Healthcare Reform is Dead, But Obama Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
Republican Scott Brown’s historic Senate win in Massachusetts yesterday sent a clear message to Democrats in Congress: you’re next.
Brown’s win means the Democrats in the Senate are no longer filibuster-proof and they don’t have the 60 votes necessary to push the troubling healthcare bill through Congress.
Brown’s win in Massachusetts was astounding because Massachusetts had not elected a Republican to the Senate since the 70s. During the presidential elections, U.S. president Barack Obama won Massachusetts by 29 points.
But Obama will not go down without a fight. Obama’s former campaign manger, David Plouffe, added on ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “I’m very confident we can pass health-care reform.”
Well, good luck with that. Yesterday, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat, released a statement calling for a suspension of further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated. It is likely that more Democrats will follow his lead now that they are no longer burdened with being the 60th vote.
Democrats have good reason to be worried. Martha Coakley, who was a shoo-in for the Senate seat vacated by the late Ted Kennedy, lost to a come from behind candidate who never would have had a chance were it not for healthcare reform.
Make no mistake about it: Coakley lost the Senate seat because of healthcare reform, not because she ran a losing campaign. In October, Coakley led Brown by 55 to 29 percent in the polls. It was assumed she would win by a landslide. But that was before Obama, Pelosi and Barney Frank decided they would ram their healthcare bill down the public’s throats.
A win for Republicans in Massachusetts signals a changing tide in American politics. A growing public revolt driven by angry Americans who were promised Hope and Change and instead got more of the same.
Sen.-elect Scott Brown said on Tuesday night, “[Democrats] will be challenged again and again across this country. When there’s trouble in Massachusetts, there’s trouble everywhere. And now they know it.”
Last night, Massachusetts made it clear that Americans do not want a one-party government running this country.
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i find it funny that Mass purposely voted this Republican in just so the healthcare reform wont go though but MASSACHUTTES itself has a state mandated healhcare of its own:
The Massachusetts health care reform law was enacted in 2006. It requires nearly every resident of Massachusetts to obtain health insurance coverage. Through the law, Massachusetts provides free health care for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level (FPL)[1], and partially subsidized health care for those earning up to 300% of the FPL, depending on an income-based sliding scale. The law is credited with covering an additional 439,000 Massachusetts residents as of April 1, 2008
I for one did not vote for Scott Brown.. I didn’t care for Martha but I voted for her.. I don’t care about the Health Care bill passing I care about education in Mass.. Scott Brown doesn’t want give more money to education in Mass however he wants to cut funding. I’m scared for what this means for our children, F*CK the health care bill..
This is why both my children are in private schools here in Mass.. I just feel for the families that can’t afford to send their children to good schools.
Martha thought she was a shoe in, she ran a horrible campaign now the rest of us will have to suffer!
I think neither of these two were the best candidate for the job. I had a very hard time making my decision. As much as Scott Brown likes to claim he’s an “independent” that’s so much BULL. When you are voting for tax breaks and against emergency contraception for rape victims I can’t stand with that.
@spongebobfan He doesn’t care about the rest of America. On the today show he said he speaks for Massachusetts and even if we have healthcare he doesn’t want the rest of the country to have federal insurance instead he wants each state to do what’s best for them…and THIS is the main reason why healthcare is so messed up because each state does different things and spends differently, so the insurance industry knows how to keep the money rolling.
I hate to say it but, this my friends is what I call a lesson in checks & balances…if we get tired of the republicans we’ll vote them out too..Dems its time to step your game up. What a nice little wake up call ..dare I say a preview for Nov??????
Did you hear the crowd singing “Pants On The Ground” during his victory speech?
Happy ONE yr anniv Mr President
YES WE CAN and DID!!
@ attorneymom
DID THEY REALLY!!! NOOOOOOOOOO…yo that man needs a check…atty mom, can he sue, cause that song is everywhere?
@daisy hey chick. ive been @repling you on twitter. did they kick flo of bgc?
No POLICY that was good for the 99% has gone down WITHOUT A FIGHT AUNTIE!!!
If it wasn’t for fighting for YEARS…we wouldn’t have the Civil Rights Act…Social Security…Medicare…
Simple as that…
You know the Democrats have no one to blame for this except themselves. They had the majority( a super majority) they dicked around for what like 4 months and didn’t even have there ish together enough to at least get something meaningful passed. Republicans may be evil, but at least they’re a united front. The only thing the election yesterday proved is that the Democrats are just as incompetent as the Republicans. 2012 I’m voting 3rd party. *stepping off my soapbox*
I hope we can find a cost effective health care reform method for this whole country because I most definitely wasn’t feeling the price tag on the bill Obama and the Democrats were/are trying to push through and I think a lot of the law makers weren’t feeling it either but they felt they had to stay true to party lines I guess.
I ain’t lying. Those whities were singing it. I will post the video on my blog as soon as I can find it.
I wish General Platt would allow me to represent him. He would be my first artist with Pink Cotton Entertainment – entertainment that doesn’t set the Civil Rights Movement back a thousand years.
lmaooo at them singing pants on the ground..i was one of obamas biggest supporters and now no longer..
people, dnt be fooled..they are all fighting for the same agenda..these politicians eat and drink together behind closed doors..you vote for one, you vote for of all them..they have the same goal and its has nothing to do with helping the people rather than control…slowly your rights are being taken away from u in front of your eyes..
As for Obama, I wish he would not have become president because I really don’t think America is ready for a black president. It seems like everything and everyone is working against him. I seriously doubt he gets a second term, which at this point may not be such a bad thing. Don’t get me wrong I support our president, but dude needs to get tough on the issues and come up with some viable options. I’m getting sick of this going to do BS, I need to see some action.
@ ryand91
I think the country is ready for a black president but not this one. The people want real change, not just rhetoric.
voting for her was like voting for john kerry when he ran. he’s just an other racist in office that sandra rose likes! like I said, sandra rose is laughing at us all! she cab fly home and get FREE HEALTH CARE! while y’all sitting on her site giggling and laughing with sandra rose, our kids and old people still gonna have to deal with these insurance companys that don’t care about you or me! well we still got a chance! and @sanfiponmeikos we will never have another black prez, cause just like you called him a scumbag! these white folk will agree with you and say this **** or black bitch is a scumbag and he/she can’t run this country! we just put up comments that’s on sandra rose who is black and got a black following, and we’re put up their comments and show that these black sons and bitches don’t support one an another!
@ Ro
Ro once again you look at it from a very biased perspective. If the platform for a black president is ruined now, who’s fault is it? You can’t play the race card here Ro because Obama’s couldn’t have won without large white support.
You talk about the kids having a black role model to look up to but Obama is not worthy of that praise. He is screwing us over.
This is what happens when you make a public servant a celebrity. People like you Ro, have emotionally invested so much in Obama that you can’t see things for what they truly are. If we really press Obama he might actually turn out to be decent but you want to sit back and give him a pass. It don’t work like that! You have to hold his feet to the fire!
Politicians are scumbags by nature. I once thought of Obama as someone that might be different but due to his actions I changed my mind. I’m said that I had to because I was so proud when he won just like everyone of y’all.
People consider Ralph Nader or Ron Paul in 2012 if they run for real change. Don’t just listen to the media and have them think you only have 2 choices.
Peace
Dear liberals and progressives: Don’t be angry at Massachusetts. Be angry at duplicitous and corporatist Democrat leadership.
no, be angry at racist azz whites, and racist azz blacks who don’t even love or like one another
Sanfi, I have to agree with u to a certain point, yes we have to hold him to the fire and we MUST press him on the issues wit economy and jobs BUT wat do u expect the man to do in 1 yr… BAM it’s jobs, BAM the budget is balanced, BAM no more war per presidential order???? NO, EVERYTHING that a president must do he has to ask permission from congress and senate and yes the Dems had the power but that is not wat they worked on. He tried wit da bailout but again i admit that didn’t work. So give him 4 yrs and let the repubs back in and give us another 8 yrs of wat we already have. and NOBODY will EVER vote a liberal into office (sorry). sometimes my ppl make me wish i waz another color or mexican even cuz we have a short span of luv for our own…
Here is the video. The white folks start singing “Pants On The Ground” at approximately 1:00 minute into Brown’s speech.
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com/2010/01/scott-brown-r-wins-ma-senate-race.html
I TRULY FEEL YOU LUVLY1957
@ Ro
Ro once again you look at it from a very biased perspective. If the platform for a black president is ruined now, who’s fault is it? You can’t play the race card here Ro because Obama’s couldn’t have won without large white support.
You talk about the kids having a black role model to look up to but Obama is not worthy of that praise. He is screwing us over.
This is what happens when you make a public servant a celebrity. People like you Ro, have emotionally invested so much in Obama that you can’t see things for what they truly are. If we really press Obama he might actually turn out to be decent but you want to sit back and give him a pass. It don’t work like that! You have to hold his feet to the fire!
Politicians are scumbags by nature. I once thought of Obama as someone that might be different but due to his actions I changed my mind. I’m said that I had to because I was so proud when he won just like everyone of y’all.
People consider Ralph Nader or Ron Paul in 2012 if they run for real change. Don’t just listen to the media and have them think you only have 2 choices.
I don’t know how that happened. Sorry for the double post. I just made a fairly lengthy reply to you luvly1957 but it didn’t work for some reason.
yes sir sanfilpolemikos! you could be a FOX (KKK) NEWS token! you don’t want to get him props on nothing, and you don’t want to hear nothing! you could be one of their specialist on calling OBAMA a scumbag, he’s no role model for or young black kids, anybody who SUPPORT him is a worshipper, and the only reason why people support him is because he’s black! but he has change things! you just don’t want to support because he’s black! I know you said you voted for him, but I don’t believe you! you’re not gonna make me a believer! and you really need to take that pic down and stop faking the FUNK! like you down for the cause!
@ luvly1957
Obama lost me right after the bailout. Right then I knew he was a Wall St agent and not at all for the people. Since then he has increased war efforts, feeding the Military Industrial Complex and somehow he got a peace prize for it! He participated in the false H1N1 campaign, putting more people at risk of the deadly side effects than any good the junk vaccine could have ever did. He promised during the campaign that he wouldn’t hire lobbyists but his cabinet is filled with them. The list goes on and it’s quite a list for only one year. People say give him time but I fear what time will bring.
I do understand where people like Ro are coming from. They take an attack on Obama as an attack on them. They put so much faith in him that they refuse to see things for what they truly are. They fear that we may never see another black man in this position again, but my perspective is what difference does it make if it’s under false pretense anyway?
ro Says:
yes sir sanfilpolemikos! you could be a FOX (KKK) NEWS token! you don’t want to get him props on nothing, and you don’t want to hear nothing! you could be one of their specialist on calling OBAMA a scumbag, he’s no role model for or young black kids, anybody who SUPPORT him is a worshipper, and the only reason why people support him is because he’s black! but he has change things! you just don’t want to support because he’s black! I know you said you voted for him, but I don’t believe you! you’re not gonna make me a believer! and you really need to take that pic down and stop faking the FUNK! like you down for the cause!
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Ro I’m sorry, I think I’m done speaking to you directly from now on. You don’t listen to anything and you seem to be brainwashed beyond restoration.
For the record. I am not at all democrat or republican. Both parties are controlled by the same corporate/banking interests. We need to realize this so we can organize a true alternative and give our children the change we thought this marketing creation was gonna give us.
same here sanflipolemikos, at least I’m not brainwashed to say that everything he doing is wrong! at least I’m not brainwashed to call people names for SUPPORTING the man! and at least I’m not brainwashed to sound like FOX (KKK) NEWS by calling him a scumbag and calling his supporters worshippers! I’ll be seeing you on the next elections trail at his rally outside with big signs with the other racist with signs calling him scumbag and to never vote for an black person again! because he’s gonna be what you voted him in office to be, and that’s a DEMOCRAT! that’s why we vote for an person! not the reasons you’re saying!
and one more thing, the new world order is not gonna start with dems, or republicans, it’s gonna start with the PEOPLE! so don’t sit back an wait for a black or white people in high office to start it!
Ro this will definitely be my last time addressing you until you go and actually read up on stuff. I really do love you. You are my sister. When I made the comment about the New World Order being a good thing the other day, I was joking!
The New World Order is not at all a good thing! I was being sarcastic! I can’t believe you thought I was being serious! Anyway Ro, Take care of yourself. I appreciate your passion.
Peace.
I’M NOT A FEMALE! I JUST USE THE NAME BECAUSE sandra rose KICKS ME OUT ALL THE TIME! LMAO! but why speak on it, if you’re not compassion about it? the new world order is not gonna be no joke! just like the passion OBAMA supporters have for him! it’ll lead to a race riot! and that’ll be bigger than an atom explosion! if you’re reading this! and I been reading, not stuff, but thing and people and history! I don’t read stuff like you said!
LOL!
Oh I assumed you were female for some reason! Anyway you’re my brother then. Please believe I love you still. You know you make a good point about the race riot. That could be. It would play right into their hands though because they would like to have martial law here in America anyway. Obama would love it! The globalist vision is just like George Orwell’s book “1984″. You should give it a read. Might open your mind a bit.
Ok, no more Ro. I’m done with you for sure now!
just one more time! what did OBAMA do to have you think this of him? MARTIAL LAW? what did he never say or do for you to make me a believer of that! and I’m talking about what he said or did. and if you mention a book, explain it where OBAMA said or did something in that book! and why he would love it please! make this the last time. LOL!
Alright. I can’t give you a direct quote of Obama threatening martial law himself. He would never be that stupid, but his actions speak for themselves. Obama has been gearing up for it significantly with increased spending on riot gear and equipment all year.
I mentioned the book “1984″ because it was a brilliant forecast by George Orwell where he imagined the future would be totalitarian governments, martial law, massive camera surveillance, perpetual war etc. Read what Obama’s Director of Science and Technology John Holdren says in his book “Ecoscience” about population control. Then realize that they are using those methods and more all over Africa; sterilizing the population etc. Read what his Administrator of Information Cass Sunstein says we should do about infiltrating peaceful activist groups and trying to get them to in fight and commit violence so the government will have reason to go in and shut it down! It’s all about controlled opposition. It’s constant propaganda and it’s phych warfare my brother; and the rabbit hole goes so much much deeper.
I could go on for days and days. Obama works for the elite, not us. Remember I’m not dissing Obama alone, I’m talking about all presidents for almost the last 100 years and the corruption arguably goes back further!
Sani pls don’t agree wit me cuz i totally disagree wit bout everything u say. how can Obama stop a war dat should hav been over in 03,03 at da latest if bush wld hav done his job and dat’s not wat he won da nobel for it was won for him being da first black man elected and da historic monument it set. also wat side effects did da vaccine hav, wat i heard waz dey were from mixing of other meds and how did he cause H1N1. i am not bashing u but like u said read up on ur facts and not listen to wat other ppl saybut one thing i can agree wit u on is dat’s it’s all politicians. NEXT SUBJECT!!!!!
@ luvly1957
Where did I say I agree with you?
Anyway Obama is the president right? If a president can start a war, another one can end it right? One president is not bound to another’s actions. He has the public’s support to just end it and that’s what he should do, but HE DON’T WANT TO! He is expanding Bush’s illegal wars. It’s business as usual. He wouldn’t even do anything about Bush and Cheney’s war crimes! He let them off scott free!
He did not deserve that peace prize AT ALL! The Europeans that give that award, gave it to him to make him look stupid because they knew he would continue the wars and it would make him look bad. It’s like a joke to them because they know he’s a puppet.
As far as the H1N1 is concerned, people were smart and most didn’t take it but it is loaded with mercury and squalene. They can tell you it’s safe but I know personally how dangerous and deadly it is because my own father died of Guillain Barre due to a vaccine. I KNOW THE FACTS VERY WELL! The campaign was pushed hard by Obama’s administration. He personally endorsed it and it was just another payday for big pharma. Business as usual.
well hopefuly you read this cause it kinda late, but OBAMA did say he was going to stop the war! now if you could remmenber during the elections, he said, he was going to get our troops out of iraq, then he goes on to say that we needed to fjght the real war over in afghanistan where the people who attack us is at! and he has gotten some troops slowly but surely out of iraq. but don’t take this the wrong way, but you was PROBALY too busy HATING to hear the man!