim credit that he’s taken important steps to reform healthcare. 

   But this guy doesn’t get it.  He still thinks he’s running a community organization meeting with his Gus Hall and Angela Davis buddies on the south side of Chicago. 

   I’m not sure it is arrogance. I think it is plain stupidity.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 2228 hrs
   
   
   

2. I agree - I don’t know why he doesn’t grab the common elements from both sides and get that passed. Instead he wants to jam this hairball down our throats and noone wants it, other than a few loony far lefties.

   The current Senate and House bills are horrible and everyone knows it - except apparently the “smartest guy in the room.”

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 2238 hrs
   
   
   

3. A list of Republican ideas included in President Obama’s health plan can be found here.

   I’m neither defending his approach nor attacking it.  Just providing a link to some relevant information.

   Posted by Recess Supervisor on February 22, 2010 at 2333 hrs
   
   
   

4. RS

   To be fair, he could include the entirety of Paul Ryan’s plan, but as long as the rest of the crap (read, the other 2100 or so pages) is still in it, it’s still crap and needs to die.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 0731 hrs
   
   
   

5. A list of Republican ideas included in President Obama’s health plan can be found here.

   Interesting that it includes all of the dreck that RHINO’s included in their “bills” in order to get democrat interest. The nod to torte reform in this bill is just plain sad…...

   
   This bill is a joke. If it passes we may see republican majorities for the next quarter century, and if we’re lucky the Supreme Court will have the sense to gut the bill when, not if, it’s challenged…

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1059 hrs
   
   
   

6. How do you get repudiated terribly by the American public on this healthcare mess

   Because of this.

   http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/02/publics_take_on_the_presidents.html

   And because it’s the right thing to do policy-wise no matter which way the polls blow.

   All this guy has to do is take some small GOP ideas. 

   That’s funny.  Surely no one actually believes that.

   Posted by scott on February 23, 2010 at 1222 hrs
   
   
   

7. Thank God for Massachusetts.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1249 hrs
   
   
   

8. Scott,

   Maybe *you* like the “We’re smarter than you rubes, so we’re going to do this for your own good” attitude of the current majority in the government, but there’s a LOT of people that think they can make their own decisions.  If you want the government telling you what you can and can’t do, feel free to move to England.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1334 hrs
   
   
   

9. That’s funny.  Surely no one actually believes that.

   Well, if you look at what you actually sourced ... seems to be rather common for you to miss the actual point or finer details of what you link to… you’d realize that each of those “poll” questions is an extremely small idea that people do like.  Wow… imagine that.

   Of course, now you’re going to be pissed about attitude and tone, and run away like a little bitch.  That’s also becoming a lot more common.  Good bye, I guess.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1356 hrs
   
   
   

10. Putting up those polls where individual pieces of the healthcare bill are singled out is the latest tactic from the left to try and sell this piece of crap.

    Of course people answer positively on that stuff.  I looked at those questions.  Who wouldn’t like many of those things.  What will the next question be: Would you like to have free medically prescribed lap dances from the Hooter’s girls?  Of course!

    The problem is that none of those poll questions reflect what the whole thing looks like in its totality and what it will truly cost people in the way of higher premiums, lower benefits and loss of choice.  And the polls that handle things individually never have the truth in advertising where the negative ramifications are explained. 

    For example—-I’d like to see one of the questions asked this way—-“Would you like insurance companies to insure for pre-existing conditions if the trade-off was your premiums would either go sky high and/or everyone would be forced to buy government insurance.”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1956 hrs
    
    
    

11. Jason, Steve….  Please, you must understand that our small, and undeveloped brains are simply incapable of understanding that individual parts of a plan may be good, but the plan in its entirely….  sucks to be kind.

    Maybe slum-lord-come-Presidential-Advisor Valerie Jarret could put out that “Government for Dummies” pamphlet so that us simpletons can understand better that what they are doing to us “won’t hurt a bit” but that we should just trust them for now.

    (sarc)

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 2010 hrs
    
    
    

12. And because it’s the right thing to do policy-wise no matter which way the polls blow.

    So will a new bureaucracy be created to enforce this new policy?  What will the punishment be that this benevolent and compassionate government has in store for those who do not obey their new policy?  Will it be local or federal goons who break down my door and lock me in a cage for non-compliance?

    Authority by use of intimidation and force is terrorism.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2010 at 0009 hrs
    
    
    

13. Let’s put Dr. Utopia’s wife Michelle “proud to be an American” Obama in charge of health care. She solved her hospital’s problem in Chicago by shipping the indigent off to other facilities. Maybe she could come up with a plan that ships America’s indigent off to Canada for care. We could swap them one for one with the Canadian politicians that come here for treatment.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 24, 2010 at 0751 hrs
    
    
    

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