{VIDEO} Town Hall Rage: 'We're Dying Out Here Because You Guys Are Being Nice Guys!'

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, not all members of Congress are using the full five-week vacation to play golf or sit on the beach. A small number are holding a town hall meeting, and some of them are getting an earful from a very disgruntled electorate. Voters are angry about everything from "Obama care" to Benghazi to the NSA. Griff Jenkins reports from a town hall meeting in Maryland.

GRIFF JENKINS, FOX CORRESPONDENT: If it's August, it's town hall season, and some brave members of Congress actually held them in 2013.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When is this government going to come clean with the American people and tell us what this secret law says, how it's being secretly interpreted, how it's being secretly implemented, and what it means to every person in this room!

REP. ANDY HARRIS (R), MARYLAND: I am very, very worried about what the NSA is doing.
We're going to find out that the NSA was not complying with the law. I don't know about you, but I'm offended by the government knowing the record of every person, of having access to every person I call.
(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... now they have all these embassies closed, and they still don't know what's going to happen there!

HARRIS: You have not seen the end of Benghazi. You have definitely not seen the end of the IRS investigation. There's no question you're not seeing the end of that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Innocent people, if you will, are getting slammed by partisan politics.
HARRIS: Let me ask you a question...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People are going to be losing (INAUDIBLE)

HARRIS: I think we heard some discontent with what's going on, with not taking care of the problems in this country. And I think you heard a lot of criticism of the president here tonight. You heard some criticism of Congress. You heard about the issues that people are worried about. People are frustrated. They're seeing an economy that's not recovering. They're seeing a president that is sitting on the sidelines, literally playing golf, literally fiddling while Rome is burning.

EUGENE CRAIG iii, MARYLAND RESIDENT: We do not feel that John Boehner effectively represents us. I mean, as the voice of the House of Representatives, I think John Boehner could do a much better job.

ED HUNTER, MARYLAND RESIDENT: I want Boehner up there defying this guy and saying, We're going to impeachment with you if you do not start obeying the laws!

(CROSSTALK)
HUNTER: Listen, we're dying out here because you guys are being nice guys! This is not a Boy Scout meeting!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's not! And you're acting like Boy Scouts! You've got to fight!
HUNTER: Because we're losing the country! I want to see more defiance!

We've seen this dozens of times, where Boehner will not -- will not fight or McConnell will not fight, where Paul Ryan and the debate with Joe Biden sit there and sat there and took it from him! And we're -- the American people are putting our hopes on these people to defend us, and we get nothing!

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Chuck Todd rips NBC entertainment division, calls Clinton mini-series ‘a nightmare’

On Thursday’s “Morning Joe,” NBC News political director and White House correspondent Chuck Todd vented his frustration with his own network’s decision to air a mini-series about former Secretary of State and potential 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

The mini-series is one example of a larger rivalry between NBC’s news division and NBC’s entertainment division, Todd said.

“The two entities are sometimes at war with each other,” he said. “I can’t tell you how many fights we’ve had internally about whether to cover — you know, we want to cover some live news event and those, you know, guys on the West Coast, they want to, you know, run some rerun of ‘Parks and Recreation’ or whatever because they’ll make money that way. And you know actually, the relationship is bad. It’s never great. It’s either OK or really bad.”

“Entertainment hates news,” he said. “All we do is take up precious time that they could sell out ads, you know, promoting ‘America’s Got Talent.’ … Actually, please, NBC Entertainment, can you please make some money? Thank God for all of the cable channels, right? Yay, Bravo, yay, USA.”

Todd explained to his fellow panelist on “Morning Joe” that the public doesn’t differentiate between the different divisions at NBC and argued that was problematic for him and the news division of the network.

“But the real issue is — the fact that Nicole [Wallace] didn’t know that — that’s somebody that’s well-informed about the machinations of how the media works,” Todd said. “This is why this mini-series is a total nightmare for NBC News. We know there’s this giant firewall, we have nothing to do with it, we know that we’d love probably to be as critical, or whatever it is going to be, if it comes out. But there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“And we’re going to only own the negative,” he continued. “Whether it’s negative because it’s the Clinton people are upset that it’s too tough on them, or negative because the Republicans think it’s this glorification of her. No matter what, only we are going to own it, because people are going to see the peacock and NBC, and they see NBC News, and they think: ‘Well, they can’t be that separate.’”

Via: The Daily Caller

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[VIDEO] Just how corrupt is the Obama administration?

In the final part of his interview with The Daily Caller, Tom Fitton — President of the non-partisan group Judicial Watch — discusses President Obama’s legacy and highlights the corruption that has taken place in the administration.

“Everyone says that his corruption or the corruption in the Obama administration isn’t personal to him. I don’t agree with that. We investigated his mortgage for instance. He got a sweetheart mortgage, his big house in Chicago was bought by working with Tony Rezko, who Obama knew at the time was under criminal investigation…. Obama played the Chicago game just as much as any Chicago politician you think of in terms of bad Chicago politicians.”

Via: The Daily Caller

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Obamacare installs new scrutiny, fines for charitable hospitals that treat uninsured people

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.

Charity for the uninsured is one of the factors that could discourage enrollment in Obamacare, which requires all Americans to purchase heath insurance or else face new taxes themselves from the IRS.

“It requires tax-exempt hospitals to do a community needs survey and file additional paperwork with the IRS every three years. This is to prove that the charitable hospital is still needed in their geographical area — ‘needed’ as defined by Obamacare and overseen by IRS bureaucrats,” said John Kartch, spokesman for Americans for Tax Reform.

“Failure to comply, or to prove this continuing need, could result in the loss of the hospital’s tax-exempt status. The hospital would then become a for-profit venture, paying income tax — hence the positive revenue score” for the federal government, Kartch said. “Obamacare advocates turned over every rock to find as much tax money as possible.”

Additionally, the rise in the number of insured Americans under Obamacare will make it more difficult for tax-exempt hospitals to continue meeting required thresholds for treating the uninsured, driving more hospitals into the for-profit category and yielding more taxable money for the federal government.

“The requirements generally apply to any section 501(c)(3) organization that operates at least one hospital facility,” according to a “Technical Explanation” report of new Obamacare provisions prepared by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on March 21, 2010, the day Obamacare passed.

Obamacare’s new requirements could slam hospitals with massive $50,000 fines if they fail to meet bureaucrats’ standards.

Via:The Daily Caller

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