Shovel Ready President

To quote Dan Riehl:

"Can he overcome his lack of experience to prevail? He'll need to grow up and into the office and he hasn't done that, yet."

I don't know about you but I would prefer to have a "shovel ready" president, not one who has to grow into the office.

RightKlik has a good summation of what's going on - ObamaCare: a sick joke

And wow! Obamacare will cover 12 million illegal immigrants. Which means while he's cutting care for the elderly (they need to choose between the surgery or the pain meds, doncha know) he'll be buying lots of illegal votes. I figure if dead people can vote now, why not illegals...

Why don't we start by stopping the futile treatment of Senator Kennedy.

So just today Senator Kennedy makes his pitch for the government decimating the health care of the majority of the American people.

His closing statement? Glad you asked.

How America responds to the challenges of health care, he wrote, "will define our character as a country."

What exactly does Ted Kennedy know about character? Do you think he took the time to lay flowers on the grave of Mary Jo Kophechne a few days ago to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day he killed her?

From Newsmax.com

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.

The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.

The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America – a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, costs under the Obama plan being proposed by the House will saddle citizens with $1.04 trillion in new federal outlays over the next decade.

Congressional Democrats and Obama have argued that their health plan is necessary to contain rising health care costs.

But, last Thursday, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the Senate Budget Committee and warned lawmakers that the proposed “legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs."

A key factor increasing costs is that Democratic plan provides for blanket coverage to as much as 15 percent of the U.S. population not currently insured, including illegals.

Democrats had insisted throughout the health-care reform debate that illegals would be ineligible for the so-called public option plan that is to be subsidized by taxpayers.

"We're not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told reporters in May. "That's too politically explosive."

Republicans, however, point out that the Democrats, by refusing to accept the Heller amendment, would deny health agencies from conducting simple database checks to verify citizenship. Many states give illegals driver licenses, which will be sufficient to get free health care under the plan.

Critics also contend that millions of illegals who already have counterfeit Social Security cards or other fraudulent documents. There is no enforcement mechanism in the legislation, experts say, to prevent illegals who use fake IDs to obtain jobs from also obtaining taxpayer-subsidized health insurance.

GOP representatives introduced the amendment to provide a way to weed out non-citizens from the program.