To build on Michael Sean Winter's post immediately below, here is David Gibson on what he calls "Obama's Altar Call for Health Care Reform" on PoliticsDaily.
Obama was clearly ramping up his rhetoric in an effort to counter the strident attacks. He punctuated each claim from opponents -- about insuring illegal aliens, a government takeover of health care, taxpayer funding of abortion, and so-called "death panels" -- with a firm rejoinder: "Not true."
The liberal evangelical leader and longtime Obama backer, Jim Wallis, opened the call-in with a vow that over the next 40 days "the nation will hear a steady moral drumbeat from the faith community about God's desire for the health and healing of our nation" and for "truth-telling" in the debate. Wallis said believers "are in danger of losing the moral core" of the health care debate.
anger and frustration, as this is the only thing our legislators seem
to understand. Hundreds and thousands, perhaps millions have already
bombarded the politicians who are pandering only to corporate welfare
and not the 9.5 percent of jobless American workers. E-verify has
literary risen from the grave because we have pressured the morons in
the Capitol. We must neither let them weaken the NO-MATCH-LETTER or
police enforcement 287 G, not whittle away at the lightening raids of
ICE. However, we should adjoin rescinding the misinterpreted birthright
citizenships or anchor babies. law.American workers have a significant
roll to play in contacting ICE if they hear or see illegal activity in
the workplace.
Read many undisclosed facts at the HERITAGE FOUNDATION
AND NUMBERSUSA. I anticipate this is a ominous beginning to set the
American people up for another AMNESTY? The 1986 didn't work and was
subject to massive corruption and fraud. What makes them think in
Congress, that this will not turn into a irreversible travesty. Illegal
immigrants already receive free health care in emergency hospitals, so
they are not going to participate in a public option. We must remove
the illegal immigrants from the workplace methodically and leave our
nation, so American jobless can step into that niche?
Did anyone ask what impact trillion dollar deficits will have on the poor in this country? What about the middle class, whom I assume Liberals think God loves as well? What about the abortion funding provisions?