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Poor Joe.

He is not a happy little liberal. As a matter of fact he is bummed out big time.

In a further attempt to connect with the American voting public and re-re-re-rewrite his message on ObamaCare, this President of Hope and Change, Honesty and Openness held a call-in on a talk radio show. Surprisingly he didn’t choose to hold his forum on the number one talk radio show in the country, Rush Limbaugh. But with Obama’s aversion to anything even resembling the truth in this healthcare discussion it’s understandable why.

During one of the calls Obama spoke with Joe from Philadelphia. Joe is bumming big time over the perceived lack of leadership shown by this administration of action, affirmative and otherwise. He echoed the newfound mantra of confused Democrats as to why this discussion is continuing and why the ObamaCare plan is not being rammed through Congress and down the still healthy throats of an overwhelmingly disapproving public.

Joe said “I’m getting a little ticked off that it feels like the knees are buckling a little bit…You have an overwhelming majority in both the House and the Senate, and you own the whole shooting match. … It’s very frustrating to watch you try and compromise with a lot of these people who aren’t willing to compromise with you.”

The problem is that Joe, like so many others, has taken the Democrat’s bait, hook, line and sinker, and now he can’t figure out why it’s not making sense. The reason is simple. Obama isn’t looking for something he can get Republicans to vote for; he’s looking for something he can get his own minions to vote for.

Joe is of course absolutely correct. Obama and the Democrat controlled House and Senate could pass this socialist nationalized healthcare package without a single Republican vote. The problem for the Congressional Democrats is then what? Democrats have been wailing for years that if only they were in power they would know just what to do. Now that they have complete control over the legislative and executive branches it’s the last place they want to be. It’s a lot easier to say what you’re going to do than it is to actually do it. Plus all those silly little details and that damned reality always seem to get in the way of a good Democrat promise.

HR 3200 is one thousand plus pages of reduced healthcare payments, increased governmental intervention, increased restrictions, and decreased healthcare choices. After his radio show Obama went to a meeting and live webcast at the Democrat National Committee headquarters. (Just as a side note, I never recall President GW Bush venturing out to the Republican National Committee headquarters for a completely partisan discussion of his policies, do you?) During the webcast Obama attempted to rally support by saying “no matter what you’ve heard, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under the reform proposals that we’ve put forward. If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep it. If your employer provides you health insurance on the job, nobody is talking about messing with that.” OOOOPS! Hey Baracchio, your nose is growing!

Immediately upon its passage 25% of current Medicare recipients would likely see a change in their provider networks due to ObamaCare cutting the subsidies Republicans gave the Medicare Advantage programs. Less immediate, but certainly no less impactful, will be the countless doctors and healthcare providers that are forced to trim their patient ranks of Medicare patients or risk being financially driven out of business. Hospitals will find themselves in the no-win position of not being able to keep Medicare patients in the hospital due to decreased hospital stay provisions, but not being able to release them due to the new non-payment clause for readmitted patients.

No Joe, Barack Obama is not trying to negotiate with the Republicans. Hell, the Republicans can’t even get in the room and any Democrat House Member caught discussing the plan with them faces the wrath of Nancy Pelosi.

Obama is desperately trying to negotiate with the Democrats who are facing an overwhelming majority of their constituents who are saying “Hell No” to the plan. And these Democrats are not about to be left standing alone when the ObamaCare bedpan hits the fan.

And as for seeing some knee buckling. Oh yeah!