Obama's Health Care Lies

As the city struggles to move on without Donald Walker as Mayor, David Cranshaw writes today what the autopsy will not show.

 

The state of Michigan is ordering a woman to stop baby-sitting her neighbors' kids without a license.  Big government at work; just wait until these same people are running your health care.

 

National Review has a list of the falsehoods in President Obama's health care speech to the joint session of Congress, and it's a long list.  Obama bombed on health care because the American people just weren't dumb enough to believe that the government option would save money.  The Baucus bill includes a deal with Majority Leader Harry Reid that will give a break to Nevada and three other states.  Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) says that Republicans want people to die.

 

Democrats today shot down an amendment to the Baucus Bill that would have required people to show photo ID to receive health care benefits.  They don't believe in

 

Thanks to a surge, American troops are starting to withdraw from Iraq, so why won't the Obama administration do what it promised and have a surge in Afghanistan too?

 

The Obama administration is trying to meet with Iran regarding their nuclear program.  Thirty years of talks with Iran haven't worked, so what makes this administration think that they can do something different?

 

The Obama administration wanted to regulate financial companies more than even Barney Frank was comfortable with.  Barney Frank does want to treat home buyers like infants.

 

The Supreme Court will hear another Second Amendment case in their next session.

 

The Senate version of the cap-and-trade bill seems to be even worse than the House version, even though plenty of details still haven't been written.

 

President and Mrs. Obama took separate planes to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark to lobby for the 2016 Olympics to go to Chicago, while approval of the Olympic bid is statistically evenly split among residents of Chicago.  President Obama will be making another trip to Copenhagen in December to talk about global warming, so hopefully he'll learn the folly of the green-jobs myth.

 

A Warner Robins Police Officer resigned after coming to work with alcohol in his system.