OBAMA, THE SNAKE OIL SALES GUY

Remember the old western movies where you saw the guy roaming the west in a wagon that had painted on its side Dr. So and So wonder potions, a cure-all for everything even ingrown toenails. My Father used to call those guys, as well as the ones that came to our door to sell us something, “Snake Oil Salesmen”. I often wondered if he were alive what he would call President Obama.

Do you remember all the promises Obama made while on the campaign trail, far too many to mention in this BLOG. Well in my opinion he has broken 90% of those promises, which were enough to earn him the title of a “Snake Oil Salesman”.

Remember John McCain’s position on taxing employee’s healthcare benefits that Barack Obama was all over. Reporter Jim Geraght, a contributor to National Review On-Line and reported on The Patriot, said that during the 2008 campaign Obama spent $44 million on 16 different television ads hammering John McCain on this idea, according to research by Evan L. Tracey, founder and president of Campaign Media Analysis Group, a TNS Media Intelligence company. This message was a central theme and a significant percentage of the Obama campaign’s advertising in 2008,” Tracey said. His organization estimated last November that Obama’s campaign spent $250 million on television advertising, meaning that about 17 percent of all of Obama’s ads were denouncing McCain for this proposal. This is the advertisement that was all over TV:

John McCain: “I want to give every American a 5,000-dollar refundable tax credit.”

Announcer: Here’s the truth.

Barack Obama: “He says that he’s going to give you a 5,000-dollar tax credit. What he doesn’t tell you is that he is going to tax your employer-based health-care benefits for the first time ever. So what one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away.”

Announcer: John McCain. Instead of fixing health care, he wants to tax it.

Barack Obama: I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.

I see these people as the one’s who have nothing to sell but “grief” to the taxpayers and bottle it up in a container as big as the ones used on ships, then at the last hours before the shipment add a little package taped to it adding insult and 15% more injury. These add-ons are the requested amendments or earmarks from some of the dissenters who were going to vote NO and were used as bribes by the President and Speaker to get their YES vote.

But the real reason, and the reason the Speaker got out of Washington, was that she new there was a bullet from a smoking gun ready to find a target, that being an EPA report that was suppressed by the Obama administration and Congress this way she could claim she knew nothing about it.

A summary of that report follows:

Alan Carlin said “that the research that the EPA was relying on was at least three years out of date, and didn’t reflect the current data”.

Since when did liberals ever let facts get in the way of anything? It’s obvious the EPA suppressed this report because of pressure from the Obama administration and democrats on Capitol Hill.

Carlin’s report listed a number of recent developments he said the EPA did not consider, including that global temperatures have declined for 11 years; that new research predicts Atlantic hurricanes will be unaffected; that there’s “little evidence” that Greenland is shedding ice at expected levels; and that solar radiation has the largest single effect on the earth’s temperature. It appears that AL Gore is the Snake Oil Salesperson, making $100 Million. 

Alan Carlin of the EPA, the author of the 98 page report said this to of all places CBS News:

“It was his view that he would either have lost his job or working on something else,” Carlin said. “That was obviously coming from higher levels.”

Carlin was speaking of his boss, Al McGartland who told Carlin by email that the administration and the administrator have decided to move forward and that his [Carlin] comments didn’t help the legal or policy case for their decision to move forward.

Nancy Pelosi Snake Oil Salesperson like our “bunny friend” just kept on going, you know for Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs. In order to get this so called energy bill Aka. Cap and Trade, passed before her going on vacation, she started a campaign of bribery.

Pelosi does not usually meet with Republicans, but she met with at least seven GOP swingers. Five of them (Reps. Michael Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.) and Dave Reichert (Wash.) subsequently backed the bill. Three other Republicans – Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), John McHugh (N.Y.) and Chris Smith (N.J.) had already backed the bill while still in committee.

Living in Mary Bono Mack’s District for 6 years she most likely got another couple of million to continue the Salton Sea study, which has been a major money sink hole for the last 12 years but is her late husband Sonny’s only claim to political fame. 

The fact of the matter is nobody knew what they were voting for, 300 pages were added in the last hours, except the ones who were bribed. Not one of our elected Democrat Representatives, with the possible exception of Snake Oil Producer Rep. Waxman read the 1,200 pages in this energy” Cap and Trade or Cap N Tax” bill. When any of the Democrats, on the news shows were asked about any specifics or if they read the whole bill the answered was NO while the Republicans answered yes. The Democrats answered specifics using the talking point statement “Millions of Jobs are Going to be Created” after which the Republican countered with “why are there 40 pages in the bill that deals with displace manufacturing and other sector workers, mostly union, who do not have the skills for the so-called “Green Jobs. What about the Coal Miners who would lose their occupation? They are expendable.   

Auto workers who have been laid off or fired will not be rehired by the automakers because their positions will have been eliminated and or replaced by new automation technologies. The recent lower and middle management personnel firings will not be called back because there will be a lot less workers to manage.  

If the Obama-Care plan becomes a government plan and competes with private sector plans we will see a defection from private and employer health care plans to the tune of at least 60,000,000 people right out of the chute (not by choice) which will put the deficit much, much higher than stated by the CBO. (Refer to my Obama-Care posting) It will add about 600,000 union jobs to the Government sector and about 6 million to the ranks of the unemployed. The newly unemployed will drive the benefit unemployment payments up, again adding to the deficit as well.     

I have a prediction for my readers. I predict if the Cap and Tax bill and the Obama-Care bills are passed, with any government control, we will see unemployment of at least 15% and our country’s deficit, over the next 30 years, will be $14,000,000,000.

Start sending your members of Congress E-Mails, Faxes, Letters, call them on the phone and express your concerns with these bills.

We have to defeat these bills or at the least delay them until 2010 so we can vote some of these Socialists nuts out of office.

President Obama is now going door to door selling his Snake Oil Obama-Care plan whatever that is.