Category: Flip-Flop

Obamacare’s Last Best Hope

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To Get Bin Laden, Obama Relied on Policies He Decried

From National Review: Let’s cheerfully and ungrudgingly give credit to Barack Obama for approving the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In my column last Monday, I criticized Obama’s foreign policy, which was characterized by one of his advisers in an interview with The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza as “leading from behind.” [...]

The Obama Administration’s cloud of confusion explained

From Right Wing News: Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good. The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it’s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid. Here’s jj’s great summary: Okay, what do we have here: 1) There was a firefight. [...]

Obama to DeGeneres on Why He Opposed Individual Mandate: Forcing Uninsured to Buy Insurance Is Like Forcing Homeless to Buy Homes

From CNS News: Long before his administration went into federal court to fight 27 states that are now challenging the constitutionality of the federal government forcing people to buy health insurance, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told Ellen DeGeneres that—unlike his opponent Hillary Clinton—he opposed forcing the uninsured to buy  health insurance, saying that it would be like forcing [...]

White House Defends Obama’s Senate Vote against Raising Debt Ceiling But Warns of Catastrophe If GOP Doesn’t Raise Debt Ceiling

From CNSNews.com: The Obama administration is warning of catastrophic consequences if Congress does not increase the debt ceiling, the legal limit on how much the federal government can borrow, but Obama held a different view on the issue as a senator in 2006. The White House is now stressing the need to increase the debt [...]

Obama: Not Always a Fan of Upping Debt Ceiling

From National Review: While President Obama’s economic advisor Austin Goolsbee argued Sunday that a refusal by the Senate to increase the government’s debt ceiling (currently $14.3 trillion) would be “catastrophic” and a sign of “insanity,” that’s not the position the president has held in the past. Here are Obama’s thoughts on the debt limit in 2006, when [...]

Public Wary Of Obama Offshore Drilling Ban

From Townhall.com: Last week, Jillian highlighted the Obama administration’s sudden about-face on offshore drilling: The Obama administration reversed course Wednesday and said it wouldn’t allow drilling off the Atlantic coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico near Florida, citing safety concerns after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The decision was a fresh setback [...]

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 [...]