Has not my prescription changed enough reading the Obamacare and financial takeover bills, we now have the next bill in the Borg absorption; Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act brought to you by Lieberman, Collins, and Carper. Though the senators state, in their press release for the bill, “The bill does not authorize any new surveillance authorities or permit the government to “take over” private networks”, I’ll believe when I do not read it.
It just comes down to a trust issue; there just isn’t any anymore.
On the day when thousands showed up for the House Call Rally to protest Obama Deathcare, the liberals just could not be left out of the spotlight. Anybody in the middle and on the right surprised? Nope, did not think so. It is a common rule with the left that “anything goes”, and common sense and manners do not matter if you desire is great enough. Do a flyby on this article for the video that accompanies it.
It is protest day, for the Left and the Right, on Capitol Hill.
First out of the gate – 9 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman’s office this morning.
Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of “Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!” and “Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!”
The whole affair, from occupation to final arrest, lasted 40 minutes.
Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent, has said he will join Republicans to filibuster a Democractic health bill if it contains a public health insurance option to operate alongside the private insurance market.
Wow, me thinks the message is getting through to some of the deaf non-reps. in Washington, D.C. that maybe we should focus on the financial crisis, the deficit, the wars, and the 2000 banks that are not considered “insolvent” yet but seem to be flying by the seats of their pants and living on a prayer.
One of the Senate’s most powerful Democrats said Sunday that President Obama should take an “incremental” approach to fixing health care and argued that the country should postpone adding nearly 50 million new patients to the government system until after the recession is over.
“We morally, every one of us, would like to cover every American with health insurance,” Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, told CNN’s John King on the “State of the Union” program.
“But that’s where you spend most of the $1 trillion plus, a little less that is estimated, the estimate said this healthcare plan will cost,” he said.
“I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy’s out of recession,” he added.
“There’s no reason we have to do it all now, but we do have to get started. And I think the place to start is health delivery reform and insurance market reforms.”
John King asked Lieberman if it was “time for the president to hit the reset button? Forget sweeping healthcare reform this year, do three or four incremental things that are less costly?”
Lieberman responded: “In a word, yes. I don’t think — I give the president tremendous credit for taking on the healthcare problem. And it really is a problem that we’ve got to deal with. But he took it on at a very difficult time that was not of his making.
“In other words, we’re in a recession. People are very worried about their jobs, about the economic future. They’ve watched us add to the debt of this country. We’re projected to run a $1.8 trillion deficit this year, September 30th, more than $1 trillion next year. You mentioned the 10-year numbers. People are nervous, I think the protests coming out at the public meetings around the country this month are as much to do with that larger environment as they are with questions about healthcare reform. I think great changes in our country often have come in steps. The civil rights movement occurred — changes occurred in steps. Let’s focus now on how to reduce costs. That’s been a central theme of the president.
