http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:11:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Patients First goes after President Obama's broken promises of transparency in the health care reform process: Presidential candidate Obama promised time and again not to negotiate health care reform behind closed doors, to bring all parties together and to broadcast health care reform negotiations on C-SPAN. It is truly unfortunate that President ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/11/10/still-more-obama-say-one-thing-do-another-obamacare-edition/ The House Republican Conference has compiled the following list of the 110 new Obamacare boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s legislation for a government takeover of health care: 1.     Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61) 2.     Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/11/02/pelosis-health-care-bill-creates-111-new-federal-obamacare-bureaucracies/ Obama spent the day golfing instead of making his long awaited decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan. For weeks, President Obama has been indecisively dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he correctly calls a "war of necessity." General Stanley A. McChrystal's report, in which he ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/10/25/obama-plays-golf-instead-of-deciding-whether-to-send-more-troops-to-afghanistan/ The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, the government watchdog which oversees how the stimulus monies are spent reports contractors who received money from President Obama's failed $787 billion stimulus program created or saved 30,383 jobs by the beginning of October. According to the Wall Street Journal, this report covers only spending ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/10/15/obamas-stimulus-creates-or-saves-30383-jobs/ The Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the House-passed Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade tax climate change legislation -- would slow the economy and would cause "significant" job losses in fossil fuel industries: We want to leave no misunderstanding that aggregate performance ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/10/15/cbo-strikes-again-democrats-cap-and-tax-would-hurt-the-economy/ With members of President Obama's brotherhood of community organizers, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known "ACORN," caught on video while they gave advice on how to skirt federal laws to buy a home to use as a brothel and how to cloak the status of ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/09/22/obama-continues-effort-to-distance-himself-from-acorn/ Add George Will to those calling for a new strategy for Obama's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a column entitled "Time to Get Out of Afghanistan," Will expands upon comments he made on ABC's "This Week" and argues we should reduce our forces in Afghanistan and "do only what can ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/09/02/whither-obamas-war/ President Obama's campaign organization, Organizing for America, goes way, way too far. Team Obama wants to use 9/11 to push back against protesters, referred to as "Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists" by calling Senators in support of the Obamacare public government option. Today, the Obama campaign folks sent out a notice to “grassroots” supporters ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/09/01/obama-campaign-org-politicizes-911-calls-protestors-right-wing-domestic-terrorists/ Moe has posted about the DNC's pushback to the Cheney interview. But there is much more to former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview than Cheney's statement that the enhanced interrogation techniques worked. During an interview on "FOX News Sunday," Chris Wallace asked former Vice President Dick Cheney if he thinks Democrats ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/31/cheney-calls-democrats-soft-on-national-security-and-slams-obamas-politicized-cia-probe/ There he goes again. President Obama bears "false witness" as he complains about others bearing "false witness" against Obamacare. A "scripted" online discussion about Obamacare conducted with a "friendly audience" of religious voters and pastors Wednesday, ended with Obama "bemoaning those who bear 'false witness' against his plans — and then ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/20/obama-bemoans-those-who-bear-false-witness-against-obamacare-as-he-bears-false-witness-himself/ Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the members of the "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research" ("CER"), which was stealthily included in the Obama boondoggle stimulus -- one of those bills the Democrats passed without anyone having a chance to read it. According to George Will, the ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/16/does-a-death-panel-equivalent-already-exist/ Democrat Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska say the Senate should abandon efforts to pass cap-and-trade this year. Cap-and-trade legislation will require 60 votes to pass the Senate. According to Bloomberg, at least 15 of the Senate's 60 ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/14/senate-democrats-cap-and-trade-should-be-delayed/ At Tuesday's town hall meeting on health insurance reform at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, President Obama falsely claimed the AARP endorsed Obamacare. That is another Obama falsehood, one the AARP denies. In his opening remarks Obama said, "We have the AARP on board because they know this is ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/12/obama-falsely-claims-aarp-endorsed-health-care-plan/ Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised over and over, and over, and over, and over, again not to negotiate healthcare reform behind closed doors, to bring all parties together and to broadcast those negotiations on C-SPAN "so the American people can see what the choices are. Obama promised the healthcare negotiations ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/11/more-obama-say-one-thing-do-another-obamacare-edition/ President Obama and the Democrats are so panicked over the outrage being expressed at Democrat town meetings they refer to the concerns and opinions of millions of Americans as "manufactured" and label protesting citizens expressing their First Amendment rights as "angry extremists" for voicing their opposition to President Obama's government-run ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/05/opposition-panics-obama-and-democrats/ The RedState Gathering heard from many existing and rising Conservative stars, but the speaker who truly rocked the house, biggest crowd-pleaser, was Liz Cheney.  Her "America Needs Commander in Chief, Not a Global Community Organizer" speech was made of awesome. Unfortunately, the available video clip does not convey the electricity that ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/08/04/liz-cheney-redstate-rock-star/ Today, Rasmussen reports Obama's Presidential Approval Index fell to -11. Another record low. Today is the first Obama Approval Index based entirely upon polling conducted after the press conference, during which Obama made his infamous "stupidly" remark. Likely voters obviously do not approve of the president's ObamaGates controversy - the number of ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/07/26/obama-approval-index-falls-to-double-negative-digits-now-11/ President Obama and some Democrats insist the Congress rush and tax on health care just like they rushed the so-called stimulus and cap and trade tax. Liberal Democrat leaders must rush to pass their change because the more Americans find out about the Democrats' change, the more they oppose it. In ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/07/18/democrats-rush-and-tax-is-not-the-way-to-reform-health-care/ House Democrats agreed Friday to raise taxes by about $550 billion to pay for their sweeping expansion of the nation's health care system. The huge tax increase will only pay for about half the cost of the Democrats' health spending plans, so according to the New York Times, the Democrats will also ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/07/11/democrats-agree-to-raise-taxes-550-billion-to-fund-so-called-health-care-reform/ Senator Franken was sworn in yesterday giving the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate and total control over the federal government. The National Republican Senatorial Committee marked the event with the release of a new video "60" No Checks. No Balances. No debate. No excuses. The Democrats own everything and have no ... http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2009/07/08/democrats-have-no-one-to-blame-now/