Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees
at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Saturday,
Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
President Obama hosts his televised health care summit with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Thursday.
After months of criticism that he wasn't personally involved in shaping the health-reform conversation, President Obama finally released his own plan for legislation on Monday. However, many are not impressed with the much heralded, "President's proposal," including the former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.
"The President has wrestled control of the health care debate away from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid by finally introducing his own plan. Unfortunately, the White House’s proposal includes everything we found untenable about the old Senate bill – only this one is even more expensive! This is what you might call putting “perfume on a pig.”"
Palin took on the new proposal in a Facebook note on Wednesday titled, "More of the Same, Only More Expensive."
"The President’s proposal doesn’t include pro-free market ideas like allowing people to buy insurance across state lines, giving individual buyers the same tax benefits as those who get insurance through their employers, or instituting real medical liability reform," Palin said. "Despite the “kumbaya” rhetoric, Democrats are making plans to ram this bill through the Senate using a partisan procedural maneuver that will bypass the normal bipartisan debate process."
It's still not entirely clear that Congressional Democrats can pass health reform on their own and many see the health care summit as a political event.
Palin said, "With a government-growing proposal this bad, it’s no wonder the President wants bipartisan cover for it in an election year. Thursday’s health care summit is already being revealed as little more than a photo-op. The Obama administration still denies the existence of the House Republicans’ health care plan that offers alternative solutions to health care challenges – even though the White House website links right to it."
A new poll says three of four Americans doubt the meeting will lead to a health care agreement, reports Susan Page of USA TODAY.
"The public is clearly opposed to the Democrats’ health care bills," Palin added. "Americans want to scrap these big-government plans and start over with common-sense, incremental reform. Some on the left have urged Democrats to vote for Obamacare because it’s a foot in the door for universal health care. They understand what’s at stake; so should the rest of us."
Comments
I hope Sarah runs for president. But only if Tina Fey will agree to come back and portray her. I have never enjoyed an election so much. She is a walking skit, a Saturday Night Live Boon. What a foolish, silly woman, go Sarah go!
She would criticize President Obama if he cured cancer. She doesn't care about HCR or any other issue. She's just a sore loser.
73% of Americans want to start over with this. We DON'T want the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Frankenstein Monster of a Healthcare Plan (and yes, that includes a majority of Democrats too)...when is the White House going to start LISTENING to the American people and stop trying to force this on us?
I say we harvest organs of retarded children to feed the poor. God Bless America. A modest proposal.
She can't leave the pig reference alone. If she has a better idea then express it. If she is a pig farmer I appreciate she'd need perfume. Please go away Sarah and let people with real ideas take the spotlight.
We all continue to wish we had better government, better leaders, jobs, food and yes health care. Why anyone thinks that we should be given what we don't work for is more a European mind set and look how well they are doing. Neither the Republicans or Democrats give a fig about any of us, only the power they steal from their office. Give a person power and than you will see what is in their heart. America, we have no heart in Washington DC, only politicans.
Obama's new health care bill is like putting perfume on Michelle Obama or Nancy Pelosi.
(con)walrus says:
"Obama's new health care bill is like putting perfume on Michelle Obama or Nancy Pelosi."
hey, I heard your momma raised her rates to $4
What's up with that? Congress should be looking in to that (well not INTO, but at)
Don't talk about your grandma that way (lieberal)walrus. Me and your mother don't appreciate that kind of talk.
Man the conservatives sure do have some good looking women like Palin, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, Megyn Kelly, Mary Katherine Ham, Bo Derek, Carrie Prejean etc. and on the libtard side you have well umm umm and you have uh uh, damn well if you can't be nice.
(con)walrus says:
"Man the conservatives sure do have some good looking women like Palin, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, Megyn Kelly, Mary Katherine Ham, Bo Derek, Carrie Prejean etc. and on the libtard side you have well umm umm and you have uh uh, damn well if you can't be nice. "
so, you're saying that your polititans are all bimbos and that's all you really want out of them? why stop there, go into the strip joints and start choosing all of next elections' runners.
Dude only two of those hot chicks are "polititians"(sic). The rest are just part of the largest group of American voters who identify themselves as conservative.
Conservative 40%
Moderate 35%
Libtard 21%
Uber Commie(lib)walrus 4%
con walrus you missed two at the very top:
Plutocrat, I know you're ignorant and dumb but i'm not explaining it look it up.
Nazi
then conservative, libtard (sic) whatever else you had listed.
(lib)walrus = Paul = Aunt Bee = Mean Mr. Mustard = (fake)Larry Soetoro = uber leftist commie = delusional acid dropping hippie = Phil Donahue and Oprah fan = watches MSNBC and Anderson Cooper etc.
barry soetoro says:
"(lib)walrus = Paul = Aunt Bee = Mean Mr. Mustard = (fake)Larry Soetoro = uber leftist commie = delusional acid dropping hippie = Phil Donahue and Oprah fan = watches MSNBC and Anderson Cooper etc."
half of those aren't me and I've never watched Anderson Cooper...don't even know what channel he's on...you're getting paranoid boy, thinking walrus is everyone.
Cooper is on CNN and it's better than watching InsHannity, I'm not lib Walrus, MSNBC is better than FOX, and Barry Soetoro is a special olympian.
Can't argue with you Paul, "Barry Soetoro is a special olympian," you said it bro'.
Lipstick on a pig, Now perfume on the pig? What's next?
Lysol on a cuda?
FEAR THE CUDA!
Paul says:
"FEAR THE CUDA!"
yeah, she smells fishy
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