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Posted by Defend America on Friday, March 05, 2010 7:19:28 AM

WH posts video of press-free bill signing

Stepping up its efforts to bypass the traditional media, the White House released official, government created video of a bill signing President Barack Obama conducted in the Oval Office today--a bill signing the White House press corps was locked out of.

The video posted on the White House website runs less than two minutes and contains banter between Obama and the bipartisan Congressional group which pressed for the Travel Promotion Act, a bill that sets up a new entity and fee mechanism to encourage foreigners to come to the U.S.

In principle, it doesn't go beyond what many White Houses have routinely done: releasing official White House photos. But even that practice has led to protests from independent still photographers who have traditionally covered such events.

Freezing out TV cameras and reporters ensures that Obama won't be asked nettlesome questions--say, about the very delicate state of health care reform on Capitol Hill. (The major networks have a generally-observed policy of not permitting their cameras into an event without a reporter or producer present who can choose to ask a question if he or she sees fit.)

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0310/WH_posts_video_of_pressfree_bill_signing.html

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Blaing Insurance Companies is Not a Solution to Our Problem, Government is the Problem

Posted by Defend America on Friday, March 05, 2010 7:17:28 AM
Obama vs. Insurers and the People
by David Limbaugh

President Barack Obama's obsessive, opportunistic demonization of insurance companies in his quest to pass his not-yet-written health care proposal is growing tiresome. Aren't you getting sick of a president attacking American citizens and businesses as if they -- not Obama's beloved government -- were the enemy?

His repeated implication that insurance companies are the primary reason for rising health care costs is politically expedient, but it's still untrue. Government is the main culprit.

Throughout his yearlong push for Obamacare, he has called insurance companies every name in the book. He has blamed them for soaring costs, bludgeoned them for taking profits, condemned their executives' salaries and savaged them for denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

He even says insurers are the final arbiters of who gets care and who doesn't: "And insurance companies freely ration health care based on who's sick and who's healthy, who can pay and who can't."

Obama has framed the entire debate as if it were an insurance problem. In his theatrical speech Wednesday -- while flanked from all sides by white-coated props -- he said, "We began our push to reform health insurance last March," as if the thrust of his health care efforts has been to rein in insurers and little else.

Though Obama surely hates insurance companies, we all know he is up to much more than just punishing them. This is about a government takeover, even if it takes several incremental steps. Vilifying insurers sells better than glorifying government to a center-right nation generally suspicious of government.

http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/03/05/obama_vs_insurers_and_the_people


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'Dems Turn Risky Health Vote into Manhood Contest'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, March 05, 2010 7:13:33 AM

Dems turn risky health vote into manhood contest

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
March 5, 2010

There's no way around it. Things in the House of Representatives are about to get very, very rough.

With their backs to the wall, Democratic leaders are preparing a complicated plan to pass their national health care bill. Standing in the way are Democrats who oppose the bill, whether on principle or out of fear that voting for a wildly unpopular measure will spell defeat for them in November.

If you think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to let them off easy, allowing them to kill the party's top policy priority in more than a generation -- well, that's not gonna happen. Democrats who are considering voting against the bill are about to experience arm-twisting, threats, and pressure like they've never experienced.

I called a Democratic strategist with a question: Say I'm a moderate Democrat. I voted for the House bill last November, but I've seen the polls, I know a majority in my district opposes the bill, and I feel certain that voting for final passage will end my time in office. Why should I vote yes?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Dems-turn-risky-health-vote-into-manhood-contest-86422107.html

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Who was the Pentagon Shooter?

Posted by Defend America on Friday, March 05, 2010 5:45:56 AM

Pentagon Shooter Railed Against U.S. on Internet

Friday, March 05, 2010

WASHINGTON  —  Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire.

The shooter's death was confirmed early Friday, hours after the Thursday evening assault, as authorities searched for a motive behind the brazen attack. The two officers, grazed by bullets, were treated in a hospital.

The attack unfolded at the subway entrance to the massive Defense Department headquarters, as an eerie calm and silence were broken by the explosion of gunfire.

"He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting" at point-blank range, said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face."

The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons, sending the shooter to the hospital with critical injuries. Beverly Fields, chief of staff of the D.C. medical examiner's office, confirmed the man's death and said his body arrived at her office shortly after midnight.

John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Officials said they'd found no immediate connection to terrorism but had not ruled it out.

Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588074,00.html


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Obama Advisers to Recommend Military Tribunal for KSM and His Cohor

Posted by Defend America on Friday, March 05, 2010 5:44:38 AM

In Reversal, Obama Advisers to Recommend Military Tribunals for 9/11 Plotters

FOXNews.com

Top advisers to President Obama reportedly are close to a decision recommending that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks be prosecuted in a military tribunal.

According to the report, the president's advisors have grown increasingly wary of bipartisan opposition to the planned civilian federal trial in New York City, mere blocks from where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in the spectacular attack on the World Trade Center.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and prominent state Democrats, who initially embraced Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other conspirators in Manhattan, have since reversed their support for the trial.

The paper said administration officials are privately bracing for backlash from disappointed liberals and some government lawyers should Obama reverse his decision to try the detainees in civilian courts.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/04/obama-aides-recommend-military-trial/



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