Posted on 07/29/2009 2:38:59 AM PDT by Scanian
SIX months into the Obama ad ministration, it should now be clear: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.
Ask the Congressional Budget Office. Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the "Today Show" that he had met with CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf -- just as the number crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims.
Yes, question the timing. The CBO is supposed to be a neutral scorekeeper -- not a water boy for the White House.
But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health-care savings claims, Obama's budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy. In a public letter, he warned the CBO that it risked feeding the perception that it was "exaggerating costs and underestimating savings."
Message: Leave the number-fudging to the boss. Capiche?
Obama issued an even more explicit order to unleash the hounds on Blue Dog Democrats during his health-care press conference. "Keep up the heat" translated into Organizing for America/Democratic National Committee attack ads on moderate Democrats who have revolted against ObamaCare's high costs and expansive government powers over medical decisions.
Looks like there won't be a health-care beer summit anytime soon.
The CBO and the Blue Dogs got off easy compared to inspectors general targeted by Team Obama goons. Former AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin was slimed as mentally incompetent ("confused" and "disoriented") after blowing the whistle on several cases of community-service tax fraud, including the case of Obama crony Kevin Johnson.
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ROFL! That is a great, great pic! I hope you don’t mind, but I saved it to show some friends.
As far as the article goes, I am seriously beginning to wonder which government of these two countries lies more, the USA or the USSR?
Wouldn’t it be such an hilarious spoof if the Russians made a movie in which American paratroopers assisted by Mexican troops dropped down to invade a local high school, and some of the students formed an armed resistance called “Bears”.
I feel like I am living in Bizarro Land.
Welcome to The Fourth Reich, I hope you enjoy your stay.
It was a standard Soviet tactic to label its citics “mental defectives,” which necessarily meant they were to be commited to an asylum (a government-run asylum, naturally) or gulag. As the Obamunist did with Walpin, he likely intends to do with anyone else who does not tow the administration’s line.
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