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Congressmen Took Obama At His Word Over Invite to Review Health Bill “Line by Line”

Posted by: Mike's America @ 10:52 pm in Uncategorized  | 978 views

Yet calls and letters go unanswered!

President Obama issued the following invitation at a Town Hall meeting he held in July in Raleigh, NC (White House transcript):

So I just want everybody to know, Congress will have time to read the bill. They will have time to debate the bill. They will have all of August to review the various legislative proposals. When we come back in September, I will be available to answer any question that members of Congress have. If they want to come over to the White House and go over line by line what’s going on, I will be happy to do that.

The next day Congressman Phil Roe (R-TN) wrote the President accepting his invitation. His letter is here. No word came back from the White House so Roe sent a second letter in early September. Two weeks after that second letter, still no response from the President who claimed he would be “happy” to sit down and go over the bill.

Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-Texas), chair of the Congressional Health Care Caucus. has also written twice noting in his second letter that the President stated in his speech before Congress last week that “My door is always open.”

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has also written multiple times with no response. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) also indicated his willingness to review the health bills “line by line” with the President.

Both Reps. Roe and Burgess are Physicians and their expertise would certainly be useful to a President whose experience is limited to community organizing and running for public office.

Yet, no response from the White House and no meeting scheduled. Considering the urgency of the President’s demand for health care reform you would think he would jump at the chance to meet with these Republican members of Congress to fulfill his promise for bipartisan solutions to the nation’s problems.

Another example of how Obama’s speeches are nothing more than empty words!

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24 comments so far

FedUp
 1Reply to this comment  

Ahhhh… that gives me the warm fuzzies when the prez promised that we, who make under $250,000 will not have our taxes raised by one dime! Yup… definately the warm fuzzies. After all, he wouldn’t lie to us, now would he??

September 17th, 2009 at 4:31 am
bill-tb
 2Reply to this comment  

Awww man, he thought the teleprompter meant it.

September 17th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Formerly known as Skeptic
 3Reply to this comment  

Yeah, well…he also pledged to the Poles that he would follow through on the missile defense system. Remember, all Obama promises come with an expiration date.

September 17th, 2009 at 6:53 am
savage24
 4Reply to this comment  

When Obama made the invitation to the opposition, to sit down at the White House and go over healthcare reform line by line, was his lips moving? Enough said. Just don’t call him a liar or you will be a racist.

September 17th, 2009 at 7:04 am
jjk0091
 5Reply to this comment  

Just empty words from the empty suit.

September 17th, 2009 at 7:44 am
FedUp
 6Reply to this comment  

savage24… I no longer care what they think….

LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!

Please send me a food (wine would be good too) when I get to the re-education camp…

September 17th, 2009 at 7:53 am
tfhr
 7Reply to this comment  

Mike,

Classic line:

“Both Reps. Roe and Burgess are Physicians and their expertise would certainly be useful to a President whose experience is limited to community organizing and running for public office.”

September 17th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Inspectorudy
 8Reply to this comment  

It still amazes me when you look back at his journey through life that there is almost no area that is not covered by lies. Pick any time in his life that HE has commented on and you will see lies or misstatements. His book, if you want to give him credit for it, is so full of lies and half truths that it should be listed under Fiction. His life as a state senator is full of lies and misstatements as well as obfuscations. His campaign was full of soaring speeches and promises but as we have learned by now, most if not all have been lies. In a world envisioned by our forefathers the press would have made us aware of these personality traits long before the election. Alas, they were in the lying business with him.

September 17th, 2009 at 8:05 am
RickZ
 9Reply to this comment  

“Another example of how Obama’s speeches are nothing more than empty words!”

That is so blatantly unfair and racist toward empty words.

September 17th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Madalyn
 10Reply to this comment  

Geez you would think he would have at least let 1 republican in so he could challenge these kind of comments. But, once a liar, always a liar. He has so much practice, even the press believes him! Makes you wonder what is coming next? No earmarks in bills? HA HA HA! No new taxes? HA HA HA! Complete transparency? HA HA HA! The picture is perfectly clear, and once certain left-leaning zombies start thinking for themselves, all hell will break loose. He doesn’t know what “Racism” is until his kind turns on him.
Madalyn

September 17th, 2009 at 9:37 am
ThomNJ
 11Reply to this comment  

I think they should each send ONE MORE letter to the White House that simply says: YOU LIE!

September 17th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Mike's America
 12Reply to this comment  

@tfhr: Thank you! I do try!

@Madalyn: Obama has that same peculiar pathology that causes him to believe what he says when he says it. Later, when the consequences of his words are clear, he can claim he never said it the way everyone else heard it.

It’s the sign that Obama finds reality to be something he can bend at will and the rest of us are just supposed to take it.

NOT ME!

September 17th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Robbins Mitchell
 13Reply to this comment  

Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to call the boy a liar…let’s just say that he seldom deviates into veracity.

September 17th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Steve In Tulsa
 14Reply to this comment  

Remember the Whorehouse Organizer In Chief used to teach ACORN employees how to help out pimps and whores to use illegal immigrant children as sex-slaves. Obama promotes child slavery in the sex trade. It is who Obama is and it is what he does.

So this is what community organizing means!

September 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Steve In Tulsa
 15Reply to this comment  

Damn, I did it again. Why is that spam my email box with every follow up post from now on always on by default? Every day I have to go and delete dozens of emails. I do not want to be spamed for follow ups or new comments. And there is no obvious place here to turn it off. And if I do manage to turn it off then the next time I post I fall into the same old trap again because NO OTHER BLOG uses the default of spamming you with every comment. I beleive you can turn it on at will on some blogs but here it is on by default.

Please, please, please change that or move the check boxes Above the submit button.

Thank You!

September 17th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Patvann
 16Reply to this comment  

@Mike
I think the term you are looking for to describe Teh One’s “particular pathology” is:
Narcissist with un-resolved abandonment issues, complicated by cognitive dissonance. :-)

September 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Mike's America
 17Reply to this comment  

@Patvann: I agree with all the above but I don’t want to limit myself. Surely, there is more to follow.

September 17th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Corky Boyd
 18Reply to this comment  

Obama also promised a tort reform measure. Neither the Senate bill and nor any version of the House bill have it. Does this mean we can call him a LIAR?

September 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Old Trooper
 19Reply to this comment  

Corky Boyd, Yes We can. The deception continues with every speech the Pretender makes.

September 17th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Curt
 20Reply to this comment  

@Steve In Tulsa: In the emails sent to you of follow up posts there is a link to unsubscribe at the bottom of the email.

September 17th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

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