2. Barack Obama Fully Embraces Death Panels
3. Is Unofficial Inflation Present In The Economy?
4. Questionable Visitors’ Log Reveals AFL-CIO Boss Made Four Dozen White House Trips
5. Planned Parenthood Clinics Help Statutory Rapists Cover Their Tracks
6. Nancy Pelosi Is Right: Elections Shouldn’t Matter As Much As They do
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1. Bipartisan Mendacity
If House Republicans vote for the bipartisan compromise, they should be driven into the street by the tea party movement and horsewhipped — metaphorically speaking. In reality, they should be primaried.
What started out as $38.5 billion in cuts, turned into around $14 billion in cuts and a bunch of accounting gimmicks. Each new day brings new disgusting revelations. According to the Congressional Budget Office, “total federal outlays will still rise by approximately $177 billion.” Yes, that says “rise” not “decrease.”
More startling, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the deficit will only be cut by $352 million. That’s million with an “m”. The budget deficit will be $1.6 trillion this year.
Republicans who vote for this compromise are lying to the American people that they get how serious the problem is. But it’s not just Republican mendacity the republic must be worried about. Barack Obama spoke yesterday in a speech filled with lies, half-truths, and enough class warfare rhetoric to make Karl Marx blush. The mendacity of Obama’s class warfare is designed to distract from the fact that under Obama, gas prices have risen more than 100% from when he took office, food prices have gone up, and every dollar every American brings home buys less and less.
The man started his speech praising the free market and the rugged individualism of the American people, while ignoring that under his Presidency more Americans are on food stamps than at any time in American history and it is the Obama administration, not the free market, that is picking winners and losers in the marketplace.
Paul Ryan, on the Mark Levin Show last night, called Obama “a pyromanic in a field of straw men.” Obama’s mendacity goes deep — even to the point of lying about the national debt.
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2. Barack Obama Fully Embraces Death Panels
While everyone else was focused on Barack Obama bashing Paul Ryan, I noticed that he took full ownership of death panels yesterday. Naturally, Obama did not call them death panels. He called them “an independent commission of doctors, nurses, medical experts and consumers.” But his description hits dead on with what his death panels will do.
According to Barack Obama yesterday, the death panels “will look at all the evidence and recommend the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending while protecting access to the services seniors need.”
We already know what they’ll recommend as “the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending”. Barack Obama’s own advisers have told us. They will prioritize giving health care to healthier people and let sicker people die. At end of life, they will deny people life sustaining treatment because, after all, they’re going to die anyway. Note his phrasing: “protecting access to the services seniors need.” Dying people, according to Obama’s advisers, need hospice not hope. They certainly do not need expensive treatments that may buy them time to see the birth of a new grandchild or other reasons.
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3. Is Unofficial Inflation Present In The Economy?
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, inflation became a crippling detriment to the American Economy. Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volker, showed remarkable patriotism for a Democrat. He brought down the hammer athwart this scourge. He raised interest rates through the roof and forced down the price of most consumables to acceptable levels. As a result of Paul Volker’s courage and love for America, the fixed-income consumer was temporarily spared great misery and deprivation.
Of course Fed Chairman Volker’s policy decisions were kryptonite to elected officialdom. They solved a long-term Seldon-Crisis of political economy with little or no concern for short-term public opinion. The primary measure that set off Paul Volker’s alarm system was the CPI (Consumer Price Index). Sadly, the CPI referenced today would not mathematically map to the CPI Volker relied upon back in the day. Therein lies a tale of statistical machination and nerdacious skullduggery.
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4. Questionable Visitors’ Log Reveals AFL-CIO Boss Made Four Dozen White House Trips
In a critical report published by the Center for Public Integrity regarding the White House visitor log, one of the more peculiar items noted was the amount of visits that AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka has made to the White House. While the Center’s criticism centers around the lack of (or missing) data provided by the White House, the records did reflect that Trumka has visited the White House an astonishing four dozen times.
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5. Planned Parenthood Clinics Help Statutory Rapists Cover Their Tracks
Planned Parenthood claims to support women’s health. Their institutional actions, though, indicate they support criminal activity that would harm a child. How? By facilitating abortions for children raped by adult men. Fully 91% of the abortion clinics contacted would help an underaged girl receive an abortion even when the clinic counselor knew the father was an adult male.
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6. Nancy Pelosi Is Right: Elections Shouldn’t Matter As Much As They do
Speaking at Tufts University on April 8th, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had one of those marvelous moments of self-revelation in which a usually polished politician speaking casually and without a script among like-minded friends says what everyone is thinking–what everyone knows to be true–in this case what is considered an unquestionable “fact” by their audience. As you can see from the video, there was not a murmur when Pelosi circled around to her punch line that “elections should not matter as much as they do.” She went on to lament that the lack of “shared values” had lead to the unpleasantness of last Friday in Congress with all the shouting and staying up late and worries over who would get to keep their Blackberrys.
The thing is, Pelosi is right. Elections are burdensome things. They are expensive, intrusive and all too frequently unfair. Even when you win, the cycle of fundraising and campaigning distracts from the business at hand.
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Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com
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