Is Obama asking us to hold his feet to the fire?

Yes or No?

and Choice."

Cross posted from LBN..

cravermi (19 posts) Sun Aug-16-09 02:21 PM
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"President Still Favors Public Option as a Means of Creating Competition and Choice, says Gibbs"
Source: CBS News/Face the Nation

(CBS)White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on Face the Nation Sunday that President Obama is still in favor a government-sponsored health insurance plan -- but does not intend to replicate the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service.

The federal government would be able to successfully administer a health insurance option, Gibbs told CBS Anchor Harry Smith, even though the government-run Postal Service is facing serious financial problems.

"I don't think he was saying that what we were going to do is create the postal service for healthcare," Gibbs said. "The president believes this option of a government plan is the best way to provide choice and competition."

Read more.. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/16/ftn/main5245252.shtml?tag=stack


Kathleen Sebelius is saying one thing about the public option. However, Robert Gibbs is saying another.

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Cross posted from GDPHopeOverFear (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-16-09 07:43 PM
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"Crooks & Liars: White House reiterates its support of the Public Option"

Oh, the Republicans have been having a field day with this mantra - that employers would shunt their employees into the public plan. But they're really upset for the same reason Sebelius mentioned as a positive: Job lock. Above all else, the Republican party stands for cheap, disposable labor with no rights or protections. God forbid you should have a public option - you could up and leave your job anytime you wanted!

In the meantime, the White House released this statement late this afternoon:


"Nothing has changed. POTUS has always said that what is essential is that health insurance reform must lower costs, ensure that there are affordable options for all Americans and increase choice and competition. He believes the public option is the best way to achieve those goals."


Everybody....... caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalm dooooooooooooown.

Take deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaths.


Please."

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/say-what-sebelius-touts-public-option

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stupid.

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And then when it fails to pass it will OUR fault???

Nice try.....

Their trial balloons and hints aren't important. It was never a matter of what any Administration wanted us to do. Reform depends on our demands to Congress and the president. Whether or not Obama wants us to make him do it, we need to make him do it.

Keep the pressure on!

What is this, the mid-19th-century? If Obama wants our support, he'd be SPEAKING about it - off TOTUS - as would his surrogates, and they'd be TWEETING about it, and blogging about it, and showing up every chance they get on the cable networks and elsewhere to call for our support.

Telegraphing? It is to laugh! Mose code! Or perhaps he's using the pony express, or carrier pigeons, to disseminate his highly-nuanced, under-the-radar cry for support.

Three-dimentional chess, people. Three-dimentional chess!

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