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White House Dismisses Health Care Repeal Efforts as ‘Not Serious’
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is dismissing a vote by House Republicans to repeal the new health care law, saying it’s not “a serious legislative effort.”
Delayed after the mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., the vote is now expected Wednesday. Democrats still have a majority in the Senate and they have promised to block the effort. President Barack Obama would likely veto the measure if it got as far as the White House.
Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday that repealing the law would give insurance companies the power to again deny, drop, limit or cap health care coverage for millions of Americans.
Added Gibbs: “I don‘t think it’s going anywhere.”
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Comments (108)
jagr1850
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:05pmi predict many dumocrats will be unemloyed in 2012 due to failure to do what the people demanded on november election 2010 !!
Report Post »joeliberty
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:56pmWithhold funding for every government program that gives socialists policies teeth and play hardball! Furlough the whole damn government until it is repealed!
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:45pmYES! It is the progressive agenda of tyranny at risk in defunding Obamacare, the EPA, and all the other tyrannical progressives’ agenda. Defund them ALL! And this is why Geithner and the other progressives scream and screech about the government “defaulting” on the debt, which is an absurdity. The hysterical histrionics are because its their agenda of tyranny at stake. Let’s just DEFUND that agenda!
Just say NO to a debt ceiling increase! Suggesting that we must raise the credit limit and incur NEW debt to avoid defaulting on EXISTING debt is a false assumption to the point of absurdity. It assumes that we can’t pay current debt without first incurring more. It is utterly and completely wrong! Only the lunacy of a misguided politician would even make such an absurdly stupid assumption!
Report Post »darlenekay
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:50pmNo matter what the Republicans do, I believe the Progressives have a plan b, c, d, etc. Their best hope is to DEFUND the damn thing.
Report Post »nbarendt
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:47pmIt will be serious if a GOP president gets in office 2012 even if Obama is re-elected there will be a GOP president eventually and it will be repealled. The very least the GOP will do is not fund this monstrosity. Two can play.
Report Post »NJartificer
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:43pmWhy should they take us serious they are owned by others
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:43pmI seem to remember the White House saying basically the same thing about the Tea Party. I don’t think that after getting their flabby behinds kicked all over the place ……sorry, that’s not very civil of me and some may consider it “hate speech”, what I meant to say was….I don’t think that after the moderate Republican gains during the last mid-term elections the White House still dismisses the Tea party as “not serious”.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:34pmWho are these clowns trying to convince of that? I think they will give it their best shot. We know Oblunder will do his best to see the evil bill survives.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:33pmMiddleclass Alternate plan??? Remember Pelosi? “we won so we’ll do what we want” Republicans did put ideas forward, no one listened because they didn’t have to…till now.
Report Post »1) buy insurance across state lines. It would work for me, but I can’t do it. Thank you libs!
2) Tort reform… frivolous law suits cost doctors a fortune and drive up costs by having to do so many unnecessary tests to cover their asses.
Just these two things alone would bring the price down to an affordable rates for most people, but then the gov. cronies couldn’t get their slimy paws in it. Obama care needs to be gone before all the insurance companies are out of business so these things can be implemented. We can still do things like “pre-existing condition” clauses that are good, just not a take over of all our health care. If you want something screwed up, let the gov. run it, or give me an example of something they do right besides the military.
shorthanded12
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:24pmOn the House floor today John (READ the BILL) Conyers (D) Mi, claimed Obama will go down in history as providing 51,000,000 more people health coverage. Ok theres where I draw my confusion, When the bill was signed into law in MAR 2010 they the demorats claimed 34,000,000 will have access to health care blah blah blah. Was John Conyers statement on the House floor today a code message to the ILLeagals that come get it health care for you too or did Mr Conyers forgot the talking point memo that your suppose to say 34,000,000 to actully hide behind what this Obamacare will do?
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:37pmA great point, and another good reason to get rid of Obama care!!
Report Post »Marnin
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:23pmObama won’t have to veto it. Harry Reid won’t ever even let it come to the floor in the Senate while he is majority leader. He decides what legislation hits the floor and he has already said it won’t. That way the dems won’t have to go on record before 2012 that are in danger.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:22pmThe Republicans are honoring the American People by taking this vote, so it’s very serious indeed.
As usual, the Obama Administration dismisses the will of the American People because they believe that the American People are too stupid to know what is best for them.
They called the rejection of Democrats in the US House, and numerous State and local elections, “a misunderstanding of what the Obama Admin. is trying to do.”
In my opinion, the Obama Admin. are the ones who “misunderstand” EVERYTHING!
Report Post »moosebeeusa
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:18pmLet it go to the top. If Obama veto’s it he owns it. Obama care will not work and we will have to change his diapers AGAIN.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:16pmyou ll see how much of a joke it is when we get it repeal and you and your butt boy obama is threw out on your ears .. long live the tea party
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:10pm“It is not the bill that [Republicans] would have written,” said the Tennessee Republican. “It is not the bill that I would have drafted. But it is the law of the land and it is the platform, the fundamental platform, upon which all future efforts to make that system better, for that patient, for that family, will be based. And that is a fact. I know the discussion of Washington is repeal and I’m sure we will come back to that discussion…”
“[The bill] has many strong elements,” Frist added later. “And those elements, whatever happens, need to be preserved, need to be cuddled, need to be snuggled, need to be promoted and need to be implemented. But how do you do it? How do you do a lot of what is in this law?”
Bill Frist – Former Senate Minority Leader
Report Post »LOVESTHECONSTITUTION
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:29pmExcuse me, but “coddle” & “snuggle” in regards to legislation seems like inappropriate behavior. Kind of creepy, actually. Can you say “Legislate-aphile?”
Report Post »Stehekin912
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:10pmWe are serious. Repeal it. Repeal it! Don’t back down.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:10pmWhether or not the repeal will happen with this vote – this is undeniably the Voice of the People speaking. By Obama refusing to listen to the PEOPLE once again and by the Senate refusing to listen to the PEOPLE again and by the Democrats refusing to listen to the PEOPLE again – there is no room for them to say they actually give a dang what the People think or want. Their masks are off, the game is exposed, the lies can’t be covered with rhetoric and candidate smiles anymore, nor can their completely ridiculous understanding of what is and what is not affordable.
The Emperor and his supporters have no clothes. It‘s all a big flipping show at taxpayers’ expense. EGO of the DC “sign it first find out what’s in it later” b. s.crew is out there big time now. We wouldn’t tell our children to sign something without reading it first.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:09pmYou mean Propoganda in Chief Gibbs $174,000 income allowed him to say this. Wonder if Gibbs has his households goods already packed and ready to haul A$$ from DC. He better use some dayum electric vehicle to leave or Al Gore will surely call him out for using fossil fuel.
Report Post »P4cooler
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:09pmPush this bill through every month and we will have our list of who to vote out in 2012. The American people said No when the bill was forced through with bribery. The American people said NO November 2010. This is the party of tyranny backed by the media. Mr Gibbs is living in a fantasy world.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:08pm-Chasvs391-
He is one of us, brainiac. You have so much anger in your heart that you cannot even see straight. If the GOP wants to repeal HC, then they need to try coming up with an alternate plan…but they won’t because they could care less about the middle class.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:57pmLook who his boss is “Soros” himself; and the contempt the man has for us, should any of his cronies (Obama) be any different?
ForeignWatcher
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:26pm*sigh*
Report Post »if all beckians did what HE says, do your own research… This place would be empty by noon^^
Randyrocker
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:51pmOf course they would say that, but saying so, doesn‘t mean that it’s so. Repeal and get this rotten government out of controlling your lives. The only thing that can save America from disappearing is repealing this Obama Pelosi Reid manufactured piece of garbage.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:59pmThat is the next step in getting the government out of our lives as much as possible; the damage the progressives have done will take much time to fix and repair. Yet as a nation we can do so, we sent a man to the moon after all, this should be childs play compared to that.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:51pmI am very entertained by “Bagdad Bob” Gibbs insistence that the repeal effort is not serious. Really? then why the vote on it?
Report Post »AndMercy4All
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:50pm“Serious” as a heart attack! His favorite tea may be chamomile, but this much anticipated House vote is all Zinger — the first of many jolts to the White House’s system to come as this monstrosity is undone.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:19pmCan’t pass in the Senate, can’t override a veto, not serious.
Report Post »TEXPATRIOT
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:36pm@Chet Hempstead
Report Post »We can get very Rep and Senator on the record and even if it doesn’t pass the Senate at this time or the Pres. veto’s it; the House can defund it. After Nov 2012, we can Repeal the job-killing, socialist Obamacare. So I think we are very serious.
VermontPatriot
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:49pmSend it up every month! Rock them on their heels.
MAKE THEM DEFEND IT!
They can’t, because it’s crap. We win in the end!
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:53pm@ Chet –
But they CAN defund! You can‘t say THAT’S not serious! I think Obama will take the defunding seriously!
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:37pmIf they can defund it, they could do so without ever wasting time on this stupid stunt vote.
Report Post »LOVESTHECONSTITUTION
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:25pmYes, repeal it every month! Every month! Make the Obamacare supporters defend their actions.
Report Post »djeffcoat
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:47pmAdd your comments
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:56pmOkay: Comment.
Report Post »So
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:02pmI guess it’s time for another shellacking. LOL.
If they don’t get it, they have to go!
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:01amThis bill needs to be repealed in its entirety. This 2000+ pages of madness should never have been voted for and I challenge any congressman to explain to me why the voted for something they never read. This is not a pot luck dinner, they were supposed (that’s why they get paid the big bucks) to know what they were signing. Repealing it piecemeal will only allow the tentacles of this bill to leak into our HC system and pollute it further.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:47pmHealth Care is doomed eventually (Obama-care) so this review of the regulations is just a case of him going around the congress and the house to ‘regulate’ the health care into being, instead of doing it the way it is established for.
That is the other hand, while we are distracted by the ‘review’ he will have his cronies set up the system via the back door and shut it all down in one shot.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:50pmOne other part to consider too, all that Obama and the administration need is to find some way to break the military to their will; to make sure only those loyal to HIM and not the people or the Constitution are in the leadership roles.
The Progressives have something coming, and soon, with the debt ceiling hitting the barrier shortly; the increases in food and energy coming, and so forth across the board.
Look carefully, for there is another part of the puzzle laying about; and this one peice may be of the type that the administration will fear…and may be destroyed by it in turn.
May peacefull change continue in the land for all of our sakes or the story told in Nehemiah of the captivity will come about across our own land if the lessons are forgotten and not heeded.
We need to learn, watch and remember.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:52pmI know what can help .
Report Post »Lets have Repubs sit with Demons during the STFU address ….then the Ds will do the right thing for the people of this country and stand up to tyranny , hand in hand with the Rs.
What ? I can hope, right ?
TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:53pmOf course it’s not serious; Obama will simply veto it.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:56pm@Cheezwhiz
Anyone can hope. That is the substance of what faith and dreams are made of. The fulfilling of that hope is what makes achieving the dream a reality, and pushes us on to the better tomorrow we all strive to have.
In my case it is a free nation, a constitution restored, a smaller government controlled by the people, and the riddance of the progressives nightmare before God himself decides enough is enough and removes the nation into the eternal night.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 5:58pmWe will prove how “serious” we are Novmeber 2012. Until then make people be on record with their votes and defund it.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:07pmDid they not think the American people were serious when we voted in November. We seriously do not like Obamacare, but don’t worry we will keep trying to repeal it even if we have to wait until 2012 to be taken seriously.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:14pmLet them think what they please because to the American people it is VERY SERIOUS, and we expect our representatives in Congress to treat it as such. Repeal the healthcare bill.
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:15pmOh it’s going somewhere, you fat pillsbury doughboy stand in.
Report Post »rubintheartist
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:28pmAmericans aren’t stupid! We see right through this progressive deflection from the truth. The fact is that the progressive dems built controls into Obama care to quietly take control of our personal lives. The new animated web movie “A Not Too Grimm Fairy Tale” shows the progressives for what they are – liars and shows the how citizens overthrow and put an evil clan into jail in “Hairmerica”. Bearah Sailin is the hero of the movie. It was released on Christmas 2010. Watch it here and laugh…
Report Post »http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu
Rogue
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:29pmI am so sick of every pundit, lobbyist, politician, and talking head on the left still sticking to the lie that Obamacare will save this country money. I understand that no one in the White House Press corps has the cajones to step up and challenge anything that is said from that podium, but I hear this arguement in the media constantly, and no one ever takes the left to task on it.
And another thing – I wouldn’t trust the Congressional Budget Office to fill out my 1040EZ at tax time. What a bunch of morons. Time to burn that department at the stake.
SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:43pmyea..sure..keep on believing that..keep on telling youself that somehting that oh..say..17% and falling of americans approve of..is going to stick around…sure…right..It WILL GO AWAY..just like the 63 other democrats did this last November, and like you will also…..so..keep telling yourself those lies…someone has to believe them..right..it might as well be THE DEMOCRATS.
My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:49pm@SNOWLEOPARD I will answer this part of your post. No matter WHOM obama nominates as top star leaders in the military, there are two things to consider.
Report Post »#1: Almost ALL of our true Patriotic fighting Men and Women are oversees and unable to do a thing here, and unless there is some HUGE mutiny among those in charge of the logistics, they will not be coming home.
#2: Those who ARE here will certainly NOT take illegal orders to fire upon, or fight against the American People. It is even writen in our rules of conduct that “All orders shall be followed in a disciplinary manner, unless such orders are illegal in manner” to paraphrase. i will be researching to find the exact phrasiology there.
BUT. Those us us, like myself, who are not Active, but instead “former”, still remember our Oath, “To protect the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foriegn AND domestic”, and we have no officer to give us orders to fire on our own people. And we shall NOT. We will all stand for the people of America we have SWORN to defend, and will do so with vigor, Honor, Disipline and with our Countrymen in our hearts.
Semper Fidelis. ‘Nuff said.
Cobra Blue
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:01pmThe libs are just trying to minimize the repeal legislation. Course with the Republicans historical record of doing nothing and caving to the Dems..I will defer giving them any credit until I see something happening. Actions talk and BS walks. We shall see what they are made of. Not very optimistic..
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:01pmAnd hey, there are some democrat Senators up for re-election in two years, who knows….maybe we got them piddlin’ on themselves like a puppy enough to do what America TELLS them to do as our employees…just to get re-elected, as if they WILL.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:16pmDoes this P.O.S. of an administration ever tell the truth?
Report Post »101
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:27pmGibbs pushes Obamacare better than Obama, Pelosi & Reid put together!
They dismiss the American people if they dismiss Health Care Repeal and not take it serious!
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:00pmWill someone please tell me why folks who are EXCLUDED from the Health Care Act are discussing and voting on passing or repealing this asinine bill? They have no vetted interest in the dictates of the bill so why are they in charge of it? I don’t recall anyone begging them to change our health care system to begin with … there were concerns about SOME injustices but NO ONE wanted an entire rewrite or government regulation of our health care services!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:53pmSorry to burst your bubble. Universal Health Care is here to stay. Every other industrialized Democracy in the world has Universal Health Care. Republicans since Eisenhower have tried to pass something similar for the US but they’ve all failed. Until now. Virtually without exception every developed nation in the world has something like “Obama care,” many for almost a 100 years now: http://truecostblog.com/2009/08/09/countries-with-universal-healthcare-by-date/
The American people deserve better. You may prescribe to the “every man for himself” philosophy but I believe that in this country we look after our own. American exceptionalism does not mean we make sure our government policies allow insurance companies executives to own a few extra yachts by making it legal to drop coverage to those who get sick (which under “Obama care” that is no longer legal) or to deny coverage to those with pre-existing condtions, which is fully half of every American. It means that we make sure powerful interests aren’t so powerful that they can tell sick people to “kiss my behind” when they get sick. It means this country is at least the equal of every other developed country in the world with regard to taking care of Americans.
Why don’t you, as a death panel member of an insurance company, picture yourself telling some poor soul who got cancer that insurance company has been canceled because their treatment is too expensive. And then go explain that to your God.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:52pm@JZS, Now, it is my understanding that the repulicans in the house don’t want “obamacare” to go away, rather they want to repeal the old bill in its monsterous entirety and look at each single parcel in it’s merit. AND THEN work on that and either pass or fix it as each is being discussed. Unlike the previous congress who wanted to add 500 or so pages just hours before the vote, THEN said “we have to pass it to see what’s in it”. I see nothing wrong with that policy if that is in fact within their hearts to accomplish. Onl time will tell on that, but if they lie again, they know their butts are in a sling.
Report Post »Liberal Joe
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:55pmThat’s the free market! How dare you doubt the insurance companies. They only do what is best for people who want to make a profit.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:23pmThe important thing is to get the Senatorson record supporting this theft of our rights. 2012 is coming, that will be the final nails in their coffins as far as re election goes. Even “the president” will get it after several rehersals that…. this is the part where you admit you were wrong and sign the repeal. Or else he just waits for the SCOTUS to make a complete fool out of him when the bill is declared unconstitutional. Baghdad Bob can regurgitate whatever delusions he has, but he, and the administration are due for one EPIC FAIL.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:23amrefuse to increase the debt ceiling and see how far obama care goes.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:57amI saw Rep. Ryan make his statement on the Health care repeal. He said that the Repubs were doing what they promised voter that they would do. What I wanted to hear fromhim was to make the case against federral health care takeover and he didn’t (on national TV at least). If the Repubs won’t make the case against the health care law then they will be unsuccessful in any repeal or in any future election. They have got to make the case and it is so easy to make when anyone can easily see that the cost will be prohibitive and rationing will be necessary for older people and the very young.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:40amAmerica dismisses this entire administration as not serious.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:28pmGreat, Baghdad Bob. You keep on thining we’re not serious and keep with the bad policy.
We’ll be watching in February, 2013 when the next president is signing the repeal bill after The Marxist and Dems in the Senate lose big to Republicans.
You overreached by trying to take America down the Socialist road, and now the Dems will be the minority party for an entire generation because of it.
Report Post »Cornerstone
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:51pmDoes the new healthcare law cover his new Madonna mole (mole… hmmm)? Is it covered under pre-existing?
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