Reality Checks: Face to Face
During last week’s town hall on health insurance reform in New Hampshire, we wanted to make sure as many people as possible had a chance to ask their questions. So in addition to all the questions the President took inside Portsmouth High School, we also took several questions from people hanging out outside the school. What we [...]
Did Krupskaya cave?
We have closely followed the story of Obama administration flack Linda Douglass — a cross between Nurse Ratched and Mrs. Lenin — and her invitation to report fishy comments on Obamacare to the flag@whitehouse.gov official email address. I thought the project was, as the liberals say nowadays, un-American, and rather obviously so. How [...]
A promise Obama knows he won’t keep
President Obama has repeatedly asserted that if the health care reform he supports is enacted, everyone will be able to keep their current coverage. For example, on Saturday, in Grand Junction, Colorado, he declared:
I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren’t listening. If you like your health-care plan, you keep your health-care [...]
Quid Pro Quo
We noted here that the drug companies intend to spend $150 million–more than the McCain campaign’s entire television advertising budget–on ads supporting Obamacare. Today on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Linda Douglass whether the ad campaign was part of the deal that the drug companies struck with the Obama administration:
BLITZER: Did the White House make [...]
Does Linda Douglass know about this? part 2
Barack Obama’s denial that he has advocated a “single payer,” Canadian style health care system may not have been the most comic moment of his Portsmouth dog-and-pony show. He also disputed the notion that adding a government plan to “compete” with private insurance plans would drive insurers out of business, indirectly creating a single [...]
When a President Lies: Why Linda Douglass Should Resign
And the Arthur Sylvester Award for Lying in Service to the
Government goes to…Linda Douglass, the Obama communications
director for the White House Office of Health Care Reform.
Who was Arthur Sylvester and for what did Ms. Douglass, a former
ABC News reporter, win this dubious award?
Arthur [...]
