'Fierce urgency' for jobs, not health care

When you have the #2 person in the House, Rep Hoyer (D-MD) that doesn't seem to know the difference between a mandate and promote and Sen Leahy who says that no one has the right to question Congress, you have a prescription for not listening to the American people on Obamacare. The stimulus package didn't create enough jobs to even mention the fact for all the money wasted and now the Administration is saying unemployment will remain above 10% for 2010 but we have to pass healthcare right away that will put more people out of work. Must have to be a Democrat to understand that scenario.

Then we have the chicken littles, Reid and Pelosi, running around saying they have enough votes to pass a public option, but they won't take a vote. Our sense is that both are lying. Take Reid's math -- he lost by 14 votes with Dems joining all the Republicans, today he says he has now picked up two votes while one of the Dems that voted with the Dems is now saying no to a public option but Reid has near 60 votes? Make sense to you -- it doesn't to us. Maybe this is Dem math at work. All we know is if either House had the votes, this would have been passed yesterday.

Today we also find out from Bryon York that Obama is using the words of Martin Luther King on the urgency of passing something. Does that man have an original thought in his head or is his so-called intelligence factor that he 'borrows' phrases from others to use as his own?

'Fierce urgency' for jobs, not health care
By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent
October 23, 2009

How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "the fierce urgency of now"? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education -- you name it.

Now, Obama and his fellow Democrats are trying to convince the nation of the fiercely urgent need to enact national health care reform this very instant.
"We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt," Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in September. "We cannot wait any longer. ... There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now."

But the American people simply do not share Obama's sense of urgency about health care reform. In a new poll, the Gallup organization asked the following question: "If Congress is going to reform the health care system, should Congress deal with health care reform on a gradual basis over several years, or should Congress try to pass a comprehensive health care reform plan this year?" Just 38 percent of those surveyed want reform now, versus a clear majority -- 58 percent -- who want reform on a gradual basis.

When you break Gallup's results down by political party, you see that Democrats are the only ones feeling any urgency at all. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats want reform now, but 77 percent of Republicans, and 63 percent of independents, want gradual reform. When it comes to health care reform, there is no fierce urgency of now.

The plain fact is, the public's top priority lies elsewhere. "The only issue that people have a sense of fierce urgency about right now is the economy and jobs," says Republican pollster David Winston. "The president is in an uphill battle to try to move the discussion to other topics."

Excerpt: Read more at Washington Examiner