Category: Flip-Flop

Obama Justice Dept. Argued in Favor of Using Race As a Relevant Factor Among Others to Justify Immigration Stops

From CNSNews.com: In at least three court cases, President Obama’s Justice Department has argued in favor of federal law enforcement officers using race as a factor in determining whether to stop someone for a suspected immigration violation. It has done so despite the fact that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report [...]

CBS Reports Obama’s Unemployment Benefits Flip-Flop

From Michelle Malkin: President Obama and the Democrats have been calling out Republicans who opposed extending unemployment benefits without a way to account for the expenditure and piling on more debt. “May God have mercy on your souls,” said resident lunatic Rep. Alan Grayson in a fit of non-secularism to Republicans opposing the unfunded extension. But, [...]

Baucus Plan Eviscerates Obama’s Tax Promise

From The Heritage Foundation: From the September 20th ABC News This Week interview between George Stephanopolous and President Barack Obama: STEPHANOPOULOS: Probably the most definitive promise you made in the campaign is that no one in the middle class would get a tax increase on your watch. OBAMA: Right. STEPHANOPOULOS: Yet this week, Senator Rockefeller [...]

Obama: Legalize Illegals to Get Them Healthcare

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) on Wednesday evening that illegal immigrants would not get government funded health insurance under his health care reform, but said the debate over that plan underscores the need to legalize illegal immigrants so they can get that coverage. “As you know there’s been [...]

Fact Checking the White House: Congressmen Did Opt Out of Public Option

From The Heritage Foundation: Contrary to the White House’s video, member of Congress in the House Ways and Means Committee already have exempted themselves from a government-run health plan with the defeat of an amendment by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV). The amendment, which would have required members of Congress to enroll in the newly created [...]

The Obama Broken Promise of a Middle-Class Tax Hike is Coming

From The Heritage Foundation: Campaigning just last year, then-candidate Barack Obama repeatedly promised audiences at campaign stops across the country: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your personal gains tax, not any of [...]

Obama vs. Obama: Stimulus Would Help “Immediately” But Not In Four Months

From RightWingNews.com: President Obama Promised Help “Immediately” How immediate is immediately? Four months later…… AJ Strata: And what little stimulus money that has been spent (more on that at the end) has gone to keeping government bureaucrats in their cozy little jobs doing much of nothing. The private sector (where the vast majority of us [...]

Obama’s Gitmo Flip-Flop

From GOPUSA.com: Senate rebukes Obama, blocks Guantanamo shutdown By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press May 21, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare, bipartisan defeat for President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in [...]