Archive for August, 2009

Bush Volunteered for Vietnam, CBS’s Mapes Knowingly Omitted from Story

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

“On Tuesday, FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor hosted FNC analyst Bernard Goldberg as the former CBS News correspondent highlighted a story recently posted on his Web site, BernardGoldberg.com, in which he complains of how little mainstream media attention was given to the fact that former President George W. Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam as part of his service in the Texas Air National Guard, but that he was turned down because other pilots were more experienced, and that CBS News producer Mary Mapes, even though she knew this part of the story before the report aired, did not include this important angle in the infamous piece by Dan Rather that used forged documents to paint Bush as trying to avoid Vietnam War service.”

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$9 trillion deficit

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

“Figures released by the White House budget office foresee a cumulative $9 trillion deficit from 2010-2019, $2 trillion more than the administration estimated in May. Moreover, the figures show the public debt doubling by 2019 and reaching three-quarters the size of the entire national economy.”

via White House projects bigger deficits, bigger debt – Yahoo News.

“U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will be $1.5 trillion next year, both higher than previous Obama administration forecasts because of a recession that was deeper and longer than expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said.”

via Bloomberg.com

Obama’s Health-Care Mess

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson

Ironies abound in the health-care debate. Bush was pilloried by the Obamanians for 1 not planning for the postwar occupation of Iraq; and 2 not being able to articulate the ends and means of the administration’s war. Yet in the hubris of high ratings, Obama apparently felt that he neither had to present a comprehensive finished blueprint of health-care reform, nor that he or his associates should have to sum it up succinctly and clearly. The result is that most Americans not only do not know what the administration plan is, but sense that their president does not either.

The Rest of the Story…  Obama’s Health-Care Mess – Victor Davis Hanson – The Corner on National Review Online.