If you want blame for the shut down, blame Obama and the Democrats who have spent the last five years violating the Constitution, shirking their duty, and refusing to pass a yearly budget as they are required by law.
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Dem. Leader Sen. Harry Reid Says ‘No’ To Funding Kids’ Cancer Treatments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid said that he has no interest in funding cancer treatments for kids today in a press conference about the ongoing government shut down fight. Instead of treating kids with cancer, Reid prefers to have a political tool to use against Republicans.
In the presser CNN’s Dana Bash asked a very poignant question making Reid look like the partisan hack he is–purely by accident I’m sure–when she asked about funding cancer treatments for kids who have been turned away at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
As it happens, about 200 patients a day will be turned away from the NIH because of the government shut down.
The Republicans have offered a separate funding bill to fund the NIH but the Democrats in the Senate and President Obama have refused to allow this bill to pass. So, the truth is that it is the Democrats refusing to allow these kids to get their cancer treatments.
Dana Bash pointed this out to Sen. Reid. “But if you could help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?,” she asked.
Reid coldly replied, “why would we wanna do that?”
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Dem. Leader Sen. Harry Reid Says ‘No’ To Funding Kids’ Cancer Treatments”
Obama Reviving The ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Lie
-By Warner Todd Huston
President Obama is again saying “you didn’t build that,” America.
You’ll recall just before last year’s election when President Obama got in hot water for telling America that we hadn’t built anything, but that everything we have was essentially a gift from him and his government. It is they who are really responsible for everything. “You didn’t build that,” America.
Well now that he’s safely elected he fell back into his actual, big government, nanny state thinking by telling folks at the Ford factory that “you didn’t build that.”
Charlie Spiering caught Obama back at his old game on Sept. 23.
Obama visited the Ford factory in Liberty, Mo., on Sept. 20 to push his failed economic policies, the message was that only Big Government is the answer.
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Obama Reviving The ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Lie”
Share Your Shutdown Tweets
-By Warner Todd Huston
I’ve been throwing in a bunch of shutdown tweets. If you would like, you can retweet mine, but I’d like everyone to add their own, too.
Let us know what yours are.
Here’s some of mine (@warnerthuston)…
.@RepMikePompeo MT Obama's jackbooted thugs writing tickets to vets at WWII mem. http://t.co/BHsQeuL0Zq http://t.co/uHnr7w24aM #shutdown
— warnerthuston (@warnerthuston) October 2, 2013
#shutdown So, Obama thinks it's a great idea having more security to shut down the WWII Mem. than he had during the attack at Benghazi?
— warnerthuston (@warnerthuston) October 2, 2013
#shutdown Let's remember here, folks this whole mess is because Obama & Dems haven't passed a budget in 5 YEARS!!!
— warnerthuston (@warnerthuston) October 2, 2013
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Obama Lies: Shutdown Fears Mirrors Blather About Bailout/Stimulus/Sequester Fears
-By Warner Todd Huston
Worried about a government shutdown? Don’t be. It won’t affect you much. But that isn’t what the left and the Old Media establishment are saying. They are making this a doomsday scenario and the false rhetoric they are doling out to America is similar to the BS that we saw during the 2008 debate (see video below) over bailouts and stimulus spending–you know, that spending that didn’t stimulate anything but the pockets of government union members? Yeah, that stimulus.
Paul Joseph Watson made some great points in his recent posting noting that the doomsday rhetoric we heard during the 2008 stimulus and bailout debates were pretty much just what we are hearing today. If government doesn’t act it’ll be the end of the world, we were told.
I’d add that we heard the same stuff about the sequester, too. If we passed sequester and made cuts to government, the left said, children and old people would die, the military would blow away, and the country would collapse. Well, the sequester came and went, some spending was cut and guess what? No one noticed any difference at all.
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Obama Lies: Shutdown Fears Mirrors Blather About Bailout/Stimulus/Sequester Fears”
Moderate Republicans Finally Found Someone They Will Fight… Other Republicans
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Republican establishment led by such folks as Senators Mitch McConnell and John McCain don’t want to fight the Democrats. But after this latest Obamacare funding fight, we have discovered that there is a side they will attack: other Republicans.
Those Republicans who voted “yes” on Friday’s cloture vote in the Senate knowingly voted in favor of funding Obamacare. There is no other way around that simple truth.
There was absolutely no doubt that a “yes” vote would give Democrat leader Harry Reid the power to remove all the features that the House put in the budget bill that would defund Obamacare. GOP “yes” voters knew this without doubt. And, true to that assumption, only minutes after the DR was passed with Republican assistance, Reid did just that. He stripped out all aspect of defunding from the CR budget bill.
Yet, twenty-five Republicans voted “yes,” anyway.
Even while these RINO senators were turning tail and running from the fight against Obamacare and refusing to fight the Democrats, they did find a reason to attack someone. They attacked Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and all conservatives that want to be rid of Obamacare.
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Moderate Republicans Finally Found Someone They Will Fight… Other Republicans”
Extremist Professor: Trayvon Martin Case Proves it’s Legal to ‘Hunt Down & Kill’ Black Kids
-By Warner Todd Huston
Another day, another extremist, anti-American “professor” caught lying to our kids and pushing a far left agenda, this time at the University of Maryland where a so-called professor is saying that the Trayvon Martin case somehow proves that it is now legal to hunt down and kill black kids in America today.
UMD “Professor” and Honors College Executive Director, William Dorlund, recently sent an email to his students that said in part, “This year, we learned that it is legal to hunt down and kill American children in Florida.”
He is, of course a blatant liar. The Trayvon Martin case was a simple matter of self-protection. George Zimmerman was being beaten up by a bigger, tougher, younger person and he reacted in self defense. It was a pretty clear case of self-defense as the jury unanimously agreed.
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Extremist Professor: Trayvon Martin Case Proves it’s Legal to ‘Hunt Down & Kill’ Black Kids”
Obama: GOP is Scared Because People Will LOVE Obamacare
-By Warner Todd Huston
Even as Obamacare is already failing to meet almost every deadline and the President himself is exempting unions, his big business buddies and Congress from having to live with the law themselves, Obama is claiming that it is the GOP that is scared, scared that the people will love Obamacare once they get a taste of it.
In a recent appearance Obama made the claim that people can get “quality” healthcare for less than their cell phone bills–an outright lie, that is–and said that the GOP is running scared.
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Obama: GOP is Scared Because People Will LOVE Obamacare”
45 Groups Sign Letter Supporting Sen. Vitter’s No Washington Obamacare Exemption Act
I have signed this letter. Will you talk about it to everyone you know?…
Those Who Created this Law Should Experience it Firsthand
(WASHINGTON, DC) — Independent Women’s Voice today released a coalition letter signed by 45 national, state and local leaders to Senator David Vitter (R-La.) supporting S. 1497, the “No Exemption for Washington from ObamaCare Act,” a bill that would amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Signatories include free-market leaders, heads of think-tanks, activist groups, business owners and organizations representing millions of Americans. (View letter as PDF)
Echoing 92 percent of voters who believe it is unfair that the Congress should be exempt from buying their insurance in the health exchanges, the signatories strongly support the effort to take back the taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies for members and staff, and demand Washington to abide by the law as it was written and use the exchanges as they have required of millions of Americans.
September 24, 2013
The Honorable David Vitter
U.S. Senate
515 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
Dear Senator Vitter,
The undersigned organizations represent millions of Americans, all of whom believe in the principle of equal treatment under the law. That’s why we write in strong support of your legislation, S. 1497, The No Washington Exemption Act, which would restore this critical concept and make Congress subject to the same rules and regulations as millions of other Americans on the exchanges under the new health care law.
One of our greatest Presidents said ours is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. He meant that those in power should live by the same laws as the rest of us.
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45 Groups Sign Letter Supporting Sen. Vitter’s No Washington Obamacare Exemption Act”
Condition of Viability – Defeat and Defund ObamaCare
-By Chuck Busch
This monstrosity of a bureaucratic nightmare must be shut down before it does any more damage to our nation’s economy and health care industry. If this federal program were a patient of it’s own heath care system it would be referred to a death panel by now to determine its viability. I think it is obvious to everyone that the condition of this program is terminal.
It deserves to die. I am generally not one for promoting euthanasia, but in this case there is no sense in flogging this dead horse. It was misrepresented to the Supreme Court and John Roberts had to perform emergency surgery to the legislation in order to give it another lease on life. It was misrepresented in Congress and rammed through without the proper bipartisan committee hearings and even total review of the text of the bill. (“We have to pass it to know what is in it.”) The Republicans were completely shut out of all the negotiations with the unions, insurance companies and health industry leaders. Now various select groups have been exempted from the program and even Congressional staff members are to receive subsidies in paying for their personal health care expenses. This is gross cronyism and unconstitutional inequality under the law.
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Condition of Viability – Defeat and Defund ObamaCare”
Illinois Gun Maker Flees State, Moves to Iowa
-By Warner Todd Huston
Liberal Illinois is one of the most inhospitable states for Constitutional rights in America and because of that and other considerations yet another gun manufacturer is closing up shop in the Land of Lincoln and fleeing to a neighboring state.
Lewis Machine & Tool Company–known as LMT–has been in Milan, Illinois since it was founded 33 years ago. The company produces rifles for both the civilian market, the military, and law enforcement agencies.
But now that business owner Karl Lewis wants to expand he is logically moving his company to a better state.
Lewis is headed to Davenport, Iowa.
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Illinois Gun Maker Flees State, Moves to Iowa”
House Votes to Fund ALL Of Government EXCEPT Ruinous Obamacare
-By Warner Todd Huston
Don’t believe the media or the extremists in the Democrat Party when they say that the Republicans in the House of Representatives just voted to “shutdown government.” They did not. In fact, House Republicans just voted to fund every single thing government does… EXCEPT the ruinous government take over of our healthcare system called Obamacare.
Also don’t just accept the far left’s claim that this is a waste of time because the Senate won’t agree to the vote and it will just die unaccepted. In fact, this is where you step in by calling your Senators to tell them to join the House in defunding Obamacare.
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House Votes to Fund ALL Of Government EXCEPT Ruinous Obamacare”
Dutch King: Our Welfare State is Dead
-By Warner Todd Huston
The welfare state has grown too large to support any longer, says the Dutch King, Willem-Alexander. The King now says that the Dutch instead need to encourage a “participation society.”
In an address to his country, the King insisted that their welfare state programs are “unsustainable in their current form.”
In his “new” society, the King said, people would be responsible for themselves and their own futures and families and should expect less help from the government.
This speech, especially if the Dutch government follows this up with actions–and that is already happening–marks a very key turning point in the socialist European welfare state mentality. As more countries begin to realize that they will be forced to follow the example of the Dutch King, the welfare state will begin a long road to being pared back, pruned, cut, and chopped to a more logical, manageable size.
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Dutch King: Our Welfare State is Dead”
[VIDEO] Voice of the People: Talking Obamacare in Times Square
The Heritage Foundation’s Chris Jacobs visited New York City to ask people about Obamacare: Do you think it’s hazardous to your health?
Video courtesy of The Heritage Foundation.
House Rules Say We Can’t Defund Obamacare? Of Course We Can!
-By Warner Todd Huston
We are hearing from many of our representatives that it just isn’t possible to defund Obamacare because the House rules say they can’t. This, as it happens, is just a dodge. The House has defunded separate things while passing the rest of a budget many times.
One of the things that weak-willed Republicans that don’t want to discuss defunding Obamacare say is that the mandatory spending cannot be clocked with an appropriations bill. This is simply not true. In fact, it has been done many times in the past.
The most obvious example is the Hyde Amendment which has renewed every single year since 1976 and prevents the expenditure of federal tax dollars on abortion. It applies both to discretionary spending as well as mandatory spending.
But abortion, you may say, is such a special situation that maybe it should be treated as such and left out of the discussion.
Then let’s do that. Let’s forget the Hyde Amendment. But there is far more evidence that the House commonly makes changes to appropriations.
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House Rules Say We Can’t Defund Obamacare? Of Course We Can!”
The Business of Guns: Just How Much $$ Does the Gun Industry Infuse into the Economy?
Gun manufacturing and sales is big business in the United States–as it turns out, one of the biggest.
In terms of gun ownership, the U.S. is the runaway global leader. There are nearly nine firearms for every 10 American citizens; this proportion is 40% higher than that of Yemen, which ranks second in the world for gun ownership.
Every year, nearly 9 million firearms enter the U.S. market. 5.5 million guns are manufactured domestically, and roughly 95% are eventually sold to Americans. An additional 3.2 million firearms are imported into the U.S. and sold through licensed firearms dealers. Currently there are more than 130,000 of these licensed dealers in the country; to put that number in perspective, the U.S. is also home to 144,000 gas stations, 36,500 grocery stores, and 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants.
Want more comparisons? The firearms industry generates roughly $32 billion in revenue every year — $10 billion more than the Ford Motor Company — and employs 98,000 people, five times more than Google Inc. Furthermore, the gun industry is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Connecticut-based Sturm, Ruger & Co., the country’s fourth largest firearm manufacturer, recorded a $180 million increase in revenue since 2004
Video courtesy of Minute MBA, your opportunity to learn about the key concepts you’ll be tackling while pursuing your online MBA degree by exploring the ABCs of business.
VIDEO: Obama’s Jobpocalypse, the New Normal?
Last week’s jobs report indicated more of the same for the American people with the economy continuing on a sluggish path. While the unemployment rate dropped to 7.3%, it dropped for all the wrong reasons with the labor force participation rate dropping to its lowest level since 1978. To make matters worse, we also learned that the President’s economy added fewer jobs in July than previously thought.
Video courtesy of the House Republican Conference.
AFP Honors Illinois Activists Robert and Tempie Lyons
-By Warner Todd Huston
On Friday night, August 30, during its 7th Annual Defending the American Dream Summit, held this year in Universal Orlando theme park in Orlando, Florida, Americans for Prosperity honored Robert and Tempie Lyons for the hard work of defeating a tax hike in the downstate community of O’Fallon, Illinois, a community just east of St. Louis.
The Lyonses, members of both the Metro East Pachyderm Club, a state Republican organization, and Americans for Prosperity, worked against a property tax hike that would have added several hundred dollars per year to every home in the community.
The pair hosted numerous phone banks in their home and spent weeks calling residents to warn them about the tax hike proposal, urging them to vote against it.
When Election Day arrived, the tax hike went down to defeat by 65 percent.
For their work, the Lyonses were awarded AFP’s “Activists of the Year” award.
AFP-Illinois Director David From at the Podium Lauding the work of Robert and Tempie Lyons
Speaking of their efforts, AFP Illinois Director David From remarked that when the couple was told how outstanding their work was, they both replied that it was just want any good citizen should do. They just wanted to get the job done, From said of the Lyonses.
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AFP Honors Illinois Activists Robert and Tempie Lyons”
A Tale of Two States: Illinois vs. Wisconsin in the Public Pension Debate
-By Benjamin Yount and M.D. Kittle, cross posted from Watchdog.org
SPRINGFIELD – The dividing line in the national debate over the future of public-sector unions can be found between the Land of Lincoln and its neighbor to the north.
The story of Illinois and Wisconsin is a tale of two very different states.
Wisconsin, led by Gov. Scott Walker and majority Republicans, took on public-sector unions and won in the pursuit of balancing a $3.6 billion state budget shortfall in 2011.
PENSION TENSION: A large crowd of union members and the professionally outraged (kids and older people bussed to the rally) demonstrate last month in downtown Chicago.
Illinois, led by Democrats with a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature and Democrat Pat Quinn in the governor’s mansion (at least occasionally), have long coddled the public unions to which they and their campaign war chests are beholden. Consequently, the state faces billions of dollars in unpaid bills and unfunded pension liabilities for current public employees of about $130 billion.
Wisconsin’s economic prospects have vastly improved. The state’s public pension system, while not perfect, is nearly funded – at least based on much more liberal accounting standards than market-based measures. The Badger State budget now boasts a surplus of $741 million, the vast majority of that targeted for tax cuts over the next two years.
Illinois, meanwhile, continues to be buried under a mountain of debt, a broken fiscal house that has taken the state’s credit rating with it.
A Tale of Two States: Illinois vs. Wisconsin in the Public Pension Debate”
Obama Administration Now Harassing the American Legion With IRS Intimidation
-By Warner Todd Huston
The next evil patriotic American group that Obama is using the IRS to intimidate is that well-known, dangerous organization going by the nefarious name the American Legion, the veteran’s group that has been around since WWI.
The American Legion was founded in 1919 after the so-called “war to end all wars” (which sadly didn’t turn out to be what the sobriquet promised) by American veterans who returned from fighting “over there.” Its legion halls have for years served as a place of comfort for veterans, a place where they could go to feel welcome and associate with others who had been in the military–those who know what it’s like.
But, now Obama is targeting them like one would the sort of organization one would want to intimidate and destroy, just as he has with Tea Party groups and other conservatives.
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Obama Administration Now Harassing the American Legion With IRS Intimidation”
Texas Townhall Rings With Calls for Obama’s Impeachment
-By Warner Todd Huston
Congressman Michael Burgess got a bit more than he bargained for when he went back home to Texas and held a townhall for constituents as the event rang out with calls for Burgess to file impeachment charges against Obama.
Burgess is the Congressman for the 26th Congressional District in Texas, a district that encompasses Fort Worth and Dallas in north central Texas quite near the Oklahoma border.
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Texas Townhall Rings With Calls for Obama’s Impeachment”
FL Gov. Scott to Call for Major Tax Cuts at AFP Event
-By Warner Todd Huston
Florida Governor to use AFP’s RightOnline/Defending the Dream Summit to call for major tax cuts in the Sunshine State
Governor Scott is in what might become a very tough reelection campaign. I have spoken to a few Floridians here this weekend who agree with that characterization. So it seems he is going to use the occasion of his speech to propose some big tax and fee cuts for his next term.
Scott’s office gave the written text of his prepared speech to the Associated Press ahead of his speech and the AP reports that Scott will tell the AFP audience that if the state can maintain its budget surplus that he plans to use that surplus to give taxpayers a break.
“It’s your money, not the government’s,” Scott intends to say. “Working with the Florida Legislature, we have cut taxes year after year, even while forcing government to live within its means. This year, we are committed to returning even more money to the hard-working Florida families who earn it.”
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FL Gov. Scott to Call for Major Tax Cuts at AFP Event”
Associated Builders and Contractors Criticizes New DOL Regulations for Federal Contractors
Washington, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today criticized two final rules from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that drastically alter federal contractors’ existing affirmative action and nondiscrimination obligations for veterans and individuals with disabilities.
“Despite OFCCP’s inability to demonstrate federal construction contractors’ failure to meet requirements under existing federal law, the new rules contain numerous burdensome data collection and reporting provisions and set infeasible compliance requirements,” said ABC Vice President of Government Affairs Geoff Burr. “Although industry studies show that the individuals covered by these rules are already appropriately represented in the federal contracting sector, now contractors will be saddled with incredibly expensive record keeping obligations that will do nothing to increase employment of these individuals.”
Under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act, federal contractors and subcontractors are already required to maintain affirmative action and nondiscrimination programs. However, OFCCP’s new rules revise existing procedures by drastically increasing the paperwork burdens on federal contractors in all industries.
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Associated Builders and Contractors Criticizes New DOL Regulations for Federal Contractors”
Obama EPA Official Stole $886K of Tax $$ From Agency
-By Warner Todd Huston
As Obama and the Democrats act wide-eyed over claims that there is billions in waste and fraud in the federal budget we have yet another story of it, this time with an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency stealing $886,000 in tax dollars from the EPA.
The alleged theft occurred in the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation between the year 2000 and 2013. Accused is EPA employee John Beale.
Beale obtained the money by fraudulently claiming benefits, salary, and bonuses as well as compensation for special projects for which he “had not earned by providing employment services to the EPA.”
Republican Senator David Vitter (LA) is incensed by this.
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Obama EPA Official Stole $886K of Tax $$ From Agency”
Obama Hits Worst Record: 4 Years of Trillion $$ Deficits
-By Warner Todd Huston
As of fiscal 2012, the official debt of the United States of America now stands at $1.087 trillion. That is a heck of a credit card bill!
This is the determination of the Congressional Budget Office which recently released updated historical budget data for the federal government.
This isn’t a one-off deficit, either. This marks the fourth straight year that the deficit has topped a trillion dollars.
As CNS reports,
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Obama Hits Worst Record: 4 Years of Trillion $$ Deficits”
Obama Missing Half of Obamacare’s Legal Implementation Deadlines
-By Warner Todd Huston
If Obamacare is such a great and important law, why is Obama missing up to half of the legally imposed deadlines for its various parts by waiving or just ignoring them? That is the news this month as Obamacare seems to be proving the “train wreck” that it is.
Many of the features (or do you call them “bugs”) of Obama’s take over of our health care system are supposed to be going into effect this year. But deadlines for important features such as the employer mandate, taxpayer protection features that are supposed to stop fraud and identify theft and other aspects of the so-called “Affordable” Care Act have been passed by without implementation despite that they are absolutely mandated by the law.
All this was released in a new report by the Congressional Research Service, a non-partisan office of Congress. The report found that of the 82 deadlines, about half have already been missed.
As Forbes notes, “If you exclude the 9 deadlines that became moot because Congress never appropriated the funds to meet them, the Obama administration missed 41 out of 73 deadlines, or 56 percent.”
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Obama Missing Half of Obamacare’s Legal Implementation Deadlines”
Sen. Inhofe: MSNBC Conspiring With Obama White House, EPA, & Organizing for Action on Global Warming
-By Warner Todd Huston
Senator Jim Inhofe (R, OK) is looking into what he thinks my be the illegal collusion on a climate change campaign possibly involving Obama’s White House, his former campaign organization now dubbed Organizing for Action (OFA), and the left-wing cable network MSNBC.
On August 14 Inhofe sent letters to the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Council on Environmental Quality asking for any information the agencies have on OFA’s effort to push Obama’s climate change policies, especially OFA’s effort to attack certain Republicans as “climate change deniers.”
Inhofe wants to know if the federal agencies are working with OFA’s campaign. If they are coordinating their efforts, it would be a violation of the law.
“According to the Hatch Act,” Inhofe’s press release notes, “federal employees in the executive branch, except certain designated officials such as the President or Vice President, are prohibited from engaging in political campaign activities.”
Inhofe goes on to say,
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Sen. Inhofe: MSNBC Conspiring With Obama White House, EPA, & Organizing for Action on Global Warming”
President Obama Declares Health Insurance is ‘A Right’
-By Warner Todd Huston
During his weekly address from August 17, President Obama declared that health insurance isn’t just a privilege–it’s a right.
The address, titled “Working to Implement the Affordable Care Act,” featured all the President’s well-worn claims about Obamacare that we are used to hearing.
Obama touted the fact that people under 26 can stay on their parent’s insurance, he talked of the “free mammograms,” and celebrated the access to “contraceptive care.” And then, in full demagogic mode, Obama went on to excoriate Republicans for trying to hurt “sick people” and the economy by opposing his Obamacare law.
Warming to his theme, Obama then said, “A lot of Republicans seem to believe that if they can gum up the works and make this law fail, they’ll somehow be sticking it to me. But they’d just be sticking it to you.”
While this is all typical Obama boilerplate, light on facts and heavy on sunny promises and hectoring rhetoric, one point he made was rather fantastic. He declared health insurance to be a right.
Obama wrapped up his weekend address making just that proclamation.
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President Obama Declares Health Insurance is ‘A Right’”
Louisiana Dem. Senator Landrieu ‘Embarrassed’ to Travel in Europe Because Americans Lack Health Insurance
-By Warner Todd Huston
Louisiana’s Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu is embarrassed by America. So embarrassed that she can’t travel in Europe because some Americans lack health insurance. Naturally, many Americans would be happy to donate to a fund to give Landrieu a one-way ticket to her choice of European countries.
Landrieu was speaking at the Legis-Gator luncheon hosted by the Chamber Southwest Louisiana on August 16 when she made the remarks.
She first said that she was quite proud of her vote for Obama’s take over of America’s healthcare system. “If I had to vote for the bill again, I would vote for it tomorrow,” she said.
She went on to announce her embarrassment over America. “It’s embarrassing to me to go to places like France and Spain … and their workers all manage to have health insurance that can’t be taken away.”
Landrieu is up for re-election in 2014.
The news report then notes,
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Louisiana Dem. Senator Landrieu ‘Embarrassed’ to Travel in Europe Because Americans Lack Health Insurance”