Barack Obama offers the brother of an undecided congressman a judgeship, was this a payoff for his healthcare vote?
Today Barack Obama made his much anticipated speech on healthcare reform. It was speculated that Barack Obama would introduce his latest healthcare reform “bill” but that is not what this speech ended up being. What this speech was was Barack Obama’s latest healthcare “plan.” There is a major difference between the terms “bill” and “plan” that I used above.
Nancy Pelosi insinuated that Barack Obama was going to introduce a much smaller, scaled down bill during this speech, but that is not what we heard. We heard Barack Obama’s plan to move the current bill forward as quickly as possible through reconciliation. This speech was more of the same old plan that we had heard before. Nothing has changed except that Barack Obama has made it official that he will try to push this bill passed the finish line with a simple up or down vote.
Joe Gibbs, when asked about what lengths the White House would go to in order to pass this bill said, “whatever it takes to get health care done,” and we are now learning that he meant that statement literally because Barack Obama has offered the brother of an undecided House Democrat a judgeship.
While this man certainly seems to be qualified to hold this position, one has to wonder if this is a payoff for Jim Matheson’s vote– he voted against the House version of the bill that passed 220-215. And Barack Obama is going to have a meeting with 10 House Democrats who voted against the House bill. It will be interesting to see if Jim Matheson’s vote changes from no to yes in the wake of his brother’s nomination.
It will also be interesting to see if any favors are done for the other nine House Democrats that Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with– and if their votes change after the meeting.
What will they be offered in exchange for their votes? That remains to be seen, but it certainly does seem as if Barack Obama is serious when his press secretary said, “whatever it takes.” One thing is certain, Barack Obama is going to get this healthcare reform bill passed by hook or by crook, and I am not sure there is anything we can do to stop it. The fix is in.
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Expected and typical. Will post link on Sermo for physicians to see.
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I honestly don’t know what Sermo is, but thank you!
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Sermo is a community of over 100,000 physicians, the majority opposed to Obamacare. The is an organization known as Docs4PatientCare that has grown partly from exposure from Sermo. You might check out Docs4PatientCare, might be blog topic for you: http://www.docs4patientcare.org/
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Thanks for the information and the link. I will checi it out tonight.
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There is no sleazy avenue of approach that Obama and his minions will not pursue to pass the health control bill. There is no standard of decency, no standard of ethics, and no measure of honor that plays into their thinking when conceiving ways to get it passed. The Dems used to complain about an atmosphere of corruption. Today, they have engineered a political scene that would cause Dante to kill himself, and would encourage a thousand religious zealots to jump into volcanoes to escape the end of humanity.
It is with complete disgust that I view that hallowed chamber on the hill. November is the big test, whether Americans can take back their country, or whether it is time to make the final decision to emigrate or man the barricades. The Constitution must be placed back into our halls of legislation, and those who would discard it must be considered domestic terrorists.
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I think American are ready to take back the country, they have finally had enough. At least I hope so, if we don’t take it back this time it may be lost forever.
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THat was, a rhetorical question, right?
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Yes it was, we all know the answer.
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