Obama Enlists Doctors for Health Care Fight
The White House said the group "Doctors for America," which advocates health care reform, distributed the labs coats to the doctors.Who is "Doctors for America?"
(AP)
We are a grassroots group of doctors across America speaking up to build a better healthcare system. We believe that physicians have a critical responsibility to bring our expertise to ensuring that this country enacts effective, comprehensive reform this year.Doctors for America' launches
Sen. Max Baucus and the Center for American Progress Action Fund are announcing a new group on a conference call later this morning: Doctors for America, which is a reincarnation of Doctors for Obama, an arm of the Obama campaign that boasted more than 10,000 members.That's real AstroTurf!
UPDATE:
White House's botched 'op'
But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses.
So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians who had taken seats in the sun-splashed lawn area.
They're coming to take him away, ha-ha
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Caption contest!
ReplyDeleteEventually, Barack took to have lengthy conversations with his teleprompter - just the two of them - for hours on end in the garden. He didn't even notice when the doctors finally came for him.
And here I thought "Doctors for America" was an employment agency in Pakistan ...
ReplyDelete"Sir, your psych eval results are in. I'm afraid you'll need to come with us."
ReplyDeleteIs my dollar still good here?
ReplyDelete"Who is 'Doctors for America?'"
ReplyDeleteAnd who are Barack Hussein Obama?
Jorline said...
ReplyDeleteIs my dollar still good here?
The IRS will take it.
Nice catch on the group's origins. Kind of makes it all clear when you see it side by side like that.
ReplyDeleteKenneth
ReplyDeleteI'd laugh if that wasn't so serious.
Obama's battle against banks has a long history. In 1994, freshly out of Harvard Law School, he joined two other attorneys in filing a lawsuit against Citibank, the giant mortgage lender. In Selma S. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank, the plaintiffs claimed that although they had ostensibly been denied home loans "because of delinquent credit obligations and adverse credit," the real culprit was institutional racism. The suit alleged that Citibank had violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Housing Act and, for good measure, the 13th Constitutional Amendment, which abolished slavery.
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ReplyDeleteThe Doctors standing behind The Teleprompter Jesus are the only ones who'll remain if Bambicare is crammed down our throats. The Sheeple will be allowed one office visit per 80 year period and it will be limited to 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteI loves Max Baucus, because I loves his name.
ReplyDeleteDream headline:
Baucus Caucus Raucous: Three Attendees Removed
Good to see you Old Line Texan. I enjoyed your scribbling over at the old place.
ReplyDeleteOccasional Reader said...
ReplyDelete"Who is 'Doctors for America?'"
IIRC Michael Jackson's doctor was a member.
Spenser (with an S) said...
ReplyDeleteNice catch on the group's origins. Kind of makes it all clear when you see it side by side like that.
Renders the whole presser with the docs meaningless. The white coat business is just icing that makes 'em all look silly.
OldLineTexan said...
ReplyDeleteThe IRS will take it.
They have everything else.
"Dream headline:
ReplyDeleteBaucus Caucus Raucous: Three Attendees Removed"
That's pretty good, but I can't say it beats my dream headline from early this year:
Obama grapples with Boehner, hopes for quick stimulus
(Subheadline)
But Pelosi complains his package "should be bigger"
Hey y'all! Welcomes to our sleepyheaded O.R. and a "tsk-tsk" for using his Kimber as an avatar!
ReplyDeleteAh re-post from prior thread:
ReplyDeleteHey Kenneth and Jorline and anyone else I've missed in-between!
How are y'all doing today?
Kenneth my friend you and Killian Bundy have been really on target today. CNN "fact checking" jokes just show what a fucking joke the Communist News Network is.
And I still want an answer as to who was Sec Def under Bush, cause Robert Gates is saying we didn't have enough troops in Afghanistan under the previous administration and I think that whomever was in the Bush administration and had the ability to make that fact KNOWN to Bush shoulda done so, don't y'all?!
6-p00 is that you? Did you bring C3PO with you?
ReplyDeleteHey realwest (or the Artist Formerly Known As x23cc3425ckjhhkeh2335, as I should call you!)
ReplyDeleteNo sleepyheadedness here... more fun fun fun on the DC Metro this morning, as yet another mechanical problem of some sort forced me to eventually abandon the Metro station and, luckily, run into a colleague who was doing the same, and driving to work.
""Dream headline:
ReplyDeleteBaucus Caucus Raucous: Three Attendees Removed"
That's pretty good, but I can't say it beats my dream headline from early this year:
Obama grapples with Boehner, hopes for quick stimulus
(Subheadline)
But Pelosi complains his package "should be bigger"
O.R., kindly disregard my previous comment about you're being a sleepy head - that one was well worth waiting for!
From those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it file......
ReplyDeleteRemember CRA? The Community Reinvestment Act, the Rabbit Bait bill pushed by ACORN and others that started the whole mortgageUS Advocates Push To
Expand Community Reinvestment Act bubble?
The Community Reinvestment Act should be modernized and extended to apply to credit unions and other financial institutions beyond banks, witnesses will argue in a U.S. House hearing Wednesday.
Massachusetts top bank regulator Steven L. Antonakes will discuss his state's efforts to extend CRA or similar standards to credit unions and non-bank mortgage companies in prepared remarks before the panel. In addition, he will argue for the need to force affiliates of CRA-covered institutions to adhere to CRA standards.
"Because of the way CRA regulations are written, a bank can structure its lending, investments, and services so that activities that enhance its CRA performance are either done directly by the bank or through an affiliate at its choosing," Antonakes, Massachussets' commissioner of banks, will say.
OR - you win again
ReplyDeleteTruck Monkey - why, thank'ee kindly
JCM--
ReplyDelete"Renders the whole presser with the docs meaningless."
Hey, you leave Render out of this!
JCM ... well, if you oppose the CRA ... you know what's next ... yep RACIST! ... how many times are we gonna get hit upside the head with the CRA bat before it finally sinks in ... IT DOES NOT WORK ... some people should not own homes because there is way more to owning a home than just paying the mortgage and even then many people could not even afford that ... there is nothing wrong with renting ...
ReplyDeleteJCM said...
ReplyDeleteRenders the whole presser with the docs meaningless. The white coat business is just icing that makes 'em all look silly.
The white coats were lab tech's from the DeVry Institute of Higher Learning.
OLT:
ReplyDelete"OR - you win again"
And let that be a lesson to you. Never go up against a Spanish-speaking Irish-German when death is on the line! (And never start a land war in Asia, but you knew that.)
Just another day at the Obama White House, except someone finally called for the men in the white coats.
ReplyDeleteOR:
ReplyDeleteA "lesson"?
How very Obama-ish of you.
Plus, as you well know, we Texans never learn ANYTHING. Did you never hear Ann Richards speak?!?
Realwest!
ReplyDeleteWhat did you do with C3P0?
Lincolntf said...
ReplyDeleteJust another day at the Obama White House, except someone finally called for the men in the white coats.
They're coming to take me away
Did you never hear Ann Richards speak?!?
ReplyDeleteUgh. I thought she was funny, in a mean spirited bitchy sort of way. She was no Helen Thomas though, I'll tell ya that. She didn't live to see her 900th birthday.
zigzag,
ReplyDeleteI'm hearing mortgage ads again....
No income verifications, no down etc....
D'Oh!
"I'm hearing mortgage ads again....
ReplyDeleteNo income verifications, no down etc...."
What could possibly go wrong?
Ann was the Guv, but as soon as she left office apparently the whole state went down the toilet.
ReplyDeleteNow some of us hicks ain't all THAT stupid, and we kept askin' Ann how that come to be under her watch and all, and how ol'Shrub managed to lose the farm in such a short time, so to speak.
Never got an Ann-swer.
JCM said...
ReplyDeletezigzag,
I'm hearing mortgage ads again....
No income verifications, no down etc....
D'Oh!
Barney is all for it!
Occasional Reader said...
ReplyDelete"I'm hearing mortgage ads again....
No income verifications, no down etc...."
What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing, as long as you make your payments in RMB.
JCM ... if they start doing that crap again ... then some people in white coats need to get to the White House asap and I mean PSYCH DOCTORS ... why on earth would this start happening again ... enough ... weren't things better when you had to come up with 20 percent? at least then you had some equity in your house ... and don't even get me started on the credit card companies ...
ReplyDeleteComing Soon
ReplyDeleteUN backed mortgages...life is sweeeeettttttt!
Old Line Texan ... so glad to see you here ...
ReplyDeleteum ... what is RMB?
Commentary: Gutsy DeLay delivers 'Dancing' drama
ReplyDeleteTom DeLay went from dancing goat to wounded hero in one week.
Last week, the former House Majority Leader was saved from elimination by "Dancing with the Stars" audience votes after trudging through a painful tango and nearly dropping his partner, Cheryl Burke.
"I just felt like it was such a disaster and the ending was horrible," DeLay said in rehearsal footage.
Last night, ABC teased the "DWTS" audience with a phony mystery of whether the injured politician would continue dancing, now that his pre-stress fracture in one foot had turned into stress fractures in both feet. Though DeLay was in costume, snippets of gloomy rehearsal footage, showing him icing his feet and talking about doctors' warnings, attempted to keep viewers guessing. In obvious pain, DeLay's rehearsals were weak, to say the least.
"Tom, you look like a robot, and the samba is a party dance," DeLay's partner Cheryl Burke told him in rehearsal.
The longtime Republican congressman from Sugar Land said that both producers and doctors advised him to withdraw from the competition, but they couldn't keep him from dancing.
"I'm insane or stupid, I can't figure out which," he told host Tom Bergeron.
Because of his injured feet, DeLay and Burke took it easy with their gentle samba, though DeLay's swiveling hips certainly weren't deterred from the pain. He even seemed to be having fun as he mouthed the counts to his steps.
The costumes and song choice were humorous considering DeLay's hyperpartisan reputation. He wore red and white stripes with a decorative Republican elephant on his back, while Burke wore a star-spangled dress with a Democratic donkey on her skirt, dancing to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" by War -- an improbable conciliatory gesture.
Though DeLay's samba didn't burn down the ballroom, his disaster-free performance was heralded as a victory by itself.
"Tom, I think you're a hero," judge Len Goodman lauded.
/Hammer time!
OldLineTexan said...
ReplyDeleteThey're coming to take him away, ha
Time for some music! They're coming to take me away
Hey y'all, I gotta run out shortly to do chores but I want to know ONE thing: Obama and the LEFT want to completely "reform" Healthcare in American for the 48 million or so Americans who CAN'T afford healthcare, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd the total population of the USA is about 330 million Americans, right?
So OBAMA and the LEFT want to take over healthcare in this country for the benefit of (arguably) 20% of Americans who the LEFT says can't afford healthcare or health insurance and SCREW THE 80% OF Americans who can afford healthcare/insurance, have I got that right?
WHAT THE HELL IS THERE TO TALK ABOUT?!
The government does very little either well or efficiently (on a cost/benefit analysis) and what the government has done with VA and Medicare especially ought to make OBAMACARE a ridiculous matter for us to waste our time on.
HOW ABOUT "FIXING" THE DAMN 10% (and rising) UNEMPLOYMENT RATE? And before the LEFT starts talking about ANOTHER DAMN STIMULUS PACKAGE, how about ACCOUNTING for how we've spent the FIRST stimulus money, eh?!?
How long will the MSM keep this bullshit under wraps?
Instead Communist News Network fact checks JOKES
about Obama!
Hey CNN, fact check THIS!
Spread the Wealth, Real, Spread the Wealth.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Interesting stuff over on ZomBlog this morning - Kevin Jennings, Obama's "Safe School Czar" (I can't believe I typed that without cracking up) was apparently inspired, motivated, what-have-you by a well-known "Gay Rights Leader" who was deeply involved in the Pro-Pedophilia group NAMBLA.
ReplyDeleteHOLY SHIT!!!
"One of the people that’s always inspired me is Harry Hay, who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America." - Kevin Jennings, 1998
More on Harry Hay:
He gave keynote speeches and led panel discussions at several NAMBLA conferences. He openly told stories about how wonderful his own experiences were as a young teenager having sex with adult men. He encouraged the gay rights movement to not exclude NAMBLA from the united front of rights for all sexual minorities. And that 1993 march you recalled in your 1997 speech in which Harry Hay was joined by one million other protesters? Well, just one year later, in 1994 — just three years before you gave your speech — Harry Hay marched in the Stonewall 25 parade in front of the NAMBLA banner, for the stated purpose of bringing NAMBLA into the mainstream of the gay rights movement.
More at the link: ZomBlog
I know the doctors were pro-Obama moonbats left over from the campaign. They still must have realized how absurd it was to be told to dress up in borrowed lab coats to make themselves look more "doctor-ly" for Obama's PR purposes.
ReplyDeleteI hope at least a few of them rolled their eyes at the preening little poser.
RunningBare .. good morning hope you are well ... I read that on Zombie's blog this morning and anyone who in any way endorses NAMBLA is a piece of crap IMO .. how can anyone justify that? .... once again ... Zombie nails it ...
ReplyDeleteHey JCM - That is precisely it. But WHY WON'T THE MSM FINALLY REPORT THIS SHIT, now that their candidate is in office?
ReplyDeleteThat's the TRILLION dollar question!
Hey Real, I agree with most of your post, especially the "fix the job market" part, but would argue that the 80% that have insurance don't have it because they "can afford it", but because they are employed. Very few can afford full-freight insurance for a family, it's just that it's tied to their job as part of the pay, right?
ReplyDeleteRealwest ... um because they are in love and have much invested in Obama ... drooling idiots ...
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare--
ReplyDelete"who was deeply involved in the Pro-Pedophilia group NAMBLA."
Oh, come on, it isn't "pedophilia pedophilia"!
/WhoopiThink
Weeklystandard.com blog has the Obama-skewering skit from Saturday Night Live skit (from HULU tv) which I've just emailed to several folks who don't follow news.
ReplyDeleteAsking doctors to play dress up for the cameras is SO Potemkin village fake, Helen Thomas MUST bring this up to White House Spokesfibber Gibbs today.
Please Helen Thomas, call these fakirs out!
Holy Hell Bare! I've got to run out to do chores now, but will check out Zomblog whenever I drag my weary butt home!
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU for the head's up! Oh, er, for the Tip!
Ah, hell, thanks for letting us all know Bare!
I hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
Not to rain on this thread's parade, but I put up a breaking news post with this. I think this is important enough of an issue to bring attention to it.
ReplyDeleteWe can still leave this thread open, as well, if you all want.
Bret Stephens at Opinion Journal give us a news report from the near-future:
ReplyDeleteHow Israel Was Disarmed
Jan. 20, 2010
NEW YORK—When American diplomats sat down for the first in a series of face-to-face talks with their Iranian counterparts last October in Geneva, few would have predicted that what began as a negotiation over Tehran's nuclear programs would wind up in a stunning demand by the Security Council that Israel give up its atomic weapons.
Yet that's just what the U.N. body did this morning, in a resolution that was as striking for the way member states voted as it was for its substance. All 10 nonpermanent members voted for the resolution, along with permanent members Russia, China and the United Kingdom. France and the United States abstained. By U.N. rules, that means the resolution passes...
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574454782341597654.html
Real,
ReplyDeleteAsk any journalist, coming out of the journo schools for the last 40 years why they went to journo school:
Why are you a journalist?
In variably the answer will be "to change the world."
The vast majority of them believe their job is to shape the news to effect change.
The 5 W's are history.
zigzag, RMB is Chinese currency
ReplyDeleteI wanted to send this fake photo op to my Senator Democrat Mark Warner who did not reply to my postcard inquiring whether he would support my right to keep my Medical Savings Account. My lying senator replied with a boilerplate letter saying he was not for a public option, but blablabla.
ReplyDeleteI want to pay my doctors out of my health/medical savings account, up front & personal, unless I need catastrophic care which high deductible insurance will cover.
What's so difficult about making this a portable kind of insurance not tied to any employer?
What doctor wouldn't want to be paid cash or credit at the point of service?
Late as usual, but I thought you'd be interested in this (maybe for a future thread). Those 48 million people who can't afford health insurance? Read about the experiences of a doctor who provided care to the poor and uninsured in the San Joaquin Valley, subsidized by cosmetic procedures for those willing to pay.
ReplyDeleteAbuse Of Subsidized Health Care: The View From One Exam Room
She describes a woman who was willing to pay $400 for Botox, but wouldn't spend $90 or make the effort to get a mammogram, despite breast cancer running in her family. Then there are the MediCal patients carrying top-of-the-line cell phones and sporting thousands of dollars in body art. But this is the one that really got me:
A friend of mine sells private health insurance plans. He told me of the 39-year-old father of two whose family was quoted a monthly insurance premium of $250.
"Are you kidding?" he said, refusing the coverage. "That's almost as much as my boat payment!"
My family doesn't have a boat, but we do have health insurance. I'm sympathetic to unemployed and disabled people; my husband is unemployed. But I'll be damned if I'll pay for some clown who cares so little for his family. Why should they be my problem?