Obama blames Republicans for his spending, but they didn't vote for it

No House Republican voted for President Obama's stimulus or budget. Only, three Republican Senators voted for the stimulus. One has since became a Democrat. In this video, Obama has the audacity to blame Republicans for his spending and say they "have no shame." President Obama should be ashamed.

Obamacare's Plan for Seniors: Die

Democrats trying to formulate health care reform are struggling with the issue of cost containment. The CBO issued a report stating their plan would increase costs. One version of Obamacare being considered in the House has an innovative cost control idea for Seniors. Just lie down and die.

From WND:

The version of President Obama's universal health care plan pending in the U.S. House would require "end-of-life" counseling for senior citizens, and the former lieutenant governor for the state of New York is warning people to "protect their parents" from the measure.

At issue is section 1233 of the legislative proposal that deals with a government requirement for an "Advance Care Planning Consultation."

"One of the most shocking things is page 425, where the Congress would make it mandatory absolutely that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session," she said. "They will tell [them] how to end their life sooner."

The proposal specifically calls for the consultation to recommend "palliative care and hospice" for seniors in their mandatory counseling sessions. Palliative care and hospice generally focus only on pain relief until death.

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Obama accused Doctors of wanting your tonsils for profit

Obama accused Doctors of wanting your tonsils for profit. He wants to take the "profit motive" out of health care. The free enterprise system works on profit. If there is no profit in the health care field, private health care will cease to exist. Then, we will be forced into a socialized government plan like Canada or Great Britain.

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Is Obama strong-arming the Congressional Budget Office?

President Obama had a private meeting with the CBO. This is extremely unusual. The CBO is supposed to be strictly nonpartisan. Recently, the CBO had bad news for Obamacare. They said it wouldn't decrease costs and would increase the deficit.

The CBO admission start at about the 3:10 mark.

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From the video:

VIERA: But — not to beat a dead horse here, but again, the Congressional Budget Office is looking at those bills that are out there, and they’re saying they do not contain costs. Any one of those bills, would you sign them, based on what you see?

OBAMA: Right now, they’re not where they need to be. But I promise you, I just met with the Congressional Budget Office today, so I know exactly what they’re saying. And what they’re saying is, is that the cost savings that are in those bills right now, some of them may actually work, but they’re not enough to offset the additional costs of bringing in 46 million new people to provide.

Why is this important?

From HotAir:

...the CBO exists for independence from the executive branch in fiscal matters. If Barack Obama needs clarification on CBO scoring, he should work through Congress to get it, rather than demand face time with the CBO director. Even more appropriately, the President should work through his own Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director for analysis of CBO scoring. In this case, Obama has Elmendorf’s immediate predecessor, Peter Orszag, as his OMB Director, who should be able to figure out a CBO analysis on his own and help Obama understand it and respond to it.

After this came to my attention, I contacted two sources in Washington and asked if presidents routinely conferred with the CBO on budget scoring. Both called this highly unusual and could not recall if or when it had been done in previous administrations. It treads on the entire process of legislative oversight and threatens the independence of the CBO from the administration, which is essential for Congress — if it’s interested in independent analysis. (accent is mine)

Fiat loses a quarter of a billion in second quarter

How can a company lost over $250 million in the second quarter of 2009 save Chrysler?

FT reported:

Fiat, the Italian carmaker, on Wednesday reported a steep loss for the second quarter of 2009 in “an extremely difficult trading environment”, but stuck with its forecasts for its full-year financial performance.

The Turin-based group, which has sought to spearhead a global restructuring of the ailing automotive industry through its acquisition of Chrysler and attempts at taking over the European operations of General Motors, made a net loss for the three months to June 30 of €179m ($254m).

That compared with a net profit of €646m in the same period last year and illustrates the scale of the slump in the global car industry caused by the credit crisis. Revenues fell 22.5 per cent to €13.2bn, the group made a trading profit of €310m compared with €1.13bn in 2008, and net industrial debt decreased to €5.7bn from €6.6bn at the end of the first quarter.

“The global economic crisis continued to have a significantly negative impact on demand levels for all of the Group’s businesses, but with signs of improvement in certain markets compared with Q1 levels,” Fiat said in a statement on Wednesday accompanying the results.

Is Obama's Presidency Destroyed?

Reportedly, President Obama told Democrats who opposed Obamacare, 'You're going to destroy my presidency.'

From National Journal:

A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator's comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth.

Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.

"Let's just lay everything on the table," Grassley said. "A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't some changes made ... and the president says, 'You're going to destroy my presidency.' "

Now, a pre-recess vote on Obamacare looks unlikely even to top democrats.

From The Hill:

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that a pre-recess vote on healthcare reform is unlikely.

“We’re going to take a little longer to get it right,” Durbin told The Hill when asked about the oft-stated goal of a vote on or before Aug. 7, when a monthlong Senate recess begins. “Initially we had hoped for a full vote by then, but I don’t think it’s going to be possible.”

Delaying the vote until after Labor Day would all but erase hopes of getting a bill to President Obama by mid-October, since the House and Senate versions would have to be reconciled in conference negotiations — assuming they pass their chambers.

Durbin said the bill was still largely on track, however, denying that momentum has stalled.

GOP Leader John Boehner to Rahm Emanuel: No you didn't "rescue the economy"

GOP Leader John Boehner responds to Rahm Emanuel's "rescued the economy" statement.

An Inconvenient Cooling trend

Al Gore's hometown set a record low yesterday. What an inconvenient truth that must be.

From WHNT19:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cool weather has broken a previous low temperature for July 21 in Nashville that was set when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.

When the temperature at the National Weather Service station dipped to 58 degrees at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it wiped out the previous record low for the date of 60 degrees, which was set in 1877.

NWS forecaster Bobby Boyd noted it was the third consecutive morning when Nashville either tied or broke a daily low temperature record.