I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
Plenty of Clunkers, No Cash
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It seems that all the air is rushing out of Obama’s quickly-deflating “Cash-For-Clunkers” balloon. Aside from the growing criticism over the waste of functional cars, and the energy/carbon cost of each car’s destruction, and the huge amounts of taxpayers’ money that Congress has been throwing at this… there is now yet another growing complaint.
KRQE is one of several that are reporting about dealers being stiffed by the federal government, having already given out numerous rebate incentives to customers after being promised by Uncle Sam that their reimbursement would arrive within 10 days. Needless to say, those checks are not in the mail.
Don Chalmers, a dealer in New Mexico, has already sold 70 cars under this program, and has this to say: “I pay my bills. If I was three weeks or four weeks late on paying my taxes I suspect that they would be in my office real quick. We just expect the same sort of courtesy and treatment from the federal government.”
At least some congressmen are getting involved, like Martin Heinrich (D-NM), who told KRQE, “You simply can’t ask businesses to front $200,000, $300,000 for any period of time. These applications are simply not being processed fast enough. So we are going to be on the phone today to the White House and to the feds in DC to try and get this moving.”
Not to belabor the obvious observation, but if the government can’t even run this little program, how do the Democrats expect it to reform the entire health care industry?