June 28, 2010 _ Republican Congressman Joe Pitts from Chester County offered some good advice in a column printed in the
Daily Local News on June 21. Pitts wants to keep politics out of the oil spill mess.
The article points out Louisiana officials are having issues with the Obama administration over the cleanup efforts. Florida has also urged the Obama administration to stop playing politics with the lives of the state’s residents.
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On the same day as the column by Pitts was published, an Eye On The Media reader forwarded information on a CNBC report concerning comments made by Jack Welch, former leader of GE, concerning President Obama. Welch talked about the difference between a leader and a politician. Welch said if he was in charge he would have immediately gathered the top minds from oil companies and given them a room in the White House to figure out a solution.
Welch said he would meet with them every day to discuss their ideas. A politician, according to Welch, would look for someone to blame.
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As a leader or a politician, the news reports concerning Obama on June 22 and June 23 were negative.
Media throughout the land carried reports of an interview General Stanley McChrystal and members of his staff gave to Rolling Stone magazine. The article ripped Obama as a leader and called him unprepared when discussing options in the Afghanistan war. The Daily Local News headline was: “Obama furious over remarks made by Gen. McChrystal.” The Philadelphia Inquirer’s headline was: “General is called to answer to Obama.”
McChrystal was gone after the meeting with Obama and Gen. David Petraeus replaced him. With the Afghan government on record as saying it didn’t have confidence in the West’s leadership, the change of generals won’t help Obama win his war.
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The news at home wasn’t any better for Obama. A Daily Local News story reported borrowers exited the troubled Obama mortgage program. According to the article, “The Obama administration's flagship effort to help people in danger of losing their homes is falling flat. More than a third of the 1.24 million borrowers who have enrolled in the $75 billion mortgage modification program have dropped out. That's more than the 27 percent who have managed to have their loan payments reduced to help them keep their homes.
The Wall Street Journal ran a story with the headline: “Outlook For Housing Prices Worsens.”
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A judge also overturned an off-shore drilling ban imposed by the White House. And, more outrage is on the way as members of his own Democratic party talked about middle-class tax increases, a move that would violate an Obama campaign pledge.
A key member of the Obama administration resigned. The Wall Street Journal ran a story with a headline: “After Orszag, Red Ink and Hard Choices.” The article reports on Peter Orszag’s resignation as director of the Office of Management and Budget. The article states Orszag came as a deficit foe “but he will leave next month with the U.S. debt stuck above $1 trillion.”
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Business leaders openly questioned Obama policies last week. The Wall Street Journal reported two stories on page A4. One headline was: “Business Group Slams ‘Hostile’ Policies on Jobs.” The story reported the Obama administration has created “an increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation.” The story cited seven specific examples. The second story had the headline: “Obama Tangles With Insurance Executives Over Rates.”
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States are also losing hope of help from Washington, according to a Wall Street Journal story. The headline on the story was: “States Face new Pinch as Stimulus Ebbs: Tax Receipts Aren’t Rebounding Quickly Enough to Offset Declining Federal Aid; Push for Additional Medicaid Help Stalls.”
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Obama is attempting to build support for his health-care law and outlined some changes, according to an Inquirer story. Obama also warned Republicans not to try to repeal the law – a sure sign the legislation is in trouble.
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Finally, a liberal has attacked a documentary as “dishonest,” according to a front-page story in the Inquirer on June 24. The headline: “Pa. official fuming over portrayal in ‘Gasland’ DEP Secretary calls documentary ‘dishonest.”
The liberal has learned that today’s documentaries aren’t documentaries; they are propaganda films. Joseph Goebbels did them for Hitler and Michael Moore did them for liberals. And, now liberals are doing them on other liberals.