THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 22, 2009
Excerpts of the President's Opening Remarks at Tonight's News Conference
-As Prepared for Delivery-
That is why I’ve said that even as we rescue this economy from a full-blown crisis, we must rebuild it stronger than before. And health insurance reform is central to that effort.
This is not just about the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance. Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage if they become too sick, or lose their job, or change their job. It’s about every small business that has been forced to lay off employees or cut back on their coverage because it became too expensive. And it’s about the fact that the biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid.
So let me be clear: if we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit. If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. If we do not act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day. These are the consequences of inaction. These are the stakes of the debate we’re having right now.
I realize that with all the charges and criticisms being thrown around in Washington, many Americans may be wondering, “What’s in this for me? How does my family stand to benefit from health insurance reform?”
Tonight I want to answer those questions. Because even though Congress is still working through a few key issues, we already have agreement on the following areas:
If you already have health insurance, the reform we’re proposing will provide you with more security and more stability. It will keep government out of health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your insurance if you’re happy with it. It will prevent insurance companies from dropping your coverage if you get too sick. It will give you the security of knowing that if you lose your job, move, or change your job, you will still be able to have coverage. It will limit the amount your insurance company can force you to pay for your medical costs out of your own pocket. And it will cover preventive care like check-ups and mammograms that save lives and money.
If you don’t have health insurance, or are a small business looking to cover your employees, you’ll be able to choose a quality, affordable health plan through a health insurance exchange – a marketplace that promotes choice and competition Finally, no insurance company will be allowed to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition.
I have also pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our deficit over the next decade – and I mean it.
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I understand how easy it is for this town to become consumed in the game of politics – to turn every issue into running tally of who’s up and who’s down. I’ve heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it’s better politics to “go for the kill.” Another Republican Senator said that defeating health reform is about “breaking” me.
So let me be clear: This isn’t about me. I have great health insurance, and so does every Member of Congress. This debate is about the letters I read when I sit in the Oval Office every day, and the stories I hear at town hall meetings…This debate is not a game for these Americans, and they cannot afford to wait for reform any longer. They are counting on us to get this done. They are looking to us for leadership. And we must not let them down. We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice, and provides coverage that every American can count on. And we will do it this year.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Statement from ACC's Jack Lewin on What I Believe is Missing from Health Care Reform
ACC CEO Jack Lewin, MD on President Obama’s Prime Time News Conference
Lewin: “...then candidate Obama suggested taking a scalpel instead of an axe to reform, and that’s precisely how we should be reforming the health care system now.”
Washington, DC – The American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) CEO, Jack Lewin, M.D. today release the following statement in advance of President Obama’s prime time news conference on health care reform:
“Forty years ago this week, man first stepped onto the moon. It was an undertaking that took vision, commitment and sacrifice. It will take the same vision, commitment and sacrifice for this nation to meaningfully reform our health care system.
“President Obama has called on Congress to undertake this enormous task which is just as daunting as putting a man on the moon. We applaud President Obama’s leadership and we share his goal of health care reform, but we can’t settle for legislation that lacks the teeth to deliver real and necessary quality and payment reforms.
“The American people need health care reform that addresses the causes of our health care problems and not the symptoms. Hacking blindly away at costs and then claiming to have saved the system money is dangerous and punishes the very people that our health care system is meant to serve: the patients. When talking about reducing overall costs to the Federal budget during the campaign, then candidate Obama suggested taking a scalpel instead of an axe to reform, and that’s precisely how we should be reforming the health care system now.
“We must look at how we pay physicians and other care givers, and develop a payment system that incentivizes quality and positive patient outcomes. Until we completely change the way the U.S. payment system is structured, we’ll never be able to bend the cost curve of health care spending.
“Without payment reform that leads to quality improvement, health information technology adoption, and reduced disparity and variation, we will produce a noble increase in access, but without slowing cost increases. That is a formula for disaster.
“Some have proposed as a way to save money is to cut Medicare Part B reimbursements to specialists such as oncologists and cardiologists. Not only does that not achieve enough savings to be of any use, cutting reimbursement will lead to less access to vital services for people in rural areas and in underserved communities. But it really just shifts costs as the cuts to specialists will be offset by increases to primary care physicians.
“What we need are reforms that allow for the adoption of health information technology, coordination of care so that we can reduce heart failure related hospital readmissions, and the use of evidenced-based guidelines and appropriate use criteria to stop unnecessary medical procedures. And we need incentives to promote partnerships between primary care and specialists in order to better coordinate care for most expensive and complicated chronically ill patients.
“This is, as then candidate Obama suggested, a targeted approach that can achieve real reform with real results and measurable outcomes. “
Lewin: “...then candidate Obama suggested taking a scalpel instead of an axe to reform, and that’s precisely how we should be reforming the health care system now.”
Washington, DC – The American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) CEO, Jack Lewin, M.D. today release the following statement in advance of President Obama’s prime time news conference on health care reform:
“Forty years ago this week, man first stepped onto the moon. It was an undertaking that took vision, commitment and sacrifice. It will take the same vision, commitment and sacrifice for this nation to meaningfully reform our health care system.
“President Obama has called on Congress to undertake this enormous task which is just as daunting as putting a man on the moon. We applaud President Obama’s leadership and we share his goal of health care reform, but we can’t settle for legislation that lacks the teeth to deliver real and necessary quality and payment reforms.
“The American people need health care reform that addresses the causes of our health care problems and not the symptoms. Hacking blindly away at costs and then claiming to have saved the system money is dangerous and punishes the very people that our health care system is meant to serve: the patients. When talking about reducing overall costs to the Federal budget during the campaign, then candidate Obama suggested taking a scalpel instead of an axe to reform, and that’s precisely how we should be reforming the health care system now.
“We must look at how we pay physicians and other care givers, and develop a payment system that incentivizes quality and positive patient outcomes. Until we completely change the way the U.S. payment system is structured, we’ll never be able to bend the cost curve of health care spending.
“Without payment reform that leads to quality improvement, health information technology adoption, and reduced disparity and variation, we will produce a noble increase in access, but without slowing cost increases. That is a formula for disaster.
“Some have proposed as a way to save money is to cut Medicare Part B reimbursements to specialists such as oncologists and cardiologists. Not only does that not achieve enough savings to be of any use, cutting reimbursement will lead to less access to vital services for people in rural areas and in underserved communities. But it really just shifts costs as the cuts to specialists will be offset by increases to primary care physicians.
“What we need are reforms that allow for the adoption of health information technology, coordination of care so that we can reduce heart failure related hospital readmissions, and the use of evidenced-based guidelines and appropriate use criteria to stop unnecessary medical procedures. And we need incentives to promote partnerships between primary care and specialists in order to better coordinate care for most expensive and complicated chronically ill patients.
“This is, as then candidate Obama suggested, a targeted approach that can achieve real reform with real results and measurable outcomes. “
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
It's all them
The Drudge Report says "Own It". I agree. Here is Rep. John Boehner's press releases from the stimulus. The first is his statement after the vote. The second is his floor speech urging the House to consider the Republican alternative. I apologize for no video. You can find the video at http://tinyurl.com/c4goln
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Boehner: “This Was a Bipartisan Rejection of a Partisan Bill”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the House advanced a trillion dollar spending bill authored solely by congressional Democratic leaders:
“This was a bipartisan rejection of a partisan bill. Families and small businesses across America are struggling, and they are counting on their leaders in Washington for ways to strengthen our economy. House Republicans want to work with congressional Democrats on legislation that fulfills the goal set by President Obama: crafting a bipartisan plan focused on job creation. Unfortunately, the trillion dollar government spending bill before the House today was not that plan, and a bipartisan coalition of Members rightfully rejected it. It is time for Capitol Hill Democrats to finally work with Republicans on a job creation package that lets families and small businesses keep more of what they earn and that is supported by the bipartisan majority that the American people expect on an issue so important.”
NOTE: No House Republicans voted for the legislation, while eleven Democrats crossed party lines to vote against it. Earlier today on the House floor, Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Ways & Means Committee Ranking Republican Dave Camp (R-MI) offered a House GOP economic recovery plan that will create 6.2 million new American jobs over the next two years, according to a methodology used by President Obama’s own nominee as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Dr. Christina Romer. House Democrats rejected the plan.
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Boehner Floor Speech Opposing Democrats’ Trillion Dollar Spending Plan, Supporting House GOP’s Economic Recovery Plan to Create 6.2 Million New Jobs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) made the following remarks today on the House floor opposing Democrats’ $1 trillion “stimulus” package and supporting the Republican proposal crafted by House Ways & Means Committee ranking member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) that provides fast-acting tax relief that will create jobs in America – a plan that would create 6.2 million new jobs by the end of 2010, according to a methodology used by President Obama’s own nominee as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Dr. Christina Romer:
“Let me thank my colleague from Michigan for yielding and congratulate him and our Republican whip for the proposal that they have on the floor. I think that the plan that we have on the floor, our alternative, is rooted in the principle that fast-acting tax relief will create more jobs in America than a lot of slow-moving government programs.
“The bill that we have on the floor, the underlying bill, has as an example 32 new, brand new, government programs that spend $136 billion. Now, we all know how long it takes to get a new program up, the bureaucracy that has to be hired before we can ever get that money out into the economy. We also know there’s a lot of other spending in this bill that while it may be well-meaning, it may be well-intentioned, we know it not going to create jobs. Sending $300 million-plus to the Centers for Disease Control to do whatever is not going to create new jobs in America. We’re going to build bigger bureaucracies. Or we can talk about the $650 million that’s going to be spent with digital TV coupons. Now this looks like a slush fund to me because about 94% of the old TV’s that need these boxes to receive signals have already been purchased. So only about 6% of the TV’s in America actually need these boxes. So that would be about $30 or $40, maybe $50 million. What is the other $600 million going to be used for? The point is, is that the underlying bill, while it certainly has some good provisions, has a lot of wasteful spending, a lot of slow-moving government spending in it.
“When I gave Ms. Pelosi the gavel on the opening day as Speaker of the House, I told her the Republicans would not come to the floor and just be the party of no. That we would try to be the Party of better ideas and last week when we had the SCHIP bill on the floor, we brought a proposal out here which we thought was a better idea. Today, in this debate we think that we have a better idea. President Obama has made clear that he believes that the goal here should be to preserve jobs in America and to create new jobs in America. And I think that the proposal that we have that puts more money back in the hands of American families and small businesses, that helps homeowners and people who want to buy a home and that takes away the tax liability for those who are unemployed and getting unemployment insurance – that this bill in fact will be better for the American people that better meets the goal that the President himself has outlined.
“And we want to work with the President. We’ve made clear to him that he’s reached out and we’re reaching out to him because at the end of the day, the American people need a plan that works. We all know our economy is in a difficult strait. We all know people are losing their jobs, tens of thousands of them, every week. And so we have to act. And we have to help our ailing economy. The question is, how do we do it best? And we believe this fast-acting tax relief is the way to get it done.
“Then we find out today that our proposal will create 6.2 million jobs over the next two years. About twice as many as the underlying bill and at about half the cost. Remember, at the end of the day, this bill we’re going to pass is not being paid for by taxpayers today. It’s going to be paid for by our kids and our grandkids and their kids. And we have to be cognizant of the debt that we’re putting on them. So I would urge my colleagues to support the Republican substitute, support a bill that will create 6.2 million jobs, twice as many as the underlying bill at about half the cost. And I yield back the balance of my time.”
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Boehner: “This Was a Bipartisan Rejection of a Partisan Bill”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the House advanced a trillion dollar spending bill authored solely by congressional Democratic leaders:
“This was a bipartisan rejection of a partisan bill. Families and small businesses across America are struggling, and they are counting on their leaders in Washington for ways to strengthen our economy. House Republicans want to work with congressional Democrats on legislation that fulfills the goal set by President Obama: crafting a bipartisan plan focused on job creation. Unfortunately, the trillion dollar government spending bill before the House today was not that plan, and a bipartisan coalition of Members rightfully rejected it. It is time for Capitol Hill Democrats to finally work with Republicans on a job creation package that lets families and small businesses keep more of what they earn and that is supported by the bipartisan majority that the American people expect on an issue so important.”
NOTE: No House Republicans voted for the legislation, while eleven Democrats crossed party lines to vote against it. Earlier today on the House floor, Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Ways & Means Committee Ranking Republican Dave Camp (R-MI) offered a House GOP economic recovery plan that will create 6.2 million new American jobs over the next two years, according to a methodology used by President Obama’s own nominee as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Dr. Christina Romer. House Democrats rejected the plan.
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Boehner Floor Speech Opposing Democrats’ Trillion Dollar Spending Plan, Supporting House GOP’s Economic Recovery Plan to Create 6.2 Million New Jobs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) made the following remarks today on the House floor opposing Democrats’ $1 trillion “stimulus” package and supporting the Republican proposal crafted by House Ways & Means Committee ranking member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) that provides fast-acting tax relief that will create jobs in America – a plan that would create 6.2 million new jobs by the end of 2010, according to a methodology used by President Obama’s own nominee as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Dr. Christina Romer:
“Let me thank my colleague from Michigan for yielding and congratulate him and our Republican whip for the proposal that they have on the floor. I think that the plan that we have on the floor, our alternative, is rooted in the principle that fast-acting tax relief will create more jobs in America than a lot of slow-moving government programs.
“The bill that we have on the floor, the underlying bill, has as an example 32 new, brand new, government programs that spend $136 billion. Now, we all know how long it takes to get a new program up, the bureaucracy that has to be hired before we can ever get that money out into the economy. We also know there’s a lot of other spending in this bill that while it may be well-meaning, it may be well-intentioned, we know it not going to create jobs. Sending $300 million-plus to the Centers for Disease Control to do whatever is not going to create new jobs in America. We’re going to build bigger bureaucracies. Or we can talk about the $650 million that’s going to be spent with digital TV coupons. Now this looks like a slush fund to me because about 94% of the old TV’s that need these boxes to receive signals have already been purchased. So only about 6% of the TV’s in America actually need these boxes. So that would be about $30 or $40, maybe $50 million. What is the other $600 million going to be used for? The point is, is that the underlying bill, while it certainly has some good provisions, has a lot of wasteful spending, a lot of slow-moving government spending in it.
“When I gave Ms. Pelosi the gavel on the opening day as Speaker of the House, I told her the Republicans would not come to the floor and just be the party of no. That we would try to be the Party of better ideas and last week when we had the SCHIP bill on the floor, we brought a proposal out here which we thought was a better idea. Today, in this debate we think that we have a better idea. President Obama has made clear that he believes that the goal here should be to preserve jobs in America and to create new jobs in America. And I think that the proposal that we have that puts more money back in the hands of American families and small businesses, that helps homeowners and people who want to buy a home and that takes away the tax liability for those who are unemployed and getting unemployment insurance – that this bill in fact will be better for the American people that better meets the goal that the President himself has outlined.
“And we want to work with the President. We’ve made clear to him that he’s reached out and we’re reaching out to him because at the end of the day, the American people need a plan that works. We all know our economy is in a difficult strait. We all know people are losing their jobs, tens of thousands of them, every week. And so we have to act. And we have to help our ailing economy. The question is, how do we do it best? And we believe this fast-acting tax relief is the way to get it done.
“Then we find out today that our proposal will create 6.2 million jobs over the next two years. About twice as many as the underlying bill and at about half the cost. Remember, at the end of the day, this bill we’re going to pass is not being paid for by taxpayers today. It’s going to be paid for by our kids and our grandkids and their kids. And we have to be cognizant of the debt that we’re putting on them. So I would urge my colleagues to support the Republican substitute, support a bill that will create 6.2 million jobs, twice as many as the underlying bill at about half the cost. And I yield back the balance of my time.”
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
In Left Field
The National Mall is a very beautiful place. I've spent many a summer evening there, drinking a frosty one (in a plastic cup of course to avoid the United States Park Police) as a Congressional staffer while playing a friendly game of softball.
Back in 2006, I trained on the National Mall for the Cherry Blossom ten miler and have run it literally dozens of times (3.67 miles from the Capitol-to-Lincoln Memorial and back).
I had the pleasure of looking out from then Speaker Hastert's balcony more times than I can count with the Washington monument there in all its grandeur.
As big of a fan that I am of the national mall, I just can't understand how $200 million in stimulus money from Congress to be spent on the National Mall is going to help stimulate the economy.
Everyone has seen the pictures of the mall, it's mostly grass and gravel. Yet they're only (only!!!) going to spend $21 million on new sod for the mall. I presume this means in the stimulus bill now being considered by Congress they're proposing spending the other $179 million of gravel? I can't figure it out.
To put it into perspective, according to this press release from The Pentagon in 2004, only $170 million went into building the World War II Memorial that is on the National Mall.
What are the Democrats planning to do to The National Mall that is grander than the World War II memorial?
This video from newly-minted White House flack Robert Gibbs is priceless
I like how he says, "the first day of our Presidency we met on the mall." Maybe they're planning to build a $200 million memorial to Obamastock. Whatever it is, I don't believe they're going to be able to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people and expect them to think this will create jobs and stimulate the economy.
Like an summer intern playing softball, I think Gibbs, the White House and the Democrat leadership on this hill are out in left field here.
Some transparency is definently in order.
Back in 2006, I trained on the National Mall for the Cherry Blossom ten miler and have run it literally dozens of times (3.67 miles from the Capitol-to-Lincoln Memorial and back).
I had the pleasure of looking out from then Speaker Hastert's balcony more times than I can count with the Washington monument there in all its grandeur.
As big of a fan that I am of the national mall, I just can't understand how $200 million in stimulus money from Congress to be spent on the National Mall is going to help stimulate the economy.
Everyone has seen the pictures of the mall, it's mostly grass and gravel. Yet they're only (only!!!) going to spend $21 million on new sod for the mall. I presume this means in the stimulus bill now being considered by Congress they're proposing spending the other $179 million of gravel? I can't figure it out.
To put it into perspective, according to this press release from The Pentagon in 2004, only $170 million went into building the World War II Memorial that is on the National Mall.
What are the Democrats planning to do to The National Mall that is grander than the World War II memorial?
This video from newly-minted White House flack Robert Gibbs is priceless
I like how he says, "the first day of our Presidency we met on the mall." Maybe they're planning to build a $200 million memorial to Obamastock. Whatever it is, I don't believe they're going to be able to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people and expect them to think this will create jobs and stimulate the economy.
Like an summer intern playing softball, I think Gibbs, the White House and the Democrat leadership on this hill are out in left field here.
Some transparency is definently in order.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Inauguration Day
Just returned home from Andrew's Air Force Base where I was able to say farewell with my wife and son Jack to our nation's 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush. I'm happy to say that he was in good spirits and is leaving Washington, DC with his head held high.
Good thing considering this awful video from some revelers at the National Mall.
Notice two things. Chris Matthews, to his credit, condems the crowd. And the guy who is dancing and yelling at Bush (:29 sec mark) has his flag flying upside down. This is unfortunate.
More on my day later.
Good thing considering this awful video from some revelers at the National Mall.
Notice two things. Chris Matthews, to his credit, condems the crowd. And the guy who is dancing and yelling at Bush (:29 sec mark) has his flag flying upside down. This is unfortunate.
More on my day later.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Hypocrisy Doesn't Equal Change
Secretary of the Treasury-designate Tim Geithner has a problem.
It seems that not only forgot to pay over $42,000 taxes to an agency he hopes to control as Treasury Secretary, he also hired an undocumented worker.
This of course, was discovered during the official vetting process of the Obama team but didn't come out until yesterday. Covering up or hiding the facts is not change we can believe in and smacks of hypocrisy from a former Senator who passed transparency in government legislation. Shouldn't we hope for transparency of the transition team too?
What smacks of even more hypocrisy is the apparent willingness of Democrat Senators and liberal special interests to forgive. It's understandable the need to fill the Treasury Secretary post - we're in a financial crisis. But there have been plenty of scenarios planned for over at Treasury that I think that we could go a couple of days and maybe even a week so that Geithner could at least answer some questions.
Back in 2001, then Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez was crucified by the organized labor and strongly questioned by then-Senate Minority Leader and a current Secretary of HHS-designate Tom Daschle for employing an undocumented worker. The controversy was so much so that Linda Chavez, as you recall she backed out of the confirmation process and never even got a hearing. The kicker is, hiring undocumented workers wasn't even illegal at the time (not that I condone illegals).
At the time, Daschle said:
"The labor secretary ought to set the example to be able to enforce all of the laws. If she hasn't been able to do that in the past, one would have serious questions about whether she'd be able to do it in her capacity as secretary of labor."
Does Tom Daschle's standard still apply? Of course it doesn't.
Today, Senate Democrats are saying things like Geithner just made a mistake.
But there have been plenty of other mistakes made by Republicans that equal to (see Chavez) or lesser than which Democrats and their special interest allies have made plenty of hay about.
It seems that not only forgot to pay over $42,000 taxes to an agency he hopes to control as Treasury Secretary, he also hired an undocumented worker.
This of course, was discovered during the official vetting process of the Obama team but didn't come out until yesterday. Covering up or hiding the facts is not change we can believe in and smacks of hypocrisy from a former Senator who passed transparency in government legislation. Shouldn't we hope for transparency of the transition team too?
What smacks of even more hypocrisy is the apparent willingness of Democrat Senators and liberal special interests to forgive. It's understandable the need to fill the Treasury Secretary post - we're in a financial crisis. But there have been plenty of scenarios planned for over at Treasury that I think that we could go a couple of days and maybe even a week so that Geithner could at least answer some questions.
Back in 2001, then Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez was crucified by the organized labor and strongly questioned by then-Senate Minority Leader and a current Secretary of HHS-designate Tom Daschle for employing an undocumented worker. The controversy was so much so that Linda Chavez, as you recall she backed out of the confirmation process and never even got a hearing. The kicker is, hiring undocumented workers wasn't even illegal at the time (not that I condone illegals).
At the time, Daschle said:
"The labor secretary ought to set the example to be able to enforce all of the laws. If she hasn't been able to do that in the past, one would have serious questions about whether she'd be able to do it in her capacity as secretary of labor."
Does Tom Daschle's standard still apply? Of course it doesn't.
Today, Senate Democrats are saying things like Geithner just made a mistake.
But there have been plenty of other mistakes made by Republicans that equal to (see Chavez) or lesser than which Democrats and their special interest allies have made plenty of hay about.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Unbelivable
Ben Smith from The Politico has a great article on Hill Staffers who are selling official inaugural tickets on Criagslist.
This really is no different than Blago selling a Senate seat. And you thought the Republican Congress was corrupt?
This really is no different than Blago selling a Senate seat. And you thought the Republican Congress was corrupt?
Sunday, January 11, 2009
"With Whom I am Well Pleased...."
This morning in church our Gospel lesson revovles around when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. (Matthew 3:13). You all know the story, hopefully, if not, I will share.
Jesus repented for change prior to his Baptism. Then, he was Baptized, and he was wet. Suddenly, the clouds part, the skies open up and a voice says, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Now, I'm not mocking the Bible, but comparitively speaking, I immediately had thoughts of Obama taking the oath of office and hundreds of thousands gathered at on the National Mall expecting the same thing to happen.
Jesus repented for change prior to his Baptism. Then, he was Baptized, and he was wet. Suddenly, the clouds part, the skies open up and a voice says, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Now, I'm not mocking the Bible, but comparitively speaking, I immediately had thoughts of Obama taking the oath of office and hundreds of thousands gathered at on the National Mall expecting the same thing to happen.
My Poor Wife
My poor wife. Yesterday she goes out to get some new business suits, because like most Republicans in town she is looking for a new job. Adding insult to injury were all the Obamaniacs out looking for inaugural gowns. Even worse, on each floor, there were displays featuring commemorative Obama Waterford Crystal displays.
So while she's looking suits because she's looking for a new job because of the new President - she has to hear from all these people who excited they are about the inauguration.
Can't wait until this is all over.
So while she's looking suits because she's looking for a new job because of the new President - she has to hear from all these people who excited they are about the inauguration.
Can't wait until this is all over.
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