"I didn't buy all the hype, right after inauguration, where everybody was only saying nice things about me," Obama said. "And I don't get too worried when things aren't going as well because I know that over time these things turn."Dealing with the haters is beyond the office of the President. Sucks that he has to address the Right Wing AM talk radio clowns instead of Republican Congresspeople.
“Health plans recognize the significant hardship that a family faces when they are unable to obtain coverage for a child with a pre-existing condition,” said Karen M. Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. Accordingly, she said, “we await and will fully comply with” the rules.
The White House immediately claimed victory.
In a Twitter message, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, scored the tug of war as “Kids 1, insurance 0.”
This is the kind of change the Republicans want to repeal? You bet.
If only little kids with staggering sicknesses had crude oil in them, then the GOP would start paying attention. Send them palettes of cash.
"When we look at the American debate on reforming health care, it's difficult to believe. The very fact that there should have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets without a cent to look after them ... is something astonishing to us." - French President Nicolas Sarkozy
"Apart from the appalling ease with which the right just denies how broken our healthcare system is to how many millions of people, one of the most bewildering aspects of the past year's "debate" is how deep the sense of American exceptionalism runs in so many people.I can already hear the irrational Francophobes on the Right chiming in.
The entire developed world -- every single industrialized country except for us -- has some kind of universal health care. How insular and arrogant do you have to be to insist that we're the ones who've got it right and the entire rest of the globe has it wrong?"
"I fear the problem in the Church is the problem you see on the right: The organization has been whittled down to a few diehards who believe they are absolutely right and see any failings of their group not as a leadership problem, or a moral problem, but a media problem."
The Conservative movement in this country, the rank-and-file of the Catholic Church and GOP, seem distressingly willing to accept and embrace the lies floated by its leaders. No "outrage" over the billions used to cover up rape. They are more furious with the MSM for reporting on it.
