AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals
Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:32 PM
By: David A. Patten

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.

The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.

The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America " a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, costs under the Obama plan being proposed by the House will saddle citizens with $1.04 trillion in new federal outlays over the next decade.

Congressional Democrats and Obama have argued that their health plan is necessary to contain rising health care costs.

But, last Thursday, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the Senate Budget Committee and warned lawmakers that the proposed “legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs."

A key factor increasing costs is that Democratic plan provides for blanket coverage to as much as 15 percent of the U.S. population not currently insured, including illegals.

MORE HERE:
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/health_care_obama/2009/07/19/237484.html

I'm just telling you to go **** yourself.

I did not misread what you wrote. I agree, every person's experience shapes their beliefs, but does that make us think our judgement is superior to others based upon our race, as Sotomayer apparently does? Does it, ci, answer the question.

If she was a white person that said that, she would not have made it to first base, not even out of the batters box, and you know it.

RNC Chairman Rips Obama Health Care 'Cabal'

Obama-Pelosi want to start building a colossal, closed health care system where Washington decides. Republicans want and support an open health care system where patients and doctors make the decisions," Steele said in excerpts of his speech made available in advance.

Obama has repeatedly said he does not favor a government-run health care system. Legislation taking shape in the House envisions private insurance companies selling coverage in competition with the government.

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.

The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.

The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America " a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.

So do we technically retain a private healthcare system--the government won't be running it--if the government tells the people that they must take out private insurance or they will pay a substantial fine? That you have to have the insurance the government dictates? When government will be in competition with private insurance?

How gullible are we supposed to be?

Presidents Without Executive Experience

Jonathan Bourne, my unindicted coconspiritor on the Drudge Retort, answered an interesting question on his blog: Which presidents ran for the job with no prior government experience as an executive?

Below is a list of Presidents were never a U.S. Vice President, a major Cabinet Secretary, governor or mayor.

* John F. Kennedy
* Dwight Eisenhower
* (Herbert Hoover prior to becoming President had served as Secretary of Commerce)
* (William Howard Taft prior to becoming President was Provisional Governor of Cuba)
* Benjamin Harrison
* James A. Garfield
* Ulysses S. Grant
* Abraham Lincoln
* Franklin Pierce
* Zachary Taylor
* (Andrew Jackson prior to becoming President was the first Military Governor of Florida -- I'm not sure if that's more a military position or an Executive position)
* George Washington prior to becoming President was our nation's first Commander In Chief, but this was at the time a military position. Washington had Legislative experience -- he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses and was elected president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Unlike Sara Palin, I think America benefited from the service of Executive branch novices like Lincoln, Eisenhower and Kennedy.

Whomever our next President is, one thing's for certain -- he'll be the first President in over 40 years to have had no Executive Branch experience.

I'm glad the next president is going to come from the Senate, where they'll have working knowledge of how Washington functions. Governors are overrated.

I am not a Christian, but Catholic Social Teaching does have its moments. American Conservatives might want to read up on it.

The difference between American Conservatives these days and American liberals these days is that American Conservatives think charity is a voluntary and commendable act and something to be encouraged. Liberals seem to think that charity is you forcibly taking what I have and giving it to yourself or somebody else so that you can feel righteous.