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Obama backs ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

On May 25, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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President Obama has endorsed a “don’t ask, don’t tell” compromise between lawmakers and the Defense Department, the White House announced Monday, an agreement that may sidestep a key obstacle to repealing the military’s policy banning gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.

That’s all we need is a bunch of fairies corrupting the uniform of the Armed Services. Obama is not going to stop until he ruins evey facet of our once great country. Think about it an openly gay man, think Boy George, as the face of our military. Other countries will laugh at us, if they already don’t. Obama has to go in a bad way.

The compromise was finalized in meetings Monday at the White House and on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers will now, within days, vote on amendments that would repeal the Clinton-era policy, with a provision ensuring that any change would not take effect until after the Pentagon completes a study about its impact on troops. That study is due to Congress by Dec. 1.

In a letter to lawmakers pushing for a legislative repeal, White House budget director Peter Orszag wrote Monday that the administration “supports the proposed amendment.”

“Such an approach recognizes the critical need to allow our military and their families the full opportunity to inform and shape the implementation process through a thorough understanding of their concerns, insights and suggestions,” he wrote.

While gay rights advocates hailed the move as a “dramatic breakthrough,” it remained uncertain whether the deal would secure enough votes to pass both houses of Congress. Republicans have vowed to maintain “don’t ask, don’t tell,” while conservative Democrats have said they would oppose a repeal unless military leaders made it clear that they approved of such a change.

Even if the compromise language passes, a legislative repeal would take effect only after Obama certified that the change would not harm the nation’s military readiness.

In a statement, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese said the announcement “paves the path to fulfill the President’s call to end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ this year and puts us one step closer to removing this stain from the laws of our nation.”

The White House had initially hoped that Congress would wait until after the Pentagon study was completed before bringing up a repeal, but senior lawmakers made it clear that they intended to push ahead on the issue, with or without administration support. Now the controversial issue will return to the national conversation as fall reelection campaigns gear up.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is running for reelection and had previously supported a repeal of the law, said at a recent congressional hearing that the legislation is “imperfect but effective” and that “we should not be seeking to overturn.”

Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), a member of the House GOP leadership, said Monday of a repeal: “The American people don’t want the American military to be used to advance a liberal political agenda. And House Republicans will stand on that principle.”

While some Democrats, particularly in the House, wanted to wait for the Pentagon study to be finished, more-liberal Democrats were pushing for an immediate repeal. The compromise is designed to satisfy both concerns.

“We can live with this and we’re asking, enthusiastically, members to support and vote for it,” said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Rep. Patrick J. Murphy (D-Pa.), the lead sponsors of repeal legislation, promised Monday night to pursue their goal quickly.

The White House letter clears the way for votes Thursday in the House on the overall spending bill, which Democrats expect will include Murphy’s amendment. The same day, the Senate Armed Services Committee will vote on its version of the spending bill, and Lieberman will introduce the same repeal language.

“It is our firm belief that it is time to repeal this discriminatory policy that not only dishonors those who are willing to give their lives in service to their country but also prevents capable men and women with vital skills from serving in the armed forces,” Lieberman and Murphy said in a statement.

If the compromise is approved, the 1993 policy could be removed from the nation’s law books within weeks. That would satisfy one of the most significant promises Obama made to the gay community during his campaign.

Once in office, however, Obama moved slowly, often causing frustration among his gay supporters.

In February, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, said they supported a repeal of the policy. Mullen said, “I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”

But Gates angered some activists by requesting time to assess how best to make the cultural shift within the ranks.

The effort to reverse the ban accelerated with Obama’s one-sentence endorsement of a repeal in his January State of the Union address, sources close to the negotiations said. The next morning, advocates began a multimillion-dollar effort to convince six moderate members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

On Sunday, White House officials invited gay rights leaders to the White House for a Monday-morning meeting with Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina and administration lawyers, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

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Spiraling Costs Make Obamacare a Prescription for Disaster

On April 26, 2010, In Obama Care, By Shon Jimenez

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WASHINGTON – What’s it going to cost me?

That’s the single biggest unanswered question about President Barack Obama’s new healthcare overhaul law — and its weak spot.

Many experts believe the law falls short on taming costs, and that will force Congress to revisit healthcare in a few years.

While it seems hard to believe now, Republicans might want to participate in a debate over costs, perhaps opening the way for limits on malpractice lawsuits and other ideas they’ve advocated.

“Now that the baseline question of coverage has been answered, it would be irresponsible if we didn’t come back and try to do more on costs,” said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who voted for the bill and led efforts to squeeze more savings.

“I think there is going to be a debate in the Republican Party on whether they should waste all their energy on repeal or make an effort to do something on cost containment,” Warner said.

For now, the political parties are too polarized — and lawmakers too exhausted — to contemplate healthcare 2.0. Conservatives are planning court challenges, and some Republican leaders hold out the promise of repeal. But economic reality probably will bring lawmakers back to the table.

Insurance premiums are likely to keep going up over the next few years. Experts predict that the law’s early benefits — such as expanded coverage for children and young adults — could nudge rates a little higher than would otherwise have been the case. Also, insurers and medical providers could try to raise their prices ahead of big shifts set for 2014.

Under the 10-year, $1 trillion plan, 2014 is when competitive insurance markets for individuals and small businesses are expected to open, and tax credits start flowing to help millions of middle-class households now uninsured. Medicaid will expand and pick up millions of low-income people. Most Americans would be required to carry health insurance, except in cases of financial hardship. Insurers no longer could turn away those in poor health.

More than 30 million previously uninsured people would gain coverage quickly — and they’ll start going to the doctor for care previously postponed. Increased demand will push up health care spending, putting more pressure on premiums.

The cost controls in the bill are unlikely to provide much of a counterweight. Democrats scrambling to line up votes for the final bill weakened a provision that would have enforced austerity through a hefty tax on high-cost employer coverage.

Other savings in the law — mainly Medicare cuts — may prove politically unsustainable, according to the government’s own experts.

The problem isn’t that the 2,700-page law is devoid of ideas for curbing costs. Many mainstream proposals are incorporated in some form. But what will work?

While the law creates a commission to keep pursuing deeper Medicare savings, there’s no overall cost control strategy and no single official to coordinate many experiments seeking greater efficiency.

“This bill takes a sort of spaghetti approach to cost control,” said MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who supports the broad goals of the overhaul. “You throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what will stick. Healthcare, Round Two, is when we will make a serious effort at cutting costs down, based on what this law has shown us.”

If the law gets a B-plus for expanding coverage to 95 percent of eligible Americans, it probably deserves a C-minus or D for cost control. The U.S. spends $2.5 trillion a year on healthcare, with some results worse than what other developed countries get by spending far less.

“Most people who have problems with health care costs now are not going to see much change in the next few years,” said Mark McClellan, who ran Medicare under former Republican President George W. Bush. “Hopefully some of these ideas will work, but it’s not automatic. I do hope we can revisit this in a more bipartisan manner.”

A look at some of the law’s main cost control provisions:

INSURANCE MARKET

Starting in 2014, the overhaul sets up new state-level insurance supermarkets called exchanges, intended to enable small businesses and individuals buying their own coverage to pool purchasing power. In theory, that would inject competition into markets now dominated by one or two major insurers in most states.

It also would reduce insurers’ overhead by giving them access to many customers in one place. The companies would be heavily regulated by state and federal authorities, and proposed premium increases would get a close look.

“Individuals and small businesses will, over time, have something much more predictable to look at,” said Christine Ferguson, former Massachusetts public health commissioner under Republican Gov. Mitt Romney. “We will have much more predictable rates of growth in health care costs.”

Romney, a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012, signed a similar law in Massachusetts, but is now calling for repeal of the federal version.

PAYMENT REFORMS

Using Medicare as the lab, the law includes experiments designed to change the way medical providers are paid. It encourages them to keep patients healthier by avoiding foreseeable complications.

Doctors and hospitals could band together to better coordinate care. Instead of paying piecemeal for visits and tests, providers would get a lump sum for managing patients with certain health conditions. Primary care providers would be encouraged to create “medical homes” for their patients, serving as wellness coaches and medical gatekeepers.

Successful experiments would be adopted as national policy.

MEDICARE BOARD

The law sets up a board to hunt for Medicare savings. Congress could reject the proposals, but it wouldn’t be able to tinker with them.

INSURANCE TAX

Employer-sponsored health insurance is part of total compensation, but traditionally it’s been tax-free.

The law imposes a 40 percent tax on health insurance plans worth more than $27,500 for a family plan, $10,200 for individual coverage. (Family coverage now averages $13,375.)

That could have been a firm nudge to get people into more frugal coverage. But facing stiff opposition from labor unions, Obama and congressional Democrats punted, postponing the effective date until 2018. That’s after the president leaves office, assuming he’s re-elected.

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Pataki Says Obamacare Can Be Repealed

On April 25, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, Obama Care, By Shon Jimenez

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Former New York Gov. George Pataki is leading a national effort to repeal Obamacare.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Pataki said he is launching the effort because the recent healthcare plan signed into law by President Barack Obama imposes the heavy hand of the federal government into the healthcare decisions of all Americans, contrary to the great traditions of the United States.

The popular conservative Republican who was thrice elected to the Empire State’s governorship, has just launched a new organization, RevereAmerica.org, a group Pataki says is aimed at promoting American traditions such as personal freedom and free enterprise.

Pataki has had a stellar career in politics. In 1994, he defied the polls by defeating Mario Cuomo in a gubernatorial upset. He presided over New York’s economic resurgence in the 1990s and had been widely credited in leading New York City back to health after the devastating attacks of Sept. 11.

Pataki left the governorship in 2007 and took up private practice as a lawyer. But he coming back into the political fray with his new 501(c)4 nonprofit, RevereAmerica, where he serves as chairman.

The group’s main priority is to encourage Americans to go to the RevereAmerica.org website to sign an online petition where concerned citizens can voice their desire to repeal Obamacare.

The organization has also begun airing TV ads on Fox News and MSNBC featuring a Paul Revere figure on horseback with a message from Pataki urging Americans to “protect” the country’s freedom.

Pataki argues that many of the claims of Obamacare are not true. For example, he says the oft-made claim by Democrats that individuals will be able to keep their current healthcare plan if they like it, is not true.

He also noted that millions of seniors on Medicare Advantage will have to give up their healthcare plans because the program is essentially being eliminated.

“He said it wasn’t going to increase healthcare costs, but today Obama’s own HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) has put out a report saying Obamacare will drive up healthcare costs over this coming decade,” Pataki told Newsmax.TV.

“And then they said it’s going to reduce the deficit, and I think everyone understands that rather than reduce the deficit; they are going to create unsustainable deficits by hundreds of billions ̶ probably over a half-trillion dollars.

“It’s not what they said it was, and they thought the American people would roll over and accept it once they rammed it through.”

Pataki vows his organization will be among those leading the fight to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a better plan.

Republicans would likely need large majorities in both houses of Congress to override a presidential veto for any repeal legislation. Still, Pataki expressed his belief that Republicans could succeed.

“I’m realistic about it, and I think we can do it,” he said.

The former governor said winning Republican majorities in the House and the Senate was critical to his goal of repealing Obamacare.

“The president would have a tough choice if he had a Congress that passed a bill that would repeal and replace, with good reforms repealing Obamacare,” Pataki said. “And he may well sign it, but probably the most realistic of all is that we have over half ̶ a majority committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare ̶ then they could just refuse to fund important or critical parts of this law.”

Getting the healthcare reform law repealed will require popular resolve, and Pataki encourages everyone interested in repealing the law to sign the petition on his website.

Pataki favors replacing Obamacare with tort reform including an elimination of “junk lawsuits,” allowing competition for insurers across state lines, as well as making healthcare premiums and policies tax deductible for individuals.

“None of these provisions were in Obamacare except the insurance provisions, and they will drive down costs; they will give people the power to get better healthcare and make their own decisions the way they should be in this country,” Pataki said.

Asked about Obama’s financial reform bill, Pataki said the administration and the Democrats have quickly latched onto it in an effort to get Americans to forget about the healthcare debacle.

In other parts of the wide-ranging interview, Pataki said:

Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his al-Qaida 9/11 co-conspirators in New York City would be an unconscionable mistake, and they should be tried and executed by a military tribunal.

Obama likely is supportive of the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court.

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has failed New Yorkers by not taking strong enough of a stand against trying the 9/11 defendants in lower Manhattan.

As for speculation he may run for president in 2012, Pataki said he has no interest in doing so.

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Limbaugh Hits Back at Obama for Criticism

On April 5, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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Rush Limbaugh is striking back at President Barack Obama.

On Friday, the nation’s top-rated radio host hit back at Obama, saying the president isn’t telling the truth and doesn’t have the support of the American people.

The controversy started Thursday, when Obama used an interview with CBS’ Harry Smith to level a broadside at Limbaugh and Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Smith asked Obama if he is “aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation” about him, including being called a Nazi and socialist.

Obama shot back, “Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it’s pretty apparent, and it’s troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out.”

The president said, “It happens often when you’ve got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that’s not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we’re trying hard, that I want what’s best for the country.”

Limbaugh didn’t take Obama’s comments lightly.

In a response on his radio show, also posted to rushlimbaugh.com, the talk radio king said, “Who has called him a Nazi? Who do we know that has called him a Nazi? Socialist? Yeah. Stalinist? Yeah. Marxist? Yeah. Nazi? We have compared healthcare in America to what the Nazis tried to do in Germany and get the control of the people going in that regard.”

As for Obama’s claim to have the people’s support, “The American people do not think that Barack Obama is doing what’s best for the country,” Limbaugh said.

“They do not believe that in the slightest. Never in my life have I seen a regime like this governing so against the will of the people, purposely. I have never known more people personally who literally fear for the country.”

Limbaugh also lambasted the major media for its bias in favor of Obama.

“For Barack Obama to run around and say that this show and Beck and all of talk radio is filled with vitriol? Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and never once complained about the tone of Jeremiah Wright’s bigoted, anti-American, racist rants.”

Polling data suggests that Rush may be right, as Obama’s approval ratings sink.

Obama’s approval rating fell to 44 percent in the latest CBS News Poll, the lowest level of his tenure in office.

That compares to 49 percent in late March, just before the healthcare reform bill became law. His approval rating was 50 percent in January and 68 percent last April.

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Obama Throws White Half Under the Bus. Again

On April 5, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.

A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010 census questionnaire.

The president, who was born in Hawaii and raised there and in Indonesia, had more than a dozen options in responding to Question 9, about race. He chose “Black, African Am., or Negro.” (The anachronistic “Negro” was retained on the 2010 form because the Census Bureau believes that some older blacks still refer to themselves that way.)

Mr. Obama could have checked white, checked both black and white, or checked the last category on the form, “some other race,” which he would then have been asked to identify in writing.

Aha! He could have checked off both, but chose not to. Full heritage, including his poor grandma, thrown under the bus yet again. I’m just surprised that he didn’t check off “Other” and then enter “Not a typical white person.”

Personally, I think I should have written in Wise Americana. Hey, I figure that I may as well use identity politics to my advantage; maybe I’ll score some extra points for my fancy womb. Identity politics is all that matters, isn’t it? Isn’t that the entire and sole reason for such a question?

Heck of a job, politically correct police. You’ve put people all into boxes. Instead of just being, you know, people.

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Reconciliation bill passes Senate

On March 25, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

The Senate has passed a package of fixes to the health reform bill, signed by President Barack Obama, by a vote of 56 to 43. The reconciliation bill now goes back to the House for a second vote after Senate Republicans succeeded in making minor changes to the bill. The House plans to vote later Thursday – finally capping a year-long effort to remake the American health care system.

But the work isn’t done quite yet.

The bill passed 56 to 43, with Vice President Joe Biden presiding over the chamber. Senate Republicans forced a pair of changes to the reconciliation bill overnight, sending it back to the House for a final vote later Thursday.

Democrats believe the minor changes – to language regarding Pell Grants for low-income students – won’t derail House passage, meaning that Democrats are set to finally conclude the legislative struggle needed to make health reform a reality.

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We are doomed!!!

On March 22, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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The House has approved the Senate version of the health-care bill in 219 to 210 vote. This bill now goes to President Obama for his signature. The House will now vote on the reconciliation bill, which will probably no changes to it. We will forever pay for this bill and our taxes will go sky high. Thanks to all the idiots who voted in this jer, Obama and his gang. When Obama was sworn in he should have just sworn to tear this country apart.

You wanted a socialized country, well now you have it. We are no the United Socialist of America.

Shon

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On March 19, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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Looks Like We Have Another Jimmy Carter

On March 17, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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I was young when Jimmy Carter was in office, thank god, so I didn’t understand all the damage he was doing as the worst president in history. After reading about Jimmy Carter and realizing what a lame duck president we have a thought occurred to me, either Obama is a perfect clone of Jimmy Carter or Jimmy Carter is controlling Obama’s mind. We are seeing the same catastrophic policies in Obama’s presidency. Is this Obama’s presidency or is it Jimmy Carters comeback. Who knows, but we do know one thing, it isn’t good for America.

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Time Magazines Piece on State of the Union

On March 17, 2010, In If Bush Had Done That, By Shon Jimenez

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TIME Magazine has a piece. I’m stunned. It’s on their website by Michael Scherer, but I’m still stunned. “Confident Republicans Give Obama a Frosty Reception.” This is a review of the speech that I would never expect to see anywhere, on a blog or in the dead tree version of TIME Magazine. “Stand-up comics call it a ‘tough crowd,’ but then tough crowds are part of their business. It’s a whole other matter to be met with cold stares when you are the President of the United States, talking in prime time before a joint session of Congress, when your party controls both chambers by historic margins.

“President Obama spoke the first 676 words of his State of the Union address on Wednesday night before the first hand clap. His tone was so somber, and the room’s mood so grave, that no one moved when Obama said, ‘We must answer history’s call.’ There were no ovations when he called for ‘Democrats and Republicans to work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our problems.’”

The reason is nobody believes him. The Democrats have no desire to “work with Republicans.” All they want to do is say Republicans won’t come to the table. The Republicans know there’s nothing in it for them to work with Democrats. Obama “got no love for saying, ‘The worst of the storm has passed.’ By the time he announced that ‘we cut taxes for 8 million Americans paying for college,’ Obama was forced to go off script. ‘I thought I’d get some applause on that one,’ he said…” The reason he didn’t is because he hasn’t cut taxes. He’s referring to a tax rebate of a couple hundred bucks that people got, but not a tax cut. It was a lie.

Now, this is the key line: “I thought I’d get some applause on that one,” Obama said when he talked about “tax cuts” to eight million Americans paying for college. There aren’t any. He has not cut anybody’s taxes. He’s talking about tax rebates. It’s a one-time thing. Shearer points out “There was some giggling…” Obama was laughed at a lot of times last night. “[S]ome of them relented, offering the congressional version of a golf clap,” you know, making a point that it was not really applause. Shearer says, “So it went all night for the President, who a year ago came before the same body to announce, ‘Now is the time to act boldly and wisely.’ That bold wisdom has, in the course of a year, been transformed into a much more qualified vision of something short of significant legislative failure.

“‘To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve some problems, not run for the hills,’ he said. While the Democrats at times seemed to be considering the exits…” Have you heard this analysis of this speech anywhere in the State-Controlled Media? It’s right there at TIME Magazine. And it gets funnier. “While the Democrats at times seemed to be considering the exits, the Republicans in the crowd handled the event with a renewed sense of confidence. A few minutes before Obama arrived, Republican Representative Mike Pence, standing in Statuary Hall, explained that he had turned down a chance to run for the Senate so he could help lead Republicans back to power in the House.

“‘This is a genuine, authentic, American movement,’ he said of the” the conservative ascendency here, talking about “New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia. Inside the chamber, the GOP did away with the pranks and gimmicks they displayed the last time Obama addressed a joint session. Eschewing paper signs or rude interruptions, they seemed content to pass the time with the sort of cool confidence that accompanies a sense of ascendancy. House minority leader John Boehner, bronzed and cocky, kept making faces and spreading his hands in disbelief at Obama’s applause lines.

When Obama spoke about creating jobs for small business, Boehner spread his hands and cocked his head as if to say, ‘So now you’re getting it.’ “When Obama congratulated himself for not raising income taxes by ‘a single dime,’ Boehner looked incredulous — as if to say, ‘Really, he wants credit for that?’ When Obama asked ‘if anyone from either party has a better approach’ to health care reform, Boehner shot out of his seat and raised his hand. He was not called on.” Obama’s not interested in anybody else’s ideas.

Anyway, it goes on like this, ’til the last paragraph. “‘Our Administration has had some political setbacks this year, and some of them were deserved,’ he said. ‘But I wake up every day knowing that they are nothing compared to the setbacks that families all across this country have faced this year.’ Once again, in response, the chamber before him declined to offer a round of applause.”

Pelosi was trying to. She looked like a trained seal at Sea World. She was trying to get everybody out of their seats. There was some applause but, folks, the speech was a downer. It was not raucous applause. Even the traditional applause that greets the arrival of the president was not what it was.

Excerpt from Rush Limaughs website.

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