Thanks for the ammo, Pelosi. The GOP hammered you fools over this last time and now you put it back?
The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to "death panels" for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.
The provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help beneficiaries deal with the complex and painful decisions families face when a loved one is approaching death.
So-Called ‘Death Panel’ Measure Survives in House Health Bill – Political News – FOXNews.com
Instead of using the report that shows they were wrong as a reason to change their support of a dictator wanna-be, they want to retract it and destroy it.
Zelaya was legally removed from office because of treason, theft, graft, attempted voter fraud, and attempting to circumvent the Honduras constitution. The Law Library of Congress report shows this. Obama doesn’t care and wants to support the good friend of Castro and Chavez.
Ignore the truth, hide the truth, destroy the truth. My guess is that people didn’t realize that this was the “Change” they were voting for.
A month ago, the Law Library of Congress reviewed the removal of Manuel Zelaya from his post as President of Honduras, an act that the Obama administration called a “coup” and demanded reversed for its illegality. To the embarrassment of the White House and State Department, the Congressional body determined that Honduras acted lawfully in removing Zelaya for his crimes against their constitution, although they determined that his exile broke Honduran law. Now John Kerry wants the Law Library to retract its findings, apparently trying to rewrite history to hide the facts of the case:
The chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees are asking the Law Library of Congress to retract a report on the military-backed coup in Honduras that they charge is flawed and “has contributed to the political crisis that still wracks” the country.
The request, by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. and Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., has sparked cries of censorship from Republicans who say the Democrats don’t like what the August report said: that the government of Honduras had the authority to remove President Manuel Zelaya from office.
Zelaya has been holed up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa for several weeks, and high-ranking U.S. officials arrived Wednesday to try to broker a resolution.
Critics of the Obama administration — which condemned Zelaya’s removal in June — have pointed to the report as evidence that the White House was wrong when it sided with most Latin American countries in calling for Zelaya to be returned.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Kerry wants Law Library report on Honduras retracted
Gee, what a shock. The White House made up numbers to make things look better.
They “saved or created” 30,083 jobs… and lost millions.
I wonder why they never seem to screw up and under estimate these numbers… like they do with how much things cost us.
Two weeks ago, the Obama administration finally got around to documenting the number of jobs “saved or created” by Porkulus thus far … and came up with a whopping 30,083 jobs. Even that, as it turns out, was greatly inflated. The AP does the math that the White House was apparently too incompetent to do itself and discovers that 5,000 of those “saved or created” jobs were created, all right — out of someone’s imagination:
An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.
The government’s first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.
The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.
Read the AP’s specifics on how the numbers went askew. My personal favorite? A Florida day-care center claimed to have saved 129 jobs, but the stimulus money went instead to raises for all of its employees.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » AP: Administration overstated stimulus jobs
Oh yeah. I have faith in these fools handling health care correctly.
It would have been cheaper to give them away free.
(Carhenge)
Snapped Shot has more on this lemon.
CSM reported the news today.
American taxpayers paid a lot of cash for those clunkers: $24,000 for each new car sold, according to a study released Wednesday.
That’s a lot of money, especially when the so-called “cash for clunker” stimulus program offered only a maximum $4,500 in cash for each person who traded in an old gas-guzzler and bought a new car.
The government could have done almost as well by just giving away cars for free, instead of creating an elaborate incentive program, according to an analysis by the automotive information firm Edmunds.com in Santa Monica, Calif.
Gateway Pundit
