The State Media slowly awakening to Hypocrisy

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Finally someone is starting to wake up and call Obama on his bait and switch schemes. This is a gem. How will he spin this lie?

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we'll see what happens...lol...i love how that clip ended, though.


edit: he's leaving it on the table, but i wouldn't call him a hypocrite until he uses it...right now it's just a bargaining chip
 
Personally, I think it's sad he's even using it as a pawn. My wife's best friend throws it out every time she morphs into a obamabot.
 
This is a gem. How will he spin this lie?

Which lie are you talking about?

President Obama doesn't mention taxes in the clip. He talks about reducing costs; not raising taxes.

Senator Baucus does not mention taxes in the clip. He talks about flexibility.

The Spinmeister tells us that they are talking about taxes, but produces no evidence. Is that the lie you are talking about?

GTFOH! :smh:
 
Which lie are you talking about?

President Obama doesn't mention taxes in the clip. He talks about reducing costs; not raising taxes.

Why is ths on the table? He scolded McCain on this issue.

Senator Baucus does not mention taxes in the clip. He talks about flexibility.

The Spinmeister tells us that they are talking about taxes, but produces no evidence. Is that the lie you are talking about?

GTFOH! :smh:

This is why I like using clips to show politicians in their own words. He made the campaign promises not me. This cable station has always been in the tank for Obama. I'm simply posting the report of Obama taking back the hope and change he promised you.

Source the Washington Post

Updated 7:58 p.m.
By Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly
President Obama, in a pivot from some of his harshest campaign rhetoric, told Democratic senators yesterday that he is willing to consider taxing employer-sponsored health benefits to help pay for a broad expansion of coverage.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Obama expressed a willingness to consider changing the existing tax exclusion. The decision would probably anger liberal supporters such as labor unions, but such a tax change would raise enormous sums of money as Congress and the White House are struggling to find the estimated $1.2 trillion needed to pay for health-care reform over the next decade.

"Yeah, it's something that he might consider," Baucus told reporters after the meeting between Obama and Democratic lawmakers. "That was discussed. It's on the table." Obama had summoned about two dozen senators to the White House to keep up the pressure to enact a comprehensive health-care overhaul this year.

White House officials moved quickly to clarify that taxing the health insurance provided by businesses is not Obama's first choice, but aides refused to rule out the possibility.

"The president made it clear during the campaign that he has serious concerns about taxing health-care benefits, and he has introduced his own revenue proposal, which he reiterated in today's meeting," spokesman Reid Cherlin said.

Obama instead urged senators to reconsider his proposal, which would raise federal revenue by reducing itemized deductions such as charitable contributions and mortgage payments for the wealthiest Americans, according to one adviser in the meeting. Obama included that idea in his budget, reporting that it would raise $317 billion over 10 years, a sizable "down payment" on the cost of health-care reform. But Congress immediately labeled the proposal a non-starter.

Private-sector businesses spend about $518 billion a year on their workers' health insurance, benefits that are not taxed. If workers had to pay taxes on their health coverage, it would raise $246 billion in revenue each year, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

Tax treatment of employer-sponsored health care cuts across party lines: Prominent Republicans such as Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.) support imposing a tax on certain health plans, while Democrats such as Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) say that a tax would unfairly hurt middle-class workers with good benefits.

Health analysts from across the political spectrum have pressed for changing the tax treatment, arguing in part that the exclusion provides the greatest tax relief to high-salaried workers with generous insurance plans.

Last month, Baucus said he did not support eliminating the exclusion but was eyeing a benefit cap. Experts have outlined two likely approaches: taxing health benefits for workers above a certain income level; or taxing benefits over a certain value, perhaps $14,000 a year.

Administration officials meeting with lobbyists in recent days have projected that a benefit cap might generate $35 billion a year, though Finance Committee staff said the number could be much higher.

Nevertheless, the issue represents treacherous politics for Obama, given his attacks on Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who advocated a similar approach during the campaign.

"For the first time in American history, he wants to tax your health benefits," Obama said in September. "Apparently, Senator McCain doesn't think it's enough that your health premiums have doubled. He thinks you should have to pay taxes on them, too."

Strongly desiring to declare a health-care victory this year, Obama is now taking a more nuanced approach, aides said. "His style of leadership is to say, let's not get bogged down; let's keep moving forward," said one senior adviser who was in yesterday's meeting. "He's not ruling anybody's ideas out."

Staff writer Michael D. Shear and staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.
 
This is that "DENOUNCE" bullshit all over again!

"The president made it clear during the campaign that he has serious concerns about taxing health-care benefits, and he has introduced his own revenue proposal, which he reiterated in today's meeting," spokesman Reid Cherlin said.

"His style of leadership is to say, let's not get bogged down; let's keep moving forward," said one senior adviser who was in yesterday's meeting. "He's not ruling anybody's ideas out."


The press prefers it when politicians (or people in general) are at odds with each other. It makes for better reading. Barack Obama made a campaign promise to "work together...". He is keeping it so far, and the press isn't feeling it.

Off the subject but to the point: I watched the clip of "Ola Ray on MJ". Was that reporter trying to start something, or what? :smh:
 
Agreed. If it bleeds it leads. If may ask to which clip are you refering to? Could you provide the link or video? Thanks
 
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