POLL: OBAMA LOSES TRUST OF MIDDLE CLASS

A Monmouth University poll released late last week was notable for the fact that, like many other polls, it showed President Obama upside down on job approval with registered voters--41% approve to 54% disapprove. A closer look, though, reveals the poll's most startling find: Obama has lost credibility with the middle class. When asked if Obama is sincere about refocusing his presidency on the middle class, only 46% believe it, while a full 50% do not.

Independents are more skeptical than overall voters. A full 54% don't believe the president, while only 42% do.

Looking back at his presidency, only 26% of those polled believe the middle class have benefited from Obama's policies, while 46% believe he hasn't done anything at all to help them. The middle class rank at the bottom of this poll, below Wall Street bankers, wealthy families, health insurance companies, and poor families.

When you look at Barack Obama's policies and priorities, it is not hard to guess why voters feel this way.

As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama promised to fix the economy. But while the media continues to champion the idea that we are in some sort of economic recovery, five years into the Obama administration, the GDP is still on life support, 90% of the jobs created under Obama are part-time, and wages are either stagnant or falling.

Via: Breitbart

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Personal 'Obamacare' accounts debut

WOW!! THIS EXCITES THE AVERAGE LOW INFORMATION VOTER WHO KNOWS NO BETTER!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) — You can now open your own personal "Obamacare" account — but you'll have to wait awhile before you can actually use it to pick a health insurance plan.

Just eight weeks before the Oct. 1 launch of open enrollment under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, administration officials announced Monday that the Affordable Care Act is a step closer to reality for millions of uninsured Americans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said consumers can now go online to healthcare.gov and create personal accounts by establishing a username and password.

However, serious shopping will have to wait until sometime in September, when details on insurance plans and premiums offered in local areas will become available through the new online marketplace.

While Monday's announcement may sound like partial progress only, Sebelius quickly moved to put the law's doubters on notice. "Let me be clear," she said. "We are on target and ready to flip the switch on Oct. 1."

The congressional Government Accountability Office and Treasury's inspector general for the Internal Revenue Service have been among the nonpartisan oversight organizations warning of possible delays with the rollout of the law.

The new personal account feature unveiled Monday will be available just in English for the time being. HHS said personal accounts will be coming soon to the Spanish-language marketplace, at cuidadodesalud.gov.

"Every step of the way there has been a delay in the Spanish language information, but they have gotten there," said Jennifer Ng'andu, health policy director for the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group. Hispanics are seen as a key constituency for the law's success. Although they are more likely to be uninsured, they are a young population whose premiums could help subsidize older adults.

Via: Yahoo News

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VIDEO: MSNBC's Schultz: Democracy is Dead in Detroit, Republican 'Parasites' to Blame

Ed Schultz has spent weeks blaming Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing on Republican policies, even though the city has been firmly in Democratic hands for decades. The bombastic MSNBC host has called the city a “conservative utopia,” arguing that Republican anti-union policies have “gutted Detroit.”

Schultz’s latest tirade came on Saturday’s The Ed Show, when the left-wing host bizarrely claimed that Republicans have “taken democracy away from Detroit.” Schultz further suggested that Republicans “circumvent[ed] local elections in this country” and “discard[ed] what people want and say about their communities.”

Now, it’s not entirely clear what Schultz meant by taking “democracy away.” He could have been referencing Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R-Mich.) efforts to help Detroit resolve its debts and rein in government spending. But Schultz couldn’t provide one fact to back up his wild accusations, instead doubling down on the harsh rhetoric:

The people who once built the cars won’t get the pensions they were promised, but the big automakers are doing just fine, after we help them out with federal money? But for the worker? Well, to hell with the workers. Workers don’t mean anything. This is the conservative utopia.

Apparently, Schultz forgot that a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House bailed out the “big automakers” in 2009, and that the same Democratic White House confirmed just last week that it would not bail out the city of Detroit. Hardly a “conservative utopia.”

Via: Newsbusters

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VIDEO: Louisiana Democrat-Turned-Republican Starts PAC for Black Conservative Candidates

Republican state senator Elbert Guillory of Louisiana, who recently switched from the Democratic party, has announced the creation of a new political action committee with the goal of electing black conservatives. Guillory will serve as honorary chairman of Free At Last PAC, which purports to promote "Republican values in all communities." Watch the video below:

"Liberalism has nearly destroyed black America," says Guillory. "And now it's time for black America to return the favor."

Via: Weekly Standard

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VIDEO: RUSH: GOP Should Pull Out Of All Debates On MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CNN. ‘There’s Nothing To Gain’

RUSH: “But if you do, if you produce these Hillary movies, we’re not showing up! We’re not gonna sign off on you moderating any of our debates.”  Now, maybe some people might find this good, or admirable or whatever.  I actually think that the chairman of the RNC could send this letter and simply say, “We’re not going to participate anymore in debates moderated by your journalists.”

Don’t make the Hillary movies part of it.  Okay, so they cancel the Hillary movies.  It’s okay then to let NBC’s biased moderators and journalists savage Republicans in debates?  My point is, the GOP/the RNC ought to pull out of all of these debates that show up on MSNBC, on NBC, on ABC, or CNN.  There’s nothing to gain! You know, for my whole life I’ve been hearing, “Well, Rush, it is what it is.

Via: Fox News

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Health Care Law Raises Pressure on Public Unions

Cities and towns across the country are pushing municipal unions to accept cheaper health benefits in anticipation of a component of the Affordable Care Act that will tax expensive plans starting in 2018. 

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The so-called Cadillac tax was inserted into the Affordable Care Act at the advice of economists who argued that expensive health insurance with the employee bearing little cost made people insensitive to the cost of care. In public employment, though, where benefits are arrived at through bargaining with powerful unions, switching to cheaper plans will not be easy.

Cities including New York and Boston, and school districts from Westchester County, N.Y., to Orange County, Calif., are warning unions that if they cannot figure out how to rein in health care costs now, the price when the tax goes into effect will be steep, threatening raises and even jobs.

“Every municipality with a generous health care plan is doing the math on this,” said J. D. Piro, a health care lawyer at a human resources consultancy, Aon Hewitt.

But some prominent liberals express frustration at seeing the tax used against unions in negotiations.

Via: NYT

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VIDEO: Krauthammer on Obama's al Qaeda Messaging

Does new threat prove Al Qaeda not really 'on the run'?

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Jay Carney Can't Decide if Al Qaeda is Alive or Dead

During a press briefing Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeatedly contradicted himself when asked about the threat al Qaeda poses to the United States and Americans overseas. Questions about specific al Qaeda threats came from reporters in light of the Obama administration's decision to close 19 U.S. Embassies around the world for an additional week.

During the 2012 presidential election, President Obama claimed al Qaeda had been decimated and that the terror group was "on the run." Today, Carney argued that the core of al Qaeda had been substantially decreased in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region while affiliate groups in the Arabian Peninsula had increased in strength. On the campaign trail, Obama made no distinction between al Qaeda's core and affiliate groups. In fact, Obama discussed the "core" and al Qaeda affiliates as one unit. 
"Al Qaeda in the Af/Pak region is on the run" Carney said one minute after saying, "Nobody should be under illusion there is no threat [from al Qaeda]."

When asked about specific threats to Americans traveling overseas, Carney said he could not give details about where threats were coming from and who was at risk. 

"I'm not going to get into specific intelligence matters," Carney said. "We face an ongoing threat from al Qaeda and its affiliates."

Via: Townhall
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TED CRUZ: I NEED A 'GRASSROOTS ARMY' TO DEFUND OBAMACARE, STOP AMNESTY

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday called on America’s grassroots conservative activists to rise up and organize an effort against the Washington, D.C. establishment to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government and must be voted on by the end of September.

In his “Freedom Minute” segment he distributes regularly to various media and radio outlets, Cruz said he needs a “grassroots army” to help him fight. He walked through how a year ago last week was the anniversary of him winning the GOP primary in Texas for U.S. Senate against all odds because of the grassroots support he received.

“Today I work for 26 million Texans, and your support is why I'm serving in office helping lead the fight to protect the Second Amendment, to secure the border, and to unshackle the free market economy,” Cruz said. 

“Now we need to activate another grassroots army--this time on a national scale. In September, Congress will have the opportunity to defund Obamacare--the disastrous health care law, which is killing jobs and hurting the health care system. The only way we can win this debate is if the American people rise up and demand it. Please join us and let your representatives know where you stand.”

Via: Breitbart

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Obama The Front Man: Face of the lawless bureaucracy

Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, which in the fever swamps is expressed in all that ridiculous Kenyan-Muslim hokum, but his citizen-of-the-world shtick is strictly sophomore year — the great globalist does not even speak a foreign language. Obama has been called many things — radical, socialist — labels that may have him dead to rights at the phylum level but not down at his genus or species. His social circle includes an alarming number of authentic radicals, but the president’s politics are utterly conventional managerial liberalism. His manner is aloof, but he is too plainly a child of the middle class to succumb to the regal pretensions that the Kennedys suffered from, even if his household entourage does resemble the Ringling Bros. Circus as reimagined by Imelda Marcos when it moves about from Kailua Beach to Blue Heron Farm. Not a dictator under the red flag, not a would-be king, President Obama is nonetheless something new to the American experience, and troubling.

It is not simply the content of his political agenda, which, though wretched, is a good deal less ambitious than was Woodrow Wilson’s or Richard Nixon’s. Barack Obama did not invent managerial liberalism, nor has he contributed any new ideas to it. He is, in fact, a strangely incurious man. Unlike Ronald Reagan, to whom he likes to be compared, President Obama shows no signs of having expended any effort on big thinkers or big ideas. President Reagan’s guiding lights were theorists such as F. A. Hayek and Thomas Paine; Obama’s most important influences have been tacticians such as Abner Mikva, bush-league propagandists like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his beloved community organizers. Far from being the intellectual hostage of far-left ideologues, President Obama does not appear to have the intellectual energy even to digest their ideas, much less to implement them. This is not to say that he is an unintelligent man. He is a man with a first-class education and a business-class mind, a sort of inverse autodidact whose intellectual pedigree is an order of magnitude more impressive than his intellect.

Via: National Review Online

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CNN Money Ignores States Saying Obamacare Is Driving Up Insurance Costs

When New York claimed that the state's individual health insurance costs would fall by half thanks to Obamacare, CNN Money reported the announcement that day. However, when Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, and Florida all recently claimed that health insurance costs would go up due to Obamacare, CNN Money still has not reported those claims.

Back on July 17, New York claimed that individuals would see health insurance costs fall in half thanks to the law. CNN anchor Carol Costello touted it as a boost for the supposedly beleaguered law, "buried in all the negative news."

Two days later on July 19, Indiana stated that health insurance rates would go up 72 percent for those buying their own individual plans because of Obamacare. On July 30, Florida and Georgia announced that individual health insurance rates would jump because of Obamacare, and Ohio chimed in that residents purchasing insurance on the state-run Obamacare exchange would have to pay 41 percent more in 2014.

Yet CNN Money did not report these claims of states insisting the Obamacare exchange would drive up prices, after reporting New York's announcement that it would cut costs.

Reuters acknowledged that the claims about Obamacare depended on if the respective state supported the Affordable Care Act:

"Several states that have embraced the healthcare reform have shown residents how the law will reduce insurance costs, while those that have opposed its implementation are beginning to present it as a more expensive prospect for consumers."

It's not the first time CNN has acted as an Obama megaphone for the President's health care law. The network has used cartoon characters to tout the benefits of the law, as well as foretell the disastrous consequences that would ensue if it was overturned.

Via: Newsbusters

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