The Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 1586, the FAA reauthorization bill. Votes on pending amendments to the bill are possible this afternoon. Yesterday, the Senate voted 42-55 to reject an amendment to the FAA bill from Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) which would have reauthorized the school voucher program for children in Washington, DC. Prior to that vote, the Senate voted 68-29 to table an amendment from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), which would have created a budget point of order against earmarks for the next year, and adopted an amendment from Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), which rescinds old unspent transportation earmarks, by a vote of 87-11.
What did anyone expect? Kucinich represents the extreme left of the Democrat Party and Obama most likely reminded Kucinich that he is Kuchinich's closest supporter relative to progressive socialism. Kucinich supported in his efforts by his British wife has been called a Communist by many. We previously reported on Dennis Kucinich marching with Anti-War Protestors who Sprayed Paint Graffiti on Capitol Steps. They were not arrested because "members of Congress who marched alongside them, including: Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI)."
Maybe Kucinich was fascinated by the Obama fabricated figures (big lie) yesterday in Strongsville, Ohio. One of Obama's whoppers: "your employer, it's estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000%, which means they could give you a RAISE!" Rush Limbaugh had a field day with this one on his radio show yesterday taking on the president's statement:
Three thousand percent premiums are going to fall! Three thousand percent! Now, there were only 200 people that showed up yesterday. I don't know if that's all that were interested or that's just the number they could find that were not opposed to health care. But let's just look at some numbers here. Let's apply some numbers here to this 3,000% reduction in premiums. I'm just going to pick a random number here to use. Let's say the employer pays $4,000 in health care premiums for an employee. If his premium went down 100%, he would save $4,000, all right? If the premium went down 3,000%, that's a savings of $4,000 (100%) times 30. That equals $120,000, which means that if Obama's number is accurate here, that health care will allow employers to give people a raise because their premiums will go down 3,000%. That means the employer will make a $120,000 profit on each employee's health care insurance once Obamacare is passed. Now, you can buy a lot of unicorns for $120,000, and you can buy a lot of idiots for $120,000, but that's what he said. (doing impression) "Employer, eh, 3,000%! He could give you a raise." Well, they're not going to get any raise. This is bogus, 3,000%? The health care companies are going to be giving employers 120 grand per employee?As President Obama and Democrat leaders push for a final vote on their massive government takeover of health care in the House this week, the news hasn’t been good for them. After days of stories about the White House reversing itself on the unseemly special deals in the Senate health care bill, the first half of this week was dominated by a firestorm over the ill-conceived idea House Democrats cooked up to attempt to “deem” the Senate bill passed without taking a direct vote on it. And today, there are two more reminders for House Democrats why they shouldn’t vote for the bill: a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Americans still oppose the health care bill by a wide margin, and an AP fact check shows that contrary to Obama’s promises, premiums are not likely to go down under his bill.
In the new NBC/WSJ poll released last night, more Americans think “Barack Obama’s health care plan” is a “bad idea,” 48%, the highest “bad” recorded in this poll, while only 36% think it’s a “good idea.” Further, 57% now disapprove of President Obama’s handling of health care, a new high, while only 41% approve. Interestingly, the change since the August NBC/WSJ has come all from people who said they were undecided at the time. In August, Obama had 41% approval (that’s unchanged), 47% disapproval and 12% said they weren’t sure. Since then, the disapproval number went up 10 points while the not sure number went down 10.
The Wall Street Journal notes, “The survey found that opinions have solidified around the health-care legislation, with 48% calling it a ‘bad idea’ and 36% viewing it as a ‘good idea’ when presented with a choice between those two. That gap is consistent with surveys dating to the fall. . . . The survey found that Mr. Obama’s job-approval rating of 48%—as opposed to the 47% who disapprove—has remained steady since its precipitous drop last summer, which coincided with rising public opposition to the health-care initiative. Where the health-care debate has been a drag for Mr. Obama’s numbers, it also has been an anchor for Congress, which now has an anemic 17% approval rating.”
There’s no credible way to spin these numbers: Americans have decisively turned against President Obama’s approach to health care reform.
Some of that is surely due to the steady stream of reports showing that the health care bill will not do what Democrats claim it will. Regarding, the previously identified claim by the president of a fall in premiums as much as 3000% , an Obama White House press spokesman later said the president misspoke [what the president misspoke?] and meant to say annual premiums would drop by $3,000.” Well that explanation doesn't help much. An AP fact check today explains, “Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don’t look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people.” And the health care bill is stuff full of tax increases to pay for those subsidies. The AP story further reports, “‘There’s no question premiums are still going to keep going up,’ said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research clearinghouse on the health care system. ‘There are pieces of reform that will hopefully keep them from going up as fast. But it would be miraculous if premiums actually went down relative to where they are today.’” Even Sen. Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, has admitted that premiums will go up under the Democrats’ health care bill.
So with Americans overwhelmingly opposed to this health care bill, which is laced with special deals for lawmakers and features $500 billion in Medicare cuts and $500 billion in tax increases, growing outrage about the ever-more-convoluted process designed to avoid public opposition and scrutiny, and news that the bill simply won’t do what Democrat leaders claim it will, why would any rank-and-file House Democrat want to vote for it?
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