WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sees both “unprecedented consensus” from outside Congress on his drive to remake the nation’s health care system and obstructionism by some on Capitol Hill.

“The historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American people gathered momentum this week as we approach the final days of this debate,” Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet video address.

The consensus “includes everyone from doctors and nurses to hospitals and drug manufacturers” — even Republican governors and former GOP lawmakers, Obama said.

It does not extend to congressional Republicans, however, as nearly all of them oppose the Democrats’ health care proposals.

The president noted that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Bill Frist, all Republicans, and former Health and Human Service chiefs Louis Sullivan and Tommy Thompson, who both served in Republican administrations, have all come out in favor of overhauling health care, even though they differ on some specifics.

Hey Arnold, we looked under your fake Conservative skin and what do we see? It's a Liberal (and probably a Democrat)

“These distinguished leaders understand that health insurance reform isn’t a Democratic issue or a Republican issue, but an American issue that demands a solution,” Obama said.

Democrats have made significant strides since Labor Day, when they returned to the Capitol after an August spent absorbing attacks from noisy conservative critics over health care.

A health care bill soon to emerge from the Senate Finance Committee is the only one judged to meet Obama’s conditions for expanding insurance coverage without raising the federal deficit, while also slowing the rise in medical costs.

Yet Obama said he recognized the issue remains divisive among members of Congress.

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Unprecedented Consensus? The same groups of people that he list as supporting his push to nationalize medicine, doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug manufacturers, Republican governors and former GOP lawmakers, are considered the most vocal opponents of his plan. Obama does have audacity to change ….to change the truth.

I did read yesterday that Arnold Schwarzenegger backed a nationalized plan.  My guess is that Arnold is playing politics.  He knows his state is about bankrupt and needs federal help.  In my opinion Pelosi is blackmailing him.  Probably didn’t take to much, Arnold is not really a conservative anyway or much of a Republican.

In the Republican response to Obama propaganda address (at least he wasn’t using kids this time) Sen. George LeMieux of Florida said, “the solution should not be worse than the problem we are trying to solve.”

“We in the Congress have a duty to tackle this problem, but the solution we settle upon should not be rushed,” LeMieux said in the GOP’s weekly address. Democrats maintain Republicans are simply trying to delay action. He went on to point out that should any of the current democratic plans be implemented the following would happen:

Burden tax payers with an additional $1.8 trillion over 10 years, more than twice the total for the Senate Finance Committee’s bill, as projected by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Add a new tax burden by penalizing those who do not buy health insurance

Deny millions of people the choice of health plans that best suit their needs by forcing them onto Medicaid

Take about $500 billion out of Medicare

I direct this to you Mr. Obama and the rest of your liberal cronies, If you have all of this consensus and you control the House, the Senate and the Presidency, why have you just passed it?  Could it be that you don’t even have consensus in your own party?  Could it be hat those Democrats that are coming up for reelection know that if they vote for it will loose at the ballot box? 

You may have pulled of some political shenanigans to rig a Nobel Peace Prize but the Tax Payers of this country see right through you.  Your drive to socialism and drive to punish the middle class are coming through loud and clear.

By GREG BLUESTEIN

ATLANTA (AP) – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.

“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”

The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.

“Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care,” he said. “It’s deeper than that.”

Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote for shouting “You lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress last Wednesday.

The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson’s outburst.

Tuesday’s rebuke was a rare resolution of disapproval pushed through by Democrats who insisted that Wilson had violated basic rules of decorum and civility. Republicans characterized the measure as a witch hunt and Wilson, who had already apologized to Obama, insisted he owed the House no apology.

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Give me a break.  I am so tired of trotting out the race card every time some one disagrees with Obama.  Of course he is a liar, he is a politician.  What the liberals and Obama keep trying to do is deflect any criticism of Obama’s push to socialism by calling the critics, racist.  I detest what Obama is trying to do not because of the color of his skin or his heritage but because his politics are wrong for this country.  Hey, and after all he is as much white as he is black.  I guess that makes Alan Keyes (a black man and Obama critic) racist as he is probably hating on Obama’s white side.

Jimmy Carter, if you are not old enough to remember his presidency, brought about one of the lowest points for American credibility.  The world looked at us as weak and stupid.  The media ripped him every day for things he said and did.  However, now that he has said something nice and proper about Obama, Carter has become intelligent in the media’s eyes.  Talk about a double standard.

I and everyone that opposes this presidency will continue to speak out against it.  We speak out not because the person that holds the office is black, but because he is wrong.  Here is a riddle for you.  What does Hugo Chavez, Karl Marx, Kim Jong-il, Barack Obama have in Common?  Answer:  Four communist/socialist that I don’t want to run my country.