When ObamaCare goes into effect, the president may want to get checked for schizophrenia. Just weeks ago, the Obama administration bypassed Congress to add a “death panels” provision to the new health care law by regulation. Today, a number of “administration officials” have told the New York Times the president will withdraw the federal rule.
Of course, this reversal in no way signals that Barack Obama has changed his goals. This was a defeat forced by an indignant public. This is a defeat for Obama’s administrative lawmaking and a major victory for the Tea Party movement.
In fact, this is the second time the same time they have defeated the creeping threat of euthanasia. Democrats added a provision to finance “voluntary” end-of-life counseling to the gargantuan 2009 ObamaCare bill. After Sarah Palin alerted her FaceBook followers to the bill’s “death panels,” Tea Party activists sprang into action. The backlash became so intense that the measure had to be struck from the bill, which Nancy Pelosi managed to “parachute” onto the president’s desk.
Last November, shortly after the president’s advisers revealed that Obama planned to implement his far-Left agenda through executive fiat, the provision funding these sessions reappeared in the Federal Register.
The mass media only learned of this after Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-OR, announced the development — which he and Sen. Jay Rockefeller pushed for — in an e-mail to his supporters. “We would ask that you not broadcast this accomplishment out to any of your lists e-mails can too easily be forwarded,” he wrote. “The longer this goes unnoticed, the better our chances of keeping it.” The president’s decision to institute the measure in the face of massive popular, and Congressional, opposition created a greater uproar. Today’s NYT states that, according to anonymous advisers, the president has decided “to delete references to end-of-life planning” once again.
The Times adds the regulation was issued by Dr. Donald Berwick, the recess-appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Berwick has professed his “love” for the British health care system and stated flatly, “Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.” The Times euphemistically calls Doctor Death “a longtime advocate for better end-of-life care.”
The media come off as the worst players in this drama. This federal regulation was discovered, not by the New York Times, or Katie Courie, or National Review, but by LifeTree, a North Carolina-based pro-life ministry originally dedicated to erecting a 23-foot-tall tree decorated with baby booties to drive home the carnage of abortion.
Steven Ertelt at LifeNews.com picked up the story nearly a month before the media caught on. (We also covered it at the time.) If it were not for Blumenauer’s congratulatory e-mail, the mass news syndicates may never have learned about this provision. The mainstream media — including the mainstream conservative media — should be ashamed at the stories they regularly miss or misinterpret.
The media’s silence is Obama’s greatest ally. As Blumenauer wrote, the longer the Left’s secretive power grabs and offenses against the Constitution go unreported, the more successful they will be. Once again, professional politicians and the prestige media have failed in their duties as the protectors of our rights. Only independent news sources, such as LifeNews, talk radio, and this website, have been dedicated to a rigorous pursuit of truth over spin, substance over style, reporting over reputation. Today’s announcement should be a reminder of the importance of grassroots activists and citizen journalists — because they are the only kind left.
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Of course, we need to watch everything obama does…but what we need to do is get him OUT of office! He does NOT belong there! This CAN be done if the new Congress will just do IT’S JOB!!!!
Obama will not reverse his decision on the death panels. He may say he has decided not to have death
panels, but that will be a lie. He will find a way to sneak them in. He lied to the CBO about the cost of Obamacare so that it seemed that it would be affordable. I bet that instead of "saving" a billion plus dollars it will cost a trillion dollars more per year. When Medicare was enacted then estimated cost was off by a factor of eight and now Medicare has unfunded liabilities of several trillion dollars. Our health care system was not broken. Tort reform would have decreased the cost of health care but was not even addressed in a bill than ran about 2600 pages and was enacted wirh nobody in Congress reading it. As
Pelosi said they had to pass it so they could find out what was in it. And there is a lot in it that has very little or nothing to do with health. Example: student loans are now available only from the government.
We all know he has schizophrenia.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20,21
docboyer – Couldn't have said it better; Obama will do similar things throughout the tenure of his presidency; feigning reversal and then end run around everything including Constitutional procedure to "stick it to them". Faintly along the lines of his opposing even NARAL in voting for the abortion of babies who survived an abortion. He's well aware of our negative birth rate while Islam continues at unprecedented birth rates along with their proselytizing our prison inmates, students in public schools (educating children for diversity sake) and everywhere else they can such as the efforts for Sharia law in OK and elsewhere.
As Gingrich says; this isn't the end; it;s just the beginning!!
1). America has a muslim sitting in the oval office,
WITH ACCESS TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
2). Dearborn Michigan is controlled by muslims.
3). Mosques are everywhere.
4). Each year there are more muslims in America.
Muslim women are encouraged to have 7 or 8 kids
5). Women who are not muslim are encouraged to
murder their child in the womb.
6). Each year more mosques are being built.
7). Muslims have a very powerful legal presence in America.
8). Muslims have stated publicly that by the year 2020 a muslim
flag will fly over the White House.
9). 10′s of Millions of people in America support islam.
Part of this is due to stupidity & part is due to the fact that
they support evil.
10). America has rejected Jesus the Christ & has embraced
every evil under heaven, including islam which is of satan.
Conclusion: Islam IS taking over America & a muslim flag WILL
one day fly over the White House.
AMERICA YOU NEED TO WAKE UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!!!!!
Raymond
Raymond you real speak the truth and America real has to wake up.We are losing Minnesota to the Camel Jockeys already.God Bless you
Hi Edward. Thank you for your compliment.
America is sinking into the abyss, a muslim sitting
in the oval office is proof of that. It's very important
to remember that Obama the muslim has access
to America's nuclear weapons. Forget about Iran,
let's worry about the muslim in the white house.
He's a far bigger threat.
Your right just look at Minnesota before long it will be a haven for muslims.They're taxi don't have to pick up peole that they feel are unworthy and Target gives them jobs so they don't have to touch bacon.my God what other religion or nationality get this special treatment.Obuma is letting in all these Somalians and giving them citizenship like we do for the Cubans.I agree Obuma is the biggest threat going but his race want free handouts and he is trying to provide that and when they wake up it will be too late.
Their cabbies have been driving in San Francisco for years….cheating and abusing the people of that once great state
I'm afraid I have to agree with docboyer; BO lied to us about this before why should we believe him now? Of course, since I am a senior citizen AND disabled I sincerely hope he keeps his word this time, if he knows how to do that. I want to go on record right now though that if the "death panel" section is not removed, I will refuse to sit with any such panel that I may be called to answer to. God knows when I will die and it's God who has decided when that is, not some dispassionate, anonymous panel and certainly not Barack Obama!
@docboyer, FYI student loans have always been available only from the government. I worked in the student loan business for several years. Banks and savings and loans doled out the money but it was government money and it was the government your payments went to. I was a collector of past due student loans and the company I worked for was on contract to the Federal Government. The only change I see there is that government will drop the facade and the money will come directly from the Federal Reserve. One last question docboyer; have you actually read all 2600 pages of that thing?? If so, then you're my hero, I haven't gotten past the title page.
docboyer – Couldn't have said it better. Obama will tell you anything to your face and make end runs around Constitutional procedures to accomplish his ends much as he opposed even NARAL in voting for the death of surviving babies of botched abortions. This will be his style for the rest of his presidency; the smirk will soon be gone; we need to continue to oppose regardless what our "new" Congress says reminding them that as the last were swept out in 2010, they can also go if they don't mind what we the people tell them we want done. I'm still looking for a Republican, Independent, Constitutional or whatever candidate with a knowledge of Islam, the military, a strict Constructionist, aware of and not afraid to fight for the values of Life, Liberty and the ownership and biblical principles and values that made this country great. Those who "hate" our country should be given one way tickets to the land of their choice – we have enemies foreign and domestic that need to be weeded out of the American garden.
none of this is actually surprising, as Obama has lied from the beginning. The people must keep on protesting and keep monitorifng what is going on. Only by doing so can we keep this kind of thing from happening. Just because reps. are in control in the House is not the time to relax.
Ugh get him out of our white house ASAP….A walking disaster and anti american buffoon with a bevy of thugs, commies, idiots, and other horrid monsters ruining our once great country…One more day of this buffoon is too much!!!
Indeed! If anything should come from this timely revelation, it should be that we all should realize the fact that our president should not be "feigning" anything. Former president (#33) Harry S. Truman coined the phrase…"The Buck Stops HERE" but this does not in any way suggest that legislation starts with the White House. The current president, with the full cooperation of D-majority, seems to embrace the philosophy…"If you can't convince them, confuse them." One more example of a familiar profile which may be identified as your typical con artist. If the new Republican majority has a job to do in the 112th Congress, I would make a suggestion to have EPA check to see what's in the water around DC.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is announcing the latest round of cost-cutting measures for the military, including a plan to do away with a new amphibious vehicle that can ferry troops to shore while under fire.
The plan is aimed at staving off potentially deeper cuts by the White House or Congress by showing that the Pentagon is taking seriously a call to rein in the nation's deficit.
WAYS TO CUT SPENDING:
1). DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS
2). HAVE TRUE TORT REFORM.
3). STOP GIVING MONEY TO NATIONS THAT WANT TO KILL US.
4). STOP GIVING MONEY TO GOD HATING GROUPS LIKE THE ACLU.
5). STOP GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL THE
BABY IN THEIR WOMB, AKA MURDER.
6). MAKE EVERYONE ON WELFARE TAKE A DRUG TEST.
It does not matter if OBAMA says he will reverse this so called DEATH PANEL . Many don;t know but burried in the Stimulous Bill was a 1.1 Billion dollar Bill to create the FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL for COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH . This is the death panel where Ezekial Emanuel brother of Raum sits and is one of many radicals who will decide whether one is a contributor to society , worthy of medical treatment. This sick freak believes Healthcare should be mainly devoted to those between 20 and 40 year olds. He believes an infant does not have anything to contribute since not much time has been spent nurturing it,so he or she is nothing. The elderly are but worthless eaters and expendable. If OBAMACARE rolls out in full , this is the future for our once great nation.The media of course does not tell the people of this council.EVERYONE needs to spread this throughout the country. This is OBAMA , THE PROGRESSIVES ,EUGENTIST this is our future .
If you could name the most important thing you could do for your teenage children to give them a leg up and an edge in this world, what would it be? Ensure them a college education? Enroll them in team sports? Make them take music lessons?
Would it surprise you to know that the most important thing that you can do for your teenager is to teach them to work?
We are raising a generation of children to remain… children. According to a leading magazine, 70% of men are not mentally mature even when reaching their 30s. A hundred years ago this wasn't the case. What happened to our men?
FDR and the New Deal happened to them. In his attempts to stop the flow of people into the workforce, Roosevelt extended school age attendance to 18. Instead of young men becoming men, and girls growing into mature women with life skills, they sit in a school house until they are 18 years old, mentally and emotionally stagnating.
We as parents have added to this stagnation by:
Indulging our children with endless gratification instead of instilling within them a sense of industry, thrift and work.
We have decimated the family unit and can no longer find the time to sit at the same supper table with our children to eat.
We have enslaved ourselves to debt and no longer have the means to pass on a long-term vision or goal that our children can get behind.
The Magic Green Hat
The other day I needed to go to the emergency room.
Not wanting to sit there for 4 hours, I put on my MAGIC GREEN HAT.
When I went into the E.R., I noticed that 3/4 of the people got up and left.
The hate says: US BOARDER PATROL.
I guess they decided that they weren't that sick after all. Cut at least 3 hours off my waiting time.
It also works at DMV. It saved me 5 hours.
At the Laundromat, three minutes after entering, I had my choice of any machine, most still running.
But…don't try it at McDonald's. The whole crew got up and left and l never got my order!