The Pelosi Plan and the Swine Flu Democrats. »
Posted By pc25 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Could the Swine Flu Kill Obamacare
In 1993, a newly elected Democratic president and a Democratic Congress pushed through a tax increase on a party-line vote. The next year Democrats lost control of Congress, with House Speaker Tom Foley defeated in his reelection bid and the Senate seat of retiring majority leader George Mitchell going Republican.
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pc251 month, 3 weeks ago
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After all, we're seeing a big government health care program in operation right now--the Obama administration's effort to deal with the swine flu problem. No, come to think of it, it's now the swine flu emergency. Last week, President Obama so legally designated it. How's that test case in government-run emergency care going?
Turn on your local news to find out. You'll see false reassurances, broken promises, rationing which doesn't provide the promised rations, queues lengthening while supplies run out, and lots of bureaucrats explaining just why things aren't working quite as their centrally planned plans had planned. -
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stephen-johnson1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Blast from the past:
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" Sen. John F. Kerry jumped on the flu-vaccine shortage yesterday with a new television ad blaming the situation on President Bush.
In what may be the first presidential campaign commercial dealing with the flu, the Democratic nominee is trying to portray the vaccine squeeze as typical of the president's mishandling of health care.
In the ad, a narrator says: "Three years ago, medical experts warned George Bush that a dangerous shortage loomed. Instead of fixing the problem, production of the vaccine was sent to a factory overseas -- the vaccines were contaminated. Now Bush wants Canada to help, even though his own policies make it illegal for us to import medicine from Canada.
"Seniors and children wait. Not enough vaccines for pregnant women. A George Bush mess.""
Thank heavens that won't happen again, now that the Democrats have taken over from the inept Republicans!
Ooops!
"More people are now sick with swine flu in King County than were sick at the height of last spring's outbreak, but King County health officials don't expect to receive enough vaccine for widespread distribution until December — and possibly not until just before Christmas.
Dr. David Fleming, director and health officer for Public Health — Seattle & King County, said the vaccine is in short supply nationwide.
"We're being held hostage by a national shortage of the vaccine," said Fleming.
More than 900,000 King County residents — particularly people with underlying health conditions, but also children and young adults — are at greatest risk of severe illness or death from swine flu.
But the county has received only enough vaccine for about 85,000 residents — less than 10 percent of the at-risk population, Fleming said."-
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pc251 month, 3 weeks ago
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Obama makes Bush his blame czar
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It's now Obama's war, his jobless rate, his debt, etc.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-powerful-...
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alanocu1 month, 3 weeks ago
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If we extrapolate from Obama's first few months in office, by the end of his first term America’s debt will be higher than the GDP of the world, every rogue state will have nuclear missiles and we’ll all have swine flu. It's starting to feel like the Democrats are actively trying to kill us.
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pc251 month, 3 weeks ago
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/31/paul-obama-a...
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Paul: Obama administration has botched H1N1 effort
Ron Paul comes close to edging into tinfoil-hat territory when he talks about the swine-flu emergency allowing the federal government to track everyone’s movements and when he questions the benefits of vaccinations in general, but for the most part makes a lot of sense in his blast at the White House for its handling of the supposed epidemic. For instance, Paul points out what most of the media has neglected to report in its breathless coverage of the H1N1 spread, which is that 1,000 deaths from H1N1 in 2009 is one-third of what the US sees in a typical month from the normal flu
So why declare a national emergency? Why scare everyone over a strain that appears to be less dangerous than the normal flu? Paul says that Obama wants to use it to grab further control and power, but at least so far Obama has not asked for any particular authority that the federal government didn’t already have. And as the vaccines continue to get delayed — we’re high-risk because of the First Mate’s immune suppression — the more the federal government appears incompetent and bungling, hardly the way to build confidence for future power grabs. -
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Klarissa1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Have you forgotten - Obama loves a crisis - roll out the media, tell the schools, warn the hospitals,
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who is in charge, and is the plan workable? (or needed)
Just how many of those so-called flooding the hospitals have something else besides the swine flu? -
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philbrick1 month, 3 weeks ago
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"Americans aren’t blaming the Obama administration. According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, “69 percent of respondents said they were confident in a federal response to the outbreak.”
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Even conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer acquitted the Obama administration of responsibility over the vaccine shortages today on Inside Washington. “I would be inclined to blaming this all on Obama but I rise in his defense because…this stuff is extremely hard to do safely, it’s a long process. … I would give him a pass in terms of assigning political blame,” he said.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/01/schieffer-katr...
The Private companies are supplying the goods and services, and the federal government is simply coordinating delivery.
And when the private companies fail to deliver as promised, somehow it’s President Obama'a fault?-
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stephen-johnson1 month, 3 weeks ago
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"And when the private companies fail to deliver as promised, somehow it’s President Obama'a fault?"
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Nobody said that to Kerry and the Democrats when they blamed Bush for the 2004 flu vaccine shortage. Why the double standard now? (As if we don't know why already)
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