Administration Official: Sebelius ‘Misspoke’ in Saying Public Option ‘Not an Essential Part’ of Health Care Reform
Marc Ambinder: An administration official said that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "misspoke" when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option "is not an essential part" of reform. This official asked not to be identified in exchange for providing clarity about the intentions of the President. The official said that the White House did not intend to change its messaging and that Sebelius simply meant to echo the president, who has acknowledged that the public option is a tough sell in the Senate and is, at the same time, a must-pass for House Democrats, and is not, in the president's view, the most important element of the reform package.
This has to be the most disjointed and clueless administration in history! Double talking idiots that end up trying to cover for The Messiah and not understanding what they’re saying in the first place!
poepopoetAugust 17th, 2009 - 9:40 am
The Democrats opposed all of these:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2.The 13th Amendment abolished slavery
3.The 14th Amendment reconstruction of the South
4.The 15th Amendment voting rights
5.The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6.The Civil Rights of 1866
7.The Enforcement Act of 1870
8.The Forced Act of 1871
9.The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10.The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11.The Freeman Bureau
12.The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13.The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14.The United State Civil Rights Commission
Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Never forget the U.S. is a Republic, for which it stands, THANK GOD, and it’s not a democracy, also know as the last form of government, that’s Europe
DaveAugust 17th, 2009 - 9:41 am
“Misspoke” in democratic bureaucrat speak means “accidentally told the truth”.
HickokAugust 17th, 2009 - 9:49 am
The Moronic Messiah has soiled his silk Calvin Klein briefs.
poepopoetAugust 17th, 2009 - 9:51 am
Now let me tell you about this and that about this and explain to you about that and this once more. Obama can’t help himself, when a Muslim lies, it’s their natural right according to their Koran; amazing spell check here and Mic-Word wants you use a capital for the koran, but not the Holy Bible. Obama submits a will proven fraudulent document to subvert our Constitution, to be elected; a Hawaiian COLB, that he was born in a Dole Pineapple Field, and everyone but a view believe it. Google executive order 13489 the very first thing Obama he did, once in office was he denied access to anything about him, everything. What lies and treasonous acts has Obama buried everywhere?
Obama’s endless lies and deceptions, his Chicago Mafioso like politics, and his now obvious stealth black liberation theology socialist revolution; 23 years with Rev. Wright training comes out stronger than ever, which are destroying our once great country; pitting neighbor against neighbor, black against white. The lying S.O.B. claims all the while to unite, the cry of a community organizer who is a liar, liar, liar and traitor.
I need no more proof of the dum-dums in America who believe in this person, than his followers and supporters. God bless and help America, please.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A key Senate negotiator said Sunday that President Obama should drop his push for a government-funded public health insurance option because the Senate will never pass it.
Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota said it was futile to continue to “chase that rabbit” due to the lack of 60 Senate votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
“The fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option. There never have been,” Conrad said on “Fox News Sunday.”
His comment signaled a shift in the health care debate, with Obama and senior advisers softening their support for a public option by saying final form of the legislation is less important than the principle of affordable coverage available to all.
SASKATOON — The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country’s health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.
Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country – who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting – recognize that changes must be made.
“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“We know that there must be change,” she said. “We’re all running flat out, we’re all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands.”
The pitch for change at the conference is to start with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA, who has said there’s a critical need to make Canada’s health-care system patient-centred. He will present details from his fact-finding trip to Europe in January, where he met with health groups in England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France.
His thoughts on the issue are already clear. Ouellet has been saying since his return that “a health-care revolution has passed us by,” that it’s possible to make wait lists disappear while maintaining universal coverage and “that competition should be welcomed, not feared.”
In other words, Ouellet believes there could be a role for private health-care delivery within the public system.
He has also said the Canadian system could be restructured to focus on patients if hospitals and other health-care institutions received funding based on the patients they treat, instead of an annual, lump-sum budget. This “activity-based funding” would be an incentive to provide more efficient care, he has said.
TalenAugust 17th, 2009 - 10:17 am
Can anyone recall a past administration that used the terms like “Misspoke”, or “What I meant to say” so much? Even back in the campaign, whenever Obama said something that he didn’t expect the general public to hear (remember the “clinging to their guns and religion” statement) the next day his handlers had him out there saying, “What I meant to say was blah blah”.
This is a classic sign of complete lack of leadership and direction inside the administration. Look at all the gaffs from different members where they made statements that were contrary to Obama’s “direction”.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the White House. I bet there’s a lot of inter-departmental squabbling and politics.
Gotta love those Democraps. Never seen a party backtrack so often. Might just want to put a muzzle on the fools, just like they have Biden, only, sometimes he is able to move the muzzle just enough to get his foot in his mouth again.
KevinAugust 17th, 2009 - 10:55 am
As long as we’re on the topic of mispeaking..check out this clueless pundit chastising all of us for not knowing the bill number.
—House Democratic officials say a public option will remain in their version of a health reform bill, even now that the WHITE HOUSE HAS ACKNOWLEDGED IT MAY BE DROPPED later.
“This is just for the Senate,” a House leadership official said about the administration’s concession on a public option. “There is no way it passes the House the first time around without a public option.
“The liberals (around 100+) won’t allow it.—
Gee, demagoguing is fun! But governing is hard.
DA BEARRRSAugust 17th, 2009 - 11:49 am
In other words, she decided to lie on a slow news day, and retract it when it will be buried by real news.
Seeme like almost every weekend, some administration official comes out and “misspeaks”. These guys are such dolts.
After like the 8th time of you guys doing this even the slowest of Americans realizes that you guys are just testing the air and prepping. The only other possibility is that you are the most incompetant admionistration ever. I actually opt for both on yall.
LeslieAugust 17th, 2009 - 12:59 pm
If you’re not afraid of these people due to their views you should be afraid of them because they simply cannot get their act together.
My children are better organized than obama’s administration.
Like Alan Keyes stated on Youtube, it’s like a bunch deliquent children have taken over our White House. We must continue to stand firm, it’s working and we’re seeing results, real results. They push us we push back HARDER!
GeriAugust 17th, 2009 - 1:01 pm
NO PLAN AT ALL EVER FROM THE DIRTYRATS! NONE! ZELCH! IF THEY PUT ANYTHING THRU THEN THEY WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE AND FIX IT THE WAY THEY WANT IT.
NO PLAN EVER FROM THE EVIL SOCIALISTS! TOGETHER WE STAND AND WE’RE LIKE A BLOCKADE TEHY CAN’T PENETRATE!
SteveAugust 17th, 2009 - 1:06 pm
This administration is incapable of saying it was or is wrong on any topic. Blame someone else is the status quo.
FranklyAugust 17th, 2009 - 1:22 pm
Whats going on is that they are trying to figure out a way to have a bill that does not at appear to have a “public option” while at the same time not offending the MoveOn.org type loonies. But make no mistake the government run healthcare is the ultimate goal here.
lamchopsAugust 17th, 2009 - 1:28 pm
This health care nationalization legislation is turning into a fiasco for the Democrats. They are essentially retreating in disarray. First they trash the middle class by calling them Nazis, mobs and “Evil Mongers”- because of their legitimate concern that they will lose the health care they rate highly. Now, within the administration, it appears the hindquarters is unaware of what the headquarters is doing. In fact, I’ve seen more organized creatures running around the barnyard with their heads cut off.
So it is to this level of organization and competency that they expect Americans will trust to micromanage every aspect of their health care?
magyarfrauAugust 17th, 2009 - 3:43 pm
sounds like things are spiraling out of control. One day it’s Obama with the police acting stupidly, then it’s Fed Ex & UPS outshining the Post Office, now Sebellius is willing to leave public plan out of health care. They can only function with teleprompters! It is a TOTUS conspiracy! These people are running our gov’t! YIKES!! Pray that we can find real leaders for 2010 & 2012. Most of those currently in Washington need to seek other employment.
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TruthTellerAugust 17th, 2009 - 4:17 pm
She did not say what she said when she said it, and if she said what she said, what she meant was not what she said when she did not say it. Are we clear?
Obama did not bow.
Obama did not say 57 states.
Obama did not ridicule Special Olympics kids.
Obama did not give the Queen an iPod with Him on it..
Obama did not say he’s in favor of single payer.
Obama did not hear anything Rev. Wright said in 20 years going to his church.
Obama did not hide all his records, including his birth certificate.
All you swastika wearing, un-American, evil-mongering, domestic terrorist angry mobsters have GOT to stop believing your eyes and ears!
Listen to Obama. HE IS THY MASTER!
TruthTellerAugust 17th, 2009 - 4:19 pm
By the way- We did NOT keep any of the flagged names addresses, except for the ones we kept, which was all of them.
Eileen for Freedom/LibertyAugust 17th, 2009 - 4:51 pm
America…”the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing”!
Proof…it rings true in Obamaland!
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THE REVOLUTION OF THE SILENT MAJORITY – SILENT NO MORE!
1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED
DONT’ TREAD ON US…WE PAY YOUR BILLS IN WASHINGTON AND IN YOUR HOMES WHERE YOU WILL ALL BE GOING STARTING IN 2010 AND BEYOND…GUARANTEED!
kmichaelsAugust 17th, 2009 - 5:09 pm
Democrats sure are confusing little babylonians.
kmichaelsAugust 17th, 2009 - 5:11 pm
Has anyone seen that idiot kid president lately?
If so, I am so sorry.
IDIOT!August 18th, 2009 - 9:35 am
I guess Sibbie didn’t get today’s talking points memo from Rhami-boy!
George BinAugust 18th, 2009 - 9:50 am
Obama and his Nazi troops in the House and Senate will continue to push their HealthCare on Us.
Unless you join KUIN!!
This has to be the most disjointed and clueless administration in history! Double talking idiots that end up trying to cover for The Messiah and not understanding what they’re saying in the first place!