White House tensions

Ballet Rahmbert

The gossip surrounding the president’s chief of staff is getting out of hand

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If Obama fails what people all over the world expecting might for associates like Rahm Emmanuel in the White House. Once Obama starts
his real work for the peaceful world, which might be supported by the billions but guy like Rahm, may fight back. So, its better all including Rahm should leave not only from white House but also from any kind of decision making forum of President Barrack Obama.



Included in this article is a more specific explanation of the plan beyond the one I gave below, which I don't think was nearly vague enough to invite your "long on promises and short on details" jab. Perhaps you should examine it for yourself before you jump to criticism, and yes the CBO's impression is discussed. I'm not trying to sell a miracle, just a better alternative form of health care reform which I think we all agree is needed.

The fact is that we are 12 trillion dollars in debt, an amount too great to even pretend to understand. Instead of exacerbating our economic situation with a flawed bill, I thinks its time for congress to draft a renewed one with fiscal sustainability. Otherwise I think its likely Republicans will win a majority in the next election and will hopefully take a shot at it themselves.


Mr O'Neill you are long on promises and short on details. Claiming something to be true and it actually being true are very different. What does the CBO say about Mr Ryan's plan and where was he a year ago. Does Mr Ryan also have a plan for winning the Vietnam war?

China accounts for less than 10% of our debt. California cannot peform the same functions as the fed, so they are very different. The CBO said that yes costs would go up under the Obama plan because PEOPLE WOULD LIVE LONGER!!! This is a good thing, not bad.


Look up Republican Paul Ryan's alternative plan, the Economist did an article on it a few weeks ago. He proposes that the government gives tax credits to employers that provide health care to employees, along with giving health care vouchers to help the retired and unemployed pay for private insurance. This would be more efficient cost-wise given the lower overhead costs, better investigation of fraud, and more efficient bureaucracy of private insurance companies in comparison to the federal government's performance with Medicare and Medicaid. In addition to that new rules and regulations for private insurers can get rid of rejection of coverage to people with preexisting conditions. Democrats won't touch these alternatives or pursue incremental reform as they instead want to save face with a bill which is by now a distortion of its former self, which was already fiscally questionable.

While it would be easy to have the government pick up the tab on everything Americans have to pay for, the overextended status of California serves as an example for the rest of the country of the consequences of that kind of spending, especially when China pulls the plug on our debt spending.


valwayne, talk about corrupt. I think if you tried harder you could sound more ignorant. Maybe you should try Access Hollywood, I hear they don't deal with facts either.


Is isn't enough that Obama has put hundreds of billions of corrupt deals into the massive corrupt healthcare bill to buy votes. He's sent his Chicago Way enforcer over to the House to bully and intimidate lawmakers, in the nude, to vote for healthcare. At least if you beleive Congressman Massa from that corrupt Swamp that Nancy Pelosi Runs! Any bill that requirs this much corruption to get it passed is too dangerous to ram down the throats of the American people. Rahm may be Obama's nude enforcer, but if the stories are true he's the only one offering Obama sane advice, which of course, Obama is ignoring!!!


If Rahm poked any Politician from Asia/South America he would be clobbered. Funny he can get away with this in America.


It is all about stretching the art of the possible. Obama may be said to be maximizing on his chief of staff in so far he is stretching his chief of staff beyond where he has been. It is probably a learning experience to both of them. Obama needs to stretch beyond others imagination of the possible since that is what he promised, because that is what he sees his role to be.


Politics SUCKS!!

It's all about mud-slinging, finger-pointing, blame games, passing the buck, rampant hypocricy, irrational sanctimony, unwarranted moral indignation & of course LIES GALORE..

The truth, the whole truth & NOTHING BUT LIES!



"Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel."

He is the hand of the government that really controls the United States. He is selected before the president is.


Virtually anyone that considers health care in the US realizes there needs to be changes. Simply stated, the "reform" proposed will not solve any of the problems - it is change simply for the sake of change.
And it comes with a huge price tag. Many people won't review the fact that this program is a boondoggle - and it may very end up costing us trillions just to prove those people wrong.
In the same way Bush was dismissive of those that disagreed with his approaches, Obama does the same.


Quaid, you said it.

Unfortunately Americans got hooked on health insurance, another unsustainable ponzi scheme. Now the progressives in the White House want to make the ponzi scheme part of their social justice agenda. Personal responsibility is the first casualty of liberal ideology.

"Who wants to live forever?" And be cared for cradle to grave?


" We're not playing games. It's time for the government to give us this free university degree without sinking us in to student debt so that we can secure a job for ourselves in the middle class. We're saying that, hey, if we're abiding by the laws of this country, you need to secure us a job in the middle class. Another socialist value is human right, we believe in the human — we believe that it is a human right to a job that will secure us a place in the middle class. There's a lot of misinformation out there about socialism and anarchism and different, you know, "-isms" or ideologies.We also believe that there is a food right. We believe in — we believe that people have a right to food.

We believe that there's a food right. We believe that there is a housing right.

We believe that where you live you own, that you have a property right to a home and that it cannot be taken away."


Roman Shuster

Chaos? Chaos Marshabar?

Are you threatening some type of chaotic response if this bill passes

i shudder at the thought, but i guess that's what all the gun wackos have been planning for huh?


Society still has a few "functional niches" for those with psychopathic personality traits. Though not predominantly filled with such personalities, military, law enforcement, acting, sales, attorney and leadership work present havens for higher functioning psychopaths.


The Democrats are Terrible!!!
When Bush left office we had a huge budget surplus, a booming economy, no war and a well-oiled healthcare system.
After Obama came in, the economy crashed, we have trillions in deficit, two wars and a healthcare system eating all our money.
Let's vote the Republicans in and in 2012 have Sarah Palin as president. She has a lot of commonsense, is a straight-talking woman and an American (like all of us), not a foreigner like Obama.


Is it really appropriate for the most powerful adviser to a nation's chief executive to be a dual citizen? How is it that this potential conflict of interest is never discussed?



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