President Obama taking lessons from Bernie Maddoff

"A result of the actions we took in those first weeks we've been able to pull our economy back from the brink. We took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market, and we passed a Recovery Act that has already saved jobs and created new ones, delivered billions in tax relief to families and small businesses, and extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who have been laid off. Of course we still have a long way to go. And the Recovery Act will continue to save and create more jobs over the next two years just like it was designed to do."

And here are the data to back that up...

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/lau/stalt.htm

... or not.

"Pain killers" to replace "pacemakers"

This reminds of the time during the elections when Senator Infallible said he was embarrassed that we couldn't speak Spanish, then proceeded to speak in French.

Obama lied! Healthcare will die!

Obama said:

“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you,” the president told residents of the Garden State. “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”

[Paraphrased]"Some people are saying this bill is some kind of backdoor to nationalized healthcare/single payer systerm... those who do are lying."

Page 16 of healthcare bill:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day' of the year the legislation becomes law."


Oh, and here's some more fun:







http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=5016

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07162009/news/regionalnews/dem_health_rx_a_poion_pill_in_ny_179525.htm

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907151403dowjonesdjonline000758&title=centrist-dem-leaderhas-committee-votes-to-block-health-bill

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/15/the-true-cost-of-the-house-health-plan-in-pictures/

Insubordinate press.

Whitehouse press secretary Robert Gibbs' inability to answer simple questions during press conferences has led him screen questions the day prior so he has a good day to think about the answer. This way, he doesn't look like an incompetent moron. Screening them also gives him the opportunity to filter out questions he doesn't want to answer.

Gibb's gets a bit testy at a townhall meeting when Chip Reid and Helen Thomas try to ask questions he didn't want to have to answer.



Just remember, "The ends justify the means." And the ends are supposed to be: "Obama looks good."

Obviously these two didn't get the memo:



http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/01/cbs_helen_thomas_challenge_gibbs_on_controlled_town_hall_meeting.html


http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50445