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Obama Administration Seeking to Ram Through Nazi Health Care

Aug. 6, 2009 (LPAC)--Faced with opposition on every side, the Obama Administration, and leading Senate supporters of its Nazi health care plan, are doing just what Lyndon LaRouche projected: yelling louder, and seeking to ram the program through.

After having hosted most of the Senate Democrats for lunch on Aug. 4, Obama took a quick trip out to Indiana, to hand out the equivalent of trinkets to the natives. While there, he gave an interview to MSNBC, in which he was asked about whether he was going to hold out for a bipartisan health care bill. I'd prefer it, the President said, but "Failure is not an option this year."

Meanwhile, back in Washington, on Wedneday, Senate Democrats were scheduled to meet again on health care. Before the meeting, Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller (WV), Sherrod Brown (OH), and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) held a press conference to discuss the progress of negotiations (with three Republicans) on the Senate Finance Committee. Reflecting the excruciating pressure they've been put under, or perhaps his family's murderous heritage, Rockefeller made the following outrageous statement in favor of ramming the bill through with a simple majority:

"Our job is to make sure that we're undeterred--undeterred by what we hear at town hall meetings and what we read and what we watch.... It's an easy choice. You go for getting the bill by whatever means you have to, stretching the bipartisanship as far as you can. If that works, fine. If it doesn't, then go on to something else, but you've got to get the bill. You have to have the bill."

On Thursday, the Democratic Senators are again scheduled to meet with White House "whips" on health care, David Axelrod and Jim Messina, at a Democratic Policy Committee luncheon.

Later in the afternoon, Sen. Max Baucus, head of the Finance Committee, issued his own statement, claiming that the bipartisan group of six is coming to an agreement on giving "new weight" to MedPAC, so that it can make cuts, unless Congress moves to block them. Of course, he said these cuts would go into effect "only if actuaries find excess cost growth in Medicare." (Reassured?) According to the Wall St. Journal report on Baucus's statement, the Senators will then face the problem that the MedPAC proposal--better known as the T4 commission of experts--is not in any of the House bills, with which they are supposed to reconcile.


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