Today in Washington D. C. - Oct 29, 2009 - the REID - PELOSI - OBAMA Halloween Health Care Nightmare!

As previously reported, Speaker Nancy Pelosi released her proposed health care bill this morning at a press conference. The bill is 1,990 pages long and contains a separate 13-page bill to repeal the sustainable growth rate caps on Medicare spending. The Bill will cost more than $200 billion and is not paid for. The bill contains the word “shall” 3,425 times.

Later today, the Senate is expected to adopt the motion to proceed to H.R. 3548, the unemployment insurance extension bill. An agreement on considering amendments to the bill has still not been worked out. Also later today, the House is expected to send over the conference report for the fiscal year 2010 Interior-Environment appropriations bill, H.R. 2996.  The bill includes a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 18^th, since Democrats have still not passed all of the appropriations bills for the new fiscal year even though we’re more than a month in.

As time goes on, more and more Americans are finding that the Obama administrations’ $787 billion stimulus bill is not living up to the promises made about it, especially that it would create jobs and would not fund wasteful projects. Yet in their attempts to vindicate bad legislation, the White House appears to be misrepresenting the impact of the bill.

Back in February, administration officials, including President Obama and Vice President Biden claimed the stimulus bill would create 3.5 to 4 million jobs.  And White House economic advisors said it would keep unemployment under 8%. Biden’s chief economic advisor, Jared Bernstein, said two weeks ago that the “jobs created or saved” by the stimulus bill “exceeds our expectations.” Yet the economy has lost 3.4 million jobs since the bill was signed, and the unemployment rate hit 9.8% in September.

And today, the AP reports, “An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports. The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts. The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.”

Despite the assurances from the White House, reports continue to come out detailing dubious projects being financed with stimulus money. Today, the Senate Republican Communications Center released a top 10 list of questionable stimulus projects, which includes $300,000 for mapping radioactive rabbit feces, $219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen, $6 million for a snowmaking facility in the 15th snowiest city in the country (Duluth, MN), $3.4 million for a turtle tunnel in Florida, and $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies. It’s clear that the stimulus bill has not lived up to its promised!

The democrats who brought us the failed stimulus bill and are holding in reserve the remaining funds for release in 2010 in hopes of buying American votes now bring to us nationalized health care (Obamacare). Today, we have on the table both the REID BILL and the PELOSI BILL addressing health care. Both are filled with "crapola" unacceptable to the American people and even members of their own party in both the Senate and the House.

In the coming days Americans will continue to make their voice known and both bills in their current generic form are doomed. But CITIZENS BEWARE. Passage of either of these bills in their present form is not  expected nor is it the final goal of the Democrats. While the White House would be pleased with either bill at the moment, it knows that the American public doesn't agree and many of the elected Democrats don't agree completely with the two bills. So both bills are doomed in their present forms.

But that is not the end game for Pelosi, Reid and the Chicago oriented thugs in the Obama White House. Their goal is to get on with the process: first failure then modification to get enough support for each each bill independently within their own chambers. Although different, once both bills are passed, they can either accept the other chambers bill (not expected) or they can conference on both bills to come up with a compromise bill.  but the key is they are expected to use the  "reconciliation" process to reduce the number of votes needed for passage of the final bill without amendments.

Although reconciliation was created to prevent filibustering on appropriation (funding) bills and not on bills that create new Government programs (especially the take over control of one-sixth of the U.S. Economy), the liberal Democrat leadership has said that they will use the process. Under the process, REID, PELOSI and the WHITE HOSUE GANG will again meet behind closed doors to merge the two bills making enough changes needed to garnering a simple majority of votes in both the House and the Senate. Remember the the Democrats control both the House and Senate. Dropping the 60 vote rule and ignoring any remaining Democrats of conscious, they now have a plan to force the initial structure of nationalized health care (Obamacare) on America. Expect a full court press by the biased liberal media and the White House to support this effort.

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Does that mean people should give up and not express their concerns? No, keep going to your town halls, tea parties and rallies. Keep contacting your Senators and Representatives. Let your voice be heard! For if no voice is heard, then no future change or correction will be possible with regard to the REID - PELOSI - OBAMA Halloween Health Care Nightmare! Again, Let your voice be heard!