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Monday, July 20, 2009
RNC Chairman Steele on Pres. Obama's Health Proposal (Video)
Haven't heard from this guy in a while...
When asked if President Obama's plan represents socialism Michael Steele responded, "Yes. Next question."At the 2:58 mark:
The AP reports:
The chairman of the Republican Party on Monday called President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care "socialism," accusing the president of conducting a risky experiment that will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage.
Michael Steele, in remarks at the National Press Club, also said the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and key congressional committee chairmen are part of a "cabal" that wants to implement government-run health care.
"Obama-Pelosi want to start building a colossal, closed health care system where Washington decides. Republicans want and support an open health care system where patients and doctors make the decisions," Steele said.
Asked if Obama's health care plan represented socialism, Steele responded: "Yes. Next question."
Obama has repeatedly said he does not favor a government-run health care system. Legislation taking shape in the House envisions private insurance companies selling coverage in competition with the government.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Peter Orszag On Fox News Sunday "Economy Worse Than We Thought" (Video)
Obama's budget director echoes Joe Biden's statement last week. Hey, when it doubt, blame Bush!
Is anyone else thinking that maybe this administration should get it facts straight before rushing to pass bogus legislation which mortgages our future and leads us down the path towards socialism? Or worse?
He did say though, there is hope in the future:
Orszag: Economy slowly improving
Orszag sees signs that the economy is beginning to improve, even as the unemployment rate grew beyond the administration's initial estimates.
The "sense of panic and fear" in the financial markets has dissipated, said Orszag, and the second quarter GDP numbers are likely to improve from the first quarter. The economy will start to recover at the end of the year, but unemployment will remain high, he said.
"Mixed messages are part of what happens during these kinds of periods," he said. "This took a while to build up it's going to take a while to get out of it."
Taliban Releases Video of Captured US Soldier, Bowe R. Bergdahl, from Afghanistan (Video)
Footage of Private First Class Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23.
The AP reports:
The soldier said the date is July 14. He says he was captured when he lagged behind on a patrol.
He is interviewed in English by his captors, and he is asked his views on the war, which he calls extremely hard, his desire to learn more about Islam and the morale of American soldiers, which he said was low.
Asked how he was doing, the soldier said on the video:
"Well I'm scared, scared I won't be able to go home. It is very unnerving to be a prisoner."
He begins to answer questions in a matter-of-fact and sober voice, occasionally facing the camera, looking down and sometimes looking to the questioner on his left.
He later chokes up when discussing his family and his hope to marry his girlfriend.
"I have my girlfriend, who is hoping to marry," he said. "I have a very, very good family that I love back home in America. And I miss them every day when I'm gone. I miss them and I'm afraid that I might not ever see them again and that I'll never be able to tell them that I love them again and I'll never be able to hug them."
He is also prompted his interrogators to give a message to the American people.
"To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home," he said. "Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here, wasting our time and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. Please bring us home. It is America and American people who have that power."
The video is not a continuous recording — it appears to stop and start during the questioning.
Bergdahl is a United States soldier who was captured by Taliban forces in eastern Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has identified the American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured.
The Defense Department said in a statement Sunday that the soldier is Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. The statement also says his status is now classified as missing-captured, rather than whereabouts unknown.
In a video posted online by the Taliban on Saturday, he's heard saying he's "scared I won't be able to go home."
Before the Pentagon released Bergdahl's identity, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to The Associated Press that the man in the 28-minute video was the captured soldier.
The military said on July 2 that a U.S. soldier had disappeared after walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan with three Afghan counterparts and was believed to have been taken prisoner.
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