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AFA, barack obama, Canadian, Colbert Report, HealthCare.gov, Obamacare, Website-Gate
In Health Care on October 24, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Troubles with HealthCare.gov – Stephen Colbert comments in this video on the website that is becoming an international embarrassment.
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On Wednesday’s “Colbert Report,” after telling his audience he hates always reporting depressing stories night after night, Stephen Colbert said: “I finally have some good news to report. Millions of Americans can’t get health insurance.” Boom. “The Obamacare website is a disaster — and I am loving it,” the comedian added. “This techno-turd taco will be Barack Obama’s true legacy.” The roast continued. “It’s his Gettysburg Address, if Lincoln had said, ‘Four score and error 404, emancipation not found.” Colbert expressed no surprise about the troubles, pointing out the site contains databases and software from “55 contractors,” and the lead programming group was — wait for it — “Canadian.” Colbert diagnosed HealthCare.gov with “a terminal case of blow-chunkage.”
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In Budget on September 19, 2013 at 8:36 pm
Is the American public being played upon? Or is Obama correct in saying the dept ceiling is being used as a weapon in the budget debate. We are presented with a history of the National debt here in this posting by Newt Gingrich. Much of which I do remember – and how it (the debt ceiling) was used a a negotiating chip in budget battles by past Presidents. You be the judge….
CNN
As an historian and a former speaker of the House who negotiated successfully through two government shutdowns, a successful welfare reform bill, the first tax cut in 16 years and four balanced budgets, I am offended and a little frightened by President Barack Obama’s deliberate dishonesty about the debt ceiling.
On Wednesday, speaking to the Business Roundtable, Obama said:
“You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt.”
Full story: CNN
Affordable Care Act, barack obama, David Johnson, GOP, health care, health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, poverty, recovery, Ron Haskins
In Jobs, Of interest on September 17, 2013 at 9:54 pm
Since 2007/ 2008 there has been no change in the level of poverty. One seventh of the country is at the pverty level or below. Since the current administration has been in control there has been little change – and we are led to believe that things are better now than they were in the past……
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Poor in America: A record 46.5 million below poverty line; rate remains stuck at 15 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America’s slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack Obama’s recovery plans.
More than 1 in 7 Americans were living in poverty, not statistically different from the 46.2 million of 2011 and the sixth straight year the rate had failed to improve, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median income for the nation’s households was $51,017, also unchanged from the previous year after two consecutive annual declines, while the share of people without health insurance did improve but only a bit, from 15.7 percent to 15.4 percent.
Full story: Yahoo! Finance
Affordable Care Act, barack obama, John Boehner, Mark Meadows, Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, shutdown
In Health Care on September 15, 2013 at 7:11 pm
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a third of House Republicans urged their leader Thursday to trigger a government shutdown rather than fund the implementation of the health care overhaul they call “Obamacare.”
A letter from 80 Republicans asked Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to resist any spending bills that would accommodate the new health care law, which is nearing a critical stage of signing up millions of Americans for health coverage.
Because it’s virtually certain that President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate would reject such demands, leaders of both parties say the standoff likely would result in a partial shutdown of the federal government, similar to those that occurred in 1995 and 1996.
The letter is mixed news for Boehner and other GOP leaders who view a government shutdown as politically unwise.
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In Budget, Economics, Of interest on January 30, 2013 at 9:26 pm
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank from October through December for the first time since the recession ended, hurt by the biggest cut in defense spending in 40 years, fewer exports and sluggish growth in company stockpiles. The decline occurred despite faster growth in consumer spending and business investment.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that the economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter. That’s a sharp slowdown from the 3.1 percent growth rate in the July-September quarter and the first contraction since the second quarter of 2009.
Economists said the surprise decrease in the nation’s gross domestic product wasn’t as bad as it looked. The weakness was primarily the result of one-time factors. Government spending cuts and slower inventory growth subtracted a total of 2.6 percentage points from growth.
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barack obama, Benghazi assault, CIA Director David Petraeus, lindsey graham, republican, republican lawmakers, Sen. Graham, Sen. McCain, Susan Rice, U.N. Ambassador Rice
In Democrat, GOP, Of interest on November 14, 2012 at 10:15 pm
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President Obama, assuming a tough-talking tone, warned Republicans Wednesday to lay off U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her controversial Sept. 16 comments on the Libya consulate attack — and at the same time opened his administration up to questions about why, if she “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” the White House chose her to explain it to the public.
At issue is Rice’s claim, on five Sunday shows five days after the attack, that the assault was “spontaneous.”
Calling Rice an “easy target,” Obama challenged Republican lawmakers during his press conference to “go after me” instead — a challenge quickly picked up by Sen. Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina Republican fired back: “Mr President, don’t think for one minute I don’t hold you ultimately responsible for Benghazi. I think you failed as commander in chief before, during and after the attack.”
Full story: Fox News
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In GOP, Immigration, Of interest on November 14, 2012 at 9:04 pm
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In the week since President Barack Obama won the election thanks in part to the Hispanic vote, a handful of top Republicans are breaking with the party line and floating the idea of working with Democrats to reform the nation’s immigration system.
The presidential election was “a wake-up call,” explains Jennifer Korn, executive director of the Hispanic Leadership Network and former director of Hispanic and Women’s Affairs in the Bush White House. (Former Gov. Mitt Romney got 27 percent of the Hispanic vote on Nov. 6; if he had managed to nab just 35 percent—a share George W. Bush exceeded two elections in a row—he would have won the popular vote.)
That wake-up call, however, doesn’t mean Republicans will necessarily support immigration reform models as liberal as those pushed by both Bush and Ronald Reagan—models that included citizenship for illegal immigrants who met certain conditions. And some conservatives have signaled that in order to sign onto reform, they would want big concessions in return. The proposals would no doubt anger Latino advocacy and immigrant rights groups—which in the past have said immigration bills must offer full citizenship or immigrants will be relegated to “second-class status”—as well as set the stage for clashes with pro-reform Democrats.
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In Democrat, Of interest on November 14, 2012 at 8:54 pm
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President Barack Obama bluntly told Sen. John McCain and other Republicans to lay off their attacks against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over the Benghazi assault, telling lawmakers that if they go after her “then you have a problem with me.” And Obama, speaking at his first postelection press conference, vowed that Republican opposition would not dissuade him from nominating Rice to replace departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“I don’t think there’s any debate in this country that when you have four Americans killed that’s a problem,” he told reporters in the East Room of the White House. “And we’ve got to get to the bottom of it, and there needs to be accountability. We’ve got to bring those who carried it out to justice—they won’t get any debate from me on that.
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