The Official list of Obama Administration Scandals!
(Or The List of Reasons not to re-elect Obama!)

By Peter Andrew
ConservativeAmerican.org

Contains scandals, mistakes, mishaps, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc. That’s too long of a name, so we call it the Scandals List. Okay?

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701. Obama Lies to Congress # 19 9/10/9 – Reason Magazine reports, “The lies last night began in Obama’s opening paragraph. “When I spoke here last winter,” he began, “credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.” In fact, Obama spoke on Feb. 24, at least six weeks after credit markets began to thaw, and one week after he proclaimed that the passage of his $787 billion stimulus marked “the beginning of the end, the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans.” Obama’s speech that day wasn’t about staving off a collapse, it was about cleaning up the mess and tackling long-ignored issues. Such as health care.”
702. Obama’s Lies to Congress # 20 – Numbers Don’t Add Up! 9/10/9 – Reason.com reports, “the president’s numbers didn’t add up. “There may be those—particularly the young and healthy—who still want to take the risk and go without coverage,” he warned, in a passage defending compulsory insurance. “The problem is, such irresponsible behavior costs all the rest of us money. If there are affordable options and people still don’t sign up for health insurance, it means we pay for those people’s expensive emergency room visits.” No, it means that, on balance, the healthy young don’t pay for the unhealthy old. The whole point of forcing vigorous youth to buy insurance is using their cash and good actuarials to bring down the costs of covering the less fortunate. Such fudges reveal a politician who, for whatever reason, feels like he can’t be honest about the real-world costs of expanding health care.”
703. Obama Lies to Congress # 21 – “Special Interests” involved in Health Care Debate 9/10/9 – Reason.com reports, “Again last night, Obama invoked the boogeyman of “special interests” who “lie” in order “to keep things exactly the way they are,” despite the fact that the special interests in this case are lining up to support the president, and that the critics of his plan tend to bemoan, not defend, the status quo. Opponents of his plan, he said, were “ideological”; Ted Kennedy’s support for health care reform, meanwhile, “was born not of some rigid ideology, but of his own experience.” Obama said his door was “always open” to those bringing “a serious set of proposals,” and he slammed that door shut on any attempts to break the almost universally unloved link between employment and insurance. He yearned to “replace acrimony with civility,” then got Democrats stomping on their feet with attacks against the Iraq War and “tax breaks for the wealthy.” The center of the debate, as always, was wherever he chose to stand.”
704. Obama Flip Flops on Congress # 1 – You can Keep Your Plan & Doctor 9/9/9 – Obama used to spread the lie that “you can keep your plan and your doctor.” Major lefty news outlets have even pointed out this one is nothing he has control over. Now he flip flopped and says instead, “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.” That’s the catch. They won’t be required, but economics will result in many companies taking the bait and offering employees only the public option. That means your doctor and your plan would change and you would have nothing to say about it. This one is just a promise he cannot make. UPDATE 9/30/9: The National Review Online adds: “But even on its own terms, Obama’s claim is false. The CBO estimates that slashing payments to Medicare Advantage, as Obama advocates, “would reduce the extra benefits that would be made available to beneficiaries through Medicare Advantage plans.” It would also cause some people to lose their coverage.”
705. Obama Flip Flops on Congress # 2 How many Uninsured are There? Obama Loses 16-million People! 9/9/9 – From the AP:“OBAMA: “There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage.”THE FACTS: Obama time and again has referred to the number of uninsured as 46 million, a figure based on year-old Census data. The new number is based on an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, which concluded that about two-thirds of Americans without insurance are poor or near poor. “These individuals are less likely to be offered employer-sponsored coverage or to be able to afford to purchase their own coverage,” the report said. By using the new figure, Obama avoids criticism that he is including individuals, particularly healthy young people, who choose not to obtain health insurance.” — So I guess there are millions without health insurance, give or take,…I dunno,…say 16-MILLION PEOPLE!!!
706. Obama Flip Flops on Congress # 3 – Plays both sides of issue within three sentences!! 9/9/9 Obama tells congress, “No bureaucrat will come between you and your care. I will ensure it.” Two sentences later, he says he will appoint a commission of doctors whoo will determine what is waste and then get rid of it. So if he thinks it is wasteful, you won’t get the care. Hmmmm….that sure puts a bureaucrat between you and your care!
707. Palin catches Obama Flip Flop on Congress # 4- “Scare Tactics” 9/9/9 From Sarah Palin: “Our objections to the Democrats’ health care proposals are not mere “bickering” or “games.” They are not an attempt to “score short term political points.” And it’s hard to listen to the President lecture us not to use “scare tactics” when in the next breath he says that “more will die” if his proposals do not pass.
708. Obama Flip Flops on Congress # 5- No Changes to Your Plan?! Your costs will Skyrocket! 9/9/9 Real Clear Politics wants you to note: “while claiming he won’t change your existing coverage, Obama goes on to detail a whole set of changes to that coverage that will be mandated by government: What this plan will do is to make the insurance you have work better for you. Under this plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition…. They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime. We will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses…. And insurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care. And notice what each of these regulations would do: it would increase costs for private health-insurance companies. They would have to pay more to cover people with pre-existing conditions; more for people who go over their yearly or lifetime caps, more to make up for the limits on your out-of-pocket expenses, and more for routine checkups. Oh yes, and later on, Obama explains that his bill will be paid for by increased taxes on drug companies and insurance companies. There is no way to increase all of these costs for the insurers without causing a corresponding increase in health-insurance premiums.”
709. Obama’s Scandalous Admission to Congress! 9/9/9 In one speech, the President said both that,”I will not back down! If you can’t find affordable insurance, we will provide you with a choice (public option)”…and that the public option plan is bad for the nation! If it is so bad, why won’t he back down? Speaking to congress he said those on the left want a single-payer public option and those on the right want companies to stop providing health insurance and instead have people buy their own. He then said that EITHER ONE (So, INCLUDING the public option) “Represents a RADICAL shift that would disrupt the health care most people currently have!” Nancy Pelosi stood up and clapped to that! She applauded the President saying a public option represents a radical shift that would disrupt health care! Amazing.

You’ve just finished reading the 21 NEW Lies, 5 flip flops and 1 scandalous admission Obama told to Congress…(Continued from the previous page)! To see the 13 OLD lies that Obama just Repeated to congress, click here. That’s a total of 40 Lies Obama Told Congress! Our thanks to National Review Online for catching 6 new lies we missed!

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710. Obama Wants to Tax Your Soda! 9/9/9 C-BS (C for Couric, BS for what she does) reports: “In a newly-released interview with Men’s Health magazine, President Obama has said he is open to the idea of a tax on soda and other sugary drinks, which some have pointed to as a way to help pay for health care reform. “I actually think it’s an idea that we should be exploring,” Obama said in the interview. “There’s no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda.”
711. Obama Lie About The Urgency of Healthcare 9/12/9 Conservative American Thomas Sowell points out at Town Hall: “One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s medical care before the August recess– for a program that would not take effect until 2013! Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years– more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election? If this is such an urgently needed program, why wait for years to put it into effect? And if the public is going to benefit from this, why not let them experience those benefits before the next Presidential election?…The only reasonable alternative seems to be that he wanted to get this massive government takeover of medical care passed into law before the public understood what was in it. Moreover, he wanted to get re-elected in 2012 before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be.”
712. Obama’s Acorn group exposed as a Fraud! 9/12/9 Barack Obama got his start in being a community agitator with the group called “Acorn.” In example after example, they have been exposed to be nothing more than a fraud and a cover for the democrat party’s efforts to cheat to win elections. CNN reports Obama’s Acorn group is in even more trouble now, “Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring and evading the IRS… The video
     

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     shows the pair approaching two women working at the ACORN Baltimore office and asking them for advice on how to set up a prostitution ring involving more than a dozen underage girls from El Salvador.One of the ACORN workers suggests that Giles refer to herself as a “performing artist” on tax forms and declare some of the girls as dependents to receive child tax credits. “Stop saying prostitution,” the woman, identified by the filmmaker as an ACORN tax expert, tells Giles. The other woman tells them, “You want to keep them clean … make sure they go to school.” UPDATE 9/14/9: Not only Baltimore, but Washington D.C. and New York…Even More Acorn people advising others to break the law! Will the Obama Justice Department ever investigate Acorn?? UPDATE 9/15/9 – Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama calls for “an “immediate and thorough” investigation of (ACORN). House Republicans also wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to use his authority to end all federal funding for ACORN and break all government ties with the organization…The (request) comes after the Senate voted 83-7 Monday to cut off the group from Housing and Urban Development grants…9 lawmakers, 8 of them Republican, did not vote. Sens. Roland Burris, D-Ill.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Bob Casey, D-Pa.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., voted against the Senate measure. Meanwhile, Conservative American Ken Blackwell writes at Fox News that “Now that a third ACORN video has surfaced, a pattern emerges of ACORN workers willing to help people engage in prostitution, tax fraud, housing fraud, and even human trafficking. Under federal law, a RICO (the Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation is now warranted. Three strikes and you’re out, ACORN.”And there’s brand new ACORN video!
     
     UPDATE 9/16/9 The arrogant and retiring Charles “Hubris” Gibson of ABCDEmocrat News tells a radio reporter he is not even familiar with this story! UPDATE 9/17/9 Politicians are running from Acorn now as congress also votes to cut some funding from the scandal-plagued Obama group. UPDATE 9/28/9 – The IRS already cut its ties with ACORN and now Fox says Bank of American has also dumped ACORN. They elected their hero and now are falling apart? UPDATE 10/6/9 The Palin-Hating U.S. Democrat News and World Socialist Report magazine says, “ACORN Scandal COULD Embarrass Obama!” UPDATE 11/28/9: Politico says Obama’s Justice Department has ruled the Fed can still give money to his pals at ACORN!
713. Obama’s Census Bureau Dumps Obama’s Acorn! 9/12/9 Barack Obama was a community organizer for Acorn and promised to give them a prominent voice in his administration. Now, from the New York Times yesterday, “The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with Acorn, a community organization that Republicans have accused of voter-registration fraud….“It is clear that Acorn’s affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts,” (Census Director Robert) Groves wrote.” –Republicans have been pressing for this to happen. Wonder what Obama’s Acorn pals think of him now that he had his Census pals fire Acorn?!
714. Obama Imposes Tariffs on China to help pass his Obamacare Nightmare?! 9/12/9 Barack Obama just slapped China by imposing new import tarrifs. Breaking News 24/7 reports the move was likely made to keep his union pals happy so he can get his Obamacare Nightmare passed! “While the White House announcement late Friday is likely to placate union supporters important to the president’s health care push at home, it could alienate the strategically important Asian powerhouse and trading partner. Chen Deming, China’s minister of commerce, said the Chinese government strongly opposed the tariffs, calling them a serious case of protectionism that will not only harm China-U.S. trade relations, but also the interests of the United States. He said the U.S. had broken its promise at the G-20 summit and the action violated World Trade Organization rules.” InvestmentU calls this “Tiregate.”
715. Team Obama in Trouble for Dropping Voter Intimidation Case against Democrat New Black Panthers 9/13/9 You might remember this…
     
     
     Well, did you know Team Obama’s Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Loretta King, saw too it that the federal case against the panthers was dropped? Jennifer Rubin at Pajamas Media has an excellent story today Eric Holder’s Justice Department has refused to cooperate with the Civil Rights Commission on the case: “The Commission on Friday voted unanimously by a 5-0 margin to pursue the year-long study and to set up a separate subcommittee to handle sensitive discovery issues. The Commission also agreed to send a letter replying to the Justice Department’s announced refusal to cooperate with the Commission’s investigation. It seems that we are therefore headed for a clash between the administration, which has bragged about its transparency, and the Commission. It remains unclear whether the Justice Department will continue to stonewall as some fear or ask the president to invoke executive privilege to block the DOJ’s cooperation with the Commission’s investigation, thereby significantly impeding the only truly independent entity examining this issue…some Republicans are not willing to give up all leverage over Holder’s Justice Department. To that end, a hold has been placed, it is believed by Sen. Tom Coburn, on the nomination of Civil Rights Division head Thomas Perez.” Read Rubin’s entire piece here. UPDATE 10/24/9: From The American Spectator: “They won’t turn over information about the New Black Panther decision. They lie about who made the decision.”
716. Hillary wants Team Obama’s Scandalous Use of Contractors “Reviewed” 9/14/9 Reuters and the New York Times: “The U.S. State Department will review its use of private contractors at overseas embassies after a scandal over sexual hazing by security guards at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, an official said on Monday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked both the State Department and USAID, the government’s foreign assistance arm, to take an “across the board” look at how contractors are used and prepare to do more of the jobs themselves, department spokesman Ian Kelly said.”


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717. Obama breaks Pledge to “Rein in” the Banks 9/14/9 From the CounterPunch political newsletter: “Like every other promise of substance, Obama’s pledge to “rein in” the banks has fallen by the wayside; the well-timed rhetoric smoothed over public tensions and now business is back to usual. The New York Times remarks: “Backstopped by huge federal guarantees [the bank bailouts], the biggest banks have restructured only around the edges…pay is already returning to pre-crash levels, topped by the 30,000 employees of Goldman Sachs, who are on track to earn an average of $700,000 this year… Executives at most big banks have kept their jobs.” (September 11, 2009). Not only are the same people who helped destroy the economy still in their immensely powerful positions, but their power has increased. The Economist explains: “Far from ceding ground, the big banks have grown even bigger, aided by government-brokered mergers. Rules have been bent or broken … nearly half of American mortgages made in the first half of the year came from Wells Fargo, which took over Wachovia, or BofA, which swallowed Countrywide.”
718. Obama’s Trigger Promise Can’t Be Relied On 9/14/9 NH Watchdog reports: “In his health care speech to Congress on Wednesday, President Obama refused to show how his plan would achieve the cost reductions he claims it would. Instead, he presented another grand assertion: Any cost overruns will be balanced with spending cuts mandated by law. There’s just one problem with such triggers. They don’t work. The New York Times reported on Friday that “once in law, such automatic triggers have not proved effective as a way to reduce federal spending. In the past, Congress and the White House have simply overridden or ignored them.”
719. Obama Lies about FHA Making only Sustainable, Safe & Sound Loans 9/14/9 The Market Ticker reports Obama speaks and lies again: “THE TRUTH is that: FHA has been and still is putting Americans into loans they cannot afford, as is proved by the default and foreclosure statistics. The housing and banking industry HAS NOT reformed its ways, specifically, pushing loans on people they cannot afford, and the FHA is blatantly conspiring with these clowns in APPROVING loans that statistically have a one in five shot at failure. The claim that these mortgage programs are “helping Americans” is a damned lie. No program that winds up with one in five borrowers unable to pay – a rate double that of credit-card defaults – can be said to be “sustainable”, “safe”, or ‘helping homeowners.”


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720. Obama Lies, Claiming his Administration has helped Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure! 9/14/9 The Market Ticker reports “The claim that FHA only has a single-digit default and delinquency rate, and is helping Americans own and keep their homes is a BALD-FACED LIE.” Market Ticker says the outcome of the FHA under the Obama Administration thus far is that one in 5 loans is either late or in foreclosure! “”Helping homeowners” eh? Not a snowball’s chance in Hell according not to your lies but the mathematical FACTS as represented in ACTUAL default rates.”
721. Obama Not Acting Presidential – Calls Kanye West a Jacka**! 9/15/9 –
     

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     Fox News “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential,” “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday evening to his more than 1 million followers. The tweet forced the network to issue an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning remark published on the microblogging site. An ABC spokesperson said, “In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview,” Politico reported. “This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.” — ConservativeAmerican.org notes: Obama was right about West. He was wrong to use that language.
722. Obama is Bush 3! – Wants wiretapping without going to Court for Warrant! 9/15/9 – Remember when liberal democrats blasted George W. Bush for “warrantless wiretaps?” Hypocrite-in-Chief Barack Obama wants to quietly keep those going. Shhhhh! Fox news: “The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year…it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law’s authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called “lone wolf” terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps…The roving wiretaps provision was designed to allow investigators to quickly monitor the communications of suspects who change their cell phone or communication device, without investigators having to go back to court for a new court authorization. That provision has been used an average of 22 times a year, officials said.”UPDATE 2/28/2010: Obama signs another one year extension of Bush policy!
723. Obama Disappoints His Pals at the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee 9/16/9 Michael Sneed at the Chicago Sun Times: “The gush machine will be flowing full bore when Mayor Daley and 2016 Chicago Olympics Chairman Pat Ryan hit the White House for a visit with President Obama today. Privately: Both men are furious Obama is not planning to personally present the final Olympics pitch in Copenhagen next month, which, Sneed is told, had been the plan before Obama won the election. “It’s Daley’s legacy and Ryan’s dream,” a source said. Translation: “There is no way Obama’s advisers are going to let him go if it’s not a done deal,” a top source said. Further translation: “If Obama goes to Copenhagen and the bid loses, it presents this problem: Obama sets himself up as a lightning rod to make the United States an equal among equals, rather than a leader among equals.” UPDATE 9/17/9 Sneed reports: “It’s this simple. The bottom-line message to President Obama from Mayor Daley and the 2016 Chicago Olympics contingent at the White House Wednesday: If Obama doesn’t personally pitch Chicago’s bid in Copenhagen next month, we will lose it!” The first lady is going instead. UPDATE 9/28/9 – Obama does a Flip Flop and decides to go pitch the Chicago Olympic bid in person. It’s doubtful he would do that without some assurances that Chicago will be picked as the location for the 2016 games. UPDATE 10/2/9: Obama gives his pitch using his amazing oratory skills and the U.S. comes in 4th out 4 in the running for the 2016 games. Could it have had something to do with the bizarre speech his wife, Michelle Obama, gave? Her role was to convince the IOC that Chicago was the best site. Instead she gave a talk about her father becoming ill and dying. Bizarro!
724. Team Obama is going to Pick who conducts the ACORN “Internal” investigation!!! 9/16/9 From Nola.Com and the Associated Press: “ACORN will work with its advisory council, which includes prominent supporters of President Barack Obama, such as John Podesta, president of the nonprofit Center for American Progress, and Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to name an independent auditor and investigator, ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis said in a written statement. The investigation will examine all the systems and processes called into question by the video, Lewis said. In addition, ACORN won’t accept new admissions into its community service programs, effective immediately, and within the next few days will conduct staff training, she said. Lewis said the steps were being taken in response to “the indefensible action of a handful of our employees.” The moves by ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, come as some Republicans urge the Justice Department to investigate the group. In addition to the hidden-camera video, is under scrutiny for several voter-registration fraud cases.” — ConservativeAmerican.org comments: So President Obama’s pals are supposed to appoint the supposedly “independent” firm to investigate the democrat party’s ACORN division? Give us a break!
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725. Obama’s Democrat Pals Limit Free Speech in Congress!- 9/16/9 What the heck country is this anymore?! From Rush Limbaugh: “‘Under Section 370 of the House Rules and Manual, it has been held that a member could: refer to the government as ’something hated, something oppressive.’ – refer to the president as ‘using legislative or judicial pork.’ – refer to a presidential message as a ‘disgrace to the country.’ – refer to unnamed officials as ‘our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.’ – “Likewise, it has been held that a member could not: – call the president a ‘liar.’ – call the president a ‘hypocrite.’ – describe the president’s veto of a bill as ‘cowardly.’ – charge that the president has been ‘intellectually dishonest.’ – refer to the president as ‘giving aid and comfort to the enemy.’ – refer to alleged ’sexual misconduct on the president’s part.”’ – So the House of Representatives and their rules committee has now put out a list of things that can and cannot be said on the floor of the House of Representatives in what was the greatest representative republic in the history of the world.
726. Obama’s “Most Outrageous Health Care Myths” # 1- 9/16/9 From John Lott at Fox News: “Two claims are made all the time in the health care debate: 1) that there is little competition among those providing health insurance…It turns out that claims about too little competition are based on a misinterpretation of the data…”There is a serious problem with the lack of competition among insurers,” said Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine. “The impact on the consumer is significant.” Several studies point to how concentrated the health care insurance market is. A 2008 study by the American Medical Association shows that one or two health insurance providers dominate the market in most states, implying that the providers could be exploiting a monopoly-like situation to generate “excessive” profits…But they leave out the fact that for most people it is their employer, not the insurance companies, that pays for any bad health outcomes. The firm does so out of the company’s own pocket. The companies do what is called “self-insure” or “self-fund” their plans, and that occurs for around 55 percent of employees according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with the Department of Health and Human Services. Take Maine, Senator Snowe’s state, as an example. There, the two largest insurance companies appear to control 88 percent of the market. And Well Point Inc. makes up most of that, with 78 percent. But what isn’t made clear is that these numbers only deal with privately insured patients who are insured by insurance companies. Slightly over half of the privately insured in Maine (52.1 percent) get their insurance through their employers who “self-insure.” So what about President Obama’s claim that in the 34 states most concentrated states 75 percent of the insurance market is controlled by five or fewer companies? Given that self-insured firms cover 57 percent of people insured in those states, the correct total market share for the largest five firms control is 32 percent, not 75 percent.”
727. Obama’s “Most Outrageous Health Care Myths” # 2- 9/16/9 From John Lott at Fox News: “Two claims are made all the time in the health care debate: “2) that it is important to take the profit motive out of providing health insurance…non-profit insurers are so abundant that the largest insurer in virtually every state is a non-profit…by far the dominant players in the “full” insurance market are non-profits. Indeed, one of the motives of the government insurance option is to take profits out of the picture. “But having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs, that you can get an even better deal, that’s going to incentivize the private sector to do even better. And that’s a good thing,” President Obama told the nation during his July 22nd press conference.Yet, in 29 of the 43 states that data are available for in the American Medical Association report mentioned earlier, the dominant company in the “full” insurance market is a non-profit company. In state after state, Blue Cross and Blue Shield hold the largest market share. On average, the largest non-profit hold over half of the “full” market share in those 29 states. Why add another non-profit operation to the mix? Getting rid of profits wouldn’t make costs go down – they would go up, because without profits there would no longer be the same incentive to hold down costs.”
728. VP Biden “Stretches the Truth” on Rural Water Projects! 9/16/9 The Associated Press notes: “Under pressure to show quick results from the economic stimulus, the White House is taking credit for starting to build hundreds of rural water systems nationwide. But don’t look for construction crews anytime soon. At most job sites, it could be awhile. Sometimes, a long while. It all depends on what the definition of “starting” is. THE SPIN: Vice President Joe Biden said two weeks ago, “We set a goal of starting to build 200 water sanitary systems and wastewater treatment facilities in rural America. We’ve met that goal.” The White House Web site says “We are pleased to report that new waste and water systems are underway in 200 communities in rural America.” THE FACTS: Wednesday marked the 100-day deadline Biden set in June for his promise. Despite claims that the administration has started to build these projects, many exist only on paper and won’t see construction for some time. Of the 10 largest projects in the continental U.S. announced by the Obama administration in the past 100 days, none has begun construction. Workers won’t begin digging at many job sites until sometime next year.
729. Obama Gives in to Russian Pressure – Cancels European Missile Defense! 9/17/9 Russia wins the Obama coin toss! President Obama today announced he is canceling the planned missile defense system for Europe. Yahoo! News and the Associated Press report: “The new (Obama) plan would rely (on) sea and land-based sensors and interceptor missiles intended as a bulwark against Iranian short- and medium-range missiles. The Bush missile shield plan, which never moved beyond the blueprint stage, would have been a deterrent for Iranian long-range missiles, but Russians worried that the system would be aimed at them…the decision can be read at least in part as an effort to placate Russia at a time when its support against Iran’s suspected nuclear program has not been forthcoming and is sorely needed.Obama faced the dilemma of either setting back the gradual progress toward repairing relations with Russia or disappointing the Czech Republic and Poland, two key NATO allies…Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl called the decision “dangerous and shortsighted.” “The message the administration sends today is clear: The United States will not stand behind its friends and views ‘re-setting’ relations with Russia more important,” said the Arizona senator. “This is wrong!” UPDATE 9/18/9: Former National Security employee (Nixon, Ford & Reagan) says Obama tosses ally aside and we get nothing! “By canceling the promised missile shield, he in effect cut Poland loose and threw her to the Russians…70 years to the day after of their brutal invasion of the country. Nice timing.” Meanwhile, Fox News reports Obama mishandled the protocol by having Hillary call Poland instead of making the call himself! “(Polish Prime Minister Donald) Tusk told Polish radio that he did not want to speak with Obama on Wednesday night because he wanted to “properly prepare for the discussion.” But Politico.com reported Friday that it wasn’t Obama on the line — that Tusk actually rejected a call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — who called him to detail the plan — because as a head of government, he thought he should hear from Obama directly.”Hillary called — and the reason he turned it down was because of protocol,” one of two U.S.-based sources close to the Polish government told Politico.”
730. Obama Breaks No Tax Increase on Those Making Less than $250K Promise (AGAIN!) 9/17/9 The Obama Cap & Trade (Cap & Tax) plan would cost you dearly! C-BS (C for Couric and BS for what she does) News reports: “The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration’s estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.”
731. Obama Appointment Scandal #77 – Kevin Jennings 9/18/9 – Sean Hannity adds one to the list from his TV special, “The President’s Ten” featuring some of Team Obama’s crazy appointees (the other 9 are on the list already: Carol Browner, Rosa Brooks, Mark Lloyd, Dawn Johnsen, David Hamilton, Harold Koh, Samantha Power, Cass Sunstein & John Holdren). Hannity says Obama named Kevin Jennings to the post of Assistant Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. Jennings used to be the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. Hannity reported that group sponsored a conference called “Teach Out 2000″ at which Department of Education officials provided graphic answers to children on how to perform sexual acts. Hannity guest, Noelle Nikpour, says that included homosexual acts. UPDATE 9/23/9 – Fox News: “President Obama’s “safe schools czar” is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men. Conservatives are up in arms about the appointment of Kevin Jennings, Obama’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, saying he is too radical for the job…as a teacher in Massachusetts, he founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He has also published six books on gay rights and education, including one that describes his own experiences as a closeted gay student.” UPDATE 10/1/9: Fox News “President Obama’s “safe schools czar,” under fire from critics who say he’s unfit for his job, acknowledged Wednesday that he “should have handled [the] situation differently” years ago when he was a schoolteacher and didn’t report that a 15-year-old boy told him that he was having sex with an older man…”I should have handled this situation differently. I should have asked for more information and consulted legal or medical authorities.” UPDATE 10/15/9 53 House Republicans call on Obama to fire Jennings, “citing their concerns that Kevin Jennings wants to promote a “homosexual agenda” and that as a schoolteacher years ago he did not report that a young student told him he was romantically involved with an older man.” UPDATE 12/13/9: More completely disgusting information is revealed about Jennings. Media Matters defends him. Big Government keeps revealing disgusting details about this man’s terrible behavior. UPDATE 12/14/9: Fox News: “President Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar,” already a target of social conservatives for his past drug abuse and what they say is his promotion of homosexuality in schools, is under fresh attack after it was revealed that the pro-gay group he formerly headed recommends books his critics say are pornographic…One recommended book is titled “Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade.” … In another book, “Passages of Pride,” the author writes about a 15-year-old boy’s relationship with a much older man…On Page 13 of a third book, “Reflections of a Rock Lobster,” the author recounts his sexual encounters in first grade. “By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory…”
732. Obama Promotes ObamaCare and puts War on Hold! 9/18/9 – While President Obama delays a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan, more soldiers continue to die. The President has time to dance around the country doing what he loves best, campaigning for socialist health care reform. Why doesn’t he have time to make up his mind about something as important as the troop levels in a war we are fighting?! His own general says he needs 40,000 more troops to win the war. Earlier, Obama provided his own troop surge of 17,000 additional troops when generals asked for 30,000. To put this on hold to deal with health reform is outrageous. UPDATE 9/22/9: 300 soldiers have died now since President Obama took office. UPDATE 9/24/9: From Fox News: “OBAMA: What I’m not also going to do, though, is put the resource question before the strategy question. Until I’m satisfied that we’ve got the right strategy, I’m not going to be sending some young man or woman over there beyond what we already have. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) ARIZONA: Let me tell you what’s the worst part of this is that the administration has told General McChrystal not to send his recommendation for the additional troops.” ConservativeAmerican.org notes: What difference does it make if he officially sends something we all know about already anyway? The fact is he wants the troops now and Obama is not about to give him what he needs to WIN. UPDATE 10/7/9: Fox News, “”We are witnessing a profound lack of focus,” House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, R-Ind., said Wednesday…Sen. John McCain, told Obama that he should not move at a “leisurely pace,” according to people in the room.That comment later drew a sharp response from Obama, they said. Obama said no one felt more urgency than he did about the war, and there would not be nothing leisurely about it…”We do recognize that he has a tough decision, and he wants ample time to make a good decision,” said House Republican leader John Boehner. “Frankly, I support that, but we need to remember that every day that goes by, the troops that we do have there are in greater danger.”…”Half-measures is what I worry about,” McCain, R-Ariz., told reporters.”

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733. Obama’s Outrageous Lie About Acorn! 9/20/9 – From Michelle Malkin reports on what Obama Told ABCDEmocrat News today: “STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN? OBAMA: You know, it’s — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money…You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated. STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding? OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.” As Malkin notes, “It strains credulity — no, it snaps credulity in half — to believe Obama “didn’t even know” that ACORN was “getting a whole lot of federal money” given his extensive legal services on behalf of the group and training for its voter education arm, Project Vote. (Go re-read my column from June 2008, “The ACORN Obama knows,” and all the links for a refresher course.) Repeat after me: Obama is ACORN. ACORN is Obama. Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.” UPDATE 9/27/9: More Proof Obama Lied about ACORN Scandal Obama’s statement, “I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money,” is quite interesting considering he had millions put in his own Economic Stimulus Plan for ACORN! As we noted (Scandal dated mid February – Obama Sneaks Money to ACORN) , Fox News reported back in February that Republican John Boehner had revealed Obama was sneaking money into the Deficit Stimulus Plan for his democrat partisan pals at ACORN for so-called neighborhood “stabilization” (creating more democrat voters makes a neighborhood more “stable” I guess).
734. Obama Admits Health Care Reform could Cost $90 to $100-Billion in new taxes each YEAR!!!!! 9/20/9 – Naked Emporer News has the video proof…
     
     President Obama also says it will cost $15-Billion in new money to keep a child health care program going.
735. Feds use the National Endowment for the Arts to Promote the ObamaCare Nightmare?!!! (& Obama Appointment Scandal # 78 – Yosi Sergant) 9/20/9 – Syndicated Columnist George Will of the Washington Post reports, “”This is just the beginning,” Yosi Sergant told participants in an Aug. 10 conference call that seems to have been organized by the National Endowment for the Arts and certainly was joined by a functionary from the White House Office of Public Engagement. The call was the beginning of the end of Sergant’s short tenure as NEA flack — he has been reassigned. The call also was the beginning of a scandal that illuminates something gargantuan — the Obama administration’s incontinent lust to politicize everything. Sergant’s comments, made to many individuals and organizations from what is cloyingly called “the arts community,” continued: “This is the first telephone call of a brand-new conversation. We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government.” Wrong preposition. Not “with” the government, but for the government. Did the White House initiate the conference call-cum-political pep rally? Or did the NEA, an independent agency, spontaneously politicize itself? Something that reads awfully like an invitation went from Sergant’s NEA e-mail address to a cohort of “artists, producers, promoters, organizers, influencers, marketers, tastemakers, leaders or just plain cool people.” They were exhorted to participate in a conference call “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda.” The first core area mentioned was “health care.” The NEA is the nation’s largest single source of financial support for the arts, and its grants often prompt supplemental private donations. He who pays the piper does indeed call the tune, and in the four months before the conference call, 16 of the participating organizations received a total of nearly $2 million from the NEA. Two days after the call, the 16 and five other organizations issued a plea for the president’s health-care plan.” — The Washington Post reports, “Sergant became well known during campaign 2008 for his work with artist Shepard Fairey around the iconic Obama HOPE poster, and first came to Washington as a staffer in the White House…The National Endowment for the Arts has reassigned former communications director Yosi Sergant, who had become the latest target of FOX News talk show host Glenn Beck…The move came after he had come under attack from Beck, a conservative commentator who accused Sergant of attempting to use taxpayer money to fund art to support the president’s initiatives. UPDATE 9/24/9: Fox News reports Yosi had to resign today! UPDATE 10/29/9: Judicial Watch got a ton of information on the political conference call. UPDATE 10/31/9: Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air website links another White House executive to this scandal, Kalpen Modi.
736. Team Obama Tells NY Gov Paterson to Stop Seeking Another Term! 9/20/9 New York Times: “Gov. David A. Paterson insisted on Sunday that he would continue his campaign for governor, despite urgings from the White House that he step aside for the good of the Democratic Party…The plan to appeal to Mr. Paterson to step aside was proposed by the president’s political team and approved by Mr. Obama. “For the White House to allegedly intercede so forcefully at this juncture, that’s surprising,” said H. Carl McCall, a former state comptroller and 2002 Democratic nominee for governor…White House political director, Patrick Gaspard, met with Mr. Paterson…Gaspard, a New York native, has crossed paths with Mr. Paterson before. Before joining the White House, Mr. Gaspard served as political director of 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East, the giant union that battered Mr. Paterson with attack ads…Mr. Obama’s aides seemed eager on Sunday to ease any anger over White House involvement in the governor’s contest.” — ConservativeAmerican.org notes: Obama has a short memory of how this stuff feels. It wasn’t that long ago that a President (Clinton) told Obama to stop campaigning!


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737. Obama’s White House Staffer Pushed ObamaCare on the National Endowment for the Arts! (& Obama Appointment Scandal # 79 – Buffy Wicks) 9/21/9 Breitbart’s Big Hollywood identifies
     

     Buffy Wicks

     the “functionary from the White House Office of Public Engagement” that George Will wrote about as having pushed ObamaCare during a conference call to grant recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as being Buffy Wicks. Rush Limbaugh today refers to Wicks as “Buffy the Wal-Mart Slayer” because of her involvement in protests against Wal-Mart. As we pointed out July 2nd, Obama has done a huge flip-flop on Wal-Mart: “President Obama has gone from saying he wanted to “force” Wal-Mart to “re-examine its corporate values,” to being a fan of the company he has personally profited from. That’s because Wal-Mart now is backing at least part of Obama’s socialist healthcare plan!” Wicks was part of Team Obama California and was in charge of Obama’s Inauguration. Ron Galloway writes at the Huffington Post that, “I met Buffy two years ago when she was instrumental in the anti-Wal-Mart effort. She was polite to me, which she didn’t have to be, and frighteningly smart. And frightening to me in general.” ConservativeAmerican.org wonders what the young Buffy, (who works for Valerie Jarrett–see scandal #75 dated 12/18/2008), thinks of Obama suddenly liking Wal-Mart now! Wicks crossed ethical, and perhaps even legal, lines in pushing federal arts grant recipients to help promote the ObamaCare Nightmare. She also asked them to produce pro-Obama artwork! UPDATE 11/4/9: The Washington Examiner wants to know why Wicks remains on the White House payroll after the NEA scandals.


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738. Obama Tells ABC there’s no tax in Obamacare, but Yes There Is! 9/21/9 Fox News: “President Obama gave ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos a stern talking-to Sunday for suggesting that a mandate to buy health insurance would amount to a tax. But the language of the health care reform plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., explicitly labels the penalty attached to the mandate as an “excise tax…”The excise tax would apply for any period for which the individual is not covered by a health insurance plan with the minimum required benefit,” the Baucus plan says. ” UPDATE 9/30/9: The National Review Online adds: ““The middle class will realize greater security, not higher taxes.” Obama would make health insurance compulsory for the middle class (and everyone else). If he thinks that isn’t a tax, he should listen to his economic adviser Larry Summers, or his nominee for assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at HHS, Sherry Glied. Both liken the “individual mandate” to a tax, as do other prominent health economists like Uwe Reinhardt (Princeton) and Jonathan Gruber (MIT). The CBO affirms that the penalties for non-compliance “would be equivalent to a tax or fine.” UPDATE 11/4/9: Reason Magazine reports, “President Obama broke his promise to raise taxes only on the wealthy barely two weeks after taking office, says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, and he will break it again if Congress passes the health care legislation he wants. But Sullum says Obama has come up with a strategy to avoid the fate of George H.W. Bush: Although he will raise your taxes, he will never admit he is raising your taxes.”
739. Obama Uses Another Bad Example 9/21/9 Remember the Post Office example he used about UPS? Well he used a similar example on George Step-in-a-lot-of-it at ABCDEmocrat News: “And,” Obama said, “you actually can afford health insurance, but you’ve just decided, you know what, I want to take my chances. And then you get hit by a bus. And you and I have to pay for the emergency room care.” Bad example. Not true. The bus driver’s insurance would pay for the care, not “you and I.”
740. Obama Breaks Promise on Negotiating for Cheaper Drug Prices 9/21/9 This is one of VERY FEW that come from CBS (gasp) News: “In the Jan. 31, 2008 debate, Mr. Obama said, “If a drug company — if the drug companies or a member of Congress who’s carrying water for the drug companies wants to argue that we should not negotiate for the cheapest available price on drugs, then I want them to make that argument in front of the American people. We’ll negotiate with the drug companies for the cheapest available price on drugs,” Mr. Obama said again in an Oct. 15, 2008 debate with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). It turns out, however, Mr. Obama reneged on this promise in a secretive way. In July the president praised the drug industry for its agreement to reduce its revenues by $80 billion over 10 years by discounting the cost of medicines for some seniors. After Congress sought to extract further funds from the pharmaceutical industry, however, it was revealed that the White House made some previously undisclosed deals to get the industry to stay at the negotiating table. “The White House had tracked the negotiations throughout, assenting to decisions to move away from ideas like the government negotiation of prices or the importation of cheaper drugs from Canada,” the New York Times reported.
741. Obama Breaks Promise on Allowing You to Buy Drugs from Other Nations 9/21/9 Also from CBS: “During the campaign, Mr. Obama said his plan would “Allow consumers to import safe drugs from other countries” because “some companies are exploiting Americans by dramatically overcharging U.S. consumers.” As noted above, the Obama administration secretly conceded to forgo the importation of cheaper drugs in its deal with the pharmaceutical industry.
742. Obama Breaks Promise That the Average Family will save $2,500 a Year with Obamacare! 9/21/9 CBS News ran a story about the 5 Health Care Promises Obama Won’t Keep. Two of them, his promise of transparency and that he won’t mandate that individuals buy insurance, have already been covered on our list. The two above and this one make up the other three. From CBS: “”The only thing we’re going to try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed onto you. And we estimate we can cut the average family’s premium by about $2,500 per year.” This campaign promise is the trickiest to explain and to evaluate. Mr. Obama gave this figure repeatedly, but he was not being completely forthright about what he meant. His administration never expected families to see savings of $2,500 in premiums; instead, his advisers calculated the total cost savings for both individuals and the government.”UPDATE 9/23/9: CATO institute says Obama breaks tons of promises and is batting 1 for 61!
743. Obama Flip Flop on Being Black 9/21/9 – Barack Obama, acknowledging his white mother and the white grandparents who raised him, has called himself a “mutt” (a reference to a mixed dog breed) in the past. As president, he has fueled the fire of the racial divide by saying a white police officer “acted stupidly” in arresting his black friend. He had to backtrack on that one with his “beer summit” and was a guest on the Palin-Hating David Letterman Show this week. Asked if critics of his socialist health care takeover are opposed to his plan just because of his race, Obama offered: “First of all, I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election,” Obama said to huge laughs from Letterman and the audience. Responded Letterman: “How long have you been a black man?” — That’s actually a good question. How can Obama claim he is black when he has a white mother? Can he then also claim he is white? ConservativeAmerican.org points out that Obama has never been a black man, despite being hailed as the “first black” president. He is bi-racial, half white and half black, and the first bi-racial president. That is not a racist comment and I am no racist. This merely is a statement of truth. While there obviously are some racists in this country who oppose Obama, to claim that all who oppose the ObamaCare Nightmare are racists is foolish and untrue. He also is the first socialist president.
744. VP Biden Gaffe: Democrats are all Doomed! 9/21/9 -ABC News reporter Karen Travers writes: “Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda. Biden said Republicans are pinning their political strategy on flipping these seats. “If they take them back, this the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do,” the vice president said at a fundraiser for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) today in Greenville, Delaware.Republicans need to pick up 40 seats next November to take back control of the House.” –ConservativeAmerican.org notes: End of the line for Obama? Doomsday for what they are trying to do? We can only hope!
745. Obama Tries to Punish ObamaCare Nightmare Opponents! – Humana 9/22/9 – The : “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched an investigation into Humana Inc.’s effort to enlist beneficiaries to fight proposed cuts to Medicare’s private plans. The investigation, launched Friday, is looking at whether Humana, one of the largest providers of Medicare Advantage plans, violated marketing rules by sending letters to beneficiaries in Michigan, Florida and other states urging them to contact lawmakers to register their opposition to proposed cuts. The letters state that “millions of seniors and disabled individuals could lose many of the important benefits and services that make Medicare Advantage health plans so valuable” — a claim congressional Democrats say is false…(Government) Officials on Friday requested that the company stop the mailings and shut down the Web site…If Humana violated marketing rules, sanctions could include fines or suspending its ability to market their plans and enroll new beneficiaries.” — So for voicing opposition to the Baucus-Obama Bill, Humana gets thrust into a government probe. That’ll teach companies not to fight the Rahm Emanuel-David Axelrod-Barack Obama White House! UPDATE 9/23/9 – Fox adds: “Republican Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell blasted the investigation of Humana on Wednesday, calling it a “federal gag order” that seeks to silence a health provider that disagrees with the administration. McConnell said he’s called for a complete legal justification of the probe.”This is so clearly an outrage,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “For explaining to seniors how legislation might affect them, the federal government has now issued a gag order on that company, and any other company that communicates with clients on the issue, telling them to shut up — or else. This is precisely the kind of thing Americans are worried about with the administration’s health care plan. They’re worried that government agencies which were created to enforce violations even-handedly will instead be used against those who voice a different point of view,” he said. UPDATE 9/24/9: Wall Street Journal: “Humana gets whacked for telling the truth, AARP gets a pass for spreading falsehoods.”
746. Obama’s Carbon Emissions Lie 9/22/9 – Rush Limbaugh notes that President Obama today told a United Nations Climate Change meeting that the U.S. has done more to reduce carbon emissions in the last eight months (since Obama took office), than at any time in history. Limaugh says that is a “flat out P.R. lie!” If it is true, Limbaugh says, then we certainly don’t need the Obama Cap & Tax plan. While Obama claimes the future of the planet depends on the reduction of greenhouse gas, the New York Times is reporting the temperatures have been stable for ten years and may even drop in the coming years.
747. Team Obama Picks Lefty for Acorn Investigation! 9/22/9 –

     Team Obama has selected a George-Soros Funded lefty to “investigate” ACORN!!! Former Democrat Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger has been selected by friends and supporters of Obama to investigate the democrat party’s ACORN division. Harshbarger ran the lefty group, “Common Cause.” The American Spectator calls that group, “One of liberal philanthropist George Soros’s favorite lefty groups…It attacks pharmaceutical companies for opposing government-run health care”! It gets worse. Obama’s personal pals Andy Stern and John Podesta were on the group that helped to pick Harshbarger!! Talk about an inside job! Stern is the President of the SEIU and Podesta runs the Center for American Progress-ives. Fox reports: “”ACORN has already been down this path before,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif…”A self-run investigation is not a substitute for an independent investigation.”

748. Obama Appointment Scandal # 80 – Nancy Ann DeParle 9/22/9 From RedState: “Who has he chosen as his health policy czar to make sure the waste, fraud, and abuse gets stamped out? Nancy-Ann DeParle. And why do I call her a non sequitur appointee? Well, a non sequitur is a logical fallacy and that’s what this appointment is. Why the hell would you appoint as your healty policy czar who will focus on rooting out Medicare’s waste, fraud, and abuse the woman who ran Medicare for Bill Clinton and utterly and completely failed to root out waste, fraud, and abuse?…According to the Investigative Reporting Workshop of the American University School of Communication and MSNBC (!!!)…In touting DeParle’s accomplishments when he appointed her in March, Obama didn’t mention the lucrative private-sector career she built since September 2000, when she left her government job running Medicare for the Clinton administration. Records show she earned more than $6.6 million since early 2001, according to a tally by the Investigative Reporting Workshop. And the public wasn’t told that much of that corporate career was built at companies that have frequently had to defend themselves against federal investigations. After leaving government, DeParle accepted director positions at half a dozen companies suspected of violating the very laws and regulations she had enforced for Medicare. Those companies got into further trouble on her watch as a director. Now she’s back in government as a leading voice in deciding the shape of health care reform. As director of the White House Office of Health Reform, DeParle is the point person in pushing for the administration’s plans for changing health care and the ways Americans pay for it — changes in which her former companies have a great deal at stake.”
749. Obama Throws Another Ally Under the Bus 9/23/9 – Barack Obama uses the United Nations as a forum to toss American ally, Israel, under the bus! Fox News says, “In declaring that it is time for Middle East peace “without preconditions,” President Obama used his speech to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday to fire a warning at Israel that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements…Obama just put Israel “on the chopping block,” said former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton.
750. Another Obama Lie Uncovered! 9/23/9 This lie was hiding in plain sight until Maggie Thurber put it on her blog: “Yesterday (9/21/9) our local paper, The Blade, did (an interview) with President Barack Obama…”When I came into office, we were losing 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen so that small businesses and large businesses alike couldn’t borrow.”…According to CNNMoney.com, job losses in November 2008 were 584,000 and job losses in December 2008 were 524,000. Total losses for the months of September and October 2008 were 792,000, so clearly neither month was ‘700,000.’ U.S. News and World Report says that the January 2009 job losses were 598,000, while the New York Times reported February 2009 job losses of 651,000. So when the president said we were losing 700,000 jobs per month when he came into office, was he lying? Or just, perhaps, exaggerating?” — ConservativeAmerican.org answers Maggie’s question: He was lying…again.


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