Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command — 1 Chronicles 12:32
Here are some pictures of Obama as tornadoes ripped across America and killed hundreds. He didn’t HAVE to go on this trip; it wasn’t a major summit of any kind. He visited distant relatives in Ireland, for Pete’s sake!
On his trip – while Americans were dying in droves and losing their homes by the tens of thousands – Obama enjoyed a nice game of ping pong:
Obama enjoyed a beer:
Why aren’t those photos about a gazillion times worse? Other than the fact that the mainstream media would never do unto Obama what they repeatedly did unto Bush?
And, of course, there’s the story of Obama totally screwing up during the playing of the British national anthem and talking over it.
There’s the footage of Obama – who mocked the Republicans over the metaphor of their “driving the car of state into a ditch” – having this LITERALLY happen to his motorcade:
There’s the incredible picture of Obama not knowing what YEAR it was as he signed the guest book at Westminster Abbey:
All this happened while Americans losing their lives and having their homes’ destroyed by tornado after tornado.
Meanwhile, there are Americans who are suffering – and continue to suffer – the aftermath of that “World War II devastation,” who would LOVE their president flying over the ruins of their homes:
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You can bet that the same mainstream media that destroyed Bush one story and one picture at a time will never attack their messiah the same way – even though they have TWENTY TIMES the ammunition they had on Bush.
The most ideological and biased media since Adolf Hitler’s propaganda machine will keep on protecting their beloved Führer.
“The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of these sessions LIVE and in their entirety,” Lamb wrote. “We will also, as we willingly do each day, provide C-SPAN’s multi-camera coverage to any interested member of the Capitol Hill broadcast pool.”
Lamb reminded the leaders that “President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation’s editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation’s health care system. Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.”
Specifically, then-Sen. Obama said on the campaign trail that “we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so the people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who is making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.”
Ah, yes. Let’s talk about specifics. Remember when Barack Hussein, the lying weasel in chief, said that? Let’s repeat it in bold face:
“we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so the people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who is making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.”
Here’s the former head of the Democratic National Convention exposing the lie of Obama pretending to be protecting the people from private insurance companies. DNC Chairman Howard Dean recently said:
“This is a bigger bailout for the insurance industry than AIG,” former Democratic National Committee chairman and medical doctor Howard Dean told “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos today. “A very small number of people are going to get any insurance at all, until 2014, if the bill works.
“This is an insurance company’s dream, this bill,” Dean continued. “This is the Washington scramble, and I think it’s ill-advised.”
Not to mention the Louisiana Purchase II, when Obama bought Mary Landrieu’s vote for $300 million. Not to mention the purchase of Ben Nelson’s shocking betrayal of his state that has Nebraska frothing mad with outrage.
Mr. McCAIN. My response is, I don’t know what deal has been cut in Senator Reid’s office, as the deal was cut with the pharmaceutical companies and the deal was cut with the AMA and the deal was cut with the hospital association. But I know what the effect is. I know what the effect is. The bill would slice $55 billion—-
Mr. BAUCUS. This is not on my time because he is going to filibuster over there.
Mr. McCAIN. The House bill would slice $55 billion over 10 years for projected Medicare spending on home health services while the Senate bill would take $43 billion. I know that. But I don’t know the details of the deal that was cut over where the white smoke comes out. I don’t know what the deal was. I know what the deal was with PhRMA. I know what the deal was with PhRMA. They told them they would oppose drug reimportation from Canada, and they told PhRMA they would not allow competition for Medicare patients.
So I don’t know the deal that was cut that bought them, but I know deals have been going on, and I know they are unsavory. I know people, such as the lady who was just referred to, Bertha Milliard, are not too interested in seeing their home health care cut.
Mr. BAUCUS. If the Senator will yield, with time being equally divided on both sides for this colloquy.
Mr. McCAIN. I don’t know what the deal was—-
Mr. BAUCUS. I can tell the Senator the deal. I am going to tell the Senator the deal.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona has the floor.
Mr. McCAIN. I don’t know what the deal was, but we will find out, just like the deals that were cut with all of these other organizations.
Mr. BAUCUS. I will tell the Senator what the deal was.
Mr. McCAIN. This place is full of lobbyists. I can’t walk through the hallway without bumping into one of their lobbyists. If the Senator keeps interrupting, he is violating the rules of the Senate. He needs to learn the rules of the Senate.
Here’s a CNN video detailing part of the exchange:
The CNN reporter speaking following the video confrontation between McCain and Baucus reminds us of the August closed-door deal between the Obama White House and the pharmaceutical companies.
And while John McCain exposes that the Democrat Party is the party of corruption, Max Baucus – the Democrat who had such a powerful hand in shaping the health care boondoggle – was exposing that he is a slobbering drunk on the very floor of the Senate.
And which party is making all the sweetheart deals that they don’t DARE allow the people to see, lest they gather in mass with pitchforks and torches to destroy the monster that lives in the White House?
Here’s one of the leaders of the Democrat Party acknowledging that the health care debate was so secretive and so byzantine that even HE didn’t have a freaking clue what was going on, let alone Republican lawmakers (and obviously the public) who have been completely shut out.
The 10 Democratic senators who crafted a healthcare compromise are keeping its details a secret, says Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Friday.
Responding to a complaint by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that Republicans haven’t been told what’s in the new bill, Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, responded that he’s in the same position.
“I would say to the senator from Arizona that I’m in the dark almost as much as he is. And I’m in the leadership,” Durbin said on the Senate floor.
Here’s lying demagogue Nancy Pelosi telling the very C-SPAN which she is barring from covering the negotiations so Americans can see what’s going on how “open” her process has been:
“There has never been a more open process for any legislation,” Pelosi said at a press conference.
Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her leadership team and committee chairs in the Capitol to face an aggressive throng of reporters who immediately hit her with C-SPAN’s request that she permit closed-door final talks on the bill to be televised.
A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.
“There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,” quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.
Obama has been for secrecy, disingenuity, corruption, demagoguery, partisan ideology, and socialism. He sure hasn’t been for the American people, whether on the campaign trail or since.
And that’s what Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are doing to health care now. Except that the catastrophe that they are going to create through health care will be a thousand times worse than the catastrophe they created through the stimulus.
The “change” Obama has brought to America has been hard-core partisanship and corrupt Chicago politics.
No wonder they absolutely WILL NOT allow you to know what’s really going on as they make deal after deal behind closed doors.