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Obama appointee says:: Affordable Care Act Has Saved Consumers $2.1 Billion On Insurance Premiums
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:22:07 by Brian S
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President Obama's health-care reform law saved American consumers $2.1 billion on health insurance premiums in the past year, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday. It is proof, she said, that the program is helping to make "the insurance marketplace more transparent and more competitive."
In the overall picture, the savings are modest, but they offer a degree of assurance that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – ridiculed by many conservatives as big-government financial disaster – can deliver on some promises of bringing down high health-care costs, experts say.
Moreover, they offer a window on how states have begun to implement various cost-saving ...
Bill Clinton campaigning for Romney Obama: If a healthy economy were the only election test the president would vote against himself
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:16:51 by calcon
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I couldn’t disagree more with Clinton that Obama would vote ever against himself, but I do think he’s right when he insinuates that if the economy is the only consideration the president will lose badly in November — which might be the case if it’s only one of many considerations. Transcript from RCP: “No one, not me, not anybody else, no one could have completely healed that and built a whole new economy and brought us back to full employment in just four years. It has never been done in the history of the world. It can not be done. The test is not whether you think everything is hunky-dory. If that were the test, the president would vote against himself. He says ...
Obama caves to Romney, embraces free speech for critics of Islam
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:09:59 by calcon
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President Barack Obama used Air Force One to conduct a policy loop-de-loop Wednesday, asserting in a CBS interview that he supports Americans’ right to criticize Islam, following almost 18 hours of determined condemnation from Team Romney and damaging news from Egypt and Libya. “We believe in the First Amendment,” Obama told CBS’s Steve Kroft during an interview arranged days earlier. “It is one of the hallmarks of our Constitution that I’m sworn to uphold, and so we are always going to uphold the rights for individuals to speak their mind,” he said, according to a transcript narrated by White House spokesman Jay Carney. The transcript was released ...
Is Obama channeling Jimmy Carter?
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:03:18 by calcon
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Yesterday, Barack Obama responded somewhat obliquely to Mitt Romney’s criticism over the statement issued by the Cairo embassy by painting him as a loose cannon. He told CBS reporter Steve Kroft that “Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later.” Charlie Spiering noticed that Obama seemed to be channeling another American President with those words — and perhaps the worst one Obama could choose, under the circumstances, emphasis mine: Obama’s remarks, however, echo frequent criticisms made by President Jimmy Carter of Ronald Reagan, then his opponent for the presidency. Carter criticized Reagan’s views on foreign policy during his ...
Mike Barnicle Suggests Prosecuting Pastor Terry Jones In American Ambassador's Death (How about We String Up Barnicle Instead?)
Post Date: 2012-09-12 09:23:38 by A K A Stone
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Mike Barnicle has suggested that the Department of Justice consider prosecuting Florida pastor Terry Jones in the death of the American ambassador to Egypt and deaths occurring during riots last year in Afghanistan. Hat tip readers Melody, Jonathan R., Ray R. Barnicle made his suggestion on today's Morning Joe, during a discussion of the attacks on the American embassy in Egypt and the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the American ambassador died after an attack by an Libyan mob. Fellow panelist Donny Deutsch responded by saying he was "thinking the same thing" as Barnicle. View the video after the jump. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/20 ...
Why Did Obama Call His Grandfather A Nigger?
Post Date: 2012-09-12 08:09:03 by A K A Stone
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“My image of Onyango, faint as it was, had always been of an autocratic man—a cruel man, perhaps. But I had also imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule… What Granny had told us scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger.” In one of the most remarkable passages in Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," he uses the terms "collaborator," "Uncle Tom," and "House nigger" to describe someone he detests. That someone, it turns out, is his own grandfather! We have a striking phenomenon here: ...
Army Wants Tiny Suicidal Drone to Kill From 6 Miles Away
Post Date: 2012-09-10 21:10:27 by A K A Stone
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Killer drones just keep getting smaller. The Army wants to know how prepared its defense-industry partners are to build what it calls a “Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System.” It’s for when the Army needs someone dead from up to six miles away in 30 minutes or less. How small will the new mini-drone be? The Army’s less concerned about size than it is about the drone’s weight, according to a recent pre-solicitation for businesses potentially interested in building the thing. The whole system — drone, warhead and launch device — has to weigh under five pounds. An operator should be able to carry the future Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System, ...
Romney/Ryan or Bust!
Post Date: 2012-09-08 11:09:43 by calcon
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Truth is the new hate speech.”—“Creeping Sharia” “We [the people] own this country.”—Clint Eastwood I feel like I ought to start out each of my articles anymore with a disclaimer, or caveat saying something along the lines of “WARNING: The contents of this article are to be considered null and void in the event of a “Reichstag Fire,” false flag event, and/or an invasion by Russian Spetsnaz in collusion with Northcom,“or words to that effect. My intent is not to make light of such concerns, as God knows we have reason enough to be more than a bit edgy these days—what with the Patriot Act, NDAA, the torrent of Obama EOs (Executive ...
Obama the broken record that broke America
Post Date: 2012-09-07 19:18:43 by A K A Stone
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Obama the demigod comes down to Earth
Post Date: 2012-09-07 15:05:38 by calcon
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It began, like the Obama presidency itself, with the loftiest of hopes and the greatest of expectations. The Democratic National Convention was to have opened here Monday with a festival at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, where, convention officials said, some 100,000 people would participate in a Labor Day festival that demonstrated the party’s openness and inclusion. After a couple of nights at the Time Warner Cable Arena, the convention was to have closed with President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Bank of America Stadium, where convention officials were planning to squeeze nearly 6,000 seats onto the field to expand the stadium’s capacity beyond its usual 74,000. But ...
Eastwood says his convention appearance was 'mission accomplished'
Post Date: 2012-09-07 12:35:19 by SJN
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AFTER A week as topic No. 1 in American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians after his appearance at the Republican National Convention last Thursday night, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to. “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot ...
Romney: 'If last night was the party,' jobs report is 'hangover'
Post Date: 2012-09-07 11:04:49 by calcon
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Mitt Romney slammed President Obama over a disappointing August jobs report in a statement Friday, declaring that "if last night was the party, this morning is the hangover." "For every net new job created, nearly four Americans gave up looking for work entirely. This is more of the same for middle class families who are suffering through the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression," Romney continued. "After 43 straight months of unemployment above 8 percent, it is clear that President Obama just hasn't lived up to his promises and his policies haven't worked. We aren’t better off than they were four years ago." The economy added 96,000 ...
Chris Matthews: If Obama Beats The Right-Wing, They're Finished
Post Date: 2012-09-06 23:59:36 by calcon
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MSNBC's Chris Matthews says if President Obama can win the election then the right-wing is "finished." "The best way to beat the right-wing is to beat them. If he beats them in this election, they're finished," Matthews said. However, Matthews reveals that strategy isn't his original idea, but it comes from the President himself. "I am talking what the President believes because he's told people that, that he thinks he can win this election and break these people on the right," Matthews said. Transcript below. Chris Matthews: Look, the only people who haven't had it tough in the last four years are the rich. They've had it easy, and I ...
Barack Obama to hail himself as the new Franklin D. Roosevelt: President promises 'bold, persistent' leadership like FDR during the Great Depression .
Post Date: 2012-09-06 20:22:36 by calcon
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President Barack Obama will tonight lay out his case for being re-elected to a second term by comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won an unprecedented three presidential elections and led America to recovery after the Great Depression. He will say: 'And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It will require common effort, shared responsibility, and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.' Obama will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination, capping a week in which speeches from his wife Michelle Obama and ...
2008: 'Yes, We Can!' 2012: 'No One Could Have'
Post Date: 2012-09-06 13:38:19 by calcon
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In a long, languorous address to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, former President Bill Clinton showed how much Democrats and the mainstream media have lowered the standards for President Barack Obama. Using revisionist history and grade inflation, Clinton labeled Obama’s presidency a success--according to a sliding scale that suggests Obama’s true failure and undermines Clinton’s own achievements: “Yes We Can” became “No One Could Have” - Americans should not, Clinton urged, be disappointed in President Obama for failing to achieve the great things he promised in his soaring speeches--or even the bare minimum that we had expected. It ...
Politico: This Hope and Change guy is really into mudslinging, huh?
Post Date: 2012-09-06 13:28:18 by calcon
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For anyone paying attention to the avalanche of character-assassination attacks from Team Obama and its surrogates, today’s Politico analysis hardly comes as a shock. Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter accused Mitt Romney of being a felon, former White House aide Bill Burton’s group Priorities USA linked Romney with the death of a woman whose spouse had been laid off years before from a Bain Capital-owned company — when Romney no longer ran the firm. The campaign itself has launched numerous attacks on Romney’s wealth, his foreign investments, and success at Bain — the latter two of which got attacked from the stage of the Democratic National Convention last ...
Mother of Dem convention star Castro called Alamo defenders 'drunks,' 'crooks'
Post Date: 2012-09-06 13:09:35 by calcon
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The Hispanic Texas mayor whose keynote speech wowed the Democratic National Convention crowd Wednesday night draws political inspiration from his mother – who was a member of a radical civil rights movement and who reportedly thinks the truth behind the Battle of the Alamo is that Texans swiped Mexico’s land. Maria del Rosario Castro, the mother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, said in 2010 that she grew up being told the battle was “glorious,” only to learn the so-called heroes were really “a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them.” “But as a little girl I got the message -- we were ...
Oh my: Boos at convention as Dems reinstate language on God and Jerusalem in platform;
Post Date: 2012-09-05 18:38:43 by calcon
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The amazing conclusion to yesterday’s snafu involving the Democratic platform’s language on Israel. After an evening of bad press they decided to reinsert the language about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel, along with some language about God after people noticed that the phrase “God-given” in the 2008 platform had been dropped in the new one. Simple process, in theory: Have someone from the floor propose adding the new language, then let the delegates approve it via a voice vote. The result? A trainwreck so awful that even Paul Begala didn’t try to spin it. As you’ll see, Villaraigosa’s astonishment that there are so many nays is palpable, and pure ...
Washington Post: Biden’s month-long outsourcing attack on Romney ‘misleading, unfair and untrue"
Post Date: 2012-09-05 14:23:20 by calcon
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Vice President Joe Biden, who is gearing up to speak Wednesday evening at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., has accused President Barack Obama’s GOP challenger Mitt Romney of outsourcing American jobs during his time at the helm of Bain Capital during virtually every public appearance during the past month. But independent fact checkers have repeatedly debunked that claim. Transcripts of public event where Biden has appeared since Aug. 13, other than fundraisers and unscheduled impromptu campaign stops, show that he consistently accused Romney during of being an outsourcer of American jobs. In Durham, N.C. on Aug. 13, Biden said “Romney wants to slash ...
Democratic Disinformation from Charlotte
Post Date: 2012-09-05 13:57:52 by calcon
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — We heard a number of dubious or misleading claims on the first night of the Democratic National Convention: The keynote speaker and others claimed the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, would raise taxes on the “middle class.” He has promised he won’t. Democrats base their claim on a study that doesn’t necessarily lead to that conclusion. The keynote speaker, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, also said there have been 4.5 million “new jobs” under Obama. The fact is the economy has regained only 4 million of the 4.3 million jobs lost since Obama took office. Castro also insisted Romney and Ryan would “gut” Pell Grants ...
The cowboy and the empty chair
Post Date: 2012-09-05 10:39:31 by calcon
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Much ponderous, chin-stroking analysis has followed the Republican National Convention’s un-highlight — the 10-minute monologue by the erstwhile Dirty Harry/Blondie/Rowdy Yates when Clint Eastwood conversed with an empty chair. What could it mean? Who allowed him to do that? What in the world were Republicans thinking? And then The Thoughtful Ones commenced: What a waste of network time, a distraction from Mitt Romney’s moment. A faux narrative that keeps facts at bay and silliness front and center. It was disrespectful to the president. This is what it’s come to . . . . Oh, do drench thy couch with tears. Confession: As I watched Eastwood from a seat ...
DNC chair: That awful conservative newspaper misquoted me by, er, accurately writing what I said
Post Date: 2012-09-05 09:39:57 by calcon
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This week should be the crowning glory for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the DNC, as the national convention launches under her direction. Instead, Wasserman Schultz ended up setting a trap and falling into it herself in the middle of the Democratic Party celebrations. The Washington Examiner earlier reported that Wasserman Schultz had quoted Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, as saying “ that what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel.” Ambassador Oren released a statement yesterday evening categorically denying he’d said any such thing. Wasserman Shultz claimed in an interview on Fox shortly afterward that some conservative newspaper had ...
Some Obama programs embellished by Democrats
Post Date: 2012-09-05 09:36:04 by calcon
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speakers at the Democratic National Convention portrayed President Barack Obama's presidency in glowing terms Tuesday evening, but sometimes left out important details or embellished his record. Others mischaracterized programs backed by Republican challenger Mitt Romney and GOP running mate Paul Ryan. Obama's landmark health care overhaul, which Republicans lacerated at their convention last week, and his job-creation performance were among the initiatives burnished the most. First Lady Michelle Obama was the main draw and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro the keynoter, but more than four dozen other speakers made presentations. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ...
Israeli official denies calling GOP 'dangerous' as DNC says quote was 'misrepresented'
Post Date: 2012-09-04 19:34:39 by calcon
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Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. fired back at Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Tuesday after she reportedly claimed the diplomat called Republicans’ policies "dangerous" to Israel -- comments the DNC chief says were "misrepresented." "I categorically deny that I ever characterized Republican policies as harmful to Israel,” Ambassador Michael Oren said in a written statement. “Bipartisan support is a paramount national interest for Israel, and we have great friends on both sides of the aisle." Oren was responding to a report in the Washington Examiner that quoted Wasserman Schultz as saying Oren agreed ...
689 Reasons to Defeat Barack Obama
Post Date: 2012-09-04 14:54:40 by calcon
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1. Because he was not the one we were waiting for. 2. “Forward.” 3. Because Julia needs to get off her lazy, federally subsidized butt, get a real job, and pay for her own damned birth-control pills. 4. Because lots of people fail at their first real job. 5. Because “Winning the Future” was not a very good slogan back in 2005 when it was Newt’s. 6. Because the country is ready for its first African-American former president. 7. To give him the free time to write his third memoir. 8. Because he’ll have even more “flexibility” after November if he’s back in Chicago. 9. Joe Biden. 10. So that dissent will once again be the highest form of ...
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