Obama assails GOP for portraying health care overhaul as ‘Bolshevik plot’

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Friday, January 29, 2010
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Obama accuses GOP of demonizing health overhaul

BALTIMORE — President Barack Obama is accusing Republicans of portraying health care overhaul legislation as a “Bolshevik plot.”

Obama told House Republicans that major elements of the bills were based on proposals from former lawmakers in the political middle, including one plan from Republicans Bob Dole and Howard Baker as well as Democrat Tom Daschle.

The president said “that’s not a radical bunch, but if you were to listen to the debate … you’d think this was some Bolshevik plot.” He criticized the Republicans for their attacks and said their strategy doesn’t give them any room to negotiate.

The 1917 revolution in Russia brought the Bolsheviks to power. Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin were among the leaders.
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Temeri
February 6, 2010: 11:04 pm

Have we all just missed on President’s Obama beautiful rhetorical slip?
The root of the Russian language political descriptor “Bolshevik”, is in the word ‘bolshy’ that means ‘bigger’ or in political lingo ‘major’ like in ‘majority party’.
Yes indeed, Mr. President, it is your own “super Bolshevik” party having majority of Democrats in the House, majority of Democrats in the Senate (until the Scott Brown catharsis) and yourself the White House that have concocted behind the closed doors and tried to ramrod down the collective throat of this nation the concept of health care overhaul. If there ever was a “plot” to “transform” this nation by means of party of “Bolsheviks” i.e. Democrats, that one would be it Mr. President.
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