Bill Kristol Rips Obamacare Suicide Mission & Democrat Vote Buying (Video)

Bill Kristol was in rare form this morning on FOX News Sunday.
The conservative commentator and founder and editor of The Weekly Standard blasted the Obamacare “suicide mission.”

Bill Kristol: I think the odds are that they will succeed in the suicide mission they are engaged on. For the first time in US history the bill will pass on a purely partisan vote a massive piece of legislation that is manifestly unpopular. Good luck. Good luck selling it.

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#1 December 20, 2009 at 10:46 am
Toaster802 commented:

NATIONAL STRIKE JAN 20, 2010 to coincide w/ STATE OF UNION SPEECH NATIONWIDE STRIKE over Obamacare…

Call into work sick. Buy nothing. Find a union hall, congress creature office, State or Federal building and form picket lines. Come ready to party…

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! Put that right back in their face!

NATIONAL STRIKE JAN 20, 2010 to coincide w/ STATE OF UNION SPEECH NATIONWIDE STRIKE over Obamacare…TAKE BACK AMERICA!
#3 December 20, 2009 at 11:08 am
chuck in st paul commented:

This is a Long March strategy by the libs in America. That includes the limosine liberals in the Republican party as well.

This stretches from FDR into the utopian future where a claque of pols have absolute control of us. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, National Health, EPA, Gun Control, ACORN (et al), Motor Voter, Amnesty, etc., etc., etc.

Yes, it is a conspiracy, but an open one. They’ve made no secret of their agenda. It is just that most Americans are either completely oblivious to it or so pig ignorant they refuse to see it and what it’ll mean.
#6 December 20, 2009 at 11:38 am
Militant Conservative commented:

Too little too late. Loaded and locked.
Lets Rock the vote!
#7 December 20, 2009 at 11:40 am
bg commented:

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sarc on/

what’s a Republican??

what’s a Democrat for that matter??

tis “we the people” who have been suckered & about to get booted..

more like a “democide mission”..

those suicidal homicide bombers have nothing on the US Congress..

/sarc off

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#8 December 20, 2009 at 11:55 am
Arch commented:

From a purely objective viewpoint, I can’t imagine a more politically destructive bill than this so called health care reform now the exclusive work of the Left. Most Americans are insured and not in favor of making a change. The more details that emerge, the more opposition appears in all the wrong places.

In 2006 and 2008, the democrats took control of Congress and the White House by portraying their party as moderate and bipartisan. Their majorities were the result of disillusioned conservatives and strong support from independents. Barack Hussein Obama was crafted out of whole cloth and sold by a fawning media. Now Americans have seen him and the radical left wing of his party in action. Most opposed of all Obama’s foes are seniors who are afraid of $500B cuts in Medicare. Did I mention that old people vote?

Obama’s popularity is in free fall. If you look at the Rasmussen poll of 1500 likely voters, starting with 67% approval, Obama has dropped to 46%in just 11 months. More discouraging yet, strongly disapprove has risen to 41%while strongly approve has dropped to 26%. Independents who voted for Obama and the democrats by 2:1 now favor the conservatives by that amount.

This Christmas and New Year holiday will not be pleasant for the blue dogs or RINOs. Americans want jobs, lower deficits, less government, free market healthcare, lower energy costs and secure borders. Obama and his party think they know better.

Next November, we shall see.
#9 December 20, 2009 at 12:04 pm
non_dhimmie commented:

Kristol and McLame are using this to further the GOP….they couldn’t care less what happens to the middle class…..There were plenty of ways to have halted this long ago….

tort reform
insurance deregulation
fraud in medicare

The GOP did nothing……
#11 December 20, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Cassandra commented:

Non-dhimmie,
It isn’t true that the GOP “did nothing.” Some targeted measures were implemented, and several practical proposals were shot down in Congress in 2007-8, when Dems ran it.

Besides, do you seriously believe that any solid improvements in the system would ever dissuade the leftists (i.e. “Democrats”) from trying to take over the whole thing? They simply believe that centralized government control is better–and most of all they think it’s a key to enlarging and cementing their own POWER. That’s why they appear so indifferent to the details of the plan and its likely consequences for our health.

There is nothing the GOP could have done to prevent the Dem-left from making this power-grab whenever they had the opportunity.
#12 December 20, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Arch commented:

For those who think that the Senate Bill constitutes law, think again. The Senate has not actually voted. Even if they had, the House and Senate Bills are completely different. The House has recessed until after New Years. If the Senate bill passes, the House and Senate will convene a joint committee to work out the differences. The new joint House Senate bill must pass both houses before it goes to Obama for signature.

There are many who warn that no large entitlement program has ever been rolled back after the public began to receive the benefits. If Obama signs this thing into law, taxes will immediately increase, but we will see no benefit until 2015, only pain.

I ask you willfully to suspend disbelief and imagine running as a democrat in 2010 or 2012. A constituent complains that his Medicare payments have increased and that everything concerning healthcare has gotten more expensive, and asks what you are going to do about it.

You answer,”Wait until 2015, you’ll really like it.”

Your opponent smiles and says, “I’m going to shut down the whole program and give you a tax credit.”

We know who wins that argument?
#13 December 20, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Arch commented:

I’m one of those evil defense contractors who has actually written “language” and successfully obtained earmarks. (We called them “plus ups.”) Many times my boss would look at the House mark up or the Senate mark up and want to call corporate and declare victory. I would shake my head. There is no way to predict what a joint committee will approve or even propose.

Considering the public opposition to this bill, be very cautious about taking “Healthcare” to the bank.
#14 December 20, 2009 at 1:22 pm
bg commented:

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does anyone have any idea as to what has already been passed in the Stimulus Package back in February, have they even READ IT YET??

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#15 December 20, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Sandy commented:

Bill Kristol is right this is a suicide mission by the Democrats. Never has a bill so manifestly unpopular been passed with only one party’s votes. No matter how much money the Dems spend on re-election they will lose. No matter how lavish the ads Americans will say — you didn’t listen to me now screw you. So maybe this is a slush fund unemployment benefit to those who will be departing the scene prematurely.

Obama’s redistricting will not take place until 2012 and his new base of Illegals which is supposed to make up for the loss of the Dems old base of Seniors will not be a factor in 2010.

There is only one way out for Obama to save the Congressional Dems and that is to declare Martial Law. Anything short of the will be a Sunami by the Republicans.
#16 December 20, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Sandy commented:

Someone I know said yesterday that Hillary should run on the Tea Party ticket. There is so much wrong with that statement it left me breathless.
#17 December 20, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Sandy commented:

Arch — the problem is this will not be real reconciliation. Pelosi has said she will present a compromise bill to Obama before his State of the Union speech.

She can’t afford to do a real reconciliation with the left screaming about the Senate bill cheating them out of their Public Option. Also, the retirement of many of those Blue Dogs who so vexed Pelosi means they might just vote their conscience and stop this bill. Therefore she and Dingy Harry will do their own version of reconciliation just in time for Obama to tout his historic achievement.
#19 December 20, 2009 at 2:32 pm
JHTRazor commented:

Is it true that no other piece of major legislation has passed on a purely partisan vote?

The level of deceipt and buying of votes is probably as blatant as it has ever gotten. Nelson, Sanders, Landrieu and others all gettting payoffs to buy their votes. Reid playing a game of having a bill that in the first ten years (what the CBO scores) has ten years of revenue/tax increases, but only 6 years of costs.

This is dirty, Chicago politics at its worst.
#20 December 20, 2009 at 2:49 pm
MochaLite commented:

You all expect representatives to listen and act on the will of the people. What you don’t understand fully is that these 535 (536 counting BO) folks in Washington really do think that they know better than we do what is good for us.

They don’t need to hear us; they’ve already made up their minds.