CSPAN Founder: “Lying is the word I that would use to describe this town.”

Well, it’s hard to boil it down any further.  That’s the foundation of Washington DC today.  Our government exists on lies.  It has become corrupt to the point that I don’t think it can be salvaged at the ballot box.

Perhaps it’s time to dust off the Declaration of Independence again and put it to good use.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

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C-SPAN Founder Retires — ‘Lying Is the Word That I Would Use To Describe This Town’

By Randy DeSoto
Published April 22, 2019 at 4:44pm
Modified April 22, 2019 at 6:18pm

C-Span founder Brian Lamb — who is preparing to sign off the network next month after 40 years — said that “lying” is pervasive in Washington, D.C., and the trend line has been for it to get worse, not better.

C-Span was the brainchild of Lamb after serving as a public affairs officer in the U.S. Navy during the height of the Vietnam War in the 1960s and a press secretary for a U.S. senator starting later in the decade.

Read entire article here:  https://www.westernjournal.com/c-span-founder-retires-lying-word-use-describe-town/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-WJ&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=western-journal

Existence of the Living Dead, or the Liberal Health Care Bill That Just Won’t Die.

Obama says transparency and CSPAN, and we get closed door meetings. Obama promises bipartisanship, and we get closed door meetings that don’t allow Republicans to attend. Obama accuses the Republicans of being the party of “no,” and of offering no new ideas, but he wouldn’t hear any of the ideas the Republicans offered. Obama promised no new taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year, yet taxes are going up directly and indirectly, and will go up dramatically if this health care reform passes. The American people started to uncover the truth about how bad this health care bill is and made it quite clear that the OVERWHELMING majority of Americans want nothing to do with it, yet we get repackaged version after repackaged version of the same 3,000 page takeover of our lives.

Now Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are trying to force democrats to walk the plank by using reconciliation to force passage of this bloody abortion of a bill. They know that the shininess of Obama’s penny is now tarnished, and his new car smell has been replaced with that of a rotting carcass. They know that this is the last opportunity they will have for another generation to advance the liberal/progressive agenda by this big of a leap. They are more than willing to sacrifice the entire house democrat population if they can force this tyranny on America.

Time is short. We must stay energized and engaged on this, or we will wake up in chains.

Keep burning up the phone, fax, and e-mail lines of your representatives and senators. Make personal visits to their offices to make it clear that we don’t want this “reform” suppository.

State of the Union-Loving, Narcissistic, Undocumented President

Lie after lie after lie.  David said it quite well when he said “Obama not only wasn’t contrite about his broken promises and disastrous record; he was on the attack, daring anyone to oppose his agenda.“

Here are a few of the adjectives I would use to describe Chairman Maobama’s State of the Union(s) speech: angry, narcissistic, disjointed, dishonest, unrepentant, unpresidential, classless, lacking decorum, and pathological.

The writer of his speech should be fired, then taken to the woodshed for the number of lies, lack of facts, and other breaches of decorum in the speech.  But we know that will never happen, because O-bow-ma believed just about every word of the speech (except, of course, the part about drilling for oil and building nuclear power plants.)

The few democrats left that might remotely consider themselves as AMERICANS need to head for the life boats.  The true “progressives,” the followers of “the one,” are going down with the ship.

It’s time to start whispering “IMPEACHMENT.”

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http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dlimbaugh/2010/dl_0129p.shtml
There Was the President’s Speech, and There Is Reality
By David Limbaugh
January 29, 2010

Watching President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech makes me wonder whether the reason he tells so many fibs is that he believes them himself. Either that or he is an even better actor than he is a teleprompter reader.

Obama not only wasn’t contrite about his broken promises and disastrous record; he was on the attack, daring anyone to oppose his agenda — even in the face of the Massachusetts rebuke. But let’s see how some of his statements match up with reality.

On health care, he taunted congressmen to “let me know” if any of them have “a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses,” as if his own plan would do those things.

Even the Congressional Budget Office has said most of the Democratic plans would increase the budget. Besides, you can’t reduce overall costs when government forces an increase in demand, even if it caps insurance premiums and shifts costs elsewhere and/or imposes rationing. The CBO has also reported that with Obamacare, millions would remain uninsured. So under his plan, costs would rise, quality and choice would decrease, care would be rationed, millions would remain uninsured and, worst of all, the government would acquire an unprecedented level of control over all aspects of our lives.

Do conservatives have better ideas? Of course. Restore market forces through tort reform, strengthening health savings accounts, abolishing government coverage mandates, allowing consumers to purchase policies across state lines and eliminating the tax laws incentivizing employer-provided health care, which unnecessarily increase demand by making prices invisible to consumers.

A candid Obama would have said, “If any of you have a plan that does not involve restoring market forces and reducing government’s role in the health care industry, I’ll at least pretend to look at it.” “Make no mistake,” neither Obama nor his Democratic colleagues will support genuine health care reform, because to reduce costs, we must reduce government control, and they can’t abide that. Period.

As for spending, Obama didn’t once apologize for his reckless expenditures. Instead, he blamed his soaring deficits on his predecessor, completely misrepresenting the projected deficits under President Bush and ignoring his own deliberate doubling of the national debt over the next 10 years. That’s the issue Americans are losing sleep over, and he offers only Band-Aids and smoke and mirrors.

He says he will freeze a portion of the discretionary budget, but as Cato Institute reports, 83 percent of the budget will be off-limits. Other than his “stimulus” insanity, the real explosion in spending is occurring in the entitlements that he refuses to touch. Even his mini-freeze wouldn’t begin until 2011 (why wait?), and it would be dwarfed by his planned spending increases for other socialistic projects, including a new “stimulus plan.” And how about that assault on personal and fiscal responsibility with his promise to forgive student loans after 20 years?

How Obama can stand before the nation and insist on spending more borrowed money to accomplish something his first “stimulus plan” didn’t achieve (job creation), but exacerbated, is beyond me. How he can blame President Bush for his own broken promise that unemployment wouldn’t exceed 8 percent if his “stimulus” bill were implemented is jaw-dropping. He even said he saved 2 million jobs. Scary delusional! Or scary sinister!

Speaking of chutzpah, did he actually dare to utter the words “transparent” and “accountable”? How about those phantom legislative districts receiving stimulus monies, Mr. President? How about that promise to televise the health care debates on C-SPAN?

He said he hadn’t raised income taxes “a single dime” on 95 percent of the people. Yet in almost the same breath, he promised to redouble his efforts on cap and tax, which would increase the average family’s energy costs by almost $3,000 per year. I don’t believe his campaign promise was limited to income taxes, by the way. (He also said he had CUT taxes on the middle class. Being solidly in the middle class, I think I would know if that had actually happened. Reducing my withholding so it looks like I’m getting a tax break, when it actually pushes me into a higher tax bracket forcing me to pay that much and more on April 15th is NOT a tax cut. A “stimulus” check, which just gives back a small portion of what was mine to begin with, is not a tax cut. Giving that same “stimulus” check to those who don’t pay taxes at all is just a handout, and communist redistribution of our hard earned money.)

How about his righteous ranting on earmark reform? Sorry, we’ve been down that twisted road with you before, Mr. President. (There were some 9,000 earmarks in the O-bow-ma porkulus bill. I’d call that a step in the right direction, wouldn’t you? (facetiousness intended))

Then there was his audacious riff on lobbyists. Been there, done that, too, Mr. President, with your phony promise to keep lobbyists out of the White House.

Obama also railed against “partisanship, shouting and pettiness” as he filled most of his speech with just those things, even castigating the Supreme Court, erroneously, for opening the door to foreign corporations’ campaign contributions.

How about his statement that “America must always stand on the side of freedom and human dignity”? Hmm. Tell that to the Iranian and Honduran peoples. He must have meant once he’s out of office.

Then there was his bizarre out-of-body pivot, when he blamed Washington for our problems. (Narcissistic clown.)

All of this, especially Obama’s obvious incapacity for self-doubt, is disturbingly surreal. (It’s like the speech he gave the other day on “tax cuts.” In that speech, he said “I” over 120 time while mentioning the subject of the speech, tax cuts, only TWICE. It’s kind of like the Toby Keith song “I wanna talk about me.” (I wanna talk about me, Wanna talk about I, Wanna talk about number one…) He is a self-centered, communist/progressive, anti-America, probably NOT American danger to America, our constitution, and our way of life.)

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David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His book “Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today’s Democratic Party” was released recently in paperback. To find out more about David Limbaugh, please visit his Web site at http://www.DavidLimbaugh.com.

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Obama: CSPAN, Fair and Open. “You Lie!” (…again)

PinocchiObama’s nose is getting so long from all the lying, I don’t see how he can turn around without going outside.  He must knock things over all the time, and whack his nose when he tries to take sharp corners.

He lied on the campaign trail, he’s lied over and over again since his hostile takeover of the oval office.  He is a communist, a thug, and a liar.  Transparency in the debate on health care?  It’s more like the Papal elections.  They go in a closed room, and we wait for the white smoke as an indication that they have decided on something (in this case, how to screw us).

What’s worse (or better depending on your point of view), his so-called allies are revealing him and themselves to be liars.  Check out Nancy Pelosi in THIS VIDEO tacitly admitting that most/all of the campaign promises they made and make are lies.

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http://www.sphere.com/article/opinion-obama-finds-few-friends-in-his-c-span-fight/19307887

President Obama’s Lonely C-SPAN Fight

John Merline
Opinion Editor

(Jan. 7) – Rarely does a politician get caught in such a blatant break of a campaign promise as President Obama did with his “I’ll put health care negotiations on C-SPAN” pledge. Which is perhaps why Obama is finding so few friends rushing to his defense.

The story got started last week when C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb took Obama up on his campaign pledge and asked in a letter that lawmakers let his cameras in during the final deal-making between the House and Senate.

Obama had promised at least eight times during his run for presidency that he would do so, noting at one point that “we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so the people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who is making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.” (See a compilation below.)

Naturally, Obama’s critics jumped on the story, gleefully pointing out the glaring contradiction. Which would have made it easy enough to dismiss as just another partisan attempt to derail reform.

Except that the story keeps going. Journalists pressed White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs with questions and appeared visibly frustrated by his non-answers. CBS News on Wednesday posted a story headlined “Obama Reneges on Health Care Transparency.” And Lamb was on “The Bill Press Show” on Thursday complaining that C-SPAN was used as a “political football” during the 2008 campaign.

And now Obama is taking hits from all quarters.

CNN’s Jack Cafferty, no friend of conservatives, ripped Obama for not making even “a token effort to keep his campaign promises for more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told in order to get elected.” (His commentary is below.)

Newspaper editorials criticizing Obama are also starting to pile up. Here’s a sampling:

Kansas City Star: “Yes, we want Congress to pass a significant health care reform bill before President Barack Obama’s upcoming State of the Union speech. Heck, we wanted the bill passed yesterday. … Even so, health care reform is too big and too important to carry out in secrecy.”

New York Daily News: “Open the doors and let the public in to observe and decide.”

Las Vegas Review-Journal: “The president has been conveniently silent on one of the signature issues of his campaign. That’s not change we can believe in. He must demand the negotiations be public.”

The Roanoke Times: “Americans are passionately interested in this issue. The reforms eventually could affect everyone – not least by slowing the growth of health care costs. … Whatever the process, however, the people want and deserve to see it at work.”

The San Francisco Chronicle in a blog post: “We’re dusting off the Lies, Half-truths and Contradictions hammer to pound President Obama for breaking a campaign promise to televise the health care bill talks on C-SPAN.”

The Philadelphia Inquirier: “One of the most momentous House-Senate negotiations in history shouldn’t take place behind closed doors.”

To be sure, there are a few stalwart liberals willing to come to bat for Obama, but they’ve been largely reduced to making the rather challenging case that transparency in government and campaign promises are overrated.

It would be easy to dismiss all this as a piffle that will soon be forgotten. Except for the fact that voters tend not to like it when presidents so clearly disregard campaign pledges.

Just ask George H.W. “Read my lips, no new taxes” Bush.

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Nancy Pelosi Admits Obama and Democrat Campaign Promises are LIES

The Plastic Princess of Privilege, Nancy “Puh-Lousy” Pelosi herself admitted cheerfully while displaying her fake smile and vacuous expression that Obama lied on the campaign trail.  Her jab also points to the emptiness of most of the democrat campaign promises (and several Republicans as well) when she says “…A number of things were said on the campaign trail.”

In the second part of her statement she says that this health care debate has been the most open and transparent process EVER.  As dumb as I think she is, I’m sure she isn’t THAT stupid.  She knows she is lying.  The simple fact is, SHE DOESN’T CARE!

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President Obama, Where Are Those C-SPAN Cameras?

This is part of why Americans are revolting over Obama’s health care plan. They have been lied to repeatedly, and as information leaks out it becomes obvious that the health care legislation isn’t about health care at all. It is about control and acquiring power. Americans are tired of being lied to and of being ignored by their “representatives”. Just a few months ago the democrats said dissent was the highest form of patriotism. Now just a few short months later with the “chosen one” in office, dissent has become destructive hate speech organized by republicans. The hypocrisy is really astounding. What’s worse, Obama the community-organizer-in-chief gave his “brown shirts” marching orders to “hit back” even harder, and the next day you had union members wearing SEIU shirts beating a black conservative for distributing “Don’t tread on me” flags. Is this the “army” Obama said he was going to raise? The one he said would be as well funded as the military? That’s turning out to be true with all the taxpayer money Obama is funneling to ACORN and the unions. I’m beginning to think that union membership will be the mark of the beast.

Posted:
08/7/09
By: David Corn

If I had been at the White House daily press briefing on Thursday, I would have asked an obvious question:

Robert, The New York Times reports that the White House has cut a behind-the-scenes deal with drug industry lobbyists to prevent Congress from squeezing more than $80 billion in cost savings from Big Pharma. Where were the television cameras when White House aides were working out this agreement with the lobbyists?

Flash-back to the 2008 campaign trail: Then-candidate Barack Obama promised a new level of transparency in government — particularly concerning the sausage-making that would produce any health care reform legislation. “We’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN,” he said, “so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.”

It was a grand and noble promise that appeared to set up a potentially historic breakthrough in government openness and policy-making. Good-government advocates had their socks knocked off. Imagine if all those lobbyists scurrying through the nooks and crooks of Washington had to do so with television cameras pointed at them. Talk about reality TV! It would certainly change how business is done in the nation’s capital.

It sounded too good to be true. And it was.

For Obama and his aides, this promise was, no doubt, one of those vows that seemed a fine idea at the time. But is no longer — as Washington spinners like to say — operable. No cameras recorded the chats between White House aides and drug lobbyists. Nor have they captured any similar sessions in which White House officials have discussed the health care bill with legislators, industry representatives, medical groups, or union officials.

Obama has been called out on this. At his last White House prime-time press conference, he was asked,

You promised that health care negotiations would take place on C-SPAN and that hasn’t happened. . . . Are you fulfilling your promise of transparency in the White House?

He replied:

With respect to all the negotiations not being on C-SPAN, you will recall in this very room that our kick-off event was here on C-SPAN. And at a certain point, you know, you start getting into all kinds of different meetings. The Senate Finance Committee is having a meeting. The House is having a meeting. If they want those to be on C-SPAN, then I would welcome it. I don’t think there are a lot of secrets going on in there.

This response was not straight talk. Indeed, that kick-off had aired on C-SPAN and various cable networks. But the ensuing White House negotiations have not been open to television cameras. (And, of course, there are secrets.) For instance, Obama’s Thursday meeting with six members of the Senate Finance Committee — topic: health care reform — was not televised. The White House did insist this was not a “negotiating session.” Yet that seemed a bit semantic. (Asked what was the point of the gathering, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he was sure the president and the senators discussed “how to bridge” the differences that remain — which seemed rather close to what most people would consider a negotiation.) And remember, candidate Obama said he wanted the public to be able to determine if its elected representatives were making arguments on behalf of their constituents or the drug companies and insurance firms. Televising this meeting would have provided some clues.

The Obama administration certainly has brought more transparency to the federal government. But his White House has held on to several of the opaque practices of the past. It has not made public the names of White House visitors; it has so far backed the Bush-Cheney administration’s decision to not release the interview Dick Cheney gave FBI agents who were investigating the leak that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. And it has not done anything as radical as Obama suggested — that is, promised — on the campaign trail when he called for C-SPAN to broadcast health care legislation negotiations.

To the contrary, Obama has engaged in behind-closed-doors talks with the lobbyists he once and often excoriated. In the face of a growing-in-intensity attack on health care reform from the right — which includes the unfounded charge that the legislation under construction in Congress will lead to Medicare doctors telling grannies to opt for an early death — perhaps this sort of traditional deal-cutting is the best way for Obama to achieve reform. (House Democrats, who were looking to press Big Pharma for more savings, though, are upset with the White House-drugmakers pact.) But this latest wrinkle shows yet again that Obama is following a conventional path to winning passage of health care reform. That doesn’t make for easy-to-watch TV.