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House passes massive healthcare bill; Fort Hood shooter prayed with 9/11 hijackers, backed terrorism
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Just before midnight, the House of Representatives passed a massive, 2000-page healthcare "reform" bill by a 220 to 215 vote. The bill, backed by the Obama Administration, will raise taxes. It will also explode state and federal budget deficits and cost far more than promised. It contains special-interest pork, such as racial preferences that drew criticism from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
More details are emerging about the Muslim soldier, Nidal Hasan, who shot dead 13 people at Fort Hood on Thursday. He attended the same mosque as some of the 9/11 terrorists, reports the London Telegraph. Although his anti-American, pro-terrorist views were common knowledge, "a fear of appearing discriminatory . . . kept officers from filing a formal written complaint," reports the Associated Press. Moreover, “a key official on a review committee reportedly asked how it might look to terminate a key resident who happened to be a Muslim," notes NPR.
The massive health-care bill passed by the House contains provisions sought by trial lawyers that will increase medical costs. Doctors afraid of being wrongly sued for malpractice despite providing good quality care order unnecessary tests (or defensive medicine), which wastes at least $200 billion annually.
In his 2008 campaign, Obama promised not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. But this healthcare bill would impose a laundry list of new taxes on the middle class, including a tax on uninsured people. Americans for Tax Reform earlier summarized the tax increases in ObamaCare: an individual mandate tax (if you don’t have health insurance); an employer mandate tax for each employee if health coverage is not offered; an “excise tax on high-cost health plans”; a “medicine cabinet tax”; capping Flexible-Spending Accounts (FSA’s); abolishing most HSAs; and increasing tax penalties for HSAs.
The Fort Hood shooter had previously said that Muslims should rise up against the military, "repeatedly expressed sympathy for suicide bombers," was pleased by the terrorist murder of an army recruiter, and publicly called for the beheading or burning of non-Muslims, talking "about how if you’re a nonbeliever the Koran says you should have your head cut off, you should have oil poured down your throat, you should be set on fire." But thanks to a politically-correct double standard, nothing was done to remove him from a position where he could harm others.
President Obama's initial response to the tragedy was embarrassing, even for some liberal journalists. Obama's initial remarks about the tragedy came buried in the middle of a speech laced with "wildly disconnected" ramblings about an unrelated topic, starting with a "joking shout-out." Even the liberal Boston Globe, which endorsed Obama in 2008, chided the President for a speech lacking in "empathy" for the victims.
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