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White House

Obama’s Defiant Transparency Promise Breach

May 18, 2010 by Daniel

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

by David Limbaugh

You surely know the drill by heart: Barack Obama promised to run the most transparent White House in history — avoiding lobbyists, publicizing donations and televising health care debates on C-SPAN. You also certainly know that he’s broken his pledge in every possible respect. But what’s even more offensive to me is his arrogance and defiance in the process.

Exhibit A — and this was so egregious it’s the only proof you should need — was press secretary Robert Gibbs’ recent exchange with WorldNetDaily correspondent Les Kinsolving at a White House briefing. I watched the video of the exchange, and it was infuriating — infuriating to see an arrogant, youngish smart aleck in a position of power taunting and ridiculing an elder member of the press corps, who was respectfully questioning him about Obama’s striking inaccessibility.

I will quote portions from the transcript, but I implore you to watch the short video:

You simply can’t get the full flavor of Gibbs’ despicably supercilious, insulting and disrespectful attitude without watching it. There is no excuse for anyone to treat someone as Gibbs did Kinsolving, but there is infinitely less of an excuse given his position of representing the president of the United States, who owes the public and the press corps presumably representing it a profound duty of accountability — a duty he would owe even if Obama didn’t make his cynical promise of unparalleled openness.

Kinsolving asked Gibbs why President Obama has “held not a single White House press conference since last July,” considering “President Franklin Roosevelt’s 998 press conferences.”

Gibbs retorted that Obama took eight questions from the White House press corps at the Nuclear Security Summit. “What would you call that?”

Unbowed, Kinsolving said: “That was not a press conference. It was a select few reporters. It was not a White House press conference.”

Gibbs then argued with Kinsolving about what constitutes a press conference, and the discussion quickly degenerated into Gibbs’ sarcastic Socratic drilling of Kinsolving about how many press members, “38 or 55,” is the right number.

Can anyone imagine the indignation if a Republican president treated a member of the media with such contempt and derision?

Continue reading HERE

Filed Under: National Tagged With: Conservative, Obama, White House

The Pelosi Health Bill Option

October 29, 2009 by Daniel

Health care reform takes new form today with the release of the Pelosi Option.

This 1990 page option convieniently falls below the $900 billion limit imposed by President Obama at a cost of $894 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). However, the CBO indicates more analysis is needed and that the report was not final.

Certainly more time is needed with a bill staged at a whopping 1990 pages. Everyone needs more time to read and dissect this new proposal that is said to be praised by Obama. The Pelosi Option had no Republican input.

So, what can be expected in the Pelosi Option?

  • require everyone to sign up for insurance from their employer, a government program or a pool
  • an expansion of Medicaid
  • penalties for employers who don’t provide health care for employees
  • higher taxes

Is this the end of the list? No, but rather a simple start. Pleanty of time should be allowed in order to read this version, but Pelosi reportedly would like to have it voted on by Veteran’s Day.

If you have the time to read the Pelosi Option, please do. They have proven in the past that they are unwilling to take the time to. If something sticks out to you, and think it deserves more attention, feel free to contact me. Together we can dissect it and share what we find.

Click here to read the bill.

Filed Under: National, Politics Tagged With: administration, Congress, Health Care, House of Representatives, Obama, Pelosi, Senate, White House

First Amendment Under Attack

October 22, 2009 by Daniel

Benjamin Franklin said it best when he said, ” Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

Never before has free speech been tested as it is being tested today. Free speech against the media is something that is challenged all the time, with special attention when an opposing view is in question. One view that is under heavy attack is that of Fox News. The White House is waging a war against Fox, namely because of its opposition and the opinion shows showcased in its evening lineup.

One front of this war on free speech is being led by the Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd. As the Diversity Czar, he holds enough power to make the fight a lot harder than it should be.

Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), wrote in his column Standing Guard at American Rifleman Magazine:

One of the radical ideological appointees embedded in the Obama political machine is a man with a dream for the First Amendment. His name is Mark Lloyd, and as Obama’s “Diversity Czar” at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), he plans to wield immense power over the way Americans can communicate.

In his vision, a day would come when talk radio would be replaced with government-approved “progressive” local radio and by a smothering National People’s Radio.

In the Orwellian name of “diversity,” censorship will reign.

In his powerful FCC post, Lloyd is shaping the critical components of the Obama administration’s backdoor censorship of electronic and digital communications. He is doing it through the “regulatory” process—outside any specific congressional authority. FCC has the power to determine who gets broadcast licenses and who is barred. Political misuse of that power is the key.

But keep in mind that with this administration, criticism is always treated as nothing more than a “distraction” from the relentless agenda.

Lloyd declared, “… that conservative talk radio dominates the airwaves of our country to the detriment of informed public discourse and the First Amendment.”

Got that? The free market of ideas—where individual Americans choose with their radio dials—exists “to the detriment of the First Amendment.”

With Lloyd empowered as “Diversity Czar” at the FCC—and Soros ultimately pulling the strings—this effort in the coming months to turn radical anti-First Amendment theory into public policy will move at a rapid pace. It will be merely one part of a flood of “Change” aimed at silencing any political opposition at any cost.

So, in theory, you will not be able to choose what you want to listen to. You will be forced to listen to a myriad of radio voices. Long gone would be the days where you turn the dial to one station to listen to like-minded talkshow hosts, instead you would have to search and search to find five minutes you may or may not agree with.

One strange bit of irony in this is that the arguement for free speech is being voiced by a leading member of the NRA. Some say that the 2nd Amendment was written to protect the 1st Amendment.

Filed Under: National, Politics Tagged With: administration, czar, FCC, first amendment, free speech, NRA, Obama, Second Amendment, speech, White House

Obama Dumped by Olympic Committee for 2016

October 2, 2009 by Daniel

In Copenhagen, the decision was announced that the 2016 Olympics would be held in Rio de Janeiro and not to Chicago.

United States President Barack Obama campaigned for the 2016 Games to be held in his hometown, Chicago. Rejected in the first round, many were stunned by the announcement. Of those shocked, Senior Australian IOC member Kevan Gosper said, “The whole thing doesn’t make sense other than there has been a stupid bloc vote. To have the president of the United States and his wife personally appear, then this should happen in the first round is awful and totally undeserving.”

From the White House, Obama said, “I’m proud I was able to come in and help make the case in person. I believe it’s always a worthwhile endeavor to promote and boost the United States of America and invite the world to see what we’re all about.”

One critic, GOP consultant Brad Blakeman said:

“It demeans the office. For the president to be reduced to the effect of the Billy Mays pitchman for the United States to get the Olympics for his home city of Chicago is just not something that presidents do. His priorities are screwed up and the American people are seeing that this president just doesn’t get the effects and importance of governing.”

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, National Tagged With: administration, Chicago, Obama, Olympics, White House

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