Posted on 09/08/2009 6:10:08 AM PDT by freespirited
Just a day after White House "green jobs czar" Van Jones resigned amid controversy over his radical views, the Obama administration said it had discovered a new vetting tool called "Google" that also revealed that the president's "public option" health insurance proposal may be socialist as well.
"You just type a few words into this rectangle," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "Click a button and information suddenly appears on your computer screen. When we did that, we were shocked to learn that Van was a socialist, and that the keystone of the president's health reform plan probably is too."
The president will reportedly reconsider his commitment to the public option before addressing a joint session of Congress later this week.
"It turns out that socialism is a political theory advocating state ownership of industry," said Mr. Gibbs. "And no matter how you spin it, having the government run a health insurance plan that competes with private firms constitutes state ownership of industry. If we keep going down this slippery slope, the subsidized public option will drive private companies out of business, making the government corporation the dominant provider."
The spokesman said such a scenario would undercut the president's desire to improve American health care through "choice and competition."
"When the state intervenes in the market," Mr. Gibbs said, "The incentive for competition decreases because private firms have a much higher cost structure, and must even pay taxes to support their government-run competitor. If President Obama had known about this Google thing nine months ago, we could have saved ourselves a lot of heartache."
The president reportedly likes the Google concept so much, that he's asked his closest advisers to draft a plan to create "an official presidential version of Google that would give folks a low cost option for all their information needs."
LOL, clever.
I don't like this one bit. I'm highly suspicious that a public-option Google is just a path to a single-payer Google. DON'T let this happen!
this is a joke right?
Right. Scrappleface is comedy. Always.
Bravo bravo bravo!
Excellent. I also thought this was scrappleface (because it was so obvious), but it wasn’t:
Snip:
And it was a fresh reminder that the White House’s vetting process didn’t fall down only on high-profile nominees like Tom Daschle. It barely touched the lower reaches of the administration – a White House official conceded Sunday that Jones’ past statements *weren’t as thoroughly scrubbed* due to his relatively low rank. Jones’ selection also was propelled by powerful patrons, who included the first lady and the vice president.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Beck_up__left_let_down_and_Jones_defiant-57613717.html
Note: weren’t as thoroughly ‘scrubbed’. Oops.
Throws FLOTUS and VP under the bus as well? But doesn’t mention Val... but throws Miche and Joe under? Hmmm.
That means they were scrubbing something so important they forgot to scrub all that was left...
Time for the reps to get legislation up on vetting after smacking them on deathcare.
Don’t worry WH, we’re concentrating on healthcare first... and we already have info on many more with millions of our dollars and no accountability to the senate and the people.
Brilliant!
“It turns out that socialism is a political theory advocating state ownership of industry. Smell like the Fabian Society game plan.
Correction: Van said he was a communist.
Snip:
Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”
East Bay Express Nov. 2, 2005
Also, check out the first post in the left sidebar:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406
They didn’t scrub the light stuff... because they were busy scrubbing the heavy stuff.
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