{"id":13120,"date":"2009-07-31T07:38:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T12:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:12:33","slug":"conyers-healthcare-will-make-obama-a-1-term-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13120","title":{"rendered":"Conyers: Healthcare will make Obama a 1-term President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Busboys and Poets bookstore in trendy Northwest DC, Congressman John Conyers told assembled activists on the occasion of Progressive Democrats of America&#8217;s fifth birthday that &#8220;There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the impending healthcare bill, Conyers said, &#8220;suppose we happen to pass it? Big deal. That&#8217;s what Rahm Emanuel wants &#8212; pass anything just to say we did.&#8221; A weak plan, Conyers said, would not help things: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to fail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In either case, Conyers concluded, whether we get no bill or a weak bill, &#8220;they&#8217;ll blame Barack Obama. Heads he loses, tails he loses.&#8221; So, Conyers said, &#8220;we&#8217;ve got to tell Obama now, or he&#8217;ll be a one term president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, radical John Conyers wants the most extreme and intrusive brand of healthcare. Americans seem to oppose that.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/121982\/Seniors-Skeptical-Healthcare-Reform.aspx?CSTS=tagrss\">Gallup poll<\/a> today says that seniors are more concerned about the Obama Healthcare plan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seniors are the least likely of all age groups in the U.S. to say that healthcare reform will benefit their personal healthcare situation. By a margin of three to one, 36% to 12%, adults 65 and older are more likely to believe healthcare reform will reduce rather than expand their access to healthcare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News this morning featured a retired Navy veteran who dropped his AARP membership and insurance in protest of AARP&#8217;s support of the Obama health care plan. <\/p>\n<p><embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='http:\/\/foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live\/current\/videolandingpage\/fncLargePlayer\/client\/embedded\/embedded.swf' id='mediumFlashEmbedded' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' bgcolor='#000000' allowScriptAccess='always' allowFullScreen='true' quality='high' name='undefined' play='false' scale='noscale' menu='false' salign='LT' scriptAccess='always' wmode='false' height='275' width='305' flashvars='playerId=videolandingpage&#038;playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&#038;categoryTitle=Latest Video&#038;referralObject=7604725&#038;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749' \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, AARP is nothing more than an insurance brokerage. They like Obama health care because every one will have to buy a new policy to fill the gaps of the government plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Busboys and Poets bookstore in trendy Northwest DC, Congressman John Conyers told assembled &hellip; <a title=\"Conyers: Healthcare will make Obama a 1-term President\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13120\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conyers: Healthcare will make Obama a 1-term President<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}