No Mail For You!

Democrats continue to raise obfuscation to an art form, wantonly contradicting the fiscal predictions of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) by insisting on telling the American people that their proposals will actually reduce the deficit. One Democrat congressman even went so far as to tell a town hall meeting that Obama's Universal Health Care would create a $6 billion surplus, much to the chagrin of the audience who promptly heckled him nearly off the stage. Hannity discussed this meeting and the video clearly shows that the audience is obviously better informed than the congressman assessed.



Last night President Obama had yet another televised press conference in which he blathered on at length about a proposal which he has previously admitted that he is unfamiliar. When a caller to a show that Obama was on recently asked about the provision on page sixteen of the bill that would prohibit people from getting new private insurance, Obama confessed that he was "unfamiliar with that portion" of the bill. That doesn't stop him from bloviating on the subject with platitudinous rhetoric, however.

Now we have the controlling Democrats in the House of Representatives who are actually blocking House Republicans from sending out mailings to their constituents that are critical of the health care proposal. According to Roll Call:

Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.

House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.

The dispute centers on a chart created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan.

When the Democrats retook Congress in 2006, they promised transparency and bi-partisanship. We have seen neither from them. All during the excruciatingly long campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama promised a new atmosphere of cooperation and transparency. So far he has managed to break his promises one by one, teaming with his fellow Democrats in ramming through pieces of legislation that no one - including those who actually vote on them - has had time to read.

Now, even in the face of growing opposition to this health care plan and accompanying evidence and analyses that portend economic disaster, Obama and Congressional Democrats simply say that all of it is untrue. Deny, deny, deny. This is how they claim that their motives for blocking Republicans' correspondence with their constituents are based on rules. That seems awfully convenient; simply censor your opposition by claiming that they are lying.

I hope the Democrats savor the flavor, and remember this tactic's usefulness in 2011.

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The Epitome Of Hypocrisy

What am I missing? I know there must be something to explain the complete lack of integrity embedded within the Democrat Party, but that explanation eludes me completely. I am left scratching my head in puzzlement at the antics of members of that party.

Democrats routinely endorse the release of classified and sensitive information that could damage Republicans despite the possibility that such information may pose a potential danger to America as a whole. They were all for the release of information on the alleged torture at Guantanamo, and clamored for the release of photographic evidence of it. Thankfully, President Obama felt that doing so would damage his political viability and changed course. I would prefer that his motives had been more noble, but doing the right thing is all that matters. After all, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Nancy Pelosi has been in the hot seat ever since it was disclosed that - despite her loud protestations over the Bush administrations actions in Guantanamo - she knew about it all along and did nothing. She subsequently tried to lay blame on the former president and the CIA, but no one was buying.

Democrats on intelligence committees also lamented the fact that they were prohibited from speaking of their briefings, a restriction that they admitted made them reluctant to even attend for that very reason. But not only did they not object when information was leaked, they applauded when potentially damaging information came to light, never stopping to consider what our enemies would do with the revelations and only expressing glee at the prospect of hurting Republicans.

So it is with absolute astonishment that I learn of the Democrats fury over some Republicans having revealed that harsh interrogations yielded good intelligence that prevented attacks on America. According to Newsmax:

GOP members on the Intelligence Committee disclosed they were informed that enhanced interrogation methods such as waterboarding resulted in intelligence that preempted terrorist attacks. Democrats are furious that Republicans revealed information obtained in a closed-door session.

“I am absolutely shocked that members of the Intelligence committee who attended a closed-door hearing… then walked out that hearing – early, by the way – and characterized anything that happened in that hearing,” Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations chairwoman Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., told The Hill. “My understanding is that’s a violation of the rules. It may be more than that.”

Why do Democrats never express the same level of outrage when sensitive material is revealed to enemies of America? For some Republicans to simply disclose that questionable procedures worked is no cause for alarm, but a cause for celebration. Perhaps that is what infuriates the Democrats so deeply; A Republican administration did something right, and they just can't stand it.

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