16
september
2009
Men hvad så hvis han ER en løgner, hykler og kujon? Nå… Fakta er irrelevante - bare vi taler pænt!
Repræsentanterne Hus har publiceret en opdateret guide til debat, hvoraf det fremgår, at der er specifikke ting, man bør undlade at kalde præsidenten (mit fremhæv). Gad dog vide, hvad der har medført denne lille opdatering?
Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:
* refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
* refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
* refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
* refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”
Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:
* call the President a “liar.”
* call the President a “hypocrite.”
* describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
* charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
* refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
* refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”
Politico via Drudge
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29
august
2009
Fra CATO institute om Præsident Obamas forsigtige omgang med sandheden fsva. den enkelte amerikaners mulighed for at beholde sin nuværende sundhedsforsikring:
To go straight to the chapter and verse: under Section 59(B)(a) of HR3200, the bill making its way through the House, and Section 151 of the bill that passed out of a Senate committee, every American would be required to buy health insurance.
And not just any insurance: to qualify, a plan would have to meet certain government-defined standards. For example, under Section 122(b) of the House bill, all plans must cover hospitalization; outpatient hospital and clinic services; services by physicians and other health professionals, as well as supplies and equipment incidental to their services; prescription drugs, rehabilitation services, mental health and substance-abuse treatment; preventive services (to be determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Preventive Services Task Force); and maternity, well-baby, and well-child care, as well as dental, vision, and hearing services for children under age 21.
But that’s not all. Section 1239(b) of the bill also establishes a federal Health Benefits Advisory Committee, headed by the U.S. surgeon general, which will have the power to develop additional minimum benefit requirements. There is no limit to how extensive those future required benefits may be.
If your current health insurance doesn’t meet all those requirements, you won’t be immediately forced to drop your current insurance for a government-specified plan. But you would be required to switch if you lose your current insurance or “if significant changes are made to the existing health insurance plan.”
More critically, for the 70 percent of us who get our insurance through work, those plans would all have to satisfy the government’s benefit requirements within five years.
More likely, your employer will simply find that the increased cost and administrative burden is not worth it, and will dump you into the government-run “public option.”
The Lewin Group, an independent actuarial firm, estimates that under the House version of the bill, as many as 89.5 million workers will simply lose their current employer-provided plan and be forced into government-run insurance.
Michael D. Tanner: Like Your Health Plan? Read This
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23
juni
2009
I was one of these teenagers. And so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it’s been with you for a long time
Sådan siger Obama om vedtagelsen af den strengeste antirygelov nationen hidtil har set, en lov der giver FDA store beføjelser i deres bestræbelser på at få tobakskompagnierne ned med nakken. Mage til politiserende følelsesporno skal man (faktisk måske desværre ikke) lede længe efter!
Obama kunne desuden berette, at det naturligvis ikke er folks egen “skyld” at de ryger, det er de forfærdelige reklamer, som virksomhederne spreder som gift. Og han ved det. Han ryger jo selv, og har længe forsøgt at stoppe. Men ih, åh, det er så hårdt, og man er fuldstændig uden egen vilje i dette spørgsmål. Manden, der ellers har overnaturlige evner - det så vi selv i det mediecirkus, der blev stablet på benene i forbindelse med fluesmækkershowet - magter simpelthen ikke at kvitte smøgen.
Flot evne at vende egen “svaghed” til en manipulerende appel. Han kunne lige så vel have sagt: I know, my People… I feel your pain. I am a victim too! Iøvrigt et slogan, der kan bruges i fremtiden - og sikkert vil blive det - til at få folkets opbakning til en hvilken som helst regulering, der passer mandens dagsorden, forestiller jeg mig.
Spin til side. Streng antirygelovgivning er ikke noget nyt i USA, hvor de fleste stater længe har forbudt rygning på såkaldt offentlige steder. Og til dette er der kun at sige, hvad man hele tiden har sagt:
Artikler her:
Forbes
Washington Times
…og selvfølgelig fuld og ukritisk dækning på TV2 News
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