Heard from a guest on the Laurie Roth show – one of the typical “right wing” “Christian” shows that think President Obama is Satan<\/p>\n
It isn’t true (at least the Obamacare part)<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/medical\/microchip.asp<\/a><\/p>\n The “Page 1001” referenced was in one version of the bill that was never passed.\u00a0\u00a0 It would have required the government to build a database containing the serials numbers of implanted devices (like heart pacemakers, implanted insulin pumps, etc…) to facilitate tracking patterns of whether the devices are working properly.\u00a0\u00a0 It had nothing to do with “forced RFID implants”.<\/p>\n When I received my cataract lens implant in 1995, immediately after the surgery, my doctor took the picture of himself standing next to me with the patch over my eye, and handed me a plastic card with the serial number of that implant and the picture.<\/p>\n Madelyn Murray O’Hare, the atheist who people (incorrectly) associate with the “ban” of prayers and bible reading in public school vanished in 1995 and was\u00a0 murdered by her office manager.\u00a0 The remains of her body were found in Texas six years after she was murdered chopped into small pieces.\u00a0\u00a0 Her remains were positively identified because of the serial number on her artificial hip.<\/p>\n There is no doubt at all in my mind that “Obamacare” is here to stay, no matter who wins the election in November.\u00a0\u00a0 There is no way that Mitt Romney is going to have the critical mass to sweep the US Senate to a 60 vote Republican majority with the Democrats having a $1 billion advertising war chest and effective control of almost all sources of information.<\/p>\n Even as popular as Ronald Reagan was, he never got 60 Senate votes and it wasn’t until Newt in 1994 (with Rush Limbaugh’s help) that the Republicans gained control of the House.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan<\/span>. \u00a0 None of the candidates are.<\/strong><\/p>\n Republican Senators in US Senate \/ President by election:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1976 – 37 – Jimmy Carter Assuming Mitt Romney is elected and Republicans retain control of the House, and the Republicans aren’t willing to deploy the “nuclear option” to destroy the filibuster rule in the Senate – any bill started in the House to try to “repeal” the “Obamacare” act would require 60 Senate votes to invoke “cloture” to end debate and allow a vote on the repeal. \u00a0 Changing the rules of the Senate (like Cloture) require a 2\/3 vote\u00a0 (67 votes).\u00a0\u00a0 The nuclear option would be to modify the rules about how you modify the standing rules to not require 2\/3 vote.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly, the Cloture rule to limit debate was created during the reign of Woodrow Wilson, who was unable to get things he wanted passed, so it was devised to force the Senate to vote if 2\/3 of the Senate wanted to end the debate.\u00a0\u00a0 (later lowered to 3\/5)<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/reference\/reference_index_subjects\/Filibuster_vrd.htm<\/p>\n Defunding Obamacare has little to do with “killing” it – since most of the burden\u00a0 and costs of implementing the rules fall on insurance companies, employers and state governments.\u00a0\u00a0 With a sympathetic court system, the best Republicans can hope to do is put boundaries around the worst parts of it.<\/p>\n “Right Wing” “Christian” people circulating blatantly wrong information to get people angry and wrapping it inside a “Christian” wrapper are not doing anything positive if repeal is the actual goal.\u00a0\u00a0 By next year, Obamacare will be so embedded in the Health Care System that even if the law were repealed, the changes people have already made won’t easily go away.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s exactly how it designed to take root, building a new group of people who would oppose the repeal.\u00a0 Obama’s “friends” are not stupid.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heard from a guest on the Laurie Roth show – one of the typical “right wing” “Christian” shows that think President Obama is Satan It isn’t true (at least the Obamacare part) http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/medical\/microchip.asp The “Page 1001” referenced was in one … Continue reading
\n1978 – 41 – Jimmy Carter
\n1980 – 53<\/span>\u00a0 – Reagan<\/strong>
\n1982 – 54\u00a0 – Reagan
\n1984 – 53 – Reagan
\n1986 – 45<\/span> – Reagan
\n1988 – 45 – George HW Bush
\n1990 – 44 – George HW Bush
\n1992 – 43\u00a0 – Bil & Hillary Clinton
\n1994 – 52<\/span><\/strong> – Clintons
\n1996 – 55 – Clintons
\n1998 – 55 – Clintons
\n2000 – 55 – George W Bush
\n2002 – 51 – George W Bush
\n2004 – 55 – George W Bush
\n2006 – 49 – George W Bush
\n2008 – 41<\/span> – Barack Obama
\n2010 – 47\u00a0 Barack Obama<\/p>\n