June 16, 2009

Transparency: Obama Giveth Promises, Obama Taketh Away

Transparency, one of Obama’s cornerstone of his “Change” platform during the election. A direct excerpt from Obama’s whitehouse.gov post on his promises:
Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President’s executive orders [...]

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March 27, 2009

Obama Ready To Backtrack On Middle-Class Tax Cuts

Oh, you didn’t think he was serious. Did you? Barack Obama rallied his campaign around big, big promises that he couldn’t keep. Like “spend, spend, spend” coupled with tax cuts. That simply does not add up. Despite this simple math the kool-aid drinkers jumped on the bus and now Obama [...]

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February 27, 2009

Roland Burris’ Son Got Sweetheart Job From Ex-Gov Blagojevich

What a big surprise. I’m sure no one saw this coming. After weeks of learning more and more about Roland Burris‘ lies and deceit over just what he did for disgraced ex-governor Rod Blagojevich we’re now hearing about what Blago did for Burris. Namely, giving Burris’ deadbeat son a $75,000 government job after [...]

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February 25, 2009

Fact Checking Obama’s February 24th Speech

Erin already has an excellent review posted on Dear Leader’s hopeium overdose last night, but here’s an additional review for fact checking Obama’s claims:
On Obama’s housing plan for helping only responsible borrowers:
OBAMA: “We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their [...]

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February 16, 2009

Obama’s 7 Broken Promises

It hasn’t even been three weeks since his inauguration, but Barack Obama is breaking promises faster than most expected. Take a look:
7 Broken Promises in Record Time:
1. Make government open and transparent.
2. Make it “impossible” for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the [...]

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February 8, 2009

Dems Skirt Compromise, Plan To Backfill Cuts

No surprise here. Democrats’ compromises in the Senate to obtain a mere 3 Republican votes are a sham. Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion highlights the admission of this by Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill from Missouri:
MR. GREGORY: But, Senator, you said about the House bill that in fact they did bloat it up with some spending, and [...]

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January 29, 2009

Pelosi-Reid-Obama Spending Bill: $150,000,000 For ‘Honey Bee Insurance’?!

I kid you not. $150,000,000 in earmarks and pork for “honey bee insurance” was stuffed into a dark corner of the latest version of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama spending / debt bill. (Full text here.) Honey bee insurance?!
Senate Republicans released these new highlights of your tax payer dollars being spent under the guise of economic stimulus. [...]

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January 29, 2009

Pelosi Misleads Public On House Republicans’ Stance

This morning Nancy Pelosi spoke on CBS’ “Early Show” and unsurprisingly broadcast misleading information regarding yesterday’s steadfast response of “no” by House Republicans. Let’s breakdown the lies:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that while critics may quibble with some elements of spending in the $819 billion economic rescue plan, Democrats were willing to act — [...]

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