Republicans Disrespect Obama on Debt Ceiling

The US News and world fertilizer factory must be desperate to print an article such as this. Respect must be earned every day unless you consider the prez an "annointed one".

He got elected and since then it has been a chilling downhill ride.

Ed of FL 12:42PM June 03, 2011

"George W. Bush started 2 or 3 wars and cut the Clinton tax code for the wealthy, which is why our economy is in the tank right now. And the arrogance of the House Republicans at the White House is conduct unbecoming - they don't know their place."

While the wars have definitely added to the deficit, to say that they are why the economy is in the tank is patently insane - wasn't the collapse caused by the unreality of Carters and Clintons Affordable Housing Act finally catching up with itself?

An unreality that Bush tried to warn Congress about?

An unreality that some of your favorite Dems - Barny Frank, Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi - said wasn't a problem?

" Republicans don't know their "place" "?

Say WHAT?????????????????????????

Are Republicans supposed to genuflect before the August Presence of Obama the Almighty?

Or are they a part of a co-equal branch of the government?

A co-equal branch that by Constitutional mandate supposed to keep the President from becoming too imperial?

Good Grief.....

junior of DC 12:15PM June 03, 2011

While Paul Ryan complains of Democrats' demagoguery & mediscaring seniors about his Plan, CBO & The Tax Policy Center issue disturbing warnings, which should scare us all:

WARNINGS IN CBO 4.5.11 LETTER TO RYAN

"Plan would change nature of the entitlement under Medicare & Medicaid, from Govt paying whatever is needed to honor prescribed healthcare benefits....to a fixed federal contribution. For Medicare, that contribution is in the form of per capita payments; for Medicaid, govt would provide block grants to states," (p 16)

"..beneficiaries ....would bear a much larger share of their health care costs than under traditional Medicare. That greater burden would require them to reduce their use of health care services." (p 19)

"Private insurers would have flexibility to limit benefits, change co-payments, manage utilization & control provider networks - does not exist in Medicare. The significant increase in payments by beneficiaries might affect quality of care they receive." (p.25)

"...would relieve some of cost burden on states by repealing Medicaid provisions in PPACA and starting in 2022 eliminating certain benefits for the elderly.” (p 26)

"Much less certainty about future fed spending on Medicare/Medicaid than under current law......although future fed spending on healthcare would be less, the uncertainty would be transferred to beneficiaries." (p.17)

"If States reduce Medicaid spending....and lower provider payments, given payments already less than Medicare or private insurance, providers might be less inclined to treat Medicaid enrollees" (p.26)

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12128/04-05-Ry...

TAX POLICY CENTER - RYAN PLAN WOULD INCREASE DEFICITS TO UNSUSTAINABLE LEVELS WHILE CUTTING BENEFITS

"Contrary to claims the Ryan plan is fiscally responsible — which reflect a misunderstanding of CBO’s analysis of the proposal — the plan would leave the fed budget in dire straits for decades as a result of its massive tax cuts for wealthy households and its diversion of Social Security payroll taxes to private accounts. The plan attempts to reduce deficits and debt many decades into the future by making deep cuts in Social Security’s defined benefits and by eliminating guaranteed Medicare benefits and substantially cutting back on medical assistance for low-income families and seniors. Yet even with these sweeping changes, the plan fails to achieve its fiscal goal, since federal debt under the proposal would rise over the next four decades to unsustainable levels far in excess of 100 percent of GDP. The proposal also would seriously erode employer-sponsored health insurance coverage for working Americans and their families without instituting the accompanying reforms in health insurance needed to create a viable substitute. All in all, the Ryan Roadmap charts a radical course that, if they understood it, few Americans likely would want to follow."

Truthbuster of NY 2:38AM June 03, 2011

Author writes “Ryan should have read less Rand gospel and more John Maynard Keynes”

Spend our way out of recession ? We spent all the money in the WORLD_ What good is Keynes plan...

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Autho writes “Then there's his lookalike shipmate, Rep. Paul Ryan, author of the so-called "Ryan plan," which hacks Medicare to death.”

Does Jamie Stiehm explain how Ryan’s plan does that ? Of corse not, she is a liberal after all. She wants obamacare. obamacare throws__ ganny from the train:

"Why Paul Ryan’s Medicare Is So Much Better Than Obama’s"

"How does obamacare cut cost, but help "people who are poor or people who are powerless or don’t have a lobbyist or don’t have clout.”

"cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals under Medicare as provided in current law due to Obamacare and President Obama’s Medicare reimbursement policies is $15 trillion!"

"These Medicare cuts were the foundation for CBO finding that Obamacare would actually reduce the deficit, despite adopting or expanding three entitlement programs.

"Medicare’s Chief Actuary reports that even before these cuts already two-thirds of hospitals were losing money on Medicare patients."

"The unworkable, draconian effect of these Medicare cuts is why the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a disclaimer..."

Unlike Ryan’s careful Medicare reforms, these draconian, unworkable, Obamacare cuts to Medicare apply to seniors already retired today. Ryan exempts from any change all seniors retired today and everyone over age 55. On these grounds alone, Ryan’s Medicare is better for today’s seniors than Medicare under Obamacare.

That will involve an additional $500 billion in Medicare cuts for today’s seniors by 2023, “and an additional one trillion dollars in the decade after that,” in Obama’s own words.

"Obama proposed to give even more power to the unelected, unaccountable, Washington bureaucrats on his Commission to cut Medicare further, by undemocratic automatic sequester that bypasses Congress entirely."

"Seniors would do far better each choosing their own health insurers themselves in a competitive marketplace, which is the system that has generated the highest standard of living in the world in America for all goods and services."

"Even President Obama was forced to admit before the Facebook audience that the Ryan Medicare plan “will control costs, except if you get sick and the policy that you bought doesn’t cover what you’ve got….If you’re somebody who’s older and has a pre-existing condition, insurance companies won’t take you.” But that’s not how the private insurance companies under Medicare Advantage work. Nor is that true of the private Medigap plans, whose sellers include AARP, central players in Obama’s own political machine."

http://www.912superseniors.org/2011/05/why-paul-ryans-medicare-is-so-much-better-than-obamas/

Bill Hedges of MO 10:08PM June 02, 2011