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		<title>Obama Wasted $150 Mil on Bankrupt ObamaCare Insurance Corp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But CO did have a business plan. Getting the government to give them your money.]]></description>
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<p>When you blew over a billion dollars on a website that didn&#8217;t work, maybe complaining about spending over a tenth of that <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/24/obamacare-created-insurer-goes-under-is-taken-over-by-the-state/">trying to bail out a non-profit company</a> is loose change.</p>
<p>But the cascading wave of failures rippling through ObamaCare shows how deeply broken the whole model is.</p>
<blockquote><p>An Obamacare-created and taxpayer-funded insurance company in Iowa has been taken over by the state due to a financial crisis.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s the great cycle of government, from crony capitalism to Socialism.</p>
<blockquote><p>After just beginning to offer plans in 2013, the company’s already insolvent and has now been taken over by the state of Iowa, insurance commissioner Nick Gerhart announced Wednesday. CoOpportunity doesn’t have enough cash on hand to be sure it can pay claims for its 120,000 customers, if necessary. The company has only $17 million in cash and assets, Gerhart said.</p>
<p>The federal government’s Obamacare administrator the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services initially gave CoOportunity a $112 million loan award in Feb. 2012, but doled out an additional $32.7 million emergency award to keep the company solvent in September of this year.</p></blockquote>
<p>But CO did have a business plan. Getting the government to give them your money. Their backup business plan? Getting the government to give them even more of your money.</p>
<blockquote><p>CoOpportunity’s management expected to receive more federal money than they did, putting them in continuing financial peril.</p></blockquote>
<p>Their business plan was more federal money. Literally. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve come down to.</p>
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		<title>The ObamaCare Battle</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “The ObamaCare Battle,” which took place at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Larry Kawa: </strong>We’re going to be talking today a little bit about executive overreach.  It’s a phenomenon I think that America has become fatigued by.  The one good thing for the President about having so many scandals is each one of his next scandals kind of eclipses the previous scandal, so you can’t even think about it anymore.  The one that we’re here to talk about primarily today – we’ll start off with and then I have a couple other surprise scandals at the end I’ll throw in – is the employer mandate.  It’s one that’s been very near and dear to my heart, and thanks to the tremendous help of Judicial Watch, we’re doing very well at trying to enforce that component of the law, and I’m here today to start off by introducing to you my dear friend who is the president of Judicial Watch who does many, many things, only one of which is the great thing that he is doing to help with my lawsuit, which I will get to later in the program.  I’d like to take a moment to introduce to you Mr. Tom Fitton.  Tom, if you could please come up here.</p>
<p><strong>Tom Fitton:</strong> I thank you very much everybody, and I just have to be careful with talking to people at these meetings because I get as outraged as you do, and that’s what motivates us at Judicial Watch, and I joke, and it’s only half a joke.  I go to the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage, and the pews are much more full these days, and there is a crisis in Washington.  It’s a crisis of lawlessness that others have already spoken about at this panel, and we could talk about Benghazi.  Judicial Watch has worked doing the work of Washington in getting the truth out on Benghazi, getting the truth out on the IRS scandals and also getting the truth out on Obamacare, and we’ve all seen this Gruber comment where he said that lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.  That’s Gruber’s point, and he got, what, $400,000.00 from the Health and Human Services to help push Obamacare, but that’s the guiding principle of President Obama, so the focus on Gruber is actually a misdirection, and our focus ought to be on President Obama.  He is the king of non-transparency.  He is the king of secrecy, secrecy that would probably have Nixon staring with his mouth agape, “Why didn’t I have his lawyers?”</p>
<p>The President began his presidency with the premise: we’ll be the most transparent administration in history, and when we do this healthcare law, C-Span’s gonna be at the table and anyone promoting the drug companies, that will be on C-Span and all the special interests will be held accountable as a result of the transparency he committed to.  Well, we all know how that turned out, and Judicial Watch had to sue to get information about those meetings at the White House.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to get information about how many people are participating in Obamacare.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to find out about the propaganda efforts behind Obamacare.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to find out about the navigators behind Obamacare.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to find out about the security of the healthcare web site.  Transparency is a bad word with the Obama administration, and so Gruber, he’s a sidebar issue, and we need to focus on the stonewalling and the secrecy of this administration.</p>
<p>Today the administration opened up healthcare.gov for the next enrollment period next year.  Well, the information about the pricing of the insurance policies was released last night to the New York Times.  Guess when the election was, and the New York Times reports that unless you change your healthcare plan, you’re going to get an increase of 20 percent, and that was a data dump to the New York Times on the Friday after this election.  Now, they knew those numbers long before, and they would not release them prior.  When did Obamacare open last year?  October 1<sup>st</sup>.  This year the middle of November.  Guess when the notices were allowed to be sent out by the Obama administration from the states telling people what they needed to do in terms of the next year’s healthcare plan?  Guess what day the letter was approved; November 5<sup>th</sup>, the day after the election.  So, it’s outrageous but you know what?  It puts people in jeopardy.  It means people may be double enrolled.  It may be people don’t have healthcare.  It may be people don’t know what the opportunities are to protect themselves in case of catastrophe as a result of the health insurance that we’re all paying for being made available to them.  So this transparency is more than just about the operations of government, and we want government to operate well.  It’s about protecting people and making sure that the government’s accountable and that we have the ability to govern ourselves.</p>
<p>Now, I say we had to sue, but why did we have to sue?  Where was the media?  Where is Congress?  Frankly, where are honest people in the federal government?  And, we found out why we had to sue, and, by the way, every lawsuit is an indication they’re violating the Freedom of Information Act.  We don’t sue because there’s no case to be had, it’s because they’re not following the law, and we know that the cover up is significant.  We know the number of signups.  How many people do you think signed up the first day of Obamacare?  It’s was a big controversy, right?  No one asked about it.  We did.  We sued.  One person signed up the first day of Obamacare. One person.  Well, there was a little bit of a controversy in the documents we obtained because someone said maybe two people signed up.  I want you to think about if we knew one person signed up the first day of Obamacare back in October of last year as opposed to the summer of this year when we obtained the information, how different the debate would have been.  We were able to get documents showing the PR campaign, the propaganda effort, hundreds of millions of dollars going to Obama-connected PR firms to “do behavioral change.”  We found that money was being pushed out, especially in the seven days before the 2010 election.  Again, where is the oversight by Congress?  We found out information about the security of the Obamacare web site.  Think about that.  The documents we have show that the Obama administration knew before the opening of healthcare.gov last year that it was an unsecure web site.  The details they refused to divulge to Congress, but we got the details from them.  Essentially, any joke of a hacker could upload an Excel spreadsheet or an Excel type of program and just gum up the works.  They weren’t tracking what the security flaws were.  I mean anyone who owns a business, anything related to IT, you’re looking for problems, you basically have to keep a list of what the problems are so you can address them all.  They weren’t even doing that and, in fact, they knew it was insecure, and what were the fix-it dates for them?  Months after the healthcare.gov was opened, months.  So, I can tell you if you’re putting information on healthcare.gov, you’re putting your personal information at risk, and, tying it back to the IRS scandal, guess who collects your information about whether you have health insurance, thanks to the individual mandate.  The IRS, and guess who they click with to make sure everyone’s on the same page; this healthcare.gov web site.  So, this unsecure web site – with the IRS web site and services which are also not terribly secure – my gosh, a hacker’s dream.  So, forget about K-Mart or Target or all those businesses who are being dragged and maybe criminally prosecuted by this administration.  Their criminal neglect of our privacy and their knowing neglect in putting our privacy at risk so they wouldn’t have to deal with the political consequences of admitting that the web site screwed up is really beneath contempt.</p>
<p>But, on top of the lack of transparency we’ve got the law breaking.  Now, the debate is whether we repeal Obamacare.  The public wants Obamacare repealed, but let me tell you what the dirty little secret is.  It has been repealed.  The Obamacare of 2010 is no longer in existence.  Now, it’s been repealed, in part, correctly as a result of legislation passed by Congress, signed into law by the President, but also the President himself has repealed it, taking the role of judge, legislature, and President all at once.  And, as Larry indicated most famously – well, perhaps most famously now – with the pushing back the statutory deadline on the employer mandate, and in the case of Dr. Carlisle, his business.  He was doing the right thing.  He prepped.  He knew this employer mandate was coming down the line.  He spent a good deal of money and a good deal of time that could have otherwise been spent pursing, expanding his business further, which is already tremendously successful, and so Obama says, “The law doesn’t apply to me.  I don’t have to follow the law, and I can just, without any cause, any authority, just ignore it.”  He’s out of all of his money.  He has standing, and we sued to challenge his ability to do that, and in that lawsuit, in highlighting it, we talked about this old U.S. Grant quote saying, “The best way to ensure the repeal of a bad law is to enforce it vigorously,” and President Obama has learned that and that’s why, at least, there’s like 24 changes to the law he’s unilaterally made in absolute violation of the law.</p>
<p>And let me tell you, this lawlessness has ensnared everyone else.  Congress, we have sued the District of Columbia over Congress’s participation in the small business exchange.  The House of Representatives, the small business exchange that DC has, limited to people with 50 employees or under.  You literally have to list – because I know because we’re a District of Columbia business, Judicial Watch, we’re located there – to apply in the exchange you have to list every employee and their birthdate.  Guess how the House of Representatives did it?  They just wrote Congress, birthdate 1994 – maybe there was a political statement there – nothing else.  Guess how many employees the House and the Senate have together; 20,000.  So, we get these forms that a representative of the House and the Senate made attesting under oath that they employee less than 50 people.  So, I want you – just a little activism – ask your member, do you have healthcare under this Obamacare exchange?  Do you know that it was obtained through fraudulent means, and what are you gonna do about it?  Maybe that’s one thing for the Republican Congress to do, heal thyself.  The lawlessness includes the judiciary where you had, frankly, Chief Justice Roberts rewrite Obamacare in order to save it, and the lawlessness extends to us where we’re forced to obey laws that weren’t passed by Congress.  There’s nothing to justify them other than raw power being exercised by the President, but we have to follow them in order to get health insurance.</p>
<p>So, the lawlessness of President Obama isn’t just about President Obama, it ensnares us all, and we’re happy to do the work to kind of bring back our ability to govern ourselves, but talking about Obamacare lawlessness, talking about Obama lawlessness, doesn’t really cover it.  The system is broken down.  Judicial Watch did all this great work that is talked about with Obamacare with the Benghazi and the IRS, and I’m proud of our work and pleased to have done it, but what an outrage that it was this little old group in Judicial Watch that’s asking questions about how many people are enrolled in Obamacare.  Why are we asking the questions?  Why are we suing in court?  This President doesn’t believe he is subject to the law.  We know that from other discussions.  The agencies he runs don’t think they’re accountable to the people, and Congress signs checks with their eyes closed and shows up like a fire department after the house burns down and yells &#8220;fire.&#8221;  Meanwhile, previously, we’re giving gasoline and matches to the 3-year-old in the house and wondering why the house burned down.  Really, when there’s no control like that, that’s not self-government and, in my view, we’ve got the appearances of self-government.  You vote.  There are elections, but if Congress goes back, doesn’t want to conduct any oversight, just gives blank checks to unelected bureaucrats, and if the President doesn’t think he is accountable to the law, if you think that’s self-government, it isn’t.  So, we present a way forward through this independent activity – lawsuits direct at lawsuits@govermentlawlessness, using the law to get transparency and accountability – and that’s the way forward.  We’ve got to get our government back under control.</p>
<p>Talk about policy is almost irrelevant in the meantime and actually dangerous because the criminal class is running Washington.  It’s a racket, and until there’s an honest game going on, we shouldn’t play it, and the way to play it and to make it more honest is to get that accountability back and that ought to be the focus of any new Congress, both honest Democrats and Republicans, and that ought to be the focus of what we’re doing here as a movement and I really appreciate Mr. Horowitz’s approach to what’s going on in Washington.  A) He’s not in Washington and he recognizes the crisis, and if we recognize the crisis this doesn’t mean oh, it’s insurmountable as a result.  It means that at least we know what the problem is so we’re not fooling ourselves with wasted efforts on silly things that don’t impact the fundamentals.</p>
<p>And so when I hear Mitch McConnell, for instance, saying, “Well, we need 60 votes to repeal Obamacare, and it’s not gonna happen.”  Well, why is that?  Where is the can-do attitude?  Maybe it will happen.  Obamacare has been repealed.  Who knows, the Supreme Court may rule later this year that the subsidies are illegally being given to people in certain faiths and it’s eviscerated, and Democrats may say, “Well, what’s there to save, let’s repeal it.”  It’s that sort of proactive leadership.  It’s that we’ve got to get something done, and I tell you, Obamacare is destroying our healthcare system.  People will die because of it.  Our house is burning.  We need to protect the family and the treasures, and Congresses need to understand the importance of that, and if it means making sure the President follows the law through a lawsuit that gets a law that we don’t like implemented, so be it.  And if it means that members of Congress and their staff have to pay more money for Obamacare, so be it, but we’ve got to protect ourselves.</p>
<p>So, these are nonpartisan issues.  Corruption, transparency, there’s a reason President Obama talks about transparency.  I know it’s the big lie of his administration because he appeals to people who support him as well, and I can tell you, having worked with groups on the left, they like transparency too.  They don’t understand that when you have a big government and big money transparency is very hard to achieve, but they like it in theory.  Take it for what it’s worth.  So, there are ways to reach across the aisles that don’t require us to leave our principles at the door, but getting government under control, making sure that the politicians are accountable to the people, making sure that businesses aren’t being – in the case of President Obama’s insurance commissar, Kathleen Sebelius – being shaken down to support Obama’s third-party group Enroll America.  I mean, Sebelius was out there campaigning on government time, violated the Hatch Act; first cabinet official in U.S. history.  Hatch Act prevents you from campaigning as a government official on government time.  She should have been fired.  Obama left her in.</p>
<p>I mean this is a crisis and Judicial Watch, I think, is recognizing it and has a way forward to address it, and I appreciate Dr. Carlisle’s participation with us because without a client we can’t do the lawsuit so it’s just great work, and I have to say, do not let up.  Hold your members to account and don’t let them say, “Well, this is the plan.”  No, they’re individually accountable, and it’s about time the individual members be accountable to you, and this is the story I want to leave you with:  Larry Carlisle is a business man down here in Florida, a successful businessman, and he is not cowed by the fact – he is a business man who is not a politician, not a public policy expert – that he can’t talk to politicians in Washington about what they’re supposed to do and what ideas they need to pursue or to lawyers at Judicial Watch.  I’m not a lawyer, but telling them, “Well, hey this is an idea.  Why don’t we do this?”  It’s that sort of, hey, you’re citizens of this grand republic and you need to participate too and don’t be shy about holding those politicians to account, and my guess is most of you are significant enough in your communities to get members of Congress to return your calls, and you should be pushing these issues.  So, with that, I can talk forever about Obama corruption and the situation in Washington.  I’ll end my remarks, and I encourage you to support Judicial Watch, obviously. We’re 300,000 active supporters, by the way.  You wouldn’t know that, would you, but isn’t that a sign to conservatives looking for a way forward, Republicans, honest Democrats? Wow, this Judicial Watch, all they do is talk about transparency, accountability in government, rule of law, and look at all the support they’re getting.  Is there a lesson there?  I think there is.  Thank you very much.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Reagan: </strong>I’m actually here as eye candy.  And today I’m not even worried about Obamacare ‘cause I’m on Medicare, and those of you who are on Medicare with me, you know exactly what I’m talking about.  And so what I, it’s the younger generation has to understand what’s going on.  And, what really kinda, excuse me, ticks me off is, I’d like to see Obamacare rolled back and gotten rid of ‘cause I don’t want my 26-year-old child living in the home anymore.  Does anybody have your 26-year-old child living at home?  Get them the hell out.  You know how I became an empty nester?  I bought another house and moved to it.  My son’s still living in the old house wondering where his parents went.  That’s what you need to do.</p>
<p>But I tell you, up here, because then we all go back, and I would really suggest this, ‘cause we all know the story, but we really have to bring another generation of people in who are going to be paying that 20 percent increase in their care and you really need to sit them in a room, the young generation, and let them listen to a speech my father gave back in 1962 on socialized medicine because he warned us back in 1962 what was gonna happen and, guess what, it happened and we’re all here now with socialized medicine with Obamacare.  My wife earlier this year, it&#8217;s interesting, she had to have rotator cuff surgery and so she went down to have her MRI done and she went for the MRI and they said, well, Mrs. Reagan your insurance, you still haven’t paid the full deductible on your insurance, but the reality of it is that, can you just give us a check for $350.00?  She said why?  She said because we’ll actually make a bigger profit if you give us a check for $350.00 than if we charge your insurance company for the MRI we’re gonna give you.  So my wife wrote a check for 350 bucks, got the MRI and then went and had the shoulder surgery a couple of weeks later and then the outpatient surgery center billed the insurance company $87,000.00 for rotator cuff surgery.  I mean, our system needs help.  I think we all agree to that.  But having socialized medicine is not the answer.</p>
<p>And what I really think about and Tom, maybe you could answer this question, Larry, ‘cause I go out and speak on this, I think that members of Congress, I think the insurance companies, I think the banking industry, I think every major industry in this country, oil and gas, you name it, I think they are scared to death of this administration and what might happen to their industry if in fact they go after the President of the United States of America, and I think we all saw that and see that what happened with the whole IRS scandal.  And they’re absolutely scared to death.  I mean you have an insurance industry today who doesn’t say anything about what’s going on because what do they get?  They got a reinsurance policy.  So they are guaranteed 100 percent of their losses are recovered in the first 2 or 3 years of Obamacare.  They got bought off before they went in the game so when they talk about too big to fail, they’ve now insured them against being too big to fail so we’ll never face that again.  There are so many things that are in fact going on, like one of the best reactions to one of the tweets I sent out &#8212; and by the way, David, are you here, or Michael Finch &#8212; should be #freedomcenter, just to let you know.  One of the biggest reactions I got is one time you were talking about, Tom, about Congress living up to the law that they passed on to us and the tweet that I sent out was “How would you feel if every member of Congress was made to pee in a bottle before and after every vote?”  And if you didn’t pass the pee test, then your vote didn’t count.  I think that’s, I’d like to see that law passed tomorrow.  Because I really think sometimes after they vote, don’t you think, my God would they pass the drug test themselves?  But again, it’s going to take all of us and really staying in touch –</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>I know at least one who would fail.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Reagan: </strong>Yeah.  Yeah.  But it’s really upon us to stay on top of our members of the House, members of the Senate, but also be really educating the youth of America as they come out of that 26-year-old and started having to pay the fees and pay the prices here and with their prices going up.  It’s not getting cheaper and the death panels are there.  They’re all there.  We know that now.  Now it’s a matter of getting it out and we can’t just sit back and say, well, wait a minute, the dominant media is not going to cover it.  No, they’re not gonna cover it.  They’re never gonna cover it.  So, it’s up to us to be screaming from the mountain tops and doing something about it and as I said this morning when I was speaking, you can’t just come to these events, listen to Tom, listen to Larry, listen to David, listen to Mike, listen to Michele Bachmann, listen to Ann Coulter, listen to everybody and then go home and say that was a wonderful time, I had the greatest time of my life at the Breakers, and listen to all these great speakers and go home and do nothing.  You’ve gotta go home and do something.  Because if you go home and do nothing, then Obama wins.  If you go home and do nothing, the left wins.  And that’s what they’re counting on is for you to come to this, go home, and do nothing.  And so through your support of the Freedom Center is one thing, but you also have to be vocal at home.  You have to be involved at home.  And you have to be educational at home.  And if you do that, then we will win the day.  If we don’t do that and we just show up for these conferences, we are going to lose the day and let me tell you, the world cannot afford for America to lose.  My God, where are the Canadians gonna go now for healthcare?  So I’ll turn it back to you, Larry.</p>
<p><strong>Larry Kawa: </strong>So many scandals and lies out there.  It’s hard to pick one that’s really your favorite.  So, just last night I get back to my room and I decide it would be interesting to do another FOIA request before I get into mine briefly.  So I said, they say that the Keystone Pipeline, the President didn’t want to agree to it yet because he was waiting for some research, he’s always waiting for something, waiting for some research to come back so I go on the Department of Energy’s FOIA request, like most people probably do at midnight, go into their Carlsbad Division and I look under the Waste Isolation Pilot Program to complete my FOIA request and it says to complete this you need to have RB Media.  It’s a government subcontractor.  So, I said okay, I go to RB Media, go on rbmediasolutions.com, you’re welcome to go on your phones right now, and go on rbmediasolutions.com, a government subcontractor.  So I’ll read to you what it says on their web site, “Notice,” this is their landing page, “We apologize for the downtime over past several weeks.  Our server was attacked by an Islamic group and we are in the process of getting everything back in order.”  It’s hard not to mention fun stuff like that.  This is a government subcontract.  But in any event, getting back on point, back in March 2013 I spent money on legal fees to make sure that my business, which is an orthodontic business in Boca Raton, was compliant with a law that I didn’t agree with, the Obamacare law.  I might not like it, but I have respect for the Constitution, I’m a law-abiding citizen, so I paid some lawyers to make sure that my business is in compliance with the law.  Being that I have more than the required minimum of 50, I am technically a large employer, it affects me and a few more months go by, July 2, 2013 on his first day of an 8-day-long, $100 million trip that the taxpayer paid for to Africa, as he flees his own country, our Commander in Chief, decides he’s gonna tweet.  He tweets that he is going to wave the employer mandate.  Now that’s a head scratcher.</p>
<p>It says in the law that it shall go into effect January 1, 2014.  How does that happen?  Well, the day goes on and there’s a blog post from the Department of the Treasury, later memorialized by IRS Memorandum 2013-45 standing behind him saying we agree with his tweet; even though it says it nowhere in the law, we’re gonna change it to be January 1, 2015.  Now, it doesn’t say may, it says shall.  I’m not good at a lot of things, but English I’m okay with.  Shall go into effect and now suddenly it’s not.  I want to remind you that the purpose of any type of executive action is only one.  It is to better enforce the existing laws.  Let’s just go back to the basics of the Constitution.  Article 1 says that only Congress can make or change a law.  Article 2 says only the President has an affirmative fiduciary duty to enforce the existing laws.  Therefore, there’s nothing you could do by executive action to better enforce a date of January 1, 2014 by making it a year later making it January 1, 2015.  Now, there’s a question that I often see asked in the news, which I still haven’t seen the right answer to.  The question is, if this president hasn’t done anymore executive orders than any other president, he’s done less than 200, so did George W. Bush, how you gonna claim that he’s a tyrant?  Why is he ruling by executive fiat?  Well, here’s the answer, which I’ve learned from Tom and his group, terrific group, I’ve been educated along the way, it’s because there are other types of executive actions other than executive orders.</p>
<p>If you want to see every president’s executive orders, it’s not hard.  Go on Wikipedia.  Put in the two words and they’ll list them for every president.  However, tweets, blog posts, signing statements, and inter-department memorandums are also executive actions that carry with it a very similar authority.  So, contrary to popular belief, the employer mandate was not waived by executive order.  It was waived by executive action.  Now if you, this is really the kicker, if you added up all of the executive actions that this present president has done compared with other presidents, it blows away everything all the other presidents have done combined.  Just like the amount of increase in the national debt this president has done.  In six years he’s accumulated as much debt as 233 years of the United States of all these other presidents, 43 other presidents.  Well, he’s also broken the record with executive actions, not necessarily executive orders, but they have the same force and effect.  He has poked his finger in the eye of the Constitution and I had had enough and that’s when I called up Tom and the rest of the group at Judicial Watch and they graciously agreed to take the case and defend both me and defend the Constitution and you might say, well, why doesn’t Congress do something?  Well, in order to bring a lawsuit, I want you to bear in mind that the judicial branch under Article 3 of the Constitution only resolves actual disputes or controversies.  They do not step into the legislative system and resolve controversies between the executive branch and the legislative branch.  It’s not like two children are coming to their mom, that’s the courts, and saying come on, he said, she said.  It doesn’t work that way.  You have to have standing.</p>
<p>And with due respect to John Boehner who has said that he is going to bring a case on the employer mandate, I wish him the best of luck at trying to show that he has standing, injury.  Injury is only one of three components of standing.  You also have to show that the cause of your injury is an executive overreach and you have to show remedy.  You have to show that the courts can patch the bleeding by intervening.  My injury is the fact that I spent thousands of dollars of my money to make sure that my business was in compliance with a law that I didn’t agree with and all that I ask of the President is to simply do the same thing that I did.  Obey the law.  But I guess I was asking a little bit too much.  He governs by his mood ring.  Every day he looks at it and, well I would say he would look at what color it is, but like everyone would say, I’m a racist; the color of his mood ring, okay.  So then he decides what the law’s gonna be each day.  Well, when he waived the employer mandate on July 2, 2013, the reason that he brought it up was because he said large employers, like myself, need transition relief.  Nobody asked for it.  I didn’t ask for it.  Never even heard the phrase before he made it up; he’s got some good catchy phrases, he’s a wordsmith, but if you want to give transition relief, don’t give it to large employers, give it to the people that really need it, the average working American with calloused hands.  Waive the individual mandate.  I didn’t hear anything about that.</p>
<p>So, he waives the employer mandate and one question I have about the employer mandate is, how can you both love creating jobs, while you want to punish the job creators?  The liberals have the jargon down.  They say eat the rich, the wealthy, let’s punish them.  Nobody ever got a job from a poor man, right?  So, do you think it makes it easier or harder to create jobs, when you put more bricks in the knapsack of success of those who do so?  So, I think that’s really a message that needs to resonate with the left.  I doubt that they want to cover stuff like that, but if they really want to show the truth, that’s one way.  But, in terms of their ability to help get the truth out, let’s just say, I don’t want to say that they lie, but they’re a little bit challenged in that respect.  I think that they should be more willing to get out stuff like what Judicial Watch does, like what Michael Reagan talks about when he goes around the country speaking, and explain stuff like this, and understand why, when you hear the President say, I am going to do everything to make things a better America, and if Congress won’t agree with me, I’m going to go ahead, as a Congress of one, and just march forward and do it alone, like some sort of renegade James-Dean version of Congress.  That’s not how the Constitution was written.  If you want to, oh I love you, too, Mike.  Thank you.  That was very kind of you.  I really appreciate that.  And I can’t marry you.  I’m already married, come on.  Not in this state.  That was a very sweet thing, but in any event, there is a lot of stuff like that that goes on.</p>
<p>And I also want to let you know there’s another interesting thing that you’ll see, and I know I’ve got to be brief.  The Department of Defense was blamed by the President for having no strategy on ISIS.  You may remember that he said that the reason he had no strategy on ISIS is because he was waiting for options and direction from the Department of Defense, and they just never got back to him on it.  So, listen, stuff happens.  You get busy, right?  So I said, you know what?  I’m walking by my Jeep.  I have a bumper sticker on it and it says on the back, what would Reagan do?  There’s a picture of your dad, not you, Michael.  So, I said he would trust, but verify.  So, I sent that on my iPhone and I do a Freedom of Information Act request, requesting for all communications between the Executive Branch and the Department of Defense.  Somebody should ask, what did you say?  There’s a lot of stuff going on with this ISIS thing, you might have heard about.  Normally, these things take about a year, to a year and a half to get back; 8 weeks later I get a response from the Chief of the Pentagon, FOIA Division, and I thought Christmas came early.  I mean, it basically said that we have gone &#8212; and by the way if you want to see it, I have a catchy little web site I have.  Fortunately, the President let it lapse.  It was obamaforpresident.org, from the same great minds &#8212; feel free to go on your iPhones now and check it, if you want &#8212; that had healthcare.gov.  They let his main campaign web site lapse, so I took it and I posted this response, signed by &#8212; oh, this is like the Ginsu.  Don’t answer yet.  I’ve also got votehilary.com and hilaryforpresident.com.  Yes, for real.  Go on it.  You’ll see videos of me.  Okay?  Who says we don’t have social media?  So, I posted this response, signed by the Chief of the Pentagon’s FOIA Division.  So, I call him up.  I say, you know, I thought Christmas came early.  I mean, this basically nails the President to the cross.  It says there is absolutely no communication, at all, between the Department of Defense and the Executive Branch.  I said am I missing something?  This just sounds too good to be true, and Hannity covered this last Thursday, by the way.  I think you’ll hear more about it.  It sounds too good to be true.  Could there be classified documents that are missing?  He says no.  He says we actually took it upon ourselves to expand the scope of your request, something they never do, and we searched for ISIS strategy, ISIL strategy, Iraq strategy and Syria strategy, not only with the Executive Branch, like you asked, but we also searched the entire National Security Council.  I said who’s we?  He says me.  I looked through every one of the emails for Secretary of State John Kerry and his deputy, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and her deputy.  I went through Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his deputy, Robert Work.  There was nothing.  I went through CENCOM Central Command and all of their nine combatant command divisions, nothing at all.  He goes, the only thing that we were more surprised about, than having zero results, is thinking that you are the only one that asked.  So, I said well maybe this time, you got lucky.  So, in closing, I don’t want to jeopardize my friendship with Mike.  I know you guys are on a short runway here.  I’m going to skip Q&amp;A, if that’s okay with Mike, and thank you guys for your time.  Please visit the web site.  You’ll see everything else about what we’re doing.  Enjoy the rest of your day.</p>
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		<title>An Ominous Omnibus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mammoth spending bill would fund amnesty and Obamacare --- and could be voted on today.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/boehner-mcconnell.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247246" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/boehner-mcconnell-407x350.png" alt="boehner-mcconnell" width="329" height="283" /></a>A mammoth spending bill aimed at preventing a repeat of the last government shutdown is coming under heavy fire from conservative groups for green-lighting President Obama&#8217;s executive immigration amnesty and continuing to fund Obamacare.</p>
<p>Republicans in Congress are inexplicably rushing through a catch-all $1 trillion-plus spending bill to prevent the government from running out of money at midnight tonight. The measure, which would keep the government funded through the end of the federal fiscal year (Sept. 30, 2015), is being called a <i>cromnibus</i>, which is a portmanteau of <i>CR</i>, as in continuing resolution, and <i>omnibus</i>, as in omnibus legislation.</p>
<p>The measure contains hundreds of policy provisions including a new prohibition on the legalization of marijuana in the District of Columbia and new funding to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Ebola virus in West Africa. It would continue funding two wildly unpopular Obama initiatives, Obamacare and President Obama&#8217;s extra-legal immigration amnesty. The Department of Homeland Security would be funded only for a few months, allowing lawmakers to delay a fight over amnesty until springtime.</p>
<p>&#8220;Importantly, the bill does nothing to block President Obama&#8217;s unilateral, unlawful actions which include granting quasi-legal status, work permits and Social Security numbers to those who are in the country illegally,&#8221; said Heritage Action for America spokesman Dan Holler.</p>
<p>&#8220;I suppose we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that it&#8217;s taken the Republicans all of 35 days to drop that ball in spectacularly disappointing fashion,&#8221; Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots said in a statement. &#8220;Make no mistake, this bill DOES fund Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty, and so much more.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure makes sure that illegal aliens benefiting from Obama&#8217;s amnesty receive Social Security benefits and spends almost $1 billion to help illegals integrate into communities across the country. It also blows apart the budgetary ceilings agreed upon by House Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).</p>
<p>There is, of course, no reason for Republicans to pass in a frenzied rush an all-encompassing bill funding almost all of the federal government. They could easily draft a stopgap spending bill to carry them over to January when Republicans will control both chambers of Congress and have greater bargaining power in negotiations with President Obama.</p>
<p>But conservative critics say House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have ulterior motives. Using the boogeyman of an impending government shutdown to keep lawmakers in line, the GOP leadership has been generating a false sense of urgency in order to get the omnibus legislation through. Boehner and McConnell, they say, have no intention of repealing Obamacare, so they are kicking the can into 2015.</p>
<p>Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.</p>
<p>The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans’ historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.</p>
<p>Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march. On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning 54 seats. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 246 out of 435 seats.</p>
<p>Opposition to the spending measure has grown steadily since the bill was unveiled Tuesday night but Republican leadership in the House says it is confident it can get the bill passed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 10 grassroots conservative groups have <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/12/grassroots-revolt-10-conservative-groups-call-for-boehner-mcconnell-to-resign/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">signed a letter</span></a> demanding that Boehner and McConnell be removed from their posts for collaborating with the president on amnestying 5 million illegal aliens.</p>
<p>William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, said the pending bill betrays the values held by more than 70 percent of the people who cast ballots in the congressional elections last month.</p>
<p>“They’re mocking the public, and it’s a huge deception. We can’t allow that deception to prevail. What we need right now is, we need the phones ringing off the hook,” said Gheen. “Word in D.C. is Boehner is hell-bent on getting his plan through to help Obama with the budget, and American citizens out there now have less than 48 hours to respond and take action to change that.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Christmas has come early for the big spenders in Congress who have been experiencing long-term withdrawal from the earmark ban,&#8221; said Andy Roth, vice president of government affairs at the Club for Growth (a group that did not sign the letter). &#8220;This 1,603-page bill provides a &#8216;fix&#8217; for these jonesing politicians who carry water for their special interest buddies.&#8221;</p>
<p>A final vote on the spending legislation could come today.</p>
<p>Members of organized labor have come out against the bill. Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa Jr. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/10/BLOOD-IN-THE-WATER-TEAMSTERS-JIMMY-HOFFA-JR-TO-CONGRESS-KILL-THE-OMNIBUS-BILL"><span style="color: #0433ff;">railed</span></a> against the measure because it &#8220;will slash the pensions of thousands of retirees who worked years for a pension that they thought would provide them financial security in their retirement years. That promise is now busted.”</p>
<p>“To add insult to injury, this Omnibus bill compromises highway safety by rolling back Hours-of-Service regulations, allowing truck drivers to work more than 80 hours per week – twice the normal 40-hour work week,” Hoffa added.</p>
<p>Yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed reservations about the measure. “Once more, Republicans are working to stack the deck for the special interests against everyone else,” Pelosi said. She continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>Buried in the more than 1,600 pages of the omnibus package Republicans posted in the dead of night are provisions to put hard-working taxpayers back on the hook for Wall Street’s riskiest behavior. This provision, allowing big banks to gamble with money insured by the FDIC, opens the door to another taxpayer-funded bailout of big banks – forcing middle class families to bear the burden of Wall Street’s mistakes.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), normally a hyper-partisan member of the Democratic leadership, now opposes the bill. He is opposed to the proposed increases in caps for individual donors in elections that was slipped into the omnibus legislation.</p>
<p>Some of the more extreme left-wing members of Congress such as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/warren-leads-liberal-democrats-rebellion-over-provisions-in-1-trillion-spending-bill/2014/12/10/c5c915e4-80b5-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are opposed</span></a> to the omnibus for their own ideological reasons.</p>
<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), currently the fringe-left favorite for the 2016 presidential nod, called the bill &#8220;the worst of government for the rich and powerful.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure would ease some restrictions on derivatives trading which Warren says would help Wall Street and big banks. On the Senate floor she offered a self-serving version of history, saying the bill “would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system.”</p>
<p>“These are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs,” she said, ignoring the role that meddlesome regulations and left-wing public policies played in inflating the mortgage bubble that deflated around that time.</p>
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		<title>Downing Street Gruber</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the ObamaCare architect's statements are worse than the Downing Street memo.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jonathan-gruber-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-245647" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jonathan-gruber-1.jpg" alt="jonathan-gruber-1" width="240" height="240" /></a>Isn&#8217;t Jonathan Gruber worse than the Downing Street memo?</p>
<p>Gruber, who was paid half a million dollars to design Obamacare, is on tape bragging about how the Democrats relied on &#8220;the stupidity of the American voter&#8221; to pass that law. Which, ironically, was sort of a stupid thing to say on camera.</p>
<p>By now there are so many tapes of Gruber explaining how Obamacare fooled stupid Americans that they&#8217;re being released as a boxed set in time for Christmas.</p>
<p>Gruber, who will hereafter be known as &#8220;the architect of Obamacare,&#8221; said:</p>
<p>&#8220;If you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in &#8212; if you made it explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. &#8230; Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Downing Street memo consisted of minutes from a July 2002 meeting of British labor, defense and intelligence officials during the run-up to the Iraq War, in which the MI6 head, Richard Dearlove, reportedly said that &#8220;Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.&#8221;</p>
<p>These notes from a British cabinet meeting were called the smoking gun of Bush&#8217;s lying his way into war.</p>
<p>The Downing Street memo was written about in dozens of New York Times articles &#8212; including six hysterical Frank Rich op-eds. It has been mentioned more than a hundred times in The Washington Post. It was covered on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Nightline,&#8221; by George Stephanopoulos on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; &#8212; even on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show. It was discussed nightly on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann covered it like it was Kim Kardashian and he was the E! Network.</p>
<p>By contrast, this week, NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd dismissed the Gruber tapes as &#8220;a political story&#8221; and The New York Times said of Gruber: &#8220;In truth, his role was limited.&#8221; (NYT, March 28, 2012: &#8220;Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, (then) the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation.&#8221;)</p>
<p>But when the Downing Street memo came out, conservatives weren&#8217;t allowed to say, Yeah, well, the British memo writer didn&#8217;t have anything to do with the president&#8217;s decision to go to war &#8212; even though that guy really didn&#8217;t have anything to do with it.</p>
<p>Those weren&#8217;t Tony Blair&#8217;s notes. They were a secretary&#8217;s interpretation of the MI6 chief&#8217;s interpretation of the Bush administration&#8217;s argument to the United Nations. It&#8217;s like a movie review, written by someone who knew someone who had seen the movie.</p>
<p>The memo writer also wasn&#8217;t being paid $400,000 by the Bush administration to make Iraq War policy. Jonathan Gruber was paid that much &#8212; plus another several million from the states &#8212; to design Obamacare.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t pay a half-million dollars to someone who is only peripherally involved in making policy. (Unless we&#8217;re talking about Obama himself.)</p>
<p>There was no tape of Bush and Blair running around saying: Trust this guy &#8212; the memo writer is our guide! But that&#8217;s what Obama, Nancy Pelosi, then-Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats said about Gruber.</p>
<p>&#8211; Kerry on Oct. 1, 2009: &#8220;(Gruber) has been our guide on a lot of this &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Pelosi on Nov. 5, 2009: &#8220;Our bill brings down rates &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if you have seen Jonathan Gruber&#8217;s MIT analysis &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Obama&#8217;s Organizing for Action website, until the tapes surfaced: &#8220;Jon Gruber, who helped write Obamacare &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Gruber had more than a dozen meetings at the White House during the drafting of Obamacare. The Downing Street memo writer had no meetings at the Bush White House. Even the guy he was quoting had only one.</p>
<p>The outrage over the Downing Street memo concerned the claim &#8212; in the memo writer&#8217;s words &#8212; that the intelligence was being &#8220;fixed&#8221; around a policy. Although a number of commentators claimed that the British meaning of &#8220;fixed&#8221; is more like &#8220;arranged,&#8221; let&#8217;s assume &#8220;fixed&#8221; implies trickery.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s still one word! Gruber has given six different speeches rambling at length about how Obamacare was intended to deceive &#8220;stupid&#8221; voters.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t say the Downing Street memo was a totally legitimate news story, but that the Gruber tapes are meaningless.</p>
<p>Ninety-nine percent of Americans were utterly unaffected by the invasion of Iraq &#8212; other than to be made safer, until Obama threw our victory away. Every American is affected by Obamacare.</p>
<p>The bald-faced lies told to pass Obamacare expose not only that law, but all Democratic economic claims. When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won&#8217;t pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/car.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245541" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/car-450x298.jpg" alt="James Carville" width="287" height="190" /></a>It wasn’t all that long ago that the Democrats were predicting the end of the Republican Party.</p>
<p>With the rise of Obama, James Carville began peddling a new book “<em>40 More Years</em>” promising that the Dems would rule for generations.</p>
<p>Just this year Carville predicted that the Republican Party would become extinct if it lost to Hillary Clinton. But it was the Democratic Party that was going extinct in Carville’s own backyard.</p>
<p>Republicans began winning Senate seats in Louisiana for the first time in a century in just the last ten years. If Landrieu loses, then both of the Louisiana’s Senate seats will be unprecedentedly held by Republicans.</p>
<p>And Louisiana isn’t an outlier. Bill Clinton couldn’t stop Arkansas from going full Republican with two Republican senators and a full suite of Republican representatives for the first time in history. That’s all the more amazing in a state that only had two Republican senators before that for over a century.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party is going extinct in places like Louisiana, Arkansas and West Virginia. It’s vanishing because the working class White Democrat is becoming extinct.</p>
<p>Even Carville hedged his bets while predicting the end of the Republican Party by joining FOX News.</p>
<p>A generation ago, white Democrats outnumbered white Republicans. Today it’s the other way around. Under Obama, barely a quarter of white people still identify as Democrats.</p>
<p>Republicans didn’t just win a few elections. They swept across entire legislatures in western and southern states. They took state senates and governorships in places like New York and Illinois. It’s not that Republicans had a particularly compelling message, some did and some didn’t, but that Democrats had assumed that enough white voters would continue showing up to prop up their rainbow coalition.</p>
<p>They were wrong.</p>
<p>The latest Pew poll shows that 74 percent of Democrats support ObamaCare, but only 29 percent of white respondents do. The Democratic Party is becoming a party without white people. Under Obama, the Democratic disadvantage among white voters doubled without any corresponding gains among minority voters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Republicans increased their share of white voters. And that’s only telling part of the story.</p>
<p>The nation’s largest party is “none of the above”. Independents began to decisively outnumber both parties under Obama. Hispanic voters are increasingly identifying as independents. So are white men.</p>
<p>And though the independents come from both parties, they increasingly swing Republican in key races.</p>
<p>The Democratic model depended on the combination of an overwhelming minority vote combined with a second place showing in the white vote. That model may no longer be feasible, especially in states with a shortage of unemployed white hipsters with PhDs and protest signs who know all the latest social warrior mumbo jumbo but can’t change a flat tire.</p>
<p>The Democrats had to bet on turnout and changing demographics to salvage the situation. They played up racial tensions to increase turnout and championed open borders to shift demographics and those tactics only deepened their problems with white voters.</p>
<p>Tribalism helped Obama win a second term, but it didn’t fix the underlying flaw in the Democratic model. And it actually worsened the situation. The more the Democrats sounded racially divisive notes, the more they alienated white voters, not just by abusing them, but by ignoring their concerns.</p>
<p>ObamaCare became emblematic of a party that tuned out what used to be its base. And so its base left forcing the Democrats to discover that they couldn’t actually win without white voters.</p>
<p>Republican congressional candidates won 64 percent of white working class voters. Landrieu won just 18 percent of the white vote; 22 percent among white women and 15 percent among white men. That’s less than the amount taken by a second Republican candidate in the race, Rob Maness.</p>
<p>Those numbers alone indicate why the Democrats won’t put any real money behind her. If Landrieu can’t even compete for the white vote, then there’s no reason to waste good money on her.</p>
<p>Mark Pryor won only 31 percent of white voters. Nunn won 23 percent of white voters. The Dems didn’t do this badly everywhere, but where they lost it was usually because the white vote sharply tilted away from them enough to offset their overwhelming minority percentages.</p>
<p>The Democrats have a white voter problem. The party is betting that it won’t outlast Obama because it confused its own propaganda with reality and decided that white voters hate Obama because he’s black.</p>
<p>It was never Obama’s race that was the problem. It was the Democratic Party’s embrace of leftist radicalism at the national level while waging identity politics wars along the lines of race and gender.</p>
<p>Republicans don’t have a problem with black people. Democrats do have a problem with white people.</p>
<p>The party is now under the sway of an elitist class of white leftists for whom “white people” is an insult, not a group of voters. And by “white people” they mean the sort of voters who conclusively tossed them out in West Virginia, Nevada and Arkansas.</p>
<p>The elitists of the new Democratic Party envision themselves as the white protectors and organizers of a minority country whose property and rights they will redistribute as they see fit in a new Socialist order. There is absolutely nothing in this creepy little vision that appeals to anyone except the grubby Grubers frustrated at having to work so hard to dupe the insufficiently stupid American voters who won’t just let them play with their health care toys without insisting on tediously voting against higher taxes.</p>
<p>It’s this elite that steadily began alienating white voters with its policies. The situation became critical under Obama not because of his race, but because he fully endorsed their insane power grab.</p>
<p>Now the Democrats are hoping that Hillary Clinton can save their party, but first she has to decide who she is. Hillary has tried to play up racial appeals to white voters before overcorrecting and going the other way. At times she sounds like she wants to appeal to working class voters and at other times she returns to her native element pushing the policy toys of the technocracy.</p>
<p>Instead of the Democratic Party’s Great White Hope, Hillary more closely resembles Mary Landrieu veering between accusations of racism and support for the Keystone pipeline. The left’s attacks on Landrieu for supporting the pipeline only highlight the impossible dilemma of any Democrat trying to run to the right of Obama and Nancy Pelosi. They have to either abandon their voters or their party.</p>
<p>Unlike European parties, American politicians were supposed to put loyalty to their constituents ahead of loyalty to their party. The Democratic Party put its own politicians in the impossible position of being defined by a centralized party seeking to eliminate anything reeking of conservatism while expecting them to win in conservative parts of the country. The Dems didn’t lose. They committed suicide.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that it has alienated all white voters who aren’t on the left and its botched programs like ObamaCare are even beginning to alienate minority voters. Minority support for ObamaCare has hit a new low. Finding white support for ObamaCare requires a microscope.</p>
<p>But the Democratic Party can’t change. It has become dependent on a small donor class of men like Bloomberg, Soros and Steyer whose ad buys and think tanks dictate their agenda. To win, Hillary, Biden and any other candidate must first win over billionaires whose priorities of gun control, no pipeline and lots of big government are exactly the things that have pushed the Democratic Party to the edge.</p>
<p>James Carville was half-right about the 2016 election. If Hillary doesn’t win it, one of the big two parties may go extinct. But it won’t be the Republicans.</p>
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		<title>Only 29% of Whites for ObamaCare, Minority Support Falls to New Low</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Cholera. New Coke. A snake in a mailbox. All these things are more popular than ObamaCare. <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/179426/new-enrollment-period-starts-aca-approval.aspx">At least among white people</a>.</p>
<p>ObamaCare&#8217;s approval ratings have hit a new low, down to 29 percent among white people from 32 percent and down to 56 percent among minorities from 62 percent. That is moving dangerously into evens territory.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the first time non-white support has fallen below 60 percent and indicates that the lack of support is due to experience and is penetrating even Obama&#8217;s own base.</p>
<p>There is essentially no white support for ObamaCare left. Independents have backed further away from ObamaCare. Independent support for ObamaCare is down to 33 percent from 39 percent.</p>
<p>ObamaCare is no longer competitive among independents.</p>
<p>There is actually a small uptick of support for ObamaCare among Democrats, going from 73 to 74 percent. This says more about party rigidity and the departure of Democrats from the party. When national opposition is growing while party support increases, that means the party is being hollowed out.</p>
<p>Democrats know it and they&#8217;re panicking badly.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;I Have to Admit, as a Supporter, Obamacare was Built on a Foundation of Lies.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>But at least it was built out of the best dishonest bricks that a billion dollars could buy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamacare-architect-obamacare-exploited-lack-of-economic-understanding-of-american-voter/">Gruber&#8217;s videos have, if nothing else</a>, have gotten some liberals to begin backing slowly away from ObamaCare. This latest comes from Ron Fournier at the National Journal.</p>
<blockquote><p>He called you stupid. He admitted that the White House lied to you. Its officials lied to all of us—Republicans, Democrats, and independents; rich and poor; white and brown; men and women.</p>
<p>Liberals should be the angriest. Not only were they personally deceived, but the administration&#8217;s dishonest approach to health care reform has helped make Obamacare unpopular while undermining the public&#8217;s faith in an activist government. A double blow to progressives.</p></blockquote>
<p>And a useful reminder to the rest of us what progs actually are.</p>
<blockquote><p>And so even I have to admit, as a supporter, that Obamacare was built and sold on a foundation of lies. No way around it, unless you&#8217;re willing to accept a political system that colors its lies—the reds, the whites, and the blues.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/11/13/gruber_s_lies_force_ron_fournier_to_take_off_his_rose_colored_glasses">Rush Limbaugh commented.</a>..</p>
<blockquote><p>It sounds to me like what Gruber actually is saying, they had to lie because of the stupidity of the media.  They had to lie so as not to blow up the media bubble that they had created.  The media was all-in.  The media was thinking it&#8217;s the greatest thing since sliced bread. The media and the left thought it was compassion central, gonna take care of the poor and the downtrodden, the hungry and the thirsty.  And if the truth had come out&#8230; look at Fournier&#8217;s reaction today.  What if Fournier had this reaction in 2009?  What if others in the media had this reaction they had yesterday and today in 2009?</p>
<p>What if in 2009 the media: &#8220;Wait a minute, you guys are lying to us&#8221;?</p></blockquote>
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		<title>ObamaCare is Killing People in Rural America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Gotta get rid of those bitter clingers somehow. Who needs death panels, when you can just eliminate hospitals. Next time a liberal tells you that ObamaCare makes medical care more affordable, ask him how anyone is supposed to afford it <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/11/12/rural-hospital-closings-federal-reimbursement-medicaid-aca/18532471/">when they can&#8217;t even reach it.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Stewart-Webster Hospital had only 25 beds when it still treated patients. The rural hospital served this small town of 1,400 residents and those in the surrounding farms and crossroads for more than six decades.</p>
<p>But since the hospital closed in the spring of last year, many of those in need have to travel up to 40 miles to other hospitals. That&#8217;s roughly the same distance it takes to get from Times Square to Greenwich, Conn., or from the White House to Baltimore, or from downtown San Francisco to San Jose.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of 2010, 43 rural hospitals — with a total of more than 1,500 beds — have closed, according to data from the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. The pace of closures has quickened: from 3 in 2010 to 13 in 2013, and 12 already this year. Georgia alone has lost five rural hospitals since 2012, and at least six more are teetering on the brink of collapse. Each of the state&#8217;s closed hospitals served about 10,000 people — a lot for remaining area hospitals to absorb.</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s behind it? It begins with an O and ends with an A.</p>
<blockquote><p>Critics say the ACA is also accelerating the demise of rural outposts that cater to many of society&#8217;s most vulnerable. These hospitals treat some of the sickest and poorest patients — those least aware of how to stay healthy. Hospital officials contend that the law&#8217;s penalties for having to re-admit patients soon after they&#8217;re released are impossible to avoid and create a crushing burden.</p>
<p>&#8220;The stand-alone, community hospital is going the way of the dinosaur,&#8221; says Angela Mattie, chairwoman of the health care management and organizational leadership department at Connecticut&#8217;s Quinnipiac University, known for its public opinion surveys on issues including public health.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that just happens to benefit some of the big health corps that supported ObamaCare. One of those little corrupt coincidences.</p>
<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a &#8220;golden hour&#8221; after heart attacks, trauma and stroke in which treatment is needed to prevent loss of heart muscle and brain tissue, says Janis Orlowski, chief medical officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges.</p>
<p>With just two ambulances, which are often tied up making the average 90-mile round trip to the nearest hospital, &#8220;We&#8217;re pretty much shot around here with the golden hour,&#8221; says Ed Lynch, Stewart County&#8217;s director of emergency medical services.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s how you kill people while promising that you&#8217;re helping them.</p>
<blockquote><p>Peanut and cotton farmer Buren &#8220;Bill&#8221; Jones, 52, died of a heart attack a month after Stewart-Webster closed. His family had to wait about 15 minutes for an ambulance to take him to a hospital 22 miles away, where doctors couldn&#8217;t revive him. The closed hospital was 9 miles from his house, a distance his wife or daughter — who performed CPR on him at home — might have driven.</p></blockquote>
<p>Another dead white man who won&#8217;t be voting anymore. Mission accomplished.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glimpse into the true heart of the Left.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Jonathan-Gruber-MSNBC-interview.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245193" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Jonathan-Gruber-MSNBC-interview.jpg" alt="Jonathan-Gruber-MSNBC-interview" width="329" height="269" /></a>Professor Jonathan Gruber of MIT, who designed the Affordable Care Act, used to be the symbol of the Democrats’ technocratic bona fides, and an example of how big government with its “scientific” experts can solve social and economic problems from health care to a warming planet. Yet a recently publicized video of remarks he made at a panel in 2013, along with 2 other videos in the same vein, has now made him the poster child of the elitist progressives’ contempt for the American people, and their sacrifice of prudence and reason to raw political power.</p>
<p>In the video Gruber explains the spin and lies the Dems used to give cover to their Congressmen so they could vote for Obamacare. Especially important was avoiding the “t-word.” So, Gruber crows on the video, “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.” He also explained how the bills’ writers covered up the obvious redistributionist core of the legislation, which to work has to take money from the healthy young to pay for health care for the sick and old. “If you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in — you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #000000;">Then this handsomely paid consultant to the “most transparent administration in history” revealed the foundational contempt progressives have for the “people” whose champions they claim to be: </span>“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.” As David Horowitz tweeted, “<span style="color: #202327;">Progressive totalitarianism: We know what&#8217;s good for you and will lie, cheat and then compel you to agree with us.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #202327;">This modern version of the Platonic “guardians,” who possess superior knowledge but who must camouflage their tyrannical rule with lies, is now over 100 years old, and has become deeply embedded in our politics. It was the fundamental assumption of American Progressivism, which argued that modern technology and social change had rendered the old constitutional order a dangerous relic. The native common sense and wisdom of ordinary people to know their own interests and pursue them primarily at the local and state levels were now replaced by the allegedly scientific knowledge of “experts,” who alone could solve the problems created by the modern world. As Progressive Theodore Roosevelt said in 1901, the “very serious social problems” confronting the nation could no longer be solved by “the old laws, and the old customs,” especially the power given to state governments and laws, which “are no longer sufficient.” Woodrow Wilson agreed, complaining in 1913 that “the laws of this country have not kept up with the change” of economic and political circumstances. To achieve “social justice” and eliminate income inequality, the “laws,” particularly the Constitution, had to change.</p>
<p style="color: #202327;">But to effect such change, the old order of conflicting and balancing “passions and interests,” as James Madison described the political order, had to be transformed in order to create a more collectivist people united in their “collective purpose” to achieve a “vigorous social program,” particularly the redistribution of property. As Progressive Frank Johnson Goodnow wrote ominously in 1916, “Changed conditions . . . must bring in their train different conceptions of private rights if society is to be advantageously carried on.” Individual rights, especially property rights, “may become a menace when social rather than individual efficiency is the necessary prerequisite of progress. For social efficiency probably owes more to the common realization of social duties than to the general insistence on privileges based on individual private rights.”</p>
<p>In practical terms, these goals of “social efficiency” and “social duties” required more power centralized in the federal government and executive at the expense of the states and the people. The most important Progressive theorist, Herbert Croly, wrote in 1909, “Under existing conditions and simply as a matter of expediency, the national advance of the American democracy does demand an increasing amount of centralized action and responsibility.” Woodrow Wilson agreed, and envisioned a cadre of elites to address the national “cares and responsibilities which will require not a little wisdom, knowledge, and experience,” as he wrote in his 1887 essay “The Study of Administration.” As such, administrative power lies beyond politics, and should be insulated from the machinery of participatory government. And much like today’s progressives, Wilson’s ideas were based on contempt for the people who lack this specialized knowledge and so cannot be trusted with the power to run their own lives. Thus Wilson envisioned federal administrative bureaucracies “of skilled, economical administration” comprising the “hundred who are wise” empowered to guide the thousands who are “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn, or foolish.”</p>
<p style="color: #202327;">Sound familiar? From these early Progressive theorists to MIT Professor Gruber and the Democrats the line is direct, based on the same flawed and illiberal assumptions. The masses cannot be allowed, as envisioned by the Constitution, the autonomy to pursue their interests through local and state governments closest to them, their conflicts regulated by the balance of power, mixed government, and federalism, which prevent any one faction from amassing enough power to tyrannize the rest. Rather, administrative elites must be empowered to override those many interests in order to “solve problems” and achieve “social justice.” This in turn means growing the size and scope of the federal government into the bloated Leviathan it is today.</p>
<p style="color: #202327;">But as Wilson complained, <span style="color: #272727;">“The bulk of mankind is rigidly unphilosophical, and nowadays the bulk of mankind votes.”</span>  Since the citizens still have the vote and can exercise it every 2 years, they must be tricked into doing the “right thing,” as defined by the technocratic elite. One of the most chilling statements by an American president was made by Woodrow Wilson in his essay on administration: “Whoever would effect a change in modern constitutional government must first educate his fellow-citizens to <i>want</i> some change. That done, he must persuade them to want the particular change he wants. He must first make public opinion willing to listen and then see to it that it listen to the right things. He must stir it up to search for an opinion, and then manage to put the right opinion in its way.” What else has “income inequality,” “war on women,” “you didn’t build that,” and all the other slogans of this administration been other than the attempt to get the voters to “listen to the right things” and form a “right opinion”? Listen again to Wilson, from his essay “Leaders of Men”: “<span style="color: #040404;">Only a very gross substance of concrete conception can make any impression on the minds of the masses; they must get their ideas very absolutely put, and are much readier to receive a half-truth which they can promptly understand than a whole truth which has too many sides to be seen all at once.” Is this not the spirit of Professor Gruber’s remarks </span><span style="color: #000000;">on his “very clever basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter” in designing the Obamacare legislation?</span></p>
<p style="color: #202327;">The politics of today’s progressives all have their roots in the old Progressive assumptions––that enlightened elites know better than the people what is good for them, and that the people, being such unenlightened clods, need to be manipulated and lied to for their own good. Most important, the freedom and autonomy of the people must be limited by intrusive federal agencies and regulations in order for these utopian goals to be achieved.</p>
<p style="color: #202327;">Or to put it in other terms, this set of progressive beliefs––which we have seen acted on for the last six years by the president and practically every government agency––is totalitarian at its core. Not the brutal despotism of Italian fascism or Soviet communism or German Nazism, but Tocqueville’s “soft despotism,” the kinder, gentler Leviathan which undermines self-reliance and self-government by taking responsibility for the people’s comfort and happiness, and financing its largess by the redistribution of property. But no matter how comfortable in the short-term, such a condition is nothing other than servitude. And as Tocqueville warns, “No one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.”</p>
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		<title>Howard Dean: ObamaCare Created by &#8220;Elitists&#8221; Who Don&#8217;t Understand Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/howard-dean-obamacare-created-by-elitists-who-dont-fundamentally-understand-the-american-people/"> that Howard Dean</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean gave an excoriating critique of his own party’s key piece of legislation saying the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, was “put together by a bunch of elitists” who “don’t fundamentally understand the American people.”</p>
<p>Dean said was shocked that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said “the stupidity of the American voter” was a “political advantage” in passing Obamacare in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday.</p>
<p>“The problem is not that he said it–the problem is that he thinks it,” Dean said. “The core problem under the damn law is it was put together by a bunch of elitists who don’t fundamentally understand the American people. That’s what the problem is.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s no accident that Howard Dean suddenly sounds like a Tea Party member. Even though most of us remember him from his leftward campaign and helping put into place the Obama infrastructure that turned the country into a nightmare, he&#8217;s actually been a savvy political opportunist who turns right or left depending on which way the wind is blowing.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s set aside the absurdity of Howard Dean calling anyone an elitist. Is this a sign that Blue State establishment Dems are willing to abandon ObamaCare?</p>
<p>Now don&#8217;t confuse that with abandoning socialized medicine. That&#8217;s obviously not going to happen. But Obama&#8217;s popularity is in the toilet. The Republicans control the Senate and can further wipe the board with Dems in conservative areas using unpopular parts of ObamaCare as a cudgel. But at the same time they&#8217;re willing to be drawn to the dark side for their own &#8220;replacement&#8221; for ObamaCare.</p>
<p>It seems to me that Howard Dean is opening the door to tearing down ObamaCare as the work of out of touch elitists and rebuilding it under a more open brand with Republicans.</p>
<p>And if you think that there aren&#8217;t Republicans who wouldn&#8217;t jump on it, you aren&#8217;t paying attention.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Howard Dean is selling himself as the man who understands the new reality that a shellshocked Democratic Party has to function in. And that reality includes dismantling and rebranding ObamaCare in order to make a comeback.</p>
<p>This obviously isn&#8217;t good news for us, but it&#8217;s important to track the progress of this thing.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Architect Doubles Down: &#8220;The American People are Too Stupid to Understand the Difference.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that the architect of something as abusive and dehumanizing as ObamaCare would have contempt for the people he abuses.</p>
<p>And Gruber is a man with a great deal of contempt for Americans. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamacare-architect-we-fooled-people-into-thinking-obamacare-wasnt-a-tax-because-of-the-stupidity-of-the-american-voter/">He can hardly open his mouth without revealing</a> how much he despises the people whose lives he ruined.</p>
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<blockquote><p>A key architect of Obamacare has been caught openly boasting about taking advantage of, what he calls, “the stupidity of the American voter.”</p>
<p>In the midst of his explanation, Gruber bragged about the multiple deceptions the Obama White House perpetrated on the American people:</p>
<p>&#8220;If you had a law which made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get the thing to pass.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Gruber went on MSNBC to explain to Mia Farrow&#8217;s idiot son that he really didn&#8217;t mean to call all those stupid Americans, stupid. But then F<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/12/another-tape-surfaces-obamacare-architect-calling-american-people-stupid/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn">OX News played a tape in which he does it again</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Referring to the so-called &#8220;Cadillac tax&#8221; on high-end health plans, he said: &#8220;They proposed it and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gruber specifically was referring to the way the &#8220;Cadillac tax&#8221; was designed &#8212; he touted their plan to, instead of taxing policy holders, tax the insurance companies that offered them. He suggested that taxing individuals would have been politically unpalatable, but taxing the companies worked because Americans didn&#8217;t understand the difference.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s practically the Romney campaign theme. Obama&#8217;s reelection in a way proved Gruber&#8217;s point. People didn&#8217;t understand that the buck stopped with them.</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Terrorist and Former ObamaCare Worker Found Guilty of Immigration Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University student killer Rasmieh Odeh faces jail and deportation -- but remains a leftist hero.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1-408x350.jpg" alt="Odeh1" width="324" height="278" /></a>The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they do grind, and convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmieh Yousef Odeh learned that the hard way on November 10 when a Detroit jury <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-palestinian-terrorist-found-guilty-in-us-immigration-case/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found her guilty</span></a> of committing immigration fraud. She faces up to 10 years in a federal penitentiary and deportation following her incarceration.</p>
<p>The story began on Friday, February 21, 1969 when two unsuspecting Israeli university students, Leon Kaner, 21, and Edward Jaffe, 22, stopped at a Jerusalem supermarket to pick up some last minute provisions for a hike the two were planning to take. They never made it and were blown to bits by a bomb placed in coffee cans on a shelf. Nine others were injured in the blast. Jaffe and Kaner, as well as the nine injured civilians, were targeted for no other reason other than the fact that they were Jews with the temerity to live in their ancestral land.</p>
<p>A second bomb, timed to go off just as first responders arrived, was diffused by security forces. A third bomb placed near the British consulate office in Jerusalem was also discovered and destroyed in a controlled detonation, though another bomb placed near the same vicinity some days later did manage to cause structural damage.</p>
<p>The terrorists had chosen Friday to carry out their act of depravity because they knew the supermarket would be packed with civilians shopping for the upcoming Sabbath. It was their intent to cause a bloodbath and inflict maximum civilian casualties. In a <a href="http://www.jta.org/1969/02/24/archive/jerusalem-supersol-re-opens-for-business-2-young-bombing-victims-are-buried"><span style="color: #0433ff;">testament to Israeli resiliency</span></a>, the supermarket, belonging to the “Supersol” supermarket chain, opened for business just two days later.</p>
<p>On March 1, 1969, Odeh, her sister and three others were arrested for the bombings. All were members of the notorious Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).</p>
<p>Odeh was convicted of all charges and spent the next 10 years in an Israeli prison.  She was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange with the PFLP and spent the next four years living in Lebanon. Following that, she moved to Jordan and then made her way to the United States where her father lived.</p>
<p>In 1995, Odeh, who, according published reports has as many as 9 aliases, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2541.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">filled out an application</span></a> for an immigrant visa and alien registration and falsely checked off “no” when asked if she was ever convicted of a crime. She also falsely stated that she resided exclusively in Amman Jordan since 1948 when, in fact, she spent at least 10 years in Israel and another four in Lebanon.</p>
<p>In 2004, she applied for US citizenship and filled out an <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2538.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Application for Naturalization</span></a> where she again lied about her prior arrest, conviction and incarceration. She also checked off “no” when asked if she ever belonged to a terrorist organization. Her application was approved and she was sworn in as a United States citizen in December 2004.</p>
<p>In 2013, Odeh secured employment as an <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372065/convicted-terrorist-worked-obamacare-navigator-illinois-jillian-kay-melchior"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obamacare navigator</span></a> in Illinois, a job that required her to assist people with healthcare options, but her employment was revoked once federal authorities commenced proceedings against her. In October 2013, she was indicted on charges relating to immigration fraud, to wit, lying on her 1995 and 2004 applications.</p>
<p>The high-profile case took a number of odd twists and turns. A plea deal that would have involved just six months of incarceration and would have permitted Odeh to remain in the United States for another six months following her release was rejected by the defendant.  Then, the initial presiding magistrate, Judge Paul Borman, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/trial-set-for-jerusalem-terror-convict-who-moved-to-us/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recused himself</span></a> from the case because some of his family members owned shares in Supersol and Borman wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety.</p>
<p>Despite the hitches, trial was set for November 4, 2014. Odeh took the stand and claimed that when she filled out the applications she thought the questions referencing arrests, convictions and incarcerations referred to criminal acts on U.S. soil. Her testimony however, was soundly refuted by documentary and testimonial evidence. She also acknowledged somewhat paradoxically that while her answers were erroneous, they were not lies.</p>
<p>Of course, Odeh was not without her supporters. The usual assortment of Islamists and radical leftists who always manage to find common ground when it comes to killing Jews rallied to her defense. They hooted and hollered, claiming that Odeh was a model citizen who was the victim of a US-Israeli conspiracy. Odeh’s cult-like devotees and <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/travesty-despite-israeli"><span style="color: #0433ff;">terrorist apologists</span></a> risibly noted that “the immigration charge was nothing but a pretext to attack this icon of the Palestine liberation movement.”</p>
<p>The jury, however, saw it otherwise and cut through Odeh’s pernicious lies and the shenanigans of her supporters and found her guilty of committing immigration fraud. Odeh served a paltry 10 years for participating in a heinous crime that resulted in the murder of two young university students and the maiming nine other civilians. While another 10 years won’t bring back the victims, it does send a powerful deterrent message to terrorists seeking entry into the United States. As <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/detroit/press-releases/2013/naturalized-u.s.-citizen-charged-with-immigration-fraud-for-failing-to-disclose-terrorism-conviction"><span style="color: #0433ff;">William Hayes</span></a>, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aptly noted, “The United States will never be a safe haven for individuals seeking to distance themselves from their pasts.”  In this case, Odeh’s murderous, terrorist past finally caught up with her.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Architect: We Fooled Them That ObamaCare Wasn&#8217;t a Tax due to &#8220;Stupidity of the American Voter&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gruber reminds us once how much contempt the liberal elite has for Americans.]]></description>
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<p>(via <a href="http://www.americancommitment.org/">American Commitment</a>)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/curtis-kalin/obamacare-architect-wh-preyed-stupidity-american-voter">Gruber needs to look at</a> the latest election results. A lot of Americans are through being fooled by this gang of liars and crooks.</p>
<blockquote><p>A key architect of Obamacare has been caught openly boasting about taking advantage of, what he calls, “the stupidity of the American voter.”</p>
<p>Gruber was instrumental in crafting the legislation that was signed into law in March 2010.</p>
<p>In the midst of his explanation, Gruber bragged about the multiple deceptions the Obama White House perpetrated on the American people:</p>
<p>“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. So it was written to do that. In terms of risk related subsidies, if you had a law which made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get the thing to pass.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So an ObamaCare architect just admitted that the whole thing was built on a tower of lies and that it is indeed a tax.</p>
<p>Gruber reminds us once again how much contempt the liberal elite has for ordinary working Americans. And how casual they are about lying to them because their very lack of commitment to the left means that they deserve it.</p>
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		<title>Majority of ObamaCare Users Will Drop Their Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be the big election issue]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/03/survey-majority-of-last-years-obamacare-customers-wont-return/">That&#8217;s bad news for ObamaCare</a> and it&#8217;s worse news because that majority is increasingly drawn from the middle class which is one more step toward turning ObamaCare into Medicaid.</p>
<blockquote><p>Fifty-one percent of respondents in a survey of last year’s Obamacare exchange customers don’t plan to purchase an exchange plan this year, according to a Bankrate Health Insurance Pulse survey out Monday. Those who earn less and receive higher premium subsidies were more likely to renew their plans. Fifty-three percent of those who earn less than $30,000 a year said they’d return to the exchanges, while just 35 percent of those making $75,000 or more expect to return.</p>
<p>Higher premiums are keeping most customers away. Forty-three percent said higher insurance rates are their biggest concern about buying Obamacare coverage again</p></blockquote>
<p>The whole plan of forcing some customers to subsidize others is collapsing, exactly as was predicted. And this is before the real increases will kick in. If ObamaCare customers think it&#8217;s too expensive now, they haven&#8217;t seen anything yet.</p>
<p>While Ebola and ISIS have moved ObamaCare out of the headlines for a while, this is going to be the big election issue. Especially once Obama stops giving a damn and the system really begins to implode.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Money Being Used to Promote Amnesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism is a lot like organized crime.]]></description>
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<p>All<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/204203-funds-allocated-for-obamacare-being-used-to-promote-amnesty-for-young-illegal-aliens/"> that&#8217;s missing is for Amnesty money </a>to be used to promote Ebola and ISIS and the snake will have eaten its own tail.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a letter to House Appropriations Chair Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) on Tuesday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) called for defunding a provision in Obamacare that has been allowing taxpayer dollars set aside for public health initiatives to fund television ads for President Obama’s illegal alien amnesty programs.</p>
<p>Newsbusters (which like CNSNews.com is part of the Media Research Center), reported earlier this month that the California Endowment last year signed a $20 million deal with the Spanish-language TV outlet “Univision” to help promote Obamacare. Using federal tax dollars from the health fund, the foundation then sponsored ads on Univision reminding qualifying illegal aliens to renew their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) permits before they expire.</p></blockquote>
<p>Liberalism is a lot like organized crime. Money is funneled from one operation to another. Everything is tied up by syndicates. The entire system is totally intertwined and one dirty party of it goes to fund another dirty part of it.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no end to it because it&#8217;s all the same thing. ObamaCare and Amnesty are both policy agendas. So money is moved around. Every individual liberal policy agenda helps push all the other ones.</p>
<p>Grants to a liberal organization are going to end up promoting the full spectrum of liberal causes from jailing fishermen to tranny rights. If you give to one, you give to all.</p>
<p>This is what helped build the octopus we&#8217;re dealing with now, but it also makes it extraordinary vulnerable. Shut off the flow of money and suddenly a lot of the infrastructure goes dark.</p>
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		<title>Obama Security Adviser: Iran Deal is Our ObamaCare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 03:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it won't work, will cost a lot of money and kill a bunch of people.]]></description>
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<p>So I guess <a href="http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-coming-detente-with-iran/">that means it won&#8217;t work</a>, cost a lot of money and kill a bunch of people. But then again you can say that about nearly anything Obama does.</p>
<blockquote><p>Deputy National Security Adviser and MFA in creative writing Ben Rhodes likened an Iranian nuclear deal to Obamacare in a talk to progressive activists last January, according to audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rhodes by the way is considered Suspect #1 in the Chickens__tgate scandal.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Bottom line is, this is the best opportunity we’ve had to resolve the Iranian issue diplomatically, certainly since President Obama came to office, and probably since the beginning of the Iraq war,” Rhodes said. “So no small opportunity, it’s a big deal. This is probably the biggest thing President Obama will do in his second term on foreign policy. This is healthcare for us, just to put it in context.”</p></blockquote>
<p>By &#8220;resolve&#8221;, Rhodes means let Iran get the bomb. You can see why Rhodes would want to spend his time smearing Netanyahu since the Israeli leader is the big obstacle to Obama&#8217;s Iranian bomb campaign.</p>
<blockquote><p>Rhodes also said the White House wants to avoid congressional scrutiny of any deal.</p>
<p>“We’re already kind of thinking through, how do we structure a deal so we don’t necessarily require legislative action right away,” Rhodes said. “And there are ways to do that.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He is the Ayatollah of Phone and Pen. He&#8217;s invaded countries without Congress. What&#8217;s a little thing like unilaterally letting one of the country&#8217;s worst enemies get a nuclear bomb.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Cashes In by Refusing to Take Position on Pacemaker Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's a six figure speech.]]></description>
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<p>Looks like someone&#8217;s been borrowing Obama&#8217;s speechwriters. The only<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/10/09/hillary-clinton-spews-gibberish-again/"> thing this Hillary gibberish about the ObamaCare pacemaker tax turned up</a> by Jennifer Rubin is missing is a &#8220;Let me be clear&#8221; and &#8220;Some people say.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>On the tax itself, again I think we have to look to see what are the pluses and the minuses, that are embodied in a decision about either to remove or alter or continue this particular piece of the Affordable Care Act and I’ve in preparation for coming here, I’ve obviously looked at the arguments on both sides for more information and I think we’ll gather more information and that will perhaps give us a better path forward.</p></blockquote>
<p>The tax has been an issue for quite a while now. Hillary is running for president. Her signature issue used to be health care.</p>
<p>Does she think that anyone really believes that she needs to gather more information before taking a position or that she would be dodging this hard if she didn&#8217;t support the pacemaker tax?</p>
<p>But of course there&#8217;s another reason that Hillary Clinton is lying about her ObamaCare pacemaker tax position. The only reason<a href="https://www.gop.com/hillarycare-headaches/"> that the greedy Clintons do </a>anything.</p>
<p>Money. Money. And more money.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Sources close to AdvaMed don’t expect Clinton to come out in favor of eliminating the medical device tax, but her appearance before the group is a key indicator the powerful industry is ready to spend money to derail the tax in the near future and build key bipartisan coalitions.” (Bruce Jaspen, “As ObamaCare Batters Device Makers, Lobby  Snuggles With Hillary In Chicago,” Forbes, 10/7/14)</p></blockquote>
<p>We&#8217;re talking about a six figure speech. And possibly more of those to come. Reason enough for Hillary to go on playing coy about the pacemaker tax.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just think we have to get out of the ideological wars that either we can’t change anything or we have to change everything, and begin to be smart and pragmatic problem solvers again, and I think that goes to your point. I don’t know what the right answer about the tax is.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>We have to be smart and pragmatic. But don&#8217;t ask her about her smart and pragmatic answer to the pacemaker tax, because Hillary is smartly and pragmatically signaling that she&#8217;s open to being bribed one way or another.</p>
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		<title>Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pivotal election draws near. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/thinking-pic.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242113" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/thinking-pic-450x305.jpg" alt="thinking-pic" width="341" height="231" /></a>Random thoughts on the passing scene:</p>
<p>What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional — which means that decency is likely to become less common.</p>
<p>The biggest issue in this fall&#8217;s election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal judges with lifetime appointments who share President Obama&#8217;s contempt for the Constitution. Whether such judges will be confirmed by the Senate depends on whether the Senate continues to be controlled by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid.</p>
<p>Why in the world would any sane American go to North Korea and put themselves at the mercy of a crackpot dictator?</p>
<p>Since Illinois enacted a law permitting more people to carry concealed firearms, more than 65,000 people got permits to do so. Rates of robbery, burglary and motor vehicle thefts have dropped significantly, and the murder rate has fallen to a level not seen in more than half a century. If only the gun control fanatics would pay some attention to facts, a lot of lives could be saved.</p>
<p>If you took all the mumbo-jumbo out of our educational institutions, how much would be left? Students could finish their education years earlier and end up knowing a lot more than they know now.</p>
<p>Why are Americans — and the Western world in general — falling all over ourselves stifling our own self-expression to appease people who chose to immigrate here, and are now demanding the suppression of anything they don&#8217;t like, such as public expressions of Christianity or displays of the American flag?</p>
<p>Someone should write a history of political rhetoric, if only to put us on our guard against being deceived into disasters. The First World War, for example, was said to be a war &#8220;to make the world safe for democracy.&#8221; What it actually led to was the replacement of despotic dynasties by totalitarian dictatorships that were far worse, including far more murderous.</p>
<p>Professor Sterling Brown remains as much a hero to me in my old age as he was when I was a freshman at Howard University.</p>
<p>He wrote bitterly eloquent attacks on racism — and yet, when I was preparing to go off to Harvard, he said to me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t come back here and tell me you didn&#8217;t make it &#8217;cause white folks were mean.&#8221;</p>
<p>The fatal weakness of most clever people is that they don&#8217;t know when to stop being clever. The past cleverness of President Obama is finally starting to catch up with him.</p>
<p>Why Republicans would bring up the subject of immigration during an election year is beyond me. Yet Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner seems drawn to the subject like a moth to a flame.</p>
<p>Who says the Obama administration is not transparent? They are constantly telling our enemies overseas when it will pull out our troops and where we will not put boots on the ground.</p>
<p>Heartening as it has been to see Derek Jeter get farewell honors during his last season, as with Mariano Rivera last season, it is also a melancholy thought that we may not see their like again — in their personal dignity and class, as well as their performance on the field. They are throwbacks to an earlier time, in a sports world of spoiled brat showoffs today.</p>
<p>I must have heard the word &#8220;diversity&#8221; proclaimed in ringing tones as a great benefit to society at least a thousand times — and probably closer to a million — without even once hearing a speck of evidence provided, or even suggested as a way to test whether that is true or false.</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder has picked the perfect time to resign, in terms of his own self-interest. He will have two years in which to cash in with lucrative fees on the lecture circuit and to make a big-bucks book deal. If he waited until the end of the Obama administration, a former Attorney General would be eclipsed in both respects by a former President of the United States, thereby reducing the demand for Holder.</p>
<p>With the momentous consequences of control of the Senate at stake in this fall&#8217;s election, anyone who risks the outcome by running as a third party candidate should not only be voted against this year but remembered for such irresponsibility in future years.</p>
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		<title>Only 1 in 4 Uninsured Like ObamaCare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Support among Democrats fell to 57% ]]></description>
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<p>So much for the myth that ObamaCare was illegally rammed through and implemented to deal with an urgent crisis for the uninsured. The uninsured d<a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/091014-716872-even-the-uninsured-now-hate-obamacare.htm">on&#8217;t want it and don&#8217;t like it</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll finds only 35% of the public now holds a favorable view of ObamaCare — which is lower than it was when it officially launched in October.</p>
<p>More damning is the reality that only 26% of the uninsured — the very people for whom ObamaCare was supposedly built — now view it favorably. In fact, the law has never been more unpopular with the uninsured since it went into full effect.</p>
<p>Support is slipping among Democrats — it fell to 57% in September from 70% last October — and fewer than a third of independents now support the law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Things ObamaCare is still more popular than&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Rabies</p>
<p>2. Ebola</p>
<p>3. Illegal alien amnesty</p>
<p>4. ISIS</p>
<p>5. Obama</p>
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		<title>Top ObamaCare Official: “Delete This Email”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then crash the hard drives, set them on fire and toss them over a cliff into a volcano. ]]></description>
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<p>She forgot to mention to crash the hard drives, set them on fire and toss them over a cliff into a volcano.</p>
<p>As Sharyl Attkisson reports, this is a clear case of<a href="http://sharylattkisson.com/hhs-healthcare-gov-official-delete-this-email/"> ordering the deletion of a message</a> that was not supposed to be deleted.</p>
<blockquote><p>An email obtained by Congress shows the top official for Healthcare.gov at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Department of Health and Human Services, Marilyn Tavenner, instructed the agency’s top spokesman to “Please delete this email.”</p>
<p>The instruction appears significant for several reasons: First, the email to be deleted included an exchange between key White House officials and CMS  officials. Second, the email was dated October 5, 2013, five days into the disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov. Third, federal law requires federal officials to retain copies of –not delete– email exchanges. And fourth, the document to be deleted is covered under Congressional subpoena as well as longstanding Freedom of Information requests made by members of the media (including me).</p></blockquote>
<p>The email exchange seemed to involve problems with ObamaCare and was apparently being CCed to some high level people. Or as Obama likes to say, folks.</p>
<blockquote><p>Those copied on the email exchange to be deleted include: Jeanne Lambrew, Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Health Reform&#8230;</p>
<p>Other names included on the email to be deleted are: White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, White House advisor on health care Christopher Jennings, and other HHS and CMS officials.</p></blockquote>
<p>Those aren&#8217;t small timers. This isn&#8217;t just some minor technical exchange that didn&#8217;t matter. You don&#8217;t waste the time of people on that level if you don&#8217;t have something to say.</p>
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