Thoughts & Commentary on the Obama Administration

**PanzerJaeger** · 07-18-2010, 04:11

Not that anyone thought any different, but the Administration is finally having to come clean in regards to their blatant deceit over the health care tax. I wonder how many people making under $250,000 will be paying this one.

When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

While Congress was working on the health care legislation, Mr. Obama refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy insurance, enforced by financial penalties, was equivalent to a tax.

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”

Lying scumbag...

**Fragony** · 07-20-2010, 10:57

heh http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1047...moval_kit.html

**Xiahou** · 08-26-2010, 16:52

From ABC's Jake Tapper:
Breaking News: President Obama Says "I'm Having a Great Time" On Vacation
Apparently it was a slow news day.....

**PanzerJaeger** · 08-27-2010, 01:06

Didn't that swamp creature he's married to just get back from vacation in Spain?

**al Roumi** · 08-27-2010, 11:37

I saw this on the economist and thought it might be of relevance and interest to this thread: After Iraq, America has had a bruising decade. But do not underestimate either the superpower or its president

**Strike For The South** · 08-30-2010, 01:27

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Didn't that swamp creature he's married to just get back from vacation in Spain?

RACIST!

**Xiahou** · 08-30-2010, 01:42

What's it mean when people are asking for Bush to speak out and help clean up the mess that Obama has made with his comments? I thought Obama was supposed to be the eloquent one....

From the NY Times:

The war against the terrorists is not a war against Islam. In fact, you can’t have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam.

George W. Bush understood this. And it is odd to see Barack Obama less clear about this matter than his predecessor. It’s time for W. to weigh in.

**PanzerJaeger** · 09-02-2010, 05:33

HAH

We'll start rolling out our Ohio poll results tomorrow but there's one finding on the poll that pretty much sums it up: by a 50-42 margin voters there say they'd rather have George W. Bush in the White House right now than Barack Obama.

Independents hold that view by a 44-37 margin and there are more Democrats who would take Bush back (11%) than there are Republicans who think Obama's preferable (3%.)

A couple months ago I thought the Pennsylvanias and Missouris and Ohios of the world were the biggest battlegrounds for 2010 but when you see numbers like this it makes you think it's probably actually the Californias and the Wisconsins and the Washingtons.

There's not much doubt things are getting worse for Democrats...and they were already pretty bad. Somehow the party base needs to get reinvigorated over the next two months or there's going to be a very, very steep price to pay.