Sen. Hatch (R-UT) Refuses to be Tool of Obama
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Obama needs at least a few GOPers to sign on to his big government health care scam in order that when it falls apart, Democrats won’t bear 100% of the blame, and it looks like that prospect is fading:
Sen. Orrin Hatch said Wednesday he has withdrawn from a bipartisan Senate group that is negotiating legislation to overhaul the health-care system.
Mr. Hatch (R., Utah) is one of four Republicans that began negotiating with the aim of reaching bipartisan agreement on a bill. However, of the four, he had been considered the least likely to support a final product. Talks are continuing to try to get Sens. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa); Olympia Snowe (R., Maine) and Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) to throw their support behind the package.
“It’s going to be difficult for me to support what they are talking about, so I’d rather be upfront about it,” Mr. Hatch told reporters after a Senate vote. He said he informed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.), who has been leading the so-called group of seven, of his decision Wednesday.
Snowe (R-ME) will be the hardest to detach – but if we can get it down to just her, then no matter how they slice and dice it, they won’t have anything bi-partisan about their bill. If we are to have this hopelessly corrupt, anti-common sense and un-American plan shoved down our throats, then let us hang the dead-certain miserable results on the Democrats.
UPDATE: Catholic Bishops condemn Obamacare over its stealth-provisions for federally funded abortion on demand.
Many have been wondering when the U.S. bishops would comment on the Obama health care plan — given that it contains abortion coverage.
Well, their statement has finally arrived. It comes in the form of a letter from Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Center to all the members of Congress.
Bishop Murphy writes as chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
“No health care plan should compel us or others to pay for the destruction of human life, whether through government funding or mandatory coverage of abortion. Any such action would be morally wrong,” writes Bishop Murphy.
The bishops have been lobbying for universal health care for many years, thus the letter from Bishop Murphy contains many specific proposals they would like to see incorporated into the legislation. For example, Bishop Murphy asks for a repeal of the five-year waiting period for legal immigrants to receive Medicaid benefits.
I included that last bit – the desire to cover legal immigrants from day one – because I wanted to point out that the Catholic Bishops have been in favor of a universal health care for a long time, including a sort of coverage many liberals oppose. Well, here it is, and the Bishops have been forced to oppose an age-old dream because fanatics on the left are inserting anti-life provisions. Point blank, no one really knows what is in this dog of a bill – and that is how Obama and his Democrats wish it to remain…just pass the blasted thing, and then Obama will tell us what he finds in there.
Nothing doing, Barry.
UPDATE II: Nancy Pelosi says she’s got the votes. Yeah, whatever.
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6 Responses to “Sen. Hatch (R-UT) Refuses to be Tool of Obama”
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Let’s make them a deal. No bi-partisan support, and if the plan is a wild success, and transforms healthcare into the magical, cost saving, wonderful treatment plan they promote, then they reap all the rewards and success’s thereof.
If not, then we have the right to use it as a club to beat their brains in with in the next several elections.
Cluster,
That is my view – they don’t need a single GOP vote and we can’t even slow it up in the Senate. Let them do it – if they’re convinced that its all its cracked up to be, then they should have no problem passing it.
“Let’s make them a deal. No bi-partisan support, and if the plan is a wild success, and transforms healthcare into the magical, cost saving, wonderful treatment plan they promote, then they reap all the rewards and success’s thereof.”
I’m ok with that. The democrats are going to get the credit or blame regardless so why try to include the Republicans.
The democrats are going to get the credit or blame regardless so why try to include the Republicans.
Particularly on this issue, which Republicans are opposing sheerly for political purposes.
“Particularly on this issue, which Republicans are opposing sheerly for political purposes.”
No, oralndo, they are opposing this because it is a crappy bill. Prime examples of government failure – social security, medicare and medicaid all going bankrupt, are easily defrauded and are woefully inept at everyday tasks; and FEMA – are the primary reasons why these people can’t be trusted with our health.
The solution is not government control. Sad for you and the others who believe that government is the salvation of everything.
orlando—-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I agree, this is an Obama bill, and the Dems should own it.
The latest whine from the Left is “Well, when the laws forced banks to make bad loans, and the entire housing industry was facing ruin, YOU SHOULD HAVE STOPPED US”. We have seen it here. We (the grownups) would point out the social engineering and bad laws that led, inevitably, to the housing/economic crisis, and the Resident Trolls whined, in unison, “Well, the Republicans didn’t do anything to STOP it!”
Great—they have created the template, so I say we should follow it. I say we make all the necessary points about the defects and consequences of the bill, go on record as objecting to it for its obvious flaws, and then let the Dems take full credit for it. What they are trying to do now has nothing to do with “bipartisanship”—it is trying to get the GOP on the hook for sharing in the blame when the public finds out what it got saddled with.