Remember that Obama claimed the stimulus bill would save or create millions of jobs. It didn’t. Remember that the Obama Administration said that the stimulus bill would keep unemployment from rising above 8% and that the bill was too important to take the time to read it? Remember that after a slight dip in unemployment in August Obama claimed that he had “rescued our economy from catastrophe?”
Well now reality is starting to set in. As Obama’s chief White House economist testified before Congress last month the stimulus that was to be the cornerstone of Obama’s economic recovery and jobs plan is a bust. A $trillion in new spending that will take a lifetime to pay off and nothing to show for it. It really is, as the Congressional Budget Office warned before the stimulus bill was signed, “worse than doing nothing!”
Opinion polls suggest that more and more voters are blaming Obama, not Bush, for the bad economy. That message was confirmed on Tuesday with voters in New Jersey and Virginia putting the economy and jobs at the top of their list of concerns while voting overwhelmingly for Republican candidates in the big races.
With unemployment expected to remain high, directly due to Obama’s policies which DISCOURAGE job growth, it’s likely that voters will be looking for a different kind of hope and change a year from now and also in 2012!
And if you have cancer and lose your private insurance, you’ll have to wait six months under Obama Care!
Remember how Obama accused opponents of the government run health care scheme of telling lies about the plan? Remember how Dems promised abortions wouldn’t be paid for with your money? Guess who is lying?
Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life – not end it.
Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that. On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan. The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions.
What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan. It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account – and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.
Section 213 describes the process in which the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run plan. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month.
In his first year in office, Barack Obama has visited more foreign countries than any other president. He’s touched ground in 16 countries, easily outpacing Bill Clinton (3) and George W. Bush(11). But there’s one stop Obama won’t make. He has begged off going to Berlin next week to attend ceremonies commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. His schedule is reportedly too crowded.
Obama had time to fly all the way over to Copenhagen to plead for Chicago to get the Olympics but no time to attend an anniversary which marks the restoration of peace and freedom to a Europe that was divided and on a knife’s edge in the years following World War II?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally invited Obama in June to this historic event and he had accepted. But now he tells the Germans that he’s just too busy.
Yet somehow, Obama will find time to fly to Sweden in a few weeks time and accept a Nobel Peace Prize which he hasn’t earned. Still, he’ll be the center of attention at that event and he’d be just another world leader at the events in Berlin.
Perhaps the problem for Obama is that by attending the Berlin ceremonies parallels will be drawn between him and President Reagan; who didn’t just talk about peace but made it happen. Or maybe Obama just can’t bring himself to recognize an American success. After all, he’s spent the last nine months touring the world apologizing for America’s shortcomings.
Sadly, as Obama snubs yet another of our staunchest allies, he fails to realize that at some point we’re going to need the Germans if we ever decide to get tough with Iran. Skip that. Something tells me Obama has no intention of getting tough with Iran bomb or no bomb!
Election WAS a repudiation of Obama! Bad news for Dems in 2010 and 2012!
Writing in the Los Angeles Times on October 25, Peter Nicholas framed the problem perfectly:
Now tack on a trio of state and local political races. With an off-year election fast approaching, Obama is stepping up his commitment to Democratic candidates in hopes that an infusion of campaign charisma might pump up turnout.
What the party is finding, though, is that the electricity of 2008 is tough to recapture.
Some Democratic candidates running for local office around the country call the phenomenon the “Obama hangover.” It is proving tougher to recruit volunteers and get people to vote.
Despite an all out effort in New Jersey and Virginia, with Obama in ads calling on voters to get “fired up once again” the collective yawn coming from his supporters must be a frightening silence drifting down the halls of the White House.
While exit polls in New Jersey and Virginia showed that 20% and 24% of voters in those respective states were motivated to vote in opposition to Obama, the bigger story here and the one which gives the best indication of where we are headed in 2010 and 2012 was the flip among independent voters away from the Democrats and the absence of younger and black voters who formed the “Obama surge”and helped him win a year earlier. Loss of both these groups spells disaster for Democrats. Read the rest of this entry »
Top Dems: No Health Care Bill in 2009
By JONATHAN KARL ABC News
11/4/09
Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News today it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was “absolutely confident” he’ll be able to sign one by then.
“Getting this done by the by the end of the year is a no-go,” a senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News. Two other key Congressional Democrats also told ABC News the same thing.
“I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident,” Obama said Oct. 27 at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Read the rest of this entry »
Keep your fingers crossed and watch out for those ACORNs in NJ! One good sign: The White House is running away from this as fast as they can!
UPDATE at 10:20 EST HUGE SWING FROM 2008: GOP WIN IN VIRGINIA by 18%
GOP WIN IN NEW JERSEY
NY-23 Hoffman down 5% with 39% vote in.
Obama went all out in New Jersey with multiple stops over the weekend and even sent Biden to New York-23 on Monday (200 people showed up). Ads with hope ‘n change and “fired up” ran in Virginia and New Jersey.
Here’s the classic Henry Mancini tune “Baby Elephant Walk” to help you pass the time until the polls close:
The RNC ad also asks: “Whose side are you on?” Some of us have been wondering the same thing about RNC leaders!
Perhaps to make up for the $900,000 the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee wasted on turncoat Scozzofava in the special congressional election in NY-23 the RNC is running the following radio ad in that district:
“Whose side are you on?
“The Pelosi/Patterson tax and spend train wreck?
“Or do you believe in Republican conservative values, like thrift, personal responsibility, and family.
“Let’s tell the liberals, enough is enough.
“No more bailouts, taxes and budget busting spending.
“It’s time to create jobs, with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes.
“Let your voice be heard, join the movement to bring real conservative change.
“Tell the politicians, no more, we won’t let you bankrupt America.
“We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values.
“Fight Back! Vote conservative, it matters like never before.”
Let’s hope this ad is a recognition by the RNC that they need to be leading this parade and not just following!
Trick or Treat Comes a day late in Upstate New York. One day after lauding her selfless decision to withdraw, I retract every nice thing I said about this idiot!
Yesterday, I commended Dede Scozzofava for suspending her campaign and freeing her supporters in advance of Tuesday’s special election to fill the vacant congressional seat in New York’s 23rd district. At the time, Ms. Scozzofava said: “I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my Party will emerge stronger.”
Obviously that statement had about as much truth in it as her promise that if elected she would fight to hold down taxes.
On Sunday, Scozzofava made another statement in which she ditched any pretense at being a Republican and declared:
[T]hroughout my career, I have been always been an independentvoice for the people I represent. I have stood for our honest principles, and a truthful discussion of the issues, even when it cost me personally and politically. Since beginning my campaign, I have told you that this election is not about me; it’s about the people of this District.
It is in this spirit that I am writing to let you know I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same.
Apparently, New York states senior Senator, Charles Schumer reached all the way to the White House in an as yet unspecified action to make this betrayal happen. We may shortly find out for what price Dede Scozzofava sold out her party and her political heritage.
One wonders how those county GOP leaders who picked Scozzofava feel about their decision today?
It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my Party will emerge stronger and our District and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations.
On Election Day my name will appear on the ballot, but victory is unlikely. To those who support me – and to those who choose not to – I offer my sincerest thanks.
You are unlikely to find a sorrier rogues gallery than Obama’s guest list!
Did you ever wonder who were the folks who got all those special invites to the White House since the Obama’s turned it into party central? The White House released the list. Here are some highlights…
Two visits by William Ayers, the Weatherman terrorist whose group bombed the Pentagon and who said he wished he had done more. Remember Obama told us all that Ayers was “just some guy in the neighborhood” back in Chicago. What a liar! Read the rest of this entry »
House Committee sessions where these issues were voted on were nothing but a sham! The real work went on behind closed doors in direct contradiction to Obama’s promise for an open process!
Nancy Pelosi finally put her cards on the table this week. Meeting in secret She produced a bill which weighs in at a record 1990 pages (PDF). It’s a monster by every measure. The Congressional Budget Office puts the full cost of the bill at $1.28 trillion dollars:
According to a preliminary CBO estimate of the bill released Thursday, the cost of expanding coverage to an additional 36 million Americans under the House plan would total $1.055 trillion over the next decade, counting tax breaks for small businesses, subsidies for low- and moderate-income families and the largest expansion of Medicaid since its inception 40 years ago. Add a variety of other costs outside the coverage package — including the creation of a new innovations center to reform Medicaid and Medicare — and the total cost of the bill rises to nearly $1.28 trillion, according to calculations by other Democratic aides.
Pelosi and House Democrat leaders are trying to push the fiction that this won’t be a budget busting bill but members of her own party are not buying it. The famous Blue Dogs are rebelling again and demanding answers from the CBO on how much the bill will actually cost after all the smoke and mirrors are gone. As we all know, government programs typically cost far more than they are projected to.
Rather than give the troops the reinforcements they need, Obama instead uses the dead for a photo op! What an ASS!
Obama’s one and only trip to the Dover Delaware Air Force Base which is the gateway for the bodies of all the nation’s war dead was a photo op that almost didn’t happen. 17 out of the 18 families refused their permission for the news media to cover this event.
Instead of a row of coffins coming back from Afghanistan, Obama got to use only one as a prop.
Readers may recall that President Bush met privately on numerous occasions with families of our fallen but he NEVER ONCE took news media cameras and pool reporters along.
Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney thought Obama’s conduct was a bit odd. Here’s a brief interview she gave to John Gibson on Fox News Radio: Read the rest of this entry »
