House Republican Leader John Boehner released this statement following the democrat’s vote for government takeover of healthcare.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on the latest version of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) government takeover of health care:
“The American people have rejected the Democrats’ government-run approach to health care loudly and clearly, and it’s time to scrap Senator Reid’s bill and start over. The bill will fundamentally change something as personal and important as the relationship between a patient and a doctor, and yet Democrats are attempting to sneak the bill through before Christmas in the hopes the American people aren’t watching what they’re doing. Why? Because Senator Reid knows the more the American people find out about this bill, the more they oppose it.
“The Democrats’ government takeover of health care will increase premiums for families and small businesses, raise taxes during a recession, cut seniors’ Medicare benefits, add to our skyrocketing debt, and put bureaucrats in charge of decisions that should be made by patients and doctors. The bill also authorizes government-funded abortions, violating long-standing policies prohibiting federal funding of abortion. That’s not reform. My message to the American people is now is not the time to give up. Now is the time to fight harder. When the American people are engaged, Washington listens. Now is the time to speak out, more loudly and clearly than ever, against this monstrosity.”
December 21st, 2009 | 7:44 am | #1
Boehner: “When the American people are engaged, Washington listens.”
I’m afraid that was the past. Washington doesn’t listen anymore. Perhaps, in the words of those American heros, “Let’s roll” would get their attention.
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December 21st, 2009 | 7:59 am | #2
Washington is only interested in one thing: re-election. They are not interested in their constituents until election years. In 2010 we need to remind them who they work for! This “health care” bill is bogus and is more about rationing and abortion than health:
http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2009/12/fr-barron-comments-on-abortion-and.html
December 21st, 2009 | 8:07 am | #3
It has been roundly proven that what we, the people, think is utterly unimportant to the current majority in Congress…and the minority, for that matter, so Boehner’s statement is but lip service, at best. Not only will the Democrats not hear him, they won’t even listen. And why should they? What the minority says simply doesn’t count; not when no one is even listening. That’s a by-product of allowing one party to control all three branches of what used to be “our government”.
We currently have no system of checks and balances; we have a major, one-party power grab going on and the Democrats are making the most of it.
This is just the early stages of their agenda advancement. There are several other key components to that agenda – including amnesty for illegal aliens, the union card check debacle and instant amendments to the just passed health care legislation that will put back all of the unwanted provisions debated during the run-up to cloture, including full coverage for federally funded abortions.
An incredible, record breaking, run of deficit spending will continue, unabated, until the 113th Congress is seated – and that’s over a year from now.
December 21st, 2009 | 8:27 am | #4
Amen! Never vote for an incumbent!
This is all a power grab and a distraction.
Raise taxes on small businesses (generate 70% of jobs) during a recession!
The economy and jobs need to be fixed, but NO! Their idiotic socialist theories can’t help there so they feverishly – must.be.done.now – work to make us more destitute and dependent so we keep re-electing rank idiots to lead us to hell.
The demagogues invented a “crisis” (started with Harry Truman) to make ‘we the people’ dependent for ‘basic necessities’ on career politicians – giving them power forever.
That is called slavery.
Fact: The policy problem of the health uninsured isn’t as large as tyranny opportunists would make it. Census reports that 254,000,000 (85% of all Americans) Americans have health insurance coverage. The number without insurance improved to 45.7 million people, or 15% of the population, from 47 million in 2006. About 54% of uninsured are aged 18 to 34, and many of them voluntarily choose to forgo health coverage.
Health insurance is more expensive than it needs to be thanks to guvmint regulations and other market interference; e.g., trial lawyers.
December 21st, 2009 | 8:53 am | #5
The only thing we can do right now is to join a grassroots organization – or several. Start working to oust those who voted for this monstrosity, work to elect people with conservative values or run for office yourself. We need to get rid of people like Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Murtha, Durbin, Dodd, Rangle, Frank… feel free to add to the list.
December 21st, 2009 | 9:10 am | #6
Do not forget to fight Ignorance about the issues wherever you find these people. THAT is how we got into this mess. Ignorant electorate elected the current Marxist. your either part of the solution or the problem.
December 21st, 2009 | 9:44 am | #7
Call your representatives? Educate the people?
It has taken 40 years of liberal propaganda in the schools to arrive at this point. It has taken 40 years of welfare and mindless entertainment (bread and circuses) to reduce the American electorate to its present catatonic state.
Each week and month, new fake government statistics are released that show things are getting better with housing, unemployment, retail sales, etc.
Nothing short of a return of reality will end this insanity. That, unfortunately, will only occur when our sorry financial mess can no longer be swept under the rug. When defaults rage across the country and then world. When we run out of creditors who enable us to buy off the unemployed and foodless.
No. I fear the S is going to HTF in a big way. Politics will be looked back upon as beanbag compared to what is coming. Many of those 535 fools who think they have fooled this country will end up bloated carcasses, stinking up the streets around Capitol Hill. They may not have caused the problem, but they sure as hell have exacerbated it and will be blamed anyway.
December 21st, 2009 | 10:09 am | #8
We need to quit jawboning on blogs, and start having massive…MASSIVE civil disobedience, or at least more massive tea parties, with 5 million people organized to march on Washington, WHILE THEY ARE IN SESSION, and block the bastards from even getting INTO the Capitol and costing us more freedom and more money.
ENOUGH TALk. I am NOT advocating violence, but the Far Left, the communists, the Van Jones’s and “Rev” Wrights and Bill Ayres’ have taken over, through the worst Congress and worst President combo in at least modern history.
I agree, too, you can’t rely on trying to otherwise pressure the bastards in Congress, they do not care.
Wait till the next election? I keep hearing that mantra too, while they are spending NOW dismantling America’s freedom and bankrupting us as quick as they can.
The time to start doing something is NOW. I am no politician, no leader, just another working person, but I have children and I want them to grow up in a FREE COUNTRY, not one of any kind of tyranny. Soft or hard, what we are getting is Tyranny, far worse than anything King George did to us.
So, I hope people have suggestions and ideas. Not just whining on blogs, it’s not doing enough of itself.
December 21st, 2009 | 11:22 am | #9
There’s really not a heck of a lot we “little people” can do. It’s obvious that this Administration has decided to abandon fiscal restraint, and has chosen instead to let inflation solve the problem of “how do we pay it all back”. Obama-and-crew get the credit for making the USA into the new Zimbabwe.
Just write or email your Senators and Representatives and let them know that THEY WILL go down in history; just not in the way they were hoping for:
The 44th President and his advisors, plus every legislator who voted for these MASSIVE bills, will be remembered as “The Administration that bankrupted the USA “.
December 21st, 2009 | 11:58 am | #10
Maurice
December 21st, 2009 | 10:09 am | #8
You know, Maurice, they’re doing it this week because they know folks are busy with Christmas. Perhaps we should call their bluff and organize and impromptu Christmas Eve march on Washington. Yeah, it’ll screw up our plans for Christmas. The kids will understand when they’re celebrating Christmas 2029 with their kids that it was for them, that Christmas 2029 with their kids may not have happened at all if their parents hadn’t faced down the Marxists 20 years earlier
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