Jim Blazsik

Obamarama in healthcare! Or shall I say Obamacare? Let’s take a look at all of Barack’s gaffes, mistakes, blunders and the other stupid stuff in his quest to take control of our lives by controlling our healthcare.

Why all this madness for control? I firmly believe Obama feels that he knows what’s best for us, and that we – don’t.

Besides, it’s fun to point out the hypocrisy and double standard of the left. If it was George Bush, the MSM, Late Night Guys and the liberal funny people would run with this material – for who knows how long.

So enjoy, take warning of this looming disaster and come back! It’s still in the compiling and polishing stage.

Let’s start with Mary Katherine Ham and “Obama on my Shoulder” to get us in the mood.

1) President Obama: if you want to be the moral police, and tell everyone how to live – stop being a hypocrite!

In other words, stop smoking.

Maybe it would also help if you weren’t so touchy…

2) Talk about hypocrisy – Mr. President, mind your own words!

Kudos to News Busted: here is a cut from a radio interview that then Senator Obama had in 2004 – complaining that George Bush was ramming legislation through without time to read bills before voting on them!

BARACK OBAMA: …When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what’s in them and nobody has read them.

RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!

BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.

Listen to a cut from the interview:

Mr. President: reading the bill before you vote on it – that’s a great idea!

3) Congress has determined that the best way to sell Obama’s plan for government-run healthcare is censorship.

Oh, those Democrats:

Democrats on the commission are blocking the approval of payment for postage for correspondence to their constituents from some 20 Republican House members that includes a chart illustrating the Democrats’ government run healthcare scheme. Read more

Here is the chart that Democrats don’t want you to see.

( Michelle Malkin – [The] 1,018-page health care bill and released a dizzying flow chart detailing the Byzantine bureaucracy Obamacare would create. Washington would become the home of at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, and commissions to oversee the government-run health insurance regime).

By the way, the Democrats also want to refuse postage with anything that says government-run healthcare. So, let’s see: the Democrats are trying to legislate government-run healthcare…

UPDATE! 7/29

House GOP smacks down Democrat censors By Michelle Malkin

4) Is there a concern among Democrats that Obama may be blowing it?

5) Major Papers Remove Obama’s Comment: ‘I’ll Be Honest, There Are Countries Where a Single-Payer System Works Pretty Well’

Here is a quote from the President’s speech on June 15th to the American Medical Association:

“Let me also say that—let me also address a illegitimate concern that’s being put forward by those who are claiming a public option is somehow a Trojan Horse for a single-payer system. I’ll be honest; there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well. But I believe—and I’ve taken some flak from members of my own party for this belief—that it’s important for our efforts to build on our traditions here in the United States. So when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They’re not telling the truth.”

Well, it’s pretty bad to make a statement that you can’t substantiate, it’s real bad when the press is on your side and they know it’s a statement that you can’t substantiate. What’s the fawning lackeys of the MSM to do? Remove the statement!

Check out my blog, Major Papers Remove Obama’s Comment: ‘I’ll Be Honest, There Are Countries Where a Single-Payer System Works Pretty Well’ to find out which papers removed that embarrassing statement.

An extra note: you know, I always find it interesting when a person prefaces a statement with, I’ll be honest. It’s just got to be Freudian.

6) As a matter of fact, Mr. Gibbs can’t name a country where single payer coverage works pretty well.

Fawning lackeys do come in handy, don’t they? It’s too bad that Mr. Gibbs didn’t have any fawning lackeys:

7) Obama admits that he wouldn’t stay within his own plan and that it wouldn’t provide the best care:

President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face.

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News’ special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.”

Feingold admits public plan is an entree into single-payer coverage.

Mr. President: is the Senator not telling the truth?

9) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system,”

A little gaffetastic gaffe of the President:

Politico: Would health care reform bring “greater inefficiencies” to the country’s health care system?

That’s exactly what Obama said Monday when he spoke about health care reform at the Childrens National Medical Center in Washington.

“The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system,” Obama said in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers.

Personally, though I am not a psychologist and neither the son of a psychologist, I understand this as quite a Freudian slip: the Obama subconscious overcoming the Obama perceived consciousness – letting that good old truth out.

10) “we can encourage those companies that have those sorts of wellness-prevention programs.”

So let’s see: are we to prevent wellness?

MSNBC.com – Snyderman: So, self-responsibility.

Obama: So, self-responsibility is going to be critical. This is probably not going to be something that’s legislated. But I tell you what, every business out there is going to be looking at their health care bottom line. And increasingly what you’re going to see is that businesses are going to incentivize their employees to stop smoking, lose weight, get exercise, get regular checkups.

What we can do is we can encourage those companies that have those sorts of wellness-prevention programs. We can make sure that it’s easier to find a primary care physician to get a regular checkup, that everybody has basic insurance. But the American people are going to have to participate in their own health.

11) “the American people have to recognize that there’s no such thing as a free lunch…”

Remember to take heed to statements like this one – which is very prophetic, I say.

MSNBC.com – Obama: Well, let me — let me talk about what I think the American people are going to have to do.

First of all, the American people have to recognize that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Right? So, we can’t just provide care to everybody that has no cost whatsoever, you don’t end up having to make any decisions.

So, obviously, we’ve got to have a system that controls costs, gives people choices, but makes sure that we’re getting a good bang for the buck. And we’ve got to have the American people doing something about their own care.

12) The President evaded a question about Obamacare providing for abortion services

The President evaded a question about Obamacare providing for abortion services in an interview with Katie Couric on 7/21.

Katie Couric: Do you favor a government option that would cover abortions?

President Obama: What I think is important, at this stage, is not trying to micromanage what benefits are covered. Because I think we’re still trying to get a framework. And my main focus is making sure that people have the options of high quality care at the lowest possible price.

As you know, I’m pro choice. But I think we also have a tradition of, in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government funded health care. Rather than wade into that issue at this point, I think that it’s appropriate for us to figure out how to just deliver on the cost savings, and not get distracted by the abortion debate at this station.

Abortion is not micromanaging. Mr. President, abortion is the moral question today – I am sure you know if your healthcare plans includes it.

We will also see if you will keep your commitment to Pope Benedict in reducing the number of abortions in America.

13) Precursor to Obamacare? Did Michelle Obama start a patient-dumping program?

Not just a person with a nice purse and pair of shoes, did Michelle already practice what her husband preached?

14) Obama’s first pitch at the All-Star Game – didn’t make the plate!

What does this have to do with healthcare? Well, if you are in the middle of the very thing that will define your Presidency, as Obama is with healthcare, your persona means everything. The People have to have confidence in you, and you must carefully choose to do the very thing that inspires that confidence.

Obama’s sissy throw and not making the plate made him look quite normal – and even like a geek. Now, there’s nothing wrong with being a geek. But his pitch didn’t inspire confidence either.

Let’s take special notice of a President who took his pitch seriously:

Is this the difference between male masculinity and metro-sexuality?

15) If you want to impress people in the midst of debate within Congress, you probably shouldn’t wear “mom jeans.”

16) Oh, those looming long lines of Obamacare…

Check out Political Math.

17) “Many of my constituents would LOVE to wait in line for medical care”

You know, it’s got to be tough when your argument for government controlled healthcare is long lines.

18) “We’ve Got To Spend Money So We Don’t Go Bankrupt”

Oh, that Joe! Another interesting argument for Obamacare: if you are already in a looming disaster of mountainous debt because of Medicare, the answer is to create more mountainous debt with Obamacare.

“The status quo is simply not acceptable — it’s totally unacceptable,” Biden said. “And it’s completely unsustainable. Even if you wanted to keep it the way you have it now, we can’t do it financially. We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation.”

He said he understood that it may seem counterintuitive to some people.

“When I say that, people look at me and they say, ‘You’re telling me we have to spend money when we’re going bankrupt?’” Biden exclaimed. “The answer is yeah, that’s what I’m telling you.”

Of course Joe defeats himself with his argument: everyone knows that if you are speeding toward bankruptcy, massive spending is not the answer. But he also defeats his argument by addressing Medicare and Medicaid. If the government couldn’t manage Medicare and Medicaid effectively, but managed it out of control, what will it do with our entire healthcare system?

19) Somebody needs a new job…is this the reason why the President is rushing stuff through the House – Democrats have a hard time reading?

20) Just think – Obama has not yet given the argument that healthcare reform must include a take over by the government. Here is a good argument against it.

21) The President is starting to drive people crazy

A 78-year-old Carroll woman says she’s so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she’s selling her television sets – two of them.

Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses’ aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday’s paper.

In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale.

The reason: “Obama on every channel and station.”

In an interview Nissen said she is serious about selling two TVs – and genuine about her disgust with what she believes to be an overexposed president.

“I just got tired of watching him on every channel,” Nissen said. “I thought, my gosh, does he ever stay at the White House?”

That’s a good question Mr. President. By the way, who’s minding the store? I think people are wondering who is doing your job when you are constantly taking trips, making speeches and holding press conferences.

I do have to admit that it is really annoying that we have to constantly see you, hear you and talk about you.

Maybe it is time for a vacation – for us.

22) Mr. President: if you do give us a little vacation from you, may I suggest a book for your reading pleasure?

23) A new low!

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12. That’s the lowest rating yet recorded for President Obama…

…Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That is the lowest level of total approval yet recorded for this President. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove.

24) Dramatic reversal thanks to conservative Democrats – abortion will be a required coverage in Obamacare

In a stunning move late Thursday night (7/30), conservative Democrats reversed a Pro-Life victory in an amendment removing abortion as a required coverage in Obamacare.

AP WASHINGTON – An anti-abortion amendment to a sweeping health overhaul bill was voted down in a House committee late Thursday — a dramatic reversal just hours after the measure initially was approved.

The amendment said health care legislation moving through Congress may not impose requirements for coverage of abortion, except in limited cases. It was approved in the Energy and Commerce Committee after conservative Democrats joined Republicans to support it.

But committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., invoked House rules that allowed him to bring up the amendment for a second vote, despite Republican objections.

This time, one conservative Democrat — Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee — changed his vote from “yes” to “no.” And a second conservative Democrat who hadn’t voted the first time — Rep. Zack Space of Ohio — voted “no.”

It was enough to take down the amendment on a 30-29 vote.

Well, it’s out in the open Mr. President – Obamacare is the silent FOCA.

25) Why the major setback on Obamacare? The President’s own numbers!

The President did say he wanted to give science it’s proper place.

Reforming the health care system is dead. Cause of death? Blunt trauma administered not by Republicans, not even by Blue Dog Democrats, but by the green eyeshades at the Congressional Budget Office.

Three blows:

(1) On June 16, the CBO determined that the Senate Finance Committee bill would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years, delivering a sticker shock that was near fatal.

(2) Five weeks later, the CBO gave its verdict on the Independent Medicare Advisory Council, Dr. Obama’s latest miracle cure, conjured up at the last minute to save Obamacare from fiscal ruin, and consisting of a committee of medical experts highly empowered to make Medicare cuts.

The CBO said that IMAC would do nothing, trimming costs by perhaps 0.2 percent. A 0.2 percent cut is not a solution; it’s a punch line.

(3) The final blow came last Sunday when the CBO euthanized the Obama “out years” myth. The administration’s argument had been: Sure, Obamacare will initially increase costs and deficits. But it pays for itself in the long run because it bends the curve downward in coming decades.

The CBO put in writing the obvious: In its second decade, Obamacare significantly bends the curve upward — increasing deficits even more than in the first decade.

This is obvious because Obama’s own first-decade numbers were built on arithmetic trickery. New taxes to support the health care plan begin in 2011, but the benefits part of the program doesn’t fully kick in until 2015. That excess revenue is, of course, one time only. It makes the first decade numbers look artificially low, but once you pass 2015, the yearly deficits become larger and eternal. Obamacare: Not Waterloo, Just a Tactical Retreat – Charles Krauthammer

26) Be sure your words will find you out. People are finding out about the Presidents true intention – a government takeover of healthcare through a single payer system.

This is a good one too.

27) Whining is below a President isn’t it?

28) Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin hits #1 on New York Times Bestseller List

29) Contradicting yourself in the same speech is pretty good, but wanting the opposition to keep their mouths shut and get out of the way is another thing altogether

It’s one thing to say:

“It starts off with the basic idea that we’re all in this together. Mark Warner came in at a time when the fashionable politics was the nasty kind of politics, the slash-and-burn politics, the arguing and arguing without everything — ever getting anything done kind of politics. And Mark Warner said, you know what, we can try something different. What we’re going to do is we’re going to be pragmatic instead of ideological. We are going to try to bring people together rather than push them apart. We are going to make sure that we listen to other people’s ideas.”

It’s another thing to say:

“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess — I don’t want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”

h/t to Hot Air

30) Mr. President, I think this is what they mean by astroturfing.

Here is a “gotcha”. This video shows the President busing folks for his New Hampshire Town Hall on Tuesday. If there is one thing I have learned in how liberals work, they expend a lot of energy accusing people of doing the very thing that they love to do.

Barack’s comment, “I don’t want people thinking I just have a bunch of plants in here,” is, well, interesting. Why would he say that? He doesn’t deny it, he just doesn’t want you to think it. Kind of Freudian if you ask me.

Again, please come back – there will be more gaffes, mistakes, blunders and the other stupid stuff by the President who keeps on giving!

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