It seems that there is a TON of confusion coming out of Washington this week in regards to the proposed health care legislation being hammered out in committees.

And it’s only Tuesday.

The President and his can’t shoot straight gang have all along been proposing a public option to help combat the alleged deficiencies that are in our private health care system. The goal of course is too eliminate private insurance all together at some point and to eventually go with a single payer system like Canada and Great Britain. If you don’t believe me here is the President talking about this issue right HERE

Well over the weekend some member of his administration indicated that possibly the public option was off the table. The team over at the White House must have been watching MSNBC and actually believed that the opposition to this was actually ASTROTURF ( like they know what that means) and was not credible. I have a feeling the internal numbers are coming in and they know that they are in trouble. They realize they probably bit off more than they can chew and need to back off.

Enter Nancy Pelosi……. She evidently did not get the memo that maybe the lefitists should cool there jets.

From Fancy Nancy’s offical website

Nancy Pelosi just blasted out this statement signaling that House Dems are standing firm behind the public option, despite the White House’s apparent softening of support for it over the weekend:

“As the President stated in March, ‘The thinking on the public option has been that it gives consumers more choices and it helps keep the private sector honest, because there’s some competition out there.’

“We agree with the President that a public option will keep insurance companies honest and increase competition.

“There is strong support in the House for a public option. In the House, all three of our bills contain a public option as does the bill from the Senate HELP Committee.

“A public option is the best option to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice and expand coverage.

I’m not sure, but I think Madame Speaker just drew a line in the sand at the Presidents feet and dared him to cross it. This is highly unusual in a big piece of legislation to come out against the person in your own party who HAPPENS to be The President of the United States and say that you are not backing down.

I think I know why.

While President Obama is still treated as somewhat of a cult figure by some in this country I think the true hard nosed politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman with good ole Barney Frank know that this POTUS can be rolled. He is not the intellectual heavyweight that the press made him out to be in the last election. They meet with him weekly , sometimes daily, and they most know that he can be pushed around. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next week or so to see who wins the day with this legislation and what stays in. The Nancy Pelosi version or The Presidents new version that can change any minute.

Only the Teleprompter truly knows!!!!

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The Micheal Steele, Rush Limbaugh dust up over the past couple of days has actually been somewhat amusing to watch. I was a bit surprised that Mr Steele would let a True Entertainer, like D L Hugley rope him into such a dumb question and ridiculous premise on his show Sat as to whether Rush is the leader of the GOP.

Micheal Steele has a TON of experience in these type of situations and knows how to sidestep this stuff. The Democrats are trying to tag a figure THEY deem as unpopular as ‘LEADING THE CHARGE” and want to change the subject from what they are trying to shove down our throats. Steele apologized Monday after Limabugh went on his radio program and responded to the Hughley program and comments made.

Now I know a lot of this will be spun as Steele groveling. Total Bullshit. Rush is not the leader of any movement or party anymore than Keith Olberman is for the Dems, although fellow blogger John Brodigan makes a somewhat convincing tongue in cheek point on this here Rush is a voice in the conservative movement and a very loud voice. I really believe Steele is much smarter than the trap he got pulled into on Sat getting baited on this stupid premise.

The point Limbaugh is bringing up and being attacked for namely wanting Obama to fail is absurd. IF the President is trying to promote policies that are going to drag the country down it is our duty to try and oppose him and anyone else who lines up for this boondoggle.Just as I thought President Bush was wrong on his domestic spending increases and the Libs on the war.

Which brings me to a lil thing which has been bugging me for over a year now.

The liberals have a unusual allies in this smear effort on El Rushbo.

The Conservative ELITE.

I don’t know any of these people personally but I read what they write and I’m amazed at the hate they have for Limbaugh. I get if you don’t particularly care for Rush’s over the top pontificating, I tire of it too. He can be a lil overbearing and over the top.

But on the issue of the President being wrong to take the country down this road, Rush is RIGHT. And if you scholars would take a moment to separate yourselves from your own ego’s you would know he’s right on most other things also. I know this is hard for most of these people to do , being that they are really too busy to tell you how smart they are, or what degrees they have.Or how many times they have met President Bush and how long they worked for some elected official or the GOP committee.

This is the thing Egg heads, the people you need to get Conservatives elected don’t care. Never have, never will.

This probably makes you sad. Don’t fret, there is a movement brewing that you will become part of and try to claim as your own and that fine, middle America doesn’t care who get’s the credit just as long as the job get’s done and the right people are elected.

Now please don’t get me wrong just because you don’t get Rush, doesn’t mean you fall into the above category. Those that I have engaged in conversation through written correspondence are not able to articulate what it is that Rush is saying that is wrong. They just don’t like the a ” GUY” like Limbaugh is saying it.

Hopefully to achieve our mutual goal of helping America continue to be the best country it can be, those who are the self proclaimed a taddddd bit smarter than the rest of us can play nice with us dullards and get along.

Do it or the Bus to 2010 will most likely run you over