Tuesday, August 11, 2009

This Week in America, August 11, 2009


1. Senator Arlen Specter, in a town hall meeting this morning, said the Senate doesn’t have a healthcare bill. Yes they do, it passed out of committee last week. He also said he wouldn’t vote for a bill that increased the debt – YEAH, just like when he voted for the stimulus bill.

2. In several 2007 interviews, then-Senator Obama made statements about how the development phase of a new healthcare bill should be open to all sides for discussion, even going so far as to state that he would have the meetings shown on C-SPAN. My, my, my how times have changed.

3. In yet another end-of-the-news-cycle, Friday move, The Obama administration (this time in the form of Timothy Geithner) sent a request to Congress to raise the national debt ceiling. By the way, this would be the second time in the last six months the ceiling has been raised; the other was in the stimulus bill.

4. If you go to any of the congressional town hall meetings with any other opinion other than those that agree with the proposed healthcare reform, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer have labeled you Un-American.

5. In 2005, Michigan Representative John Dingell said that President Bush should have to explain himself for leaving the public health and environment at risk while toxic sites lay untreated in the United States. Under President Bush, the government cleaned up an average of 38 such sites a year. President Obama’s administration will clean up 20 this year and 22 next year. Where is Rep. Dingell’s outrage over this reduction?

How’s you week going?
Bill

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