Thread: Health Care Legislation Broken Promises

A word from Mike Huckabee:

I’m sure you will remember back in March, when the health care legislation was being so hotly debated. At the time, Congressman Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, said that he would not vote for any legislation that included federal funding for abortions. He said that he would ONLY vote for President Obama’s health care legislation as long as the President would issue an Executive Order clarifying that no federal funds would be used for abortions.

The President signed an Executive Order purporting to do just that.

It is unfortunate that Cong. Stupak and his small band of followers didn’t listen to the pro-life warning sirens in March – when they warned of obvious pathways created by Obamacare that lead straight to federal funds being used to pay for abortions. Still, Cong. Stupak and several other blue dog Democrats trusted President Obama and voted for his health care bill.

Fast forward to the present: Pro-Life organizations just reported that more than $160 million in federal funding was being allocated to state high-risk insurance pools in Pennsylvania and New Mexico that included abortion services.

After this news surfaced, the Department of Health and Human Services was quick to post a statement rejecting this claim. Then they issued a second statement promising to communicate to state agencies that federal funds for patients with “pre-existing conditions will not” be used for abortion services.

While that is certainly good news, it does nothing to alleviate the concerns of pro-life Americans. After all, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has still never refuted her comments in a letter to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on the implementation of the President’s healthcare law when she wrote, “States may choose whether and how they participate in the program, which is funded by the federal government.”

I believe this confusion between the states, the federal government and HHS, only proves the President’s Executive Order on this issue is meaningless and can’t be relied on to protect the lives of the unborn.

Whether the policy consequence was intended or not, this latest revelation is sadly just another example of a President whose track record with the truth has left many Americans scratching their heads.

I want to remind you:

- It was this President who said if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor – but even the New York Times reported that in fact, under Obamacare, that’s not necessarily might not be the case.

- It was this President who said, “We must pass the stimulus to keep unemployment from reaching double digits,” However, a year after its passage, the unemployment rate had already skyrocketed to double digits, and continues to hover around 10%.

- It was this President who said, he “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days,” but that hasn’t been true – many bills have been signed within hours or days of passage.

- It was this President who said, “we'll have the negotiations (about healthcare) televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies,” instead, the meetings were held behind closed doors.

- It was this President who said he was, “committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994." However, for the fiscal year 2010, total earmarks are costing taxpayers $15.9 billion.

As I’ve said many times before, elections have consequences – but at least we can do something about it come November. We need to continue working tirelessly to elect conservative candidates and send them to our State Capitals and to Washington D.C. – let’s hold our elected officials accountable for their promises.

Sincerely, Mike Huckabee

Originally Posted by Charles Stover

Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with any of the things on that list. It looks like weasel words ("[some other non-political source, not citing legislation, said] that's not necessarily might not be the case") and nitpicking ("he said he'd wait five days, but instead has done what every other president ever has done and did it within hours").

Oh, the immorality.

Yep, you missed the point.

Clinton lied about a blow job and was impeached.. Bush lied about countless things killing millions of people and conservatives see him as one of the greatest presidents we have ever had..

Shrub should have been impeached and then tried by a tribuneral for war crimes.. But of course it woud mean that conservatives actually care about america to do that..

And of course.. They didn't.. Like Osama Bin Laden, Bush is free to beach his boat off the Florida coast.. Odd that the two greatest and worst criminals are free..

Originally Posted by MajikMyst

Bush is free to beach his boat off the Florida coast.. Odd that the two greatest and worst criminals are free..

"Odd" is not the word I would use....."Disgusting" is more appropriate!
Lack of political courage by the Dems is the only thing preventing prosecution of Bush & Cheney for many crimes. Evidence (including confession) is plentiful.....Courage to take them on is what's scarce.

Originally Posted by Devil505

"Odd" is not the word I would use....."Disgusting" is more appropriate!
Lack of political courage by the Dems is the only thing preventing prosecution of Bush & Cheney for many crimes. Evidence (including confession) is plentiful.....Courage to take them on is what's scarce.

Agreed.. If I were Obama.. I would bring them to justice..

Originally Posted by MajikMyst

Agreed.. If I were Obama.. I would bring them to justice..

Here's Cheney's videotaped admission of authorizing war crimes:


Bush has confessed as well.

Originally Posted by MajikMyst

Clinton lied about a blow job and was impeached.. Bush lied about NOTHING.

As of yet, no one has been able to prove that President Bush lied about anything you said he lied about.
It's like the non-existent clinton surplus. "Repeat a lie often enough and it will become the truth."
I think a liberal democrats said that.

Originally Posted by keymanjim

As of yet, no one has been able to prove that President Bush lied about anything you said he lied about.
It's like the non-existent clinton surplus. "Repeat a lie often enough and it will become the truth."
I think a liberal democrats said that.

OMG!! WOW!!! Half a billion websites, his own admission?? Are you brain dead or just that ignorant of reality??

Bush lied and people died!!

bush lies.

You also might want to stop lying to yourself..

There was a surplus.. I would like you to prove otherwise.. I would also like you to prove that Bush never lied about anything.. You can start with the website I provided..

Where is OBL?? Where are the WMD??


Also do not change a word when you quote me or anyone else..

I never said what you quoted.. You just weren't man enough to respond to the actual quote..

Originally Posted by MajikMyst

Bush lied about countless things killing millions of people..