Obama willing to lose office to force health bill.

[Lamron]

Link to audio:
politicalwire.com/archives/2009/08/13/obama_willing_to_stake_presidency_on_health_care_reform.html

August 13, 2009

Obama Willing to Stake Presidency on Health Care Reform
Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) claims that President Obama told him "he's willing to be a one-term president if that's what it takes to get health care and energy reform," reports Radio Iowa.

Said Boswell: "The president (said), 'I'm not going to kick the can down the road.' And he said that and I said, 'Well, that's something I'm kind of used to from southern Iowa, you know. I know about kicking the can down the road.' And he said, 'No, if it makes me a one-term president, I'm going to, we're going to take it on because the country is in need of us taking this on.' I respected that very much."

Wow, with this statement he has revealed that his hatred for this country is even stronger than his desire for power. And he's admitting that he knows the American people DO NOT WANT IT, but he's going to force it through anyway.

When an elected official says, "I don't care what the voters want, I'm going to do it my way.", why doesn't that result in being immediately expelled from the office? Isn't that effectively the same thing as resigning the job you accepted?

[Death's Shadow]

I would think so, when the will of the people is ignored then he is no better than a dictator. And how many of those have we spilled our blood on too remove from power. Things are going too hell in a hand basket fast under his totalitarian style of govt.

[Lamron]

Another arrogant elitist ass who thinks he knows better than the people who elected him to REPRESENT them:

Rep. Massa: I will vote against the interests of my district

By Kerry Picket on Aug. 16, 2009 into Water Cooler

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) addressed an intimate group of Netroots activists during their annual Netroots Nation gathering in Pittsburgh this weekend. Mr. Massa reiterated his support for a single-payer health care bill. He discussed the risks he takes for wanting to support such a measure in his "right-wing Republican district."

According to Swing State Project, Mr. Massa won his 2008 race by 2 percentage points. The district's voting pattern index (PVI) is a Republican +5 seat. The National Republican Congressional Committee has the upstate New York congressman in their sights for 2010 along with 69 other House Democrats as reported by Politico. The transcript is below, and check out the corresponding video above.

MASSA: I’m not going to vote for 3200 as it’s currently written. Step one, I will vote for a single payer option or a bill that does have a medicare coupled public option, which we don’t have right now. If my town hall meetings turn into the same media frenzies and ridiculousness, because every time that happens we lose. We lose another three million people in America. They see that happening and negate us.

PARTICIPANT: It changes America.

MASSA: Every time that occurs. So what happens in my town hall meetings frankly is important, because I am in one of the most right wing Republican districts in the country, and I’m not asking you guys to go back to wherever and send people to me. This is a generic statement of what can I do? Well that’s one thing we can do.

PARTICIPANT: So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you’d vote…and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it?

MASSA: Oh absolutely I would vote for single payer.

PARTICIPANT: If there was sixty forty sentiment in the room?

MASSA: Listen, I tell every audience I’m in favor of single payer.

PARTICIPANT: If there was eighty twenty in the room?

MASSA: If there was a single payer bill?

PARTICIPANT: And there was a single payer….

MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.

PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?

MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

Massa: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.

[Death's Shadow]

He should be drug out of his office and horse whipped.

[RedRock]

I've said it all before: Obama HATES America and is doing all he can to destroy it, to make it into the chaotic socialistic state of his dreams, so that anything, absolutely anything, he and his Nazi buddies want to do with it will be a welcome relief to the unwashed masses suffering his "benign kiss."