What if a bunch of politicians tried to make themselves look more generous and compassionate than the rest of us by passing a law to provide medical services to a few folks that urgently needed them but didn’t have the means to pay? What if those politicians contrived a way to force most of us [...]
Commander In Chief Decision Watch: Day 76 . Why, has President Obama still not decided what to do about Afghanistan? The President appointed General Stanley McChrystal to be commander of the Afghanistan Theater. On August 30 Gen. McChrystal completed an assessment that Obama ordered, and submitted his 66 page report. The exhaustive, brutally realistic review [...]
Echoes of Vietnam The media report that President Obama is considering a “compromise” that would send fewer troops to Afghanistan than General McChrystal requested to accomplish this mission, that Obama declared in March: So I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al [...]
Seventy Two days ago President Obama received the assessment, strategic plan and resource request he had ordered from General McChrystal, the man he appointed to command the Afghanistan operation. As the troops continue to struggle in Afghanistan, the President continues to dither and avoid making a decision. On Monday CBS reported that the President was [...]
In scores of speeches and TV appearances President Obama promised Americans they could keep their current health insurance. But on page 91 of PelosiCare that passed the House on Saturday, the heading “Protecting the Choice to Keep Current Coverage,” deliberately lies about the language under it! That language ensures that all current coverage will cease [...]
Buried in the 2,000 page PelosiCare package passed by the House of Representatives Saturday is a slush fund made to order for ACORN and similar organizations. Section 2530, Grants to Promote Positive Health Behaviors and Outcomes, begins on page 1,422 of the 1,990 page legislation. Your tax money will fund grants to “eligible entities,” that [...]
In January President Obama’s economic team published a report, including this chart, predicting the number of jobs that would be created “or saved” by borrowing and spending $787 Billion on so-called “stimulus,” also called the Recovery Act. Blinded by their own hubris, Obama and the report’s authors promised exactly 3,675,000 jobs would be created by [...]
If the new Democrat Representative from New York’s 23 district is honest, and keeps his campaign pledges, he will vote NO on ObamaCare Nancy Pelosi brought incredulous laughter upon herself yesterday by boasting that Tuesday’s elections were a victory for the Democrats. She based her claim on the outcome of the special election in the [...]
