Obama’s Deficit of Trust
January 28, 2010
We face a deficit of trust, deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. – President Obama, State of the Union Address, 01-27-2010
Deficit of Trust? He’s right about that. Ya know why they aren’t trusted. For one thing, they lie say things that are not true.
Tonight, Barack Obama said, “To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; and to give our people the government they deserve.
“That’s what I came to Washington to do. That’s why – for the first time in history – my Administration posts our White House visitors online. And that’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.”
Really? The what about The list of lobbyists in the Obama administration Do you believe someone after you discover that they have lied to you? Do not lies lead to a Deficit of Trust?
First, the McCain-Feingold bill has not been law for 100 years. John McCain isn’t that old. I thought President Obama was an attorney. He went to Columbia and Harvard. Gee… that really makes me wonder why his transcripts are kept secret. There are more reasons why the president’s statement is false.
The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making “a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election” under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any “expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication.”
Here is the sentence that followed the quote opening this post:
To close that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, to end the outsized influence of lobbyists, to do our work openly, to give our people the government they deserve.
(APPLAUSE)
That’s what I came to Washington to do.
- President Obama, State of the Union Address, 01-27-2010
Exactly what kind of government do you think “we deserve,” Mr President… one that has more secret meetings with lobbyists? I guess he has to smooth things over after pretending to “bash” then during the SOTU.
After Obama rips lobbyists, K St. insiders get private briefings
A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama’s administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday’s State of the Union.
The Treasury Department on Thursday morning invited selected individuals to “a series of conference calls with senior Obama administration officials to discuss key aspects of the State of the Union address.”[...]
Some lobbyists say they are extremely frustrated with the White House for criticizing them and then seeking their feedback. Others note that Democrats on Capitol Hill constantly urge them to make political donations.
One lobbyist said, “Bash lobbyists, then reach out to us. Bash lobbyists [while] I have received four Democratic invitations for fundraisers.”
Does that beat all or what?
The trust-deficit President said this:
We will continue to go through the budget line by line, page by page, to eliminate programs that we can’t afford and don’t work.
I don’t believe it. He was supposed to go through bills “line by line,” that’s a promise that he lied about never came to fruition.
Who can forget this little white… promise.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release July 29, 2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT TOWN HALL
Broughton High School
Raleigh, North Carolina[...]
AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: I’m for the public option. (Applause.)So I just want everybody to know, Congress will have time to read the bill. They will have time to debate the bill. They will have all of August to review the various legislative proposals. When we come back in September, I will be available to answer any question that members of Congress have. If they want to come over to the White House and go over line by line what’s going on, I will be happy to do that. (Applause.)
We are not trying to hide the ball here. We’re trying to get this done. But the American people can’t wait any longer. (Applause.) They want action this year. I want action this year. And with your help, we’re going to make it happen, North Carolina.
Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. (Applause.)END 1:10 P.M. EDT
Obama Might Regret Health Care Invitation
And when someone tried to take him up on the offer – to go through the approx. 2000 page bill “line by line,”
The Line-By-Line Health Care Challenge: An Update
VAN SUSTEREN: President Obama issued a challenge, and he said that, you know, After the recess, come to the White House. We’ll go line by line by line. He said that at a town hall meeting back in August.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If they want to come over to the White House and go over line by line what’s going on, I will be happy to do that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VAN SUSTEREN: In you sent him a letter and said, Fine, let’s do it. What happened?
ROE: Well, we sent a letter and a fax and actually e-mails. And we’ve done that twice. And I think next we’re going to try a smoke signal and a carrier pigeon. But we’d like, in all — in all candor, I would like to meet with him and let him, along with the other five people who asked to go along with this, the other five congressmen, and to share with him 30- plus years experience of practicing medicine what this will mean in reality. We’ve tried this in Tennessee. You and I talked about Tenncare, the problems with that in Tennessee. Massachusetts is having similar problems now with funding this. Nowhere in this legislation are costs adequately met.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, there are two issues. One is whether it’s a good bill. Another, though, is whether it could be understood, which is why I was encouraging — you would go to the White House and go line by line so we could see if it does make sense. Not even — forget the substance of it, but whether anyone can understand it.
ROE: I think we need to do that. And I — again, he needs to sit down with a doctor like myself that got up at 3:00 or 4:00 o’clock in the morning, went down to the emergency room, saw patients without health insurance and managed to work through the system.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. He’s got a big staff. Have you gotten, like, even a nice pleasant reply, like, I got your message?
ROE: No.
VAN SUSTEREN: Nothing?
ROE: Nothing.
VAN SUSTEREN: You mean they haven’t even said, Congressman, we’ll get back to you?
ROE: No. They haven’t said anything, I will get back to you (INAUDIBLE)
VAN SUSTEREN: And it’s coming from you personally.
ROE: Yes. We haven’t heard anything from the White House.
Perhaps he was busy, negotiating “health care” on CSPAN and streaming video. Those open, public and transparent “negotiations” probably meant that he was too busy to respond. Yeah. I’ll bet that’s it. </sarcasm>
It goes on and on. No wonder there is a “Deficit of Trust.”
Comments are welcome. The entire speech is here:
Transcript: Obama’s first State of the Union speech
I wonder who writes what he reads off of the teleprompter?
AP’s ten whoppers from the SOTU speech
Whoppers, huh? Things like that can cause a Deficit of Trust.
Let me add at least one other whopper that the AP doesn’t mention. Obama repeatedly insisted that he inherited massive budgetary problems from George Bush, but the Con Law professor may want to retake his high-school civics class. Congress passes budgets, not the President, and the last three budgets came from Democrats. In three years, they increased annual federal spending by $900 billion, while the admittedly profligate and irresponsible Republican Congresses under George Bush increased annual federal spending by $800 billion — in six years. And during the last three years before taking office as President, Obama served in the Senate that passed those bills, and he voted for every Democratic budget put in front of him.
Let’s see… what does he mean by “wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh?” “A big mush.”
Watch this:
Rahm Emanuel: WH Was “Involved” In Health Legislation “All The Way Through”
Sorry, I couldn’t embed that video. It’s a keeper! Here is a story about that claim:
Obama: I didn’t sign off on those shady health care deals. Really?
Really? That claim leads to a Deficit of Trust.
Who is it about?
http://wp.me/pFeEj-iV
Advertisement
Trackbacks