Failing Push

Support Slips for Obama's Health Plan
Obama push faces growing doubts in poll; Overhaul advances in House, Senate
The Wall Street Journal
FOXNews.com
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Support for President Barack Obama's health-care effort has declined over the past five weeks, particularly among those who already have insurance, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found, amid prolonged debate over costs and quality of care.
In mid-June, respondents were evenly divided when asked whether they thought Obama's health plan was a good or bad idea. In the new poll, conducted July 24-27, 42% called it a bad idea while 36% said it was a good idea.
Among those with private insurance, the proportion calling the plan a bad idea rose to 47% from 37%.
Declining popularity of the health-care overhaul reflects rising anxiety over the federal budget deficit and congressional debate over the most contentious aspects of the legislation, including how to pay for it. The poll also shows concern over the role of government in determining personal medical decisions.
Trying to regain momentum, Obama is shifting his pitch to new consumer-protection rules for insurance companies, part of a bid to win over Americans who already have coverage.
David Axelrod, one of the president's top advisers, acknowledged that the White House's months-long focus on controlling medical costs hasn't worked. "Consumer protections are a lot more tangible," he said.

Are the American People actually seeing thru President Obama. Can you trust someone who just wants to hurry and push things thru Congress.

By 2TheExtreme

Health Care Again

President Obama hits the road for Health Care Reform…Again…
Fox News White House Correspondent Mike Emanuel previews President Obama's first Town Hall today in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bristol, Virginia is the next stop on the President's road show to Health Care reform. More to come from Bristol.

Fox News White House Correspondent Mike Emanuel previews President Obama's first Town Hall today in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bristol, Virginia is the next stop on the President's road show to Health Care reform. More to come from Bristol.

Health Care Is A Joke

Surprising Many, Lobbyists Keep Pushing for Health Care Reform
As lawmakers squabble, the drug industry, the American Medical Association, hospital groups and the insurance lobby are all saying Congress must make major changes as they seek to come out ahead in the end game.

AP

A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as liberal and conservative Democrats seem hopelessly at odds.
Lobbyists.
The drug industry, the American Medical Association, hospital groups and the insurance lobby are all saying Congress must make major changes this year. Television ads paid for by drug companies and insurers continued to emphasize the benefits of a health care overhaul -- not the groups' objections to some of the proposals.
"My gut is telling me that something major can pass because all the people who could kill it are still at the table," said Ken Thorpe, chairman of health policy at Emory University in Atlanta. "Everybody has issues with bits and pieces of it, but all these groups want to get something done this year." As a senior official at the Health and Human Services department in the 1990s, Thorpe was deeply involved in the Clinton administration's failed health care reform effort.
This time, the health care industry groups see a strategic opportunity. As lawmakers squabble, the groups are focused on how to come out ahead in the end game.

How Long This Joke Is Going To Go On

Gates, Crowley Expected to Share Beer With Obama at White House Early This Week
President Obama extended the invitation Friday in phone calls to the two men as he tried to calm a furor over racial profiling and his comments this week that the police "acted stupidly" in arresting the black Harvard scholar.
FOXNews.com
Monday, July 27, 2009

President Obama's highly anticipated sit-down with Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. over some brews is expected to take place early this week, administration officials said Sunday.
Obama extended the invitation Friday in phone calls to the two men as he tried to calm a furor over racial profiling and his comments this week that the police "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates. He invited both to share a beer.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told FOX News on Sunday that he isn't sure whether the meeting has been scheduled but added that the White House is hopeful it will occur "in the next several days."
"And it's our hope that, as the president said, this can be part of a teachable moment, that we can create a better communication and a dialogue between communities and police and help everyone do their job a little bit better," he said. "And it's our hope that soon Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley can sit at the White House and talk about some of these issues and have a beer with the president."

I think it's a little too late for these words especially after President Obama stuck his foot in his mouth

Obama's Stupidly Words

'Disgraceful': Cops Angry After Obama Slams Arrest of Black Scholar
Friday, July 24, 2009

From Fox News

BOSTON — Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.
It could even set back the progress in race relations that helped Obama become the nation's first African-American president, they said.

"What we don't need is public safety officials across the country second-guessing themselves," said David Holway, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public safety officials around the country. "The president's alienated public safety officers across the country with his comments."
The Cambridge Police Patrol Officer's Association president also strongly criticized the president's remarks in an interview with The Huffington Post.
"That was totally inappropriate. I am disgraced that he is our commander-in-chief," Stephen Killion said. "He smeared the good reputation of the hard-working men and women of the Cambridge Police Department. It was wrong to do. It was disgraceful," the web site quoted him as saying. From Fox News. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

So much for thinking before you speak President Obama. His words can put law enforcement at risk. Who in the world will trust a Police Officer now if even the President calls them stupid. That's the way to united the American People and keep them safe. President Obama should have never spoken on something that he said he did not have all the facts to. That should have warned him right there to keep his mouth shut, but I hope now that everyone can see his true colors, THE REAL OBAMA came out... By 2 The Extreme

Obama's Health Care Push

President Obama seems to be stressed when he doesn't automatically get his way. He seems like anything that stands in his way he has to cry about it. Obama if you can't pass this Health Care Bill you must know and admit that the people see right thru you and the people just don't want it. How can anyone put their trust in you if you haven't even read the bill...

By 2TheExtreme

President Obama said he does not want to increase the deficit, does not want government control of health care. He wants people to keep their insurance. He wants to crack down on the abuse, the over-utilization. All that's great. The problem is, that's not what's in the House Democrat bill."
The number of Americans who disapprove of the president's health care plan has jumped to 43 percent, compared with 28 percent in April, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll. Obama still holds a strong hand, with most Americans favorable to him in general, and half supporting his health care agenda. By CHARLES BABINGTON (AP)

Health Care Troubles

Obama Reaches Out to Republicans on Health Care, but Bipartisan Bill Looking Unlikely
Republicans have yet to be swayed to Democrats' proposals -- not a single Republican voted for the Democratic legislation in committee so far
FOXNews.com

Obama told Congress on Friday not to "lose heart" in moving quickly to hammer out legislation that would check rising health care costs and cover millions of uninsured Americans without adding to the federal deficit.
But Republican proposals have gone nowhere in Congress, and the GOP isn't signing on to the Democrats' proposals -- and that didn't stop Obama from heralding "unprecedented progress."

"When are Democrats going to admit that their claims about their government-run plan are pure fiction? Repeating the same disproven myths over and over again will not make them true," said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio.
"Instead, Democrats should scrap their costly, job-destroying proposal and work with Republicans on a real plan to give Americans better access to affordable health care."

Obama needs to stop rushing this new health care proposal if he himself hasn't read it yet. He keeps pushing for it and repeatedly states that he did not read it. So if he hasn't read it yet how can Obama know what he is talking about when asked questions about it. You have to step back and laugh at this guy because you can't take him serious if he has no answers to the questions.

Stop The Madness

What is going on America? We have a President who doesn't know were to really spend our money. President Obama has no problem handing out billions of do$$ars to Corporate America like the Auto industry, Banks, Insurance companies, etc.., but when it comes to our military and keeping us and our troops safe he knocks down the building of more F 22 jets. Obama said "At a time when we're fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit, this would have been an inexcusable waste of money". Is he serious, because all he seems to do is waste money!!!

Obama's Health Care

President to ‘take the baton’ on health reform
White House combats skepticism with new strategy: all Obama, all the time

By Michael D. Shear and Shailagh Murray

Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.
With skepticism about the president's health-care reform effort mounting on Capitol Hill -- even within his own party -- the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to dramatically increase public pressure on Congress: all Obama, all the time.
Senior White House aides promise "an aggressive public and private schedule" for Obama as he presses his case for reform, including a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, a trip to Cleveland, and heavy use of Internet video to broadcast his message beyond the reach of the traditional media.

"Our strategy has been to allow this process to advance to the point where it made sense for the president to take the baton. Now's that time," said senior adviser David Axelrod. "I don't know whether he will Twitter or tweet. But he's going to be very, very visible."
Another senior White House aide added: "It's time to raise the stakes on this."

IF THE WAY THEY TALK ISN'T WARNING ENOUGH.

JUST BE AWARE OF THEIR WORDS!!

Health Care Reform

White House and Democrats are struggling to bring a complex, controversial bill to remake the U.S. health care system to a vote in both houses of Congress before lawmakers recess. A bill passed two key committees Friday.
FOXNews.com
Saturday, July 18, 2009

President Barack Obama continued to push his broad health care overhaul Saturday, defending the plan by calling it fiscally sound and urging Congress not to squander its moment to pass reform.
Republicans stepped up their opposition, labeling the plan as an immense financial burden that shouldn't be rushed.
Adopting an aggressive tone, Obama spent a sixth consecutive day pushing for his top domestic priority. Growing resistance on Capitol Hill -- including from conservative Democrats -- has left White House officials worried they face a tougher route to legislation than they had anticipated.
"This is what the debate in Congress is all about: whether we'll keep talking and tinkering and letting this problem fester as more families and businesses go under and more Americans lose their coverage," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. "Or whether we'll seize this opportunity -- one we might not have again for generations -- and finally pass health insurance reform this year, in 2009."
The president's comments come at the end of a week of tumult for the legislation.
All week, Obama tried to project confidence on a subject that has dominated his schedule. During a closed-door meeting with Jewish leaders on Monday, he joked that the only thing more difficult than passing health care legislation might be negotiating peace in the Middle East. And on Friday, he added a last-minute White House appearance to exhort lawmakers not to "lose heart" and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.
He continued that push Saturday as Republicans kept up their criticism.

All President Obama Wants To Do Is Rush To Pass His Bill's Not Giving Anyone A Chance To Read Or Even Think About It!!

Federal Deficit

Growing Federal Deficit Alarms Some
Economists warn the deficit is becoming a larger part of the total U.S. economy or gross domestic product.
By Molly Henneberg
FOXNews.com
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Obama administration's projected deficit for this fiscal year that ends September 30 has hit a jaw-dropping $1.84 trillion dollars.
That's enough to buy 397 billion gallons of regular gasoline, 48 gallons of milk for each of the 7 billion on the planet or 45 million brand new 2010 Ford Mustangs.
Economists warn the deficit is becoming a larger part of the total U.S. economy or gross domestic product.
"The last time we had a really large deficit was in the early '80s, when it was about 5 percent of the GDP," said economist Alex Brill of the American Enterprise Institute. "Now it's 13 percent of GDP."

HOW MUCH MORE CAN THE U.S. TAKE!

Unemployment on the Rise

The economy has lost a net total of 6.5 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007 and Obama said Tuesday he expects the unemployment rate, which is at 9.5 percent, to continue climbing for the next several months.

By Stephen Clark FOXNews.com

He had said before, that unemployment wouldn't rise above 8 percent. Does Obama know what he's doing, because so far he's been wrong about everything that he says.

Yet the president proposed a $12 billion effort Tuesday to help community colleges train some of the 14.7 million unemployed Americans for "the jobs of the future."Obama added, "For even before this recession hit, we were faced with an economy that was simply not creating or sustaining enough new, well-paying jobs."
But some economists believe Obama is training people for failure.

"If you train people for the economy of the future and there are no consumers, you're training them for unemployment," said William Beach, an economist and director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation.
Beach told FOXNews.com he has a problem with generations of politicians announcing programs for the economy of the future.
"I wonder what they know about the future of consumer tastes that I don't know," he said.
Other economists were equally doubtful of the president's proposal.

AIG Bonouses

AIG Seeks to Give $250M More in Bonuses
American International Group has asked senior Treasury official Kenneth Feinberg to rule on several categories of bonuses that come due during the next nine months, a person familiar with the discussions told the Washington Post.
FOXNews.com
Saturday, July 11, 2009

AIG is seeking approval from President Obama's compensation czar to hand out $250 million in promised bonuses despite the public outcry earlier this year over the last round.
American International Group has asked senior Treasury official Kenneth Feinberg to rule on several categories of bonuses that come due during the next nine months, a person familiar with the discussions told the Washington Post.
The bonuses include $2.4 million in payments owed to top corporate executives in coming days. But the vastly larger sum comes due next March when AIG is scheduled to pay more than $200 million in bonuses aimed at retaining executives at AIG Financial Products, the unit whose complex derivative contracts brought the world economy to its knees last fall and nearly destroyed the insurance giant.
AIG came under heavy fire earlier this year when it paid about $165 million in retention bonuses to Financial Products employees. The contracts that guaranteed those awards also promised similar payments in March 2010 and AIG has been exploring the issue in hopes of preventing another public relations disaster, company officials have said.
AIG officials have sought a ruling from Feinberg, whom Obama appointed last month to oversee the compensation of top executives at the seven firms that have received the largest federal bailouts.
AIG doesn't need the federal government's permission, despite its $180 billion bailout package, because the bonuses were promised before the company was rescued by taxpayer funds.
But AIG spokeswoman Christina Pretto told the newspaper that the company had sought the government's input in an effort to resolve its lingering pay issues the right way to make sure all parties were comfortable before moving forward.
"We all have the same objective -- to execute the restructuring successfully, to repay taxpayers, to reduce risk and to wind down [Financial Products]," Pretto said.

AIG HAS SOME NERVE THINKING THEY DESERVE BONUSES

Obama Spending

Obama's Control Of Our Money and Where It Went

"Ultimately, this is your money, and you deserve to know where it's going and how it's spent," Mr. Obama said.

So far it seems like Corporate America is the one getting all of the bailouts, from GM, AGI, Banks, ect... He needs to be stopped!!

It's amazing that this President thinks the way for the US to get out of this recession is to keep spending money. Now Obama wants a second stimulus bill to give more money to those who don't deserve it. All this President is going to do is bankrupt this country with this worthless spending.

Energy:
$32 billion: Funding for “smart electricity grid” to reduce waste

$16 billion: Renewable energy tax cuts and a tax credit for research and development on energy-related work, and a multiyear extension of renewable energy production tax credit

$6 billion: Funding to weatherize modest-income homes
Science and Technology:
$10 billion: Science facilities.

$6 billion: High-speed Internet access for rural and underserved areas.
Infrastructure:
$30 billion: Transportation projects

$31 billion: Construction and repair of federal buildings and other public infrastructure

$19 billion: Water projects

$10 billion: Rail and mass transit projects
Education:
$41 billion: Grants to local school districts

$79 billion: State fiscal relief to prevent cuts in state aid

$21 billion: School modernization ($15.6 billion to increase the Pell grant by $500; $6 billion for higher education modernization)
Health Care:
$39 billion: Subsidies to health insurance for unemployed; providing coverage through Medicaid

$87 billion: Help to states with Medicaid

$20 billion: Modernization of health-information technology systems

$4.1 billion: Preventative care
Jobless Benefits:
$43 billion for increased unemployment benefits and job training.

$39 billion to support those who lose their jobs by helping them to pay the cost of keeping their employer provided healthcare under COBRA and providing short-term options to be covered by Medicaid.

$20 billion to increase the food stamp benefit by over 13% in order to help defray rising food costs.

[Source: Committee on Appropriations: January 15, 2009]

Some of these things just do not mean anything to us if we as ordinary people do not get the benefits of it all (it is our money he's spending and we see none of it), because in the end we are all still hurting in this economy and Obama is making it worst.