Is Obama About To Open A Can Of Healthcare Whoop-Ass?

[BlooInBloo]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/07/move_aside_gibbs.php?ref=fpblg

"Move Aside Gibbs ...

Gibbs briefing cancelled today; Obama speaking himself ... about health care.

Late Update: We checked with the White House and President Obama will not be taking questions. "


Anybody know any details about what Obama'll be saying?

Note: Just heard on teevee that Obama is fine with passing healthcare without a single republican vote.

[redqueen]

1. This oughtta be good.

[fascisthunter]

2. good! F*ck the fascists corporate dogs

[babylonsister]

3. I certainly hope so. The gloves need to be removed! nt

[tridim]

4. Fired up and ready to go after yesterday's speech

Go get em Mr. President!

[drm604]

5. Any idea what time he'll be speaking?

Maybe he's been handling this right all along. "I wanted bipartisanship, I tried for bipartisanship, but the Republicans won't cooperate." Make them the ones who are being partisan.

[BlooInBloo]

6. I think it's an any-second-now thing.

[drm604]

7. Looks like it's coming up on CNN n/t

[Spazito]

8. CNN has it as 3:20 ET but there is nothing yet n/t

[Hekate]

33. That's how he handled passage of the budget, as I recall. Got most of what he wanted out of it, too.

Nothing will happen overnight, but it will happen.

Hekate

[Froward69]

9. Oh I just got all

tingly... scrape all the republican shit off of health care and pass it.
GO mr. President GO.

[Oregone]

10. Well, if he is done being bipartisan with centrist concerns, its a good time to start over

and throw the current draft in the nearest trash receptacle.

[wroberts189]

17. Yes ... lets go for single payer and draw the line in the sand back.

They want to try another say one thing but do another bill with public option. No not this time.


I say just implement Medicare for all.

[RepublicanElephant]

11. i would've loved to have been a fly on the wall when emanual had those blue dogs in his office. nt

[Hieronymus]

22. Did he have the whole bunch of blue dogs in his office?

[drm604]

12. CNN is spinning it

They're spinning it as "Obama has a big problem on his hands with health care. He's going to be explaining this."

[BlooInBloo]

13. I heard that. Sanchez: "Politically, I can't see that being anything but a loser."

What we're up against.

[drm604]

14. Sanjay Gupta

Blah :puke:

[wroberts189]

18. Ya I know ..he is like the Dr (I know everything) Phil of CNN. nt

[drm604]

20. To be fair

Gupta actually is a Doctor, unlike Dr Phil.

[wroberts189]

43. Wait a minute ...Dr phil is not a doctor? How can he get away with calling himself that... any idea?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

44. Dr. Phil has a Ph.D.

A Ph.D. is the highest degree in many specialties.

It's a Doctor of Philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology, and is licensed as a counselor.

Psychiatrists are M.D.s who specialize in mental illness. They can prescribe drugs.

A Ph.D. is also known as a "paper doctorate", as opposed to a "real doctor" (m.d.)

I have a paper doctorate, a Juris Doctor, law degree. Nobody calls me doctor and I don't get no respect, sorta like Rodney Daingerfield. :rofl:

[wroberts189]

45. Thanks much.. that explains it. Its highly misleading. nt

[drm604]

46. My mistake.

I had heard that he wasn't a real doctor. I assumed that meant that he was not a Ph.D.

I should know better than to accept something I hear so readily, but in his case I guess it was just too easy to believe.

[Spazito]

24. He lost the last shred of credibility with me...

when he outright lied multiple times about Michael Moore's Sicko so I join you in feeling nauseas whenever he appears.

:puke: :puke:

[RepublicanElephant]

15. i rather watch it on msnbc. give them the ratings. nt

[drm604]

16. Max Baucus

Blah :puke:

[drm604]

19. CNN Spin.

Breaking News
Health Care Overhaul in Peril

There is an orchestrated push to put off reform. They were doing it this morning on MSNBC. Now CNN is breathlessly declaring that health care is in peril. :crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

21. And of course they get a republican to talk shit for 30 minutes straight....

That should be a lesson for the administration: Don't give the networks that much time to screw you.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. I thought that it was actually starting to (finally) move forward not stalling?

Have we all missed something? :shrug:

[BlooInBloo]

25. A little of col A, a little of col B.

But more than anything, I think Obama is just getting pissed at all of the jackassery.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. Good! Me too!!

Glad that he's starting to be more forceful on the issue! :thumbsup:

[drm604]

27. Well put.

"Jackassery" is the perfect word for it.

I just wish he wouldn't have announced a certain time and then not shown up on time. He's giving them extra time for more jackassery.

Maybe he's giving them the rope to hang themselves?

[BlooInBloo]

28. Yah - the delay sucks. Especially since I'm waiting to go get another pack of smokes.

[drm604]

29. Maybe he's having a smoke.

:evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

30. hahah! Wolf Blitzer just called it a "Hail Mary". Piece of shit.

[BlooInBloo]

31. And it's up!

[drm604]

32. Here he is.

:applause:

[BlooInBloo]

35. Good pep talk, but not a steamroller.

[Spazito]

37. It seems very clear to me...

To the whiners 'Shit or get off the pot'. "It WILL happen this year."

[drm604]

38. There's been orchestrated negativity in the media.

He had to respond.

[BlooInBloo]

39. Yep - nuthin wrong with that. I just have the NAACP speech too fresh in mind. :)

[HopeOverFear]

34. Obama said "It's now or never, bitches"

Either get on board or get off cuz we're leaving without ya

[Hekate]

36. That's pretty much what I heard. God love the man. nt

[Top Cat]

40. Yes we can!!!!

[Jakes Progress]

41. Fervently hoped.

Yes. Let's get his oratory and persuasion skills working. We know we can't trust Congress to do the right thing. I think that was the movie that Barack and Michelle saw on their first date. I think they should have a little date night in - some popcorn (or pizza) and get a dvd of Spike's movie. That ought to help rev up the rhetoric.

Go get 'em.

[Cha]

42. Yeah, I

knew when he offered his hand in bi-partisianship(prolly knowing full well it would be bitten) and continued to be rebuffed that he would do it without them.

He's not beholden to sewer scum.