Yahoo! News
The wheels began to come off Obamacare in 2011 when the administration announced that the “CLASS Act,” a provision to provide long-term disability care, was, in the words of Kathleen Sebelius, “totally unsustainable,” and would be discontinued.
What was the problem? The White House website had boasted: “No taxpayer funds will be used to pay benefits under this provision … Safeguards will be put in place to ensure its premiums are enough to cover its costs.”
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The “secret footnote” why of course – why didn’t we all notice the secret footnote that explained before hand what many are experiencing now. That you CAN keep your insurance plan – well just not YOUR insurance plan. Sorry….. What we were in fact being told is that the President’s comment about keeping your health care plan was meant for those whose plans met the criteria set out by Obamacare. How silly of the American people for not realizing this when having Obamacare shoved down our throats.
The Wall Street Journal
President Obama has intoned “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan” hundreds if not thousands of times. Sometimes he has even added that “no one will take it away, no matter what” or “nothing will change, period.”
But now that reality is repudiating the President’s unequivocal promise, Democrats want you to know that there was always a secret footnote: If you’re losing a health plan you liked, the President didn’t mean your plan.
Liberals now argue that Mr. Obama was mostly correct but his claim should have been caveated with a clause that people could keep their plans as long as they met ObamaCare regulations. This asterisk somehow wasn’t mentioned until millions of policies started to be terminated as ObamaCare-noncompliant.
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Yahoo! News
The White House on Tuesday defended targeted assassinations of Americans thought to consort overseas with terrorists as “necessary,” “ethical” and “wise,” as the Obama administration faced fresh questions about its sharply expanded drone war.
“We conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate ongoing actual threats—to stop plots, prevent future attacks and, again, save American lives,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. “These strikes are legal, they are ethical, and they are wise.”
Carney’s comments came after NBC News published a Justice Department memo that lays out a broad rationale for targeting individual Americans anywhere outside the U.S. for assassination—without oversight from Congress or the courts, and even if the U.S. citizen in question is not actively plotting a specific terrorist attack.
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The President who criticized the Bush Administration during his run for President back in 2008 now finds that the world is not as neat and orderly as was once thought. Having to agree to things that he said he would not do during his reign as President.
Right or wrong in America 