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The Patriot Post Daily Digest 1-13-2014
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Daily Digest
Jan. 13, 2014
THE FOUNDATION
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions, which can operate upon the human mind.” –Joseph Story (1833)
TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS
The BIG Lie: Obama’s Record
In his Saturday radio address, Barack Obama boasted of his record: “In 2013, our businesses created 2.2 million new jobs – including 87,000 last month. Our unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since October 2008. And across our broader economy, there are signs of progress. … Thanks in part to the reforms in the Affordable Care Act, health care costs now eat up less of our economy – over the past four years, costs have grown at the slowest rate on record. And since I took office, we’ve cut our deficits by more than half.” Now here’s the truth: Headline unemployment declined because people gave up looking. If the same number of Americans were in the labor force as just last year, the unemployment rate would be 7.9%. Second, thanks to the “Affordable” Care Act, millions of Americans have lost the insurance plan they liked and were told they could keep, and they’re forced to pay more for less. And finally, Obama could only “cut the deficit” in half because he quadrupled it upon taking office. The deficit remains far higher than the previous record.
Big Labor and the Unemployed
The AFL-CIO isn’t pleased with Friday’s jobs report1, issuing a statement complaining, “The unemployment rate has finally dipped below 7 percent – more than four and a half years since the recession supposedly ended. But that fall was driven mostly by people dropping out of the labor force, not by healthy job creation.” The AFL-CIO is, of course, one of the most powerful Democrat constituent groups, so it’s no surprise that they blame Republicans, who they say “remain fixated on irrelevant and counter-productive austerity measures.” The way to get people working, according to Big Labor, is to extend benefits for those who aren’t working. Final note: The only thing declining faster than labor force participation is union membership.
Pelosi Unemploys Civility
Republicans aren’t just a political party, they are the definition of evil and Nancy Pelosi wants you to remember it. Speaking on the extension of “temporary” unemployment benefits and GOP demands for cost offsets, she said, “Republicans are not just asking for pay-fors. They keep moving the goalpost. … ‘We want job creation,’ [they say,] a euphemism for tax breaks for the rich; and, ‘We want to end regulation, clean air, clean water,’ you name it. They want to simplify life for those who would exploit.” Democrats know a thing or two about exploitation – it’s the whole reason they keep extending benefits.
Conservatives Still Outnumber Liberals
From Gallup2: “Americans continue to be more likely to identify as conservatives (38%) than as liberals (23%). But the conservative advantage is down to 15 percentage points as liberal identification edged up to its highest level since Gallup began regularly measuring ideology in the current format in 1992.” Democrats like to describe Republicans as having gone “to the far Right,” but that’s only because Democrats have gotten more liberal. Compared to today’s crop, Woodrow Wilson might appear conservative.
Congress Is Wealthier Than Ever
A recent analysis shows that of the 534 current members of Congress, 268 have a net worth of at least $1 million, and that, as a whole, Congress is richer than ever. Katherine Clark, also a millionaire, is set to join the House representing Massachusetts. Democrats average more wealth than Republicans, too, though the wealthiest member is Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). Unsurprisingly, senators are wealthier than House members. The study doesn’t tell us much we didn’t already know other than members of Congress aren’t exactly average citizens. No wonder they don’t “get it.”
For more, visit Right Hooks3.
RIGHT ANALYSIS
ObamaCare Is ‘Burdensome’ – for the White House
The White House has issued statements expressing displeasure over a House effort to require reporting and transparency on ObamaCare, calling the requirements “unfunded, unprecedented, and unnecessary,” as well as “unrealistic and costly” and “administratively burdensome.” Gee, that sounds a lot like … ObamaCare. It takes a special degree of chutzpah for the administration to whine about such things when Democrats foisted ObamaCare on the country with its unfunded, unprecedented, unnecessary, unrealistic and costly mandates, taxes and regulations.
At issue is getting the administration to report weekly instead of monthly on enrollment data and within two days of any occurrence of security breaches in the Healthcare.gov website involving citizens' personal data. Currently, the government doesn’t have to notify people at all, but no doubt those whose information has been compromised find it to be “administratively burdensome.” Even many Democrats found White House opposition hard to swallow, as some 67 of them voted for the House’s Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act.
Meanwhile, in the latest episode of Profiles in Accountability, the government terminated its contract with CGI Federal, the contractor that built Healthcare.gov, a couple of weeks before it expired anyway. The administration is planning to sign a 12-month contract worth roughly $90 million with Accenture, another web firm, to fix the website. Whatever happened to the White House announcement in December that “all is well”? Of course, as we reported at the time4, all was not well. On top of that, the website has already cost roughly a billion dollars. Will Accenture actually get it to work? Don’t hold your breath.
Finally, it bears repeating that the fundamental problem isn’t the website5. Indeed, you know things are bad when even The New York Times runs an exposé6 on how badly ObamaCare has mucked up the health system. |
