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Obama’s Capable Of Threats And Trashing Constitution At Same Time

Written By : William Teach

I guess Mr. Constitutional professor was all out of bubble gum

President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of airing “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal anti-trust laws.

In unusually harsh terms, Mr. Obama cast insurance companies as obstacles to change interested only in preserving their own “profits and bonuses” and willing to “bend the truth or break it” to stop his drive to remake the nation’s health care system. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address to push back against industry assertions that legislation will drive up premiums.

“It’s smoke and mirrors,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, ‘Take one of these, and call us in a decade.’ Well, not this time.”

There’s your president, folks, the guy who put his hand on a Bible and swore that he “will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Twice. I suppose his actual ability is rather low. And, apparently, so is his memory about that pesky 1st Amendment thingamabobbie about Free Speech and the restrictions on government on taking revenge on people who criticize the government he supposedly taught at the college level.

So far, Obama has trashed private citizens and groups after private citizens and groups, and now he has delved into full on threats in order to silence his critics. What was that talking point about Bush trashing the Constitution?

BIG

President Obamam and his minions have clearly shown they have no regard whatsoever for our constitution. They believe more in the little red book. How about how the politicians that are putting the takeover of 1/6th of our economy are lying through their teeth? What about the deceptive accounting that is going on to hide the true costs? How about the payouts to buy votes? Why does President Obama feel he can outright lie to the American people and those that point out his lies are unAmerican? Oh that's right, he owns the media. Nevermind.
aharris

First they came for the banks, then the auto industry, now they're coming for our health care industry, after that, it'll be our energy industry … what's left after they take direct control of all those businesses? Less than 50% private economy …

Someone explain to me again how this isn't a fascist takeover of our country?
BIG

Don't you just love that everyone except for Democrats are lying. The Republicans are lying. The helath insurance industry are lying. But the Democrats are telling the truth 100% and if we just ignore reading the legislation they are preparing, everything will be alright.

Today, Obama again claimed that the report issued by Price Waterhouse is a lie. Did he list any examples of this lying? Of course not. For his to cite examples would show where the Democrats are lying through their teeth. Yet no one in the media will even bother asking this question and will just repeat it over and over again that only the oppostion to Obama is lying and that Barack would never lie about anything.
SomeOtherSteve

BIG, President Obama can spot liars so easily because he is an expert (at lying).

Barack Obama – The Joe Isuzu of Presidents.

Screwing looking links coming up…

See this and this.
SomeOtherSteve

Well, those links got messed up bad.

Try going to my blog at someothersteve.wordpress.com and look for these posts:

Isn’t that SO nice of them?

and

Never let a good crisis go to waste II
BIG

Call me an optimist, but I was hoping that the media's blindness to the ONE would start to fracture by now. Late night comedians are starting to take their shots at the annointed one. I just felt that members of our elite media would feel some shame and start asking questions by now instead of the blind lapdogs they have become. It appears Chris Matthews leg is still tingling, because none of the mainstream media is even questioning the healthcare that is being rammed down our throats.

They say the winners get to write history. I just hope that CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN have nothing to do with the tome.
http://www.thepiratescove.us William_Teach

What part of being able to speak out against the government without fear of reprisal was not clear, Eye? You folks on the left said you loved the Constitution, now, here is your chance to stand up for it. Or, is you man crush on Obama too strong?
http://www.thepiratescove.us William_Teach

It is simple: Obama said the insurance industry was lying, without providing proof, then threatened them for engaging in Constitutionally protected free speech.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

I think insurance companies are, on the whole, reprehensible, money grubbing scum who want to pay out as little as possible no matter how much money their clients have paid in. I think the portrayal of these companies in The Incredibles is accurate, and believe that they'd probably be far better ran if they were not for profit.

However, that does not mean that in a free society that they should be silenced by Obama administration flunkies for daring to disagree and threatened with legal action for pointing out problems with the Democratic leadership plan to socialize medicine.
aharris

"I think insurance companies are, on the whole, reprehensible, money grubbing scum who want to pay out as little as possible no matter how much money their clients have paid in. I think the portrayal of these companies in The Incredibles is accurate, and believe that they'd probably be far better ran if they were not for profit."

The problem is that it's the thieving pot calling the kettle black. The federal government really isn't any different than insurance companies except that the Feds can reach deep into our pockets and take as much as they want. Insurance companies still can't do that.
BIG

I have a simple solution for the insurance companies to remove all criticism about their operations. UNIONIZE!
GDR

In light of the PWC report, lets not forget that for months on end the Health Insurance lobby was colluding with the enemy in the WH to take away our liberties and advocated the use of FORCE to make us buy there product.

I care about having a truly free market in health care and health insurance, not simply about helping the Insurance companies get fines up enough in an already Unconstitutional law to keep them profitable.

Until they renounce the Individual Mandate provision, they are not to be trusted any more then Reid, Pelosi, etc as this all could be nothing but political theater to throw us off track.

A government takeover is still result of a plan without a government option entitlement – we need to keep the focus on the Individual Mandate and insist that the Health Insurance lobby also drop this requirement a condition for our support.

Yes, I understand that private Health Insurance is threatened without the Individual Mandate because of the "preexsisting condition" and "community rating" mandates. However, that is their own lobbiests putting them into that box with backdoor deals with a dishonest WH (it was always the lefts intent to destroy Private Health Insurance, any fool could see thatt). We are obligated to fight for our Individual Liberties and the concept of a Free Market/Private Health Insurance. However, we are under NO obligation to defend the creation of a quasi-government monopoly under the guise of supposedly private Health Insurance.

Isnt this the kind of government/business/union corruption we are all enraged about?

Here is a great NRO blog that sums up the situation:

"AHIP/PriceWaterhouse Blowback? [John R. Graham]

Full disclosure (in the spirit of James C. Capretta): I don't do consulting work for private health insurers, and I doubt they'd have me. I share Benjamin Zycher's frustration with the various corporate interests, including AHIP (the health-insurers' trade association), which have managed to get the enemy (government) "exactly where they want us," with their eager appeasement of the ruling faction.

All intellectual capitalists since Adam Smith have known that we cannot rely on business to carry our philosophical water for us, but even I'm amazed that AHIP has waited so long to release a report (so ably summarized by Mr. Capretta), that describes how the Baucus memorandum (it's not a "bill") will destroy Americans' access to private health care. Indeed, they waited so long that the PriceWaterhouseCoopers report has revived the so-called "public option."

The health insurers have become so committed to the idea of the federal government ordering people to buy health insurance, that the media and most laypeople are convinced that the "public option" is the only way to prevent insurers from gouging beneficiaries.

The government is not going to change tack as long as the corporate interests are encouraging it to assume greater power over Americans' access to medical services. Instead, it's time for AHIP to change tack, abandon the ill-founded notion of mandatory health insurance, and adopt a policy advocating individual choice and responsibility."

I would make too much of this supposed "treachery" the health insurance lobby and the various Obama/Democrats threats on anti-trust etc. I think this all more "political theater" for the masses….

Until such time as the Health Insruance lobby drops their call for the Unconstitutional Individual Mandate, they only have themselves to blame for cutting deals with devils….

I think this is all just show to keep the far left appeased that they are "fighting" evil big health insurance and will have a "fall guy" to blame when the government option is dropped as negotiated….

It also keeps Republican and Conservatives tied to unconditionally supporting the health insurance lobby – which is not good politically nor something we should do until they renounce the WHOLE backroom deal and OPPOSE THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE!