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death panels:  "It's a lie."

No, you're the liar, Mr. President. Both the mechanics and the structure of the plan will do this.

Look at U.K.

"This too is false" on illegal immigrants. 

He's lying.

Government takeover? You're lying there too.

No one would be forced to choose it -- until it pushes companies to drop policies.

The public option would have to to pay its way. LOL!  Like the post office pays its way! Like Amtrak does!

Like public colleges? They don't pay their way!

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"another man."  "A woman." Who? When?

"No one should be treated that way." So we'll have the government do it.

The time for bickering is past, he says. 

Man, plan has everything. They can't turn you down. So you don't sign up till you get sick. As Krauthammer said, costs will explode.

A new health exchange: why not let Utah test this out?

It won't start in four years. After the next election! What pure hypocrisy!

And that media whore McCain is going for it.

liveblogging the address to joint session

Let me say I can barely stand listening to this pompous phony. He doesn't believe much of what he says. He won't fight for what he does. Therefore his words are empty.

These pompous asses. Standing ovations for "I'm determined to be the last." Every president will have to deal with it!

Preview of national health care

Thank God there won't be any death panels!

From WSJ:

If you ever find yourself traveling on the Liverpool Care Pathway, you've taken a wrong turn. London's Daily Telegraph explains:

Rosemary Munkenbeck says her father Eric Troake, who entered hospital after suffering a stroke, had fluid and drugs withdrawn and she claims doctors wanted to put him on morphine until he passed away under a scheme for dying patients called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).

Mrs Munkenbeck, 56, from Bracknell, said her father, who previously said he wanted to live until he was 100, has now said he wants to die after being deprived of fluids for five days. . . .

Last week The Daily Telegraph reported a warning from experts that some patients with terminal illnesses were being wrongly put on the NHS scheme and allowed to die prematurely if they ticked "the right boxes."

Two thoughts

OK, I read the text, so I don't have to listen to his blather.

First, he could be an inspirational president.

But why do you have to go to college to be a success? Don't we need good mechanics and factory hands and farmers and carpenters?

Bore-in-chief

Sorry, just couldn't stand listing to Obama's speech. He's a pompous bore. And I don't believe a thing he says anyway.

Zap

Kapow:

Ezekiel Emanuel is upset. The president's health care czar sees the growing resistance to his vision, to his brave new world of government-run "communitarian" health care in which politicians and bureaucrats control one-sixth of the economy and 100% of our bodies. He doesn't quite understand how it all came apart on him, but he does know who started the unraveling: Sarah Palin.