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[h=1]Corruption probes hit Dems across US[/h]
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  • A WAVE OF CORRUPTION arrests and probes is roiling Dems, including arrests of now-former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon, left, and Calif. state Sen. Leland Yee just this week, posing a potential image problem in an election year.
 
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Michelle Obama Whines: It's "Very Rare" That I Get to Travel Out of America
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Michelle Obama had the audacity to say that it's "very rare" that she travels outside the US...while she does frequently on the taxpayer's dime. Sickening.


[h=2]Michelle Obama Whines: It’s “Very Rare” That I Get to Travel Out of America[/h]
We are all aware of the First Lady’s recent trip to China – the one where she took her two daughters, her mother, and over 70 members of support staff – where she stayed in a [URL="http://conservativetribune.com/michelle-lavish-china-vacation/"]hotel room that cost around $8,400 per night
. The trip was labeled as “part tourism, part soft diplomacy.”
And Trey Gowdy (among others) is arguing to have the House defund the Obamas’ vacations. He’s right. Why should the American taxpayer be paying for the outrageously lavish and frequent trips the Obama family takes all over the world? Even if the frequency of their vacations wasn’t ridiculous enough, the price tag absolutely is. A recent report estimates that the vacation flights alone on Air Force One have totaled to above $15,000,000.
But what really makes us furious is the fact that Michelle Obama is still complaining. She apparently believes she isn’t allowed to travel overseas enough. In fact, she told a group of Chinese children (on her recent overseas trip to China) that it is “very rare” for her to take trips…overseas…where she is.




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[h=1]12 Times Republicans Claimed Nobody Would Sign Up For Obamacare[/h] By Igor Volsky and Sy Mukherjee on March 27, 2014 at 4:04 pm

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a town hall meeting hosted by Heritage
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On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that more than seven million Americans signed-up for coverage through the Affordable Care Act, undermining the claims of critics who seized on the law’s troubled early rollout to predict that measure could never attract enough Americans to succeed. Below are some of the worst predictions after the administration published the first enrollment figures in November of 2013:
[h=3]1. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)[/h]
“Above all, this report is a symbol of the failure of the President’s health care law… It is a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. [CNN]
[h=3]2. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA)[/h]
“Pretty stunning…Just another day in a series of mess-ups in Obamacare.”
[h=3]3. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)[/h]
[h=3]4. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)[/h]
“But this Administration will trudge ahead. Keep the doors open. Thousands of people enrolled instead of millions. They just released a number this week for the 36 states using the malfunctioning federal Exchange. Fewer than 27,000 people. Including people who haven’t actually committed to purchase the plans … those who have put it in their shopping cart….So the Administration will limp along with this pitiful sign up process hoping to get people properly assigned to health plans.
[h=3]5. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-OH)[/h]
He called the numbers “staggeringly low.”
[h=3]6. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-AR)[/h]
[h=3]7. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)[/h]
“The 27,000 enrollments through federally facilitated exchange pale in comparison to the millions of Americans who have lost their health insurance under ObamaCare… It is time for the president to finally acknowledge ObamaCare isn’t working and to delay the law, in fairness to families and individuals.”
[h=3]8. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)[/h]
The numbers released today are indicative of failure. Not just the failure of a website, but a failure of the underlying law, a failure to keep promises to the American people, and, above all, a failure of leadership.”
[h=3]9. Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)[/h]
“Today, we learned only 371 Kansans have been able to successfully sign up [in October] for a health care plan on the federally run Obamacare exchange. And only a mere 106,185 total Americans have been able to sign up on both the federal and state exchanges across the country. These numbers are abysmal; the administration has not met even 25 percent of its enrollment goal for the first month.”
[h=3]10. Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA)[/h]
[h=3]11. Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR)[/h]
[h=3]12. Rep. David Camp (R-MI)[/h]
“Even if this data was an accurate picture, the administration would need to enroll 68,000 people per day to meet their year-end goal…However, the website isn’t even designed to handle that much traffic and is currently capable of only handling less than half that much… With the little data we have so far, I fear we could see a fundamental breakdown of the insurance market with coverage gaps and skyrocketing premiums – pricing millions of Americans out of health care, yet still forced to pay the individual mandate tax.”
[h=5]Update[/h]
During the Nov. 18, 2013 broadcast of his radio show, Mike Huckabee said: “To compare that, 281 people in New Hampshire were issued permits to hunt moose. So I mean, the fact is, you’ve got more people wanting to go moose hunting in New Hampshire than want Obamacare.”

[h=5]Update[/h]
This post was updated on April 1 to reflect the latest enrollment news.
 

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[h=1]GOP pounces on Obamacare enrollment figure[/h]
By Carrie Dann, NBC News Republicans hammered the White House on Wednesday for low October Obamacare enrollment, saying the paltry number of Americans who have bought insurance through the new health care exchanges demonstrates that the legislation, as a whole, has failed.

The Department of Health and Human Services released data showing that fewer than 27,000 signed up for an Affordable Care Act plan through the federal website Healthcare.gov between Oct. 1 and Nov. 2. Including those who signed up through state-based exchanges, just over 100,000 Americans have picked health plans through the program.
“This report is a symbol of the failure of the president’s health care law,” House Speaker John Boehner said of the newly-released numbers. “It is a rolling calamity that must be scrapped.”
Related: 26,000 signed up through federal Obamacare website in first month, administration says
As lawmakers mull a legislative fix for insurance plan cancellations under the new law, Boehner said the data “underscore the urgent need for President Obama to allow people to keep the plans they have and like.”
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the numbers will be "cold comfort for the millions who've lost the coverage they liked and the millions more facing higher premiums. Only in Washington could placing an item in a virtual shopping cart -- without even buying it -- count as a sale. If private businesses used that standard, online retailers would be poised to announce their best earnings season in American history."
Opponents of the health care plan argue that the enrollment numbers show that problems with the law go well beyond technical problems with the website.
“While the Obama White House is sure to blame the poor enrollment numbers on the many unacceptable tech glitches that have frustrated Americans, I maintain that the larger reason ObamaCare has failed is because it was conceived based on a lie that Americans could keep their healthcare plans and has failed to address our number one healthcare problem in America: soaring costs,” said Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus in a statement. “Reasons one million and one million and one why the federal government should not be running our healthcare.”
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., accused the administration of providing muddled data that fails to give a full picture of who is signing up for ACA coverage and what kind of plans consumers are buying.
‘Even if this data was an accurate picture, the Administration would need to enroll 68,000 people per day to meet their year-end goal,” he said. “However, [HealthCare.gov] isn't even designed to handle that much traffic and is currently capable of only handling less than half that much.”
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida called the numbers "abysmal" and said the law is "deeply flawed and ultimately cannot be fixed."
Other GOP heavies took to Twitter to express their outrage.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who led the fight earlier this year to tie funding the federal government to a repeal of the health care law, compared the enrollment number to a single sporting event held in his home state: “106,185 people enrolled in Obamacare. 108,713 attended the 2010 NBA All-Star Game in Cowboys Stadium,” he tweeted.
The administration had warned for weeks that the initial numbers would be relatively modest, saying that problems with the HealthCare.Gov website would further dampen the participation of consumers already likely to wait until later in the enrollment period to sign up. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters shortly before the release of the data that “no one will be satisfied with the numbers because they will be below what we sought.”
Earlier, Carney argued that part of the reason for the low numbers would be that young and healthy people will shop around and delay their purchase of insurance until later in the enrollment period.
“It was always the case, even prior to the problems with the launch of the website, that enrollment in the first month would be low,” he said Tuesday, adding that “challenging” problems with HealthCare.Gov will make those numbers “even lower than expected.”

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[h=1]Democrats targeted by FBI in raids across the nation[/h]

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014






Democrats in California, New York, and North Carolina were targeted by the FBI on Wednesday. All are targets of unrelated federal investigations.
Democratic state Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco was taken in by federal authorities on public corruption charges after a series of FBI raids Wednesday morning. Also arrested as part of the investigation was “infamous Chinatown gangster Raymond ‘Shrimp Boy’ Chow,” according to the San Jose Mercury News.

SEE ALSO: Charlotte mayor facing corruption charges

Yee was a candidate for California Secretary of State.
New York Assemblyman William Scarborough (D., Queens) had both his Queens and Albany offices raided by FBI agents on Wednesday and was met by agents at his hotel room.
The FBI is investigating per diem payments that reimburse legislators for days spent in the Capitol.
Scarborough told reporters that the FBI raid is the result of a “tabloid hit job.”
Charlotte, N.C., Democratic Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested on public corruption charges of theft and bribery as a result of a four-year FBI sting operation.
Cannon collected cash bribes and other items of value from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen who wanted to do business in Charlotte,according to U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Anne Tompkins.
The month of March has been rife with Democrats on the crime blotter.
Rhode Island’s Democratic Speaker of the House Gordon Fox had both his home and office raided by the FBI last week. Illinois state Rep. Keith Farnham, also a Democrat, had his home and office raided as the FBI searched for documents “pertaining to the possession, receipt or distribution of child pornography.”


 

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[h=1]Hobby Lobby’s contraception hypocrisy[/h] 04/03/14 10:24 AM—Updated 04/03/14 10:45 AM




By Adam Serwer
Hobby Lobby, the corporation suing the U.S. government on the grounds that providing its employees with health insurance violates its owners’ religious beliefs by forcing them to cover the cost of contraception, has invested millions in the pharmaceutical firms that produce contraception and abortion drugs the company’s owners consider to be abortifacients.
“If Hobby Lobby in fact invests a lot of money in employer 401(k) matches in companies that manufacture such drugs, that should significantly weaken Hobby Lobby’s claim that the contraception mandate imposes a substantial burden,” says Samuel Bagenstos, a former Obama administration Justice Department official and a law professor at the University of Michigan.
That breathtaking scoop was reported by Mother Jones earlier this week. The magazine found that Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) employee retirement plans had invested at least $73 million dollars in drug companies that produce contraception and abortion drugs. Hobby Lobby could have turned to investment firms that specialize in “faith-based investing” and avoided capitalizing the companies they say create products they find morally objectionable, but they didn’t.




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[h=3]The future of reproductive rights[/h]
Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain, and Conestega Wood, a custom kitchen cabinet manufacturer, are arguing before the Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act, which compels insurance companies to include contraception in their health care plans, places a “substantial burden” on the owners’ “sincerely held” religious beliefs, violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
“The fact that Hobby Lobby retirement funds are heavily invested in companies that make Plan B and Ella does raise questions about the sincerity of their religious opposition to having insurance companies provide those same drugs,” says Caroline Mala Corbin, a law professor at the University of Miami.
Unfortunately for supporters of Obama’s healthcare law, the news likely comes too late to matter to the high court’s deliberations, because Hobby Lobby’s investments are not part of the factual record before the court.
Courts have also been reluctant to delve into the sincerity of religious beliefs, and even if the high court did ultimately come to the conclusion that Hobby Lobby wasn’t sincere in its objections to paying for plans that their employees might use to obtain contraception, they could still rule that corporations have a right to free exercise of religion. The Mennonite-owned Conestoga Wood doesn’t appear to have made similar investments.
Hobby Lobby didn’t respond to Mother Jones’ requests for comment. But even if the information had been part of the factual record before the court, the company might have simply argued that they weren’t aware of the investments and said they were switching to “faith-based” funds.
David Gans of the Constitutional Accountability Center said Hobby Lobby’s investments were “further illustration why it makes little sense to extend to secular, for-profit corporations rights of religious exercise – rights that at their core are concerned with conscience, conviction and human dignity,” Gans said. “How can Hobby Lobby claim that it is exercising religion when it refuses to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees when it is investing, through its 401(k) plan, in companies that are responsible for manufacturing the contraceptives that allegedly offend the corporation’s conscience?”
This recent news probably won’t sway the high court. But it raises interesting questions about the extent to which Hobby Lobby’s opposition to contraception has to do with religious exercise, and how much it has to do with plain old political opposition to the Affordable Care Act.
 

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[h=2]Reid Attacks Koch for Offenses Committed by Reid Donors[/h]Senate Dem leader received tens of thousands of dollars from companies that did business in Iran





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BY: Lachlan Markay
April 4, 2014 5:00 am
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Wednesday criticized a Koch Industries subsidiary for allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran even though Reid has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from companies that have done exactly that.
Reid also claimed that the Kochs support the recently introduced House Republican budget proposal. Neither the company nor its owners has taken a position on the legislation.
Reid’s claims were part of an ongoing offensive against libertarian philanthropists Charles and David Koch. Reid has accused them of being “un-American” for donating to groups that oppose the Democratic Party’s agenda.
A page on Reid’s Senate website is devoted entirely to attacking the Kochs. It initially cited former White House economist Austan Goolsbee, who falsely claimed in 2010 that Koch Industries does not pay any corporate taxes.
That claim remains on the website, with its text crossed out. Below is an “update” that claims the Kochs “have supported the Ryan budget, which provides tax cuts for the wealthy and protects taxpayer subsidies for big businesses and oil companies.”
The page links to a website from a left-wing nonprofit on the budget introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) this week, on which the Kochs have not taken a position.
Reid’s website goes on to quote from a heavily criticized Bloomberg article that accused Koch Industries of “sidestep[ping]” economic sanctions against Iran.
“The Kochs made improper payments to win contracts in Africa, India and the Middle East,” Reid claims. “And they sold millions of dollars of equipment to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.”
After evidence of the said improper payments came to light, Koch Industries commissioned an internal investigation and fired the responsible employees, according to Bloomberg.
Reid has accepted campaign contributions from companies that engage in even more widespread corruption abroad.
According to the Washington Examiner, Reid has accepted more than half a million dollars in contributions since 2009 from employees and political action committees of companies under investigation for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Reid has also taken tens of thousands of dollars from companies that, like Koch, have done business in Iran through foreign subsidiaries, including General Electric ($25,500 in PAC contributions), Hewlett-Packard ($14,500 in PAC contributions), and Sony ($14,500 in PAC contributions).
Reid has also taken $26,000 from Boeing’s PAC. The company is currently trying to reestablish its presence in Iran even though the country remains on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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