Bet you're sorry you voted for Obama now

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PG says,

This bill is going to kill an economy that is just beginning to rally.

It's beginning to rally. Your words. What president did that, PG?

[BJean 16]

ariscus, Obama has broken most all of his promises. You and I know that, but those who worship him will never admit to it because where would they go from there? He has the answer to the world's problems as far as they can see. What a shame.

I'm curious. Are you deaf and dumb or just stupid?

You've posted a lot of the usual lies and misdemeanors perpetrated by the tea baggers, fox hounds and limbaugh lug head, but this is genuinely ridiculous.

The biggest shame going on this country is the derision, discontent and outright blind obedience to the right wing extremist rethoric of those who are unable to broaden their media horizons beyond the Rupurt Murdoch machinery. Buck up kiddos, do think hard about how your leaders have impossibly stalemated themselves into a corner and standing in the way of America's rebuilding. Any way you look at it, you lose unless you try to understand and work with your president and leaders in some kind of conciliatory manner.

We won the elections and until things turn, you're stuck with us. We disagreed with nearly everything Bush had to say but we worked with the idiot as best we could. We complained but we didn't refuse to do what we could to make this country safe and better for everyone. They sold us down the river and we kicked the bums out - why are you nut balls thinking that you're the majority who knows best. You had your chance and you blew it big time.

And unfortunately you continue to blow it with comments like yours above.

[pattygreen 5]

PG says,

Obama has broken most all of his promises.

Put your money where your mouth is, and show us. Point by point from Cleo's post.

Obama's Gaffes, Lies, Hypocrisy, Broken Promises & Exaggerations!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Obama's pledges are worthless

Obama “firm pledge” on taxes now a “preference”...another promise crushed by Obama:

Read the following excerpt from the Daily Beast’s LLoyd Grove:

Remember President Obama’s supposedly inviolable pledge—repeatedly uttered during the 2008 campaign and at countless town meetings since the inauguration—that he would never raise taxes on middle-class citizens who earn $250,000 a year or less?

This morning at a Manhattan Breakfast sponsored by Thomson Reuters, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag threw that pledge out the window. Instead, he described Obama’s “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge as a “stance” and a “preference” that is subject to study by the president’s newly formed bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility.

“The president has been very clear about what he prefers,” Orszag said under questioning from Thomson Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland. “That was his stance during the campaign, and he still believes that’s the right course forward. But he has also been very clear that we shall let the commission go do its work.”

Folks, this is not funny anymore, all of Obama's promises was a big fat Lie.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 3:38 PM  

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Mr. President you don't get to decide when people have "made engouh money".

He should have stuck with the TelePrompter. The President doesn’t get to decide when people have “made enough money.” In fact, as the radio host notes, that’s a statist point of view. Furthermore, the responsibility of an entrepreneur isn’t to “grow our economy,” core or otherwise. It’s to grow his own economy. In a properly regulated capitalist system, the natural tension of self-interests create economic growth through innovation and efficient use of capital and resources

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:44 AM  

Obama's White house, "Most Transparent Administration in History"...what a joke!

From Politico's report on reporters' frustration with White House secrecy:

A few days later, Gibbs said at one of his briefings, “This is the most transparent administration in the history of our country.”

Peals of laughter broke out in the briefing room.

That happened on April 19. While we in this blog has been talking about this for more than a year..Well, at least our stupid media is catching on!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:08 AM  

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Obama's Hypocracy Has No End!

While pretending to be fighting against the Wall Street, Obama has received millions form the financial institutions and now refuses to give some of it back...who is greedy now, Mr. President??

President

 

Barack Obama

 

doesn’t plan at this time to give back almost $1 million in campaign contributions from employees of

 

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

and now we learn:

While Goldman Sachs' lawyers negotiated with the Securities and Exchange Commission over potentially explosive civil fraud charges, Goldman's chief executive visited the White House

at least four times.

and dont forget that Obama’s former White House counsel,

Gregory Craig, is now helping Goldman Sachs. I thought Obama signed a law that his employees will not be lobbying after leaving is White House.

Audacity of Hypocrisy !!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:15 AM  

Monday, April 19, 2010

White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs

The number of jobs in the U.S. is currently 129.7 million. So to justify the Administration’s current claim of 2.8 million jobs “created or saved” by stimulus, they need to also claim that without that stimulus there would be only 126.9 million jobs. That’s exactly what they do, displayed as the “baseline projection” level in the graphic below from an April 14, 2010 report:

See complete story here.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 1:17 PM  

Obama is so diconnected with America

Obama continures his golf games almost every week as America get deeper and deeper in economical crisies. He has Played 32nd round during presidency, while Bush played 24 over span of 8 years...

and Since Mr. Obama took office, 397 soldiers have died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Another 151 have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Bush at least gave up on golf in solidarity with victims family, Obama has no plan to do so.

Link:

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:21 AM  

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Obama loves to bow and hug the dictators

He did it again! this time he bowed to the Chinese dictator!! Just amazing! If this is just a sign of a respect, how come they don't do the same to him? hmm...

 

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 10:46 AM  

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Latest Flip Flop By Obama - Oil drilling

In June 2008, then-senator Obama told reporters in Jacksonville, Florida:

When I'm president, I intend to keep in place the moratorium here in Florida and around the country that prevents oil companies from drilling off Florida's coasts. That's how we can protect our coastline and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring down gas prices for good.

Today, the "Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of Water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time," including off the coast of Jacksonville, where Obama offered that statement.

Just Amazing!!! what happened to all your promises ? How can public trusts his words next time around?

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 12:36 PM  

Monday, March 29, 2010

The Complete List of Obama's Broken Promises

HEALTH CARE MANDATES

STATEMENT: “We've got a philosophical difference, which we've debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. And my belief is, the reason that people don't have it is not because they don't want it but because they can't afford it.” Barack Obama, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate, February 21, 2008.

EXPIRATION DATE: On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the individual mandate into law.

HEALTH CARE NEGOTIATIONS ON C-SPAN

STATEMENT: “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.” January 20, 2008, and seven other times.

EXPIRATION DATE: Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, “the campaign is over, John.”

RAISING TAXES

STATEMENT: “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase.” (multiple times on the campaign trail)

EXPIRATION DATE: Broken multiple times, including the raised taxes on tobacco, a new tax on indoor tanning salons, but most prominently on February 11, 2010: “President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.”

RECESS APPOINTMENTS

STATEMENT: Then-Senator Obama declared that a recess appointment is “damaged goods” and has “less credibility” than a normal appointment. August 25, 2005.

EXPIRATION DATE: March 27, 2010: “If, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis.”

Continue to read the list here.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 11:53 AM  

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Obama's Latest Lie - Health Care Mandate

Barack Obama, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate , February 21, 2008:

We've got a philosophical difference, which we've debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. And my belief is, the reason that people don't have it is not because they don't want it but because they can't afford it.

Today, Obama signed the individual mandate into law.

All statements from Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 11:55 AM  

Friday, March 12, 2010

More parties at the White House

 Obama Hosts White House Movie Night with Hanks, Spielberg

(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama hosted a movie night at the White House for Hollywood heavyweights Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg on Thursday - at which they watched a preview of the star duo's new World War Two miniseries "The Pacific."

The most discounted President ever!!!!and they were making fun of Bush and his vacations, at least at the time the unemployment was not 10% , it was in low 6%!!!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:44 AM  

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Obama Was ‘Pure Marxist Socialist’

College Acquaintance: Young Obama Was ‘Pure Marxist Socialist’.

Click here

Too bad they tell us know...but we knew it on this blog...all you had to do was to read his first book.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:05 AM  

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Obama continues to break his promises!

“I am not a nuclear energy proponent.” Barack Obama, December 30, 2007.

Obama this week:

President Obama announced $8 billion in loan guarantees Tuesday to build a new nuclear power plant in Georgia, part of the White House push for new jobs from clean-energy technology.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:08 PM  

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Now Obama does not "begrudge" Wall Street Bonuses!!! What gives?

President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay.

Link

Ah! how many times Obama will morph until he will be courageous enough to show his true face! maybe he does not have any "true" face! ......hmmmm

UPDATE: Even the Liberal blogger are now complaining about Obama 180 turn!

Flashback: Obama Says Bonuses Are Violation Of "Our Fundamental Values"

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:12 AM  

Another Party At The White House

Here is the link. A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement

Our previous post on the same subject;

Obama White House has held one party every three days  his first year in office.After Obama Tells America “Everyone Must Sacrifice” the White House Throws 1 Party Every 3 Days in First Year.  Click here.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:28 AM  

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Obama's manners!

Does this guy have any manners ??? This is The Oval Office, for crying out loud!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 5:45 PM  

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Obama is a Joke!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 11:48 AM  

Obama: “Every economist” says I saved or created 2 million jobs

You Lie too much, Mr. President...Stop it!

check out Jake Tappers blog here.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:32 AM  

Obama's kiss!!!

Leave him alone! He does not want to be kissed!!!

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (L) kisses U.S. President Barack Obama following his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at a Washington hotel February 4, 2010.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:31 AM  

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fact checking Obama's State Of The Union Address..

Actually the head line should have said, "Analyzing Obama's Lies to the country"

We have known from the start that Obama has love affair with exaggerations!!! but we are glad to see that, finally, AP is fact checking Obama's claims:

OBAMA: "Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed. ... And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year."

THE FACTS: The success of the Obama-pushed economic stimulus that Congress approved early last year has been an ongoing point of contention. In December, the administration reported that recipients of direct assistance from the government created or saved about 650,000 jobs. The number was based on self-reporting by recipients and some of the calculations were shown to be in error.

OBAMA: He called for action by the White House and Congress "to do our work openly, and to give our people the government they deserve."

THE FACTS: Obama skipped past a broken promise from his campaign — to have the negotiations for health care legislation broadcast on C-SPAN "so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies."

But there are more whoppers that AP did not cover, you can read more of them here.

UPDATE: wow! more pople are writing about Obama's lies in his State Of The Union address...Read here.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:20 AM  

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Obama's Vanity!

The Number of Times Obama Refers to Himself in One Speech : 132

Wacth it here

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 11:49 AM  

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Obama's needs his teleprompter to chat !!

Here's Obama dropping in for a chat with his middle-class task force. And people made fun of Reagan because of his notecards!

LINK

Update: Jon Stewart: You didn’t really use a teleprompter inside a classroom, did you, champ?

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 2:58 PM  

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Obama Hires Campaign Manager To Help Him With Economy!

We are not kidding!

In the wake of bad economical data and loosing Massachusetts, Obama decides to hire his campaign manager! Not a new economic team. Not a new chief of staff. Not even a new national security staff to replace the gang that dropped the ball on the Christmas Day bomber. No, with the Obami, it is never about substance or getting the policy right. It’s not about governance. It is about the perpetual campaign. So the campaign manager gets the emergency call.

Here is the news link:

Daivd Plouffe, the man who managed President Barack Obama’s campaign, will be taking on an expanded role as an outside adviser to the White House, according to sources familiar with the plan, a move that comes just days after a stunning defeat for Democrats in a Massachusetts Senate special election.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:48 PM  

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Bad economy? Obama's or Bush's

Debt increase under Bush in 8 years = $3 trillion

Debt increase under Obama in 1 year = $3.3 trillion

Wow!

Continue to read here.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 12:45 PM  

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Obama's first year!

Obama Says 'We Lost Touch'... Didn't Speak 'Directly to American People'...

BUT

Obama's First Year: By The Numbers:

INTERVIEWS: 158

SPEECHES, COMMENTS & REMARKS: 411

GOLF: 29 rounds of golf

• George W. Bush played golf 7 times his first year.

Source: Drudge report

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 9:08 PM  

Obama's Magic Was Based On Lies!

• What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world.
  
• A year ago, he was leader of a liberal ascendancy that would last 40 years (James Carville)
  
• A year ago, Obama was the most charismatic politician on Earth.
  

Today the thrill is gone, the doubts growing -- even among erstwhile believers.

Continue to read here

But we warned you about him before his primary win! We told you so!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:47 AM  

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Obama First Year In Office: Country's in recession and Obama's White House is in non-stop party mood!

Obama White House has held one party every three days his first year in office.After Obama Tells America “Everyone Must Sacrifice” the White House Throws 1 Party Every 3 Days in First Year. Click here.

What an accomplishment! Record number of parties at the White House.

UPDATE: President Obama at One Year: Lower Ratings, Higher Doubts

Keep partying Mr. President!!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:27 PM  

Thursday, January 14, 2010

PROMISES, PROMISES: Many Obama pledges unkept

We have been saying this for months now...but we are glad to see major media reporting on Obama's promises:

During his two-year campaign, Obama thrilled massive crowds with soaring speeches, often railing against an Iraq war that now is seldom mentioned. His presidential comments now are often sober updates on issues like terrorism and the economy, a top priority now that emerged as a major issue only in the campaign's final weeks.

Obama's campaign ambition has been diluted with a pragmatism that has been the hallmark of Year One -

without much of the progress he had hoped.

A look at some of the promises:

Keep on reading

What a waste of a year!!! People were fooled in voting for him and they will pay the price for votingthe most inexperienced president we've ever had! What a shame!

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 2:42 PM  

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Obama should call Senator to Resign! Let's be consistent .

In light of President Obama's decision to forgive Harry Reid's remarks about Obama's skin color and lack of a "Negro dialect," check out what Obama said about Trent Lott in 2002:

Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D-13th), who hosted WVON's Cliff Kelley Show, challenged the Republican Party to repudiate Lott's remarks and to call for his resignation as senate leader.

"It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do," said Obama.

He said: "

The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott

. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party."

--From the December 12, 2002 issue of the Chicago Defender.

Source of this post.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 10:00 PM  

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Obama's Promise On Healthcare!!

Check this out:

Do we have a "Liar-in-Chief" at the White House?? I know this will not be the first "Lier-in-Chief", but Obama promised us "Change"!!!!

Perhaps Congressman Joe Wilson should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for shouting out “You Lie” to Obama during his speech to Congress last year. hmm.

Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 10:34 AM  

[Cleo's Mom 257]

Well said, BJean. Did you see the hilarious skit on the Daily Show where they showed that idiot beck, who some on here listen to, trying to tie everything Obama did to nazi Germany? beck tried to say the bank bailout was like the round up of Jews. The guy said "Are you f***ing kidding me? They came to kill the Jews. They were offering the banks $785 billion dollars".

Does anyone with an IQ in the triple digits listen to the ramblings of beck? He just doesn't make any sense.

And then there are those on the right, obviously frustrated with Obama's successes, trying to invent controversy. They ask:

Is the oil spill Obama's Katrina? Ah, no. Duh!

Is it really a good idea for the republicans to remind us of bush's failures?

[pattygreen 5]

I post this not to say that I ,personally, am upset that any of these promises were not kept, but to say that Obama runs his mouth sooooo much about things, and promises you the moon, but is really talking through his butt and can't carry through what he says. He just likes to say what your itching ears want to hear. He's a people pleaser with his words.

Promise Broken rulings on the Obameter

No. 24: End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000

"Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors -- saving them an average of $1,400 a year-- and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all."

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No. 30: End no-bid contracts above $25,000

"Will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid."

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No. 71: Allow imported prescription drugs

"Allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S."

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No. 86: Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives

"As president, Barack Obama will immediately direct his Secretary of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with agency officials, academic researchers, cancer survivors and advocates for people with cancer, and state public health officials, to comprehensively examine the various cancer-related efforts of federal agencies, and provide recommendations to eliminate barriers to effective coordination across federal agencies and between the federal government and other stakeholders."

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No. 221: Double the Peace Corps

"Barack Obama will double the Peace Corps to 16,000 by its 50th anniversary in 2011 and push Congress to fully fund this expansion, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean."

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No. 234: Allow five days of public comment before signing bills

To reduce bills rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them, Obama "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."

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No. 240: Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials

"No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration."

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No. 249: Double funding for afterschool programs

"Will double funding for the main federal support for afterschool programs, the 21st Century Learning Centers program, to serve one million more children."

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No. 292: Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws

As president, "will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws."

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No. 313: Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage

Will repeal provisions of the Chapter 13 law that prohibit bankruptcy judges from modifying the original terms of home mortgages for ordinary families -- regardless of whether the loan was predatory or unfair or is otherwise unaffordable -- "so that ordinary families can also get relief that bankruptcy laws were intended to provide."

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No. 339: Support human mission to moon by 2020

Will "endorse the goal of sending human missions to the Moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more distant destinations, including Mars."

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No. 379: Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit

"Will maintain fiscal responsibility and prevent any increase in the deficit by offsetting cuts and revenue sources in other parts of the government (to pay for a national service plan that will cost about $3.5 billion per year when it is fully implemented). This plan will be paid for in part by cancelling tax provisions that would otherwise help multinational corporations pay less in U.S. taxes starting in 2008 by reallocating tax deductions for interest expenses between income earned in the U.S. and income earned abroad. The rest of the plan will be funded using a small portion of the savings associated with ending the war in Iraq."

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No. 428: Give annual "State of the World" address

"I'll give an annual 'State of the World' address to the American people in which I lay out our national security policy."

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No. 431: Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels

"Barack Obama is committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994."

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No. 508: Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009

"Obama and Biden are calling for legislation that would allow withdrawals of 15% up to $10,000 from retirement accounts without penalty (although subject to the normal taxes). This would apply to withdrawals in 2008 (including retroactively) and 2009."

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No. 511: Recognize the Armenian genocide

"Two years ago, I criticized the Secretary of State for the firing of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, after he properly used the term 'genocide' to describe Turkey's slaughter of thousands of Armenians starting in 1915. … as President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."

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No. 515: No family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase."

"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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No. 517: Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN

To achieve health care reform, "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."

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No. 518: Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange.

"The exchange will require that all the plans offered are at least as generous as the new public plan and meet the same standards for quality and efficiency."

Edited May 15, 2010 by pattygreen

[pattygreen 5]

"There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means and we're going to have to make some adjustments. Now, what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut," Mr. Obama promised during the third presidential debate on Oct. 15, 2008. He made the same promise about a "net spending cut" again during the second presidential debate.

Despite these talking points, Mr. Obama plans to increase the debt by at least $9.1 trillion over the next decade. In that period of time, Mr. Obama's programs will increase federal spending by $400 billion to $500 billion per year over what his predecessor, President George W. Bush, planned. Far from keeping his promise, this is the largest peacetime increase ever in government spending. Washington times

Edited May 15, 2010 by pattygreen

[pattygreen 5]

"I can make a firm pledge: No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase - not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital-gains taxes, not any of your taxes. And my opponent can't make that pledge, and here is why: For the first time in American history, John McCain wants to tax your health care benefits," Mr. Obama said on Sept. 12, 2008. The $250,000 protection against tax increases was promised dozens of times during the campaign.

Mr. Obama first broke this promise last January with an increase in cigarette taxes. Since then, he has compounded the damage. Last week, for example, the president announced an agreement to impose a 40 percent tax on higher-quality health insurance plans. Washington times

Edited May 15, 2010 by pattygreen

[pattygreen 5]

"We are going to ban all earmarks - the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review," Mr. Obama promised Jan. 6, 2008. Similar promises were made during the presidential debates.

Putting aside that the $787 billion stimulus package was one giant earmark, Mr. Obama has signed multiple bills stuffed with earmarks, most recently the defense bill that he signed last month. That single bill alone had 1,720 pet projects totaling $4.2 billion. Washington times

[pattygreen 5]

"I respect what the Clintons tried to do in 1993 in moving health reform forward, but they made one really big mistake, and that is, they took all their people and all their experts and put them into a room, and then they closed the door," Mr. Obama said in November 2008. "We will work on this process publicly, it will be on C-SPAN, it will be streaming over the net." Mr. Obama repeated this promise at least eight times during his presidential campaign.

Contrary to his vow, government health care negotiations are so secret that most top Democrats can't even see what's going on - which brings up another broken promise: that legislation would be posted online for five days before the president signed it. Mr. Obama broke that promise because the more Americans know about his agenda, the more they oppose it. Transparency makes it difficult for Democrats to ram through their unpopular big-government programs. Washington times

[pattygreen 5]

STATEMENT: “We’ve got a philosophical difference, which we’ve debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. And my belief is, the reason that people don’t have it is not because they don’t want it but because they can’t afford it.” Barack Obama, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate, February 21, 2008.

[pattygreen 5]

STATEMENT: “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.” January 20, 2008, and seven other times.

EXPIRATION DATE: Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health-care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, “the campaign is over, John.”

[pattygreen 5]

RECESS APPOINTMENTS

STATEMENT: Then-senator Obama declared that a recess appointment is “damaged goods” and has “less credibility” than a normal appointment. August 25, 2005.

EXPIRATION DATE: March 27, 2010: “If, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis.”

[pattygreen 5]

BORDER SECURITY

STATEMENT: “We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. . . . That begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws.” Then-candidate Obama, discussing the need for border security, speaking in Miami on May 23, 2008.

EXPIRATION DATE: March 17, 2010: The Obama administration halted new work on a “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes.

[pattygreen 5]

GUANTANAMO BAY

STATEMENT: Executive order stating, “The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” January 22, 2009.

EXPIRATION DATE: November 19, 2009: “Guantánamo, we had a specific deadline that was missed.”

[pattygreen 5]

MILITARY TRIBUNALS

STATEMENT: “Somebody like Khalid Sheik Mohammad is gonna get basically, a full military trial with all the bells and whistles.” September 27, 2006

EXPIRATION DATE: Ongoing. “President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition that the administration had mishandled the process and triggered a political backlash. Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to maintain an independent Justice Department. But the White House has been taken aback by the intense criticism from political opponents and local officials of Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian courtroom in New York.”