President Nero on Rampage To Force Through Health Care Bills

July 14, 2009 (LPAC)—All Washington knows that Obama is melting down, and to counter the "beating" that his health-care policy took in in his overseas absence, President Nero took Congressional leaders to the woodshed (his Oval Office) this afternoon for not moving fast enough on his Nazi health bill. In a Rose Garden press conference today, Obama railed, "Don't bet against us" on the health-care bill, reported The Hill. "I want to put everyone on notice because there was a lot of chatter during the week that I was gone.... We are going to get this done."

At 4 p.m., Obama hauled in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Steny Hoyer, Sen. Max Baucus who heads the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Charles Rangel, who heads the House Ways and Means Committee, to tell them there will be no Congressional recess until he sees "sufficient progress" on the health legislation.

The Hill says that Obama "was clearly trying to regain the upper hand on the health-care reform debate, as the centerpiece of his domestic agenda took a beating in his absence."

As happened just before Obama's Green Bay, Wisconsin speech, Obama's towel boys, like thug Rahm Emanuel, and "propeller head" Dr. Peter Orszag, can't push the policy through. Orszag sent a letter to the three House committee chairmen overseeing the House health-care bill, Henry Waxman, George Miller, and Charles Rangel, chastising them for not cutting health-care costs. "Adopting a deficit-neutral health reform that expands coverage, ... is not enough, because it would perpetuate a system in which best practices are far from universal and costs are too high," wrote Orszag. "Best practices" for Orszag means the list of ways to kill off the elderly and sick, cooked up by Dr. Jack Wennberg, the Hastings Center, and the Dartmouth Institute.

No one listened to Orszag, and the House bill was delayed on July 10 with revolts all over the place. So, beginning Monday morning, the British-controlled press began an ever-louder drumbeat to get the Nazi policies through. The Washington Post lead editorial quoted Obama calling the health-care costs "a ticking time bomb," and orders Congress to "defuse the bomb" by adopting a commission like the "base closure commission," which would give Congress an "up or down vote" on what medical treatment will be paid for. London's Financial Times insisted that Obama can—and will—win the health-care vote by simply accepting the tax on employer-provided health benefits. Employer benefits are a menace anyway, says the FT, because they lead to "overconsumption" of medical treatment. The British newswire Reuters also says "failure is not an option" for Obama. The "dire consequences" of failure will force Obama to come up with a bill. Meanwhile, the revolt continues.