Sen. Grassley Highlights VS Videos During Senate Finance Markup
Morgen on September 29, 2009 at 11:43 am
The Senate Finance Committee is in the midst of the “markup” process to finalize their version of the health reform bill. The Democrats need to pass a bill out of this committee in order to bring a bill to a full floor vote in the Senate. It’s been a contentious process all week since the initial bill proposed by Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus is much more moderate than most of the other Democrats on the committee would like. And so they have been offering up amendments to the bill in order to mold it more to their liking.
Which brings us to today’s hearing where the committee is debating an amendment from Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV) to add the public option to the bill since this was not included in the original “chairman’s mark”. I don’t believe this amendment is expected to pass since there are at least a couple of moderate Democrats on the committee who oppose the public option (as well as all of the Republicans). But I got a particular thrill from hearing Senator Grassley (R-IA) quote from a couple of familiar video clips in his statement against the public option. Watch:
For those of you who may be new readers, the statements from Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Rep. Barney Frank, and Ezra Klein from the Washington Post were all discovered and posted first right here on Verum Serum. (And I really wish Grassley had called out his colleague Sen. Feingold on this as well.) If you haven’t seen any or all of these clips, I encourage you to click through the preceding links and watch them since Sen. Grassley did not do them full justice. For our regular readers, forgive us for yet another self-congratulatory mention of this. It’s just really gratifying to see something which took many, many hours of research continue to have an impact on this debate at a national level.
Lastly, I have to give a special hat-tip to Ezra Klein who posted this morning about Grassley’s mention of his statement. It’s a shame that Klein is still trying to spin his way around his own admission that the public option was conceived by Democrats as a “sneaky strategy” to move the country towards single-payer. And don’t even get me started on this whole “out of context” meme. Klein is right that some more honest liberals have argued that consumer choice could ultimately lead to the public option being the only option. To his credit, Howard Dean has consistently acknowledged this – as did John Edwards during the Democratic primary campaign.
But this has NOT been Ezra Klein’s argument, and more importantly, it not been the President’s either. The President has unequivocally denied that the public option was in any way intended to lead to single payer. To be blunt, this is a lie. I have said this before, but if you base your initial policy case around a strategy of deceit I don’t see why you should be trusted with any of your arguments. And with support for ObamaCare down to 41%, most Americans would seem to agree.
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Your synopsis is exactly correct. I would add only one more point and that is almost every single effort by modern day liberals is an attempt to nationalize everything. There are a few exceptions but they are rare.
Even though the “public option” was defeated in the committee vote today we should not expect the marxist wannabe’s to surrender their goal of total government control of health care and other areas of our lives. It is just that simple.
September 29, 2009 @ 4:22 pmYour efforts and their effect on this issue’s debate are much appreciated. Thank you!
September 29, 2009 @ 8:18 pm“President has unequivocally denied that the public option was in any way intended to lead to single payer. To be blunt, this is a lie.”
There are videos of Obama stating he wants “single payor” healthcare. Anyone wonder why the left twisted words like “single” and “payor”? Long ago I thought single payor meant individuals. What could go wrong?
I suspect many people are/were like me. You’re busy, working, daily life, watching the DumbDown Tube at night. Mainly eschewing responsibility of being informed about political movements in our nation because your worn down by normal responsibilities.
Then you wake up. You take the red pill. And discover the Matrix all around you. Its ugly. And you see that you’ve been walking around like a robot, uninformed and clueless. But I digress.
So, it should be called Tax Payor healthcare or Welfare Care, or appropriately BigGov Care. Conservatives must learn to play the Saul Alinsky game, but with honest intent back at the enemy.
Name it and ridicule it. Tax Payor Healthcare, Cap and Tax(not cap and trade). Financial slavery. Socialist. Marxist, etc. We are to afraid to tell the truth. Because we may be scorned at by the robots walking in the matrix. Hmmm… there was a point to my digression afterall.
Quoting Obama from video below, “I happen to be a proponent of Single Payor Healthcare system”
Video: Obama wants BigGov Plan
“…of course, you know, we may not get there immediately. First we have to take back the whitehouse, the senate…”
Well, he did what he set out to do. With the help of convicted criminal George Soros. He did it by lying and moving to center. But he always held true to his far left, dare I say, Marxist view? He is always arms length away from the radicals usually. He allows the radical left in Congress do his work.
There’s another video where Obama admits it may take 10-15yrs to pass Single Payor. That he may not get it all at once. But that is his intention. It should be played again and again until ABC, CBS and NBC are forced to admit the truth.
Yes, Obama and Democrats(some, not all) are liars.
Good post.
September 30, 2009 @ 7:42 amOhhhh… found a better video! NakedEmporer always does a great service on YouTube.
Shock – BigGov Care – Obama wants Tax Payor
Good job guys.
September 30, 2009 @ 7:46 amJoshua,
Yeah, great video. [sigh...]
We like Naked Emperor News, but in this case we uncovered and disseminated all of those clips months before they did. See here for the original version of that clip. We still think ours is better.
September 30, 2009 @ 8:15 am