Look, no president in the history of this republic has less reason to complain about mistreatment in the press than Barack Obama. Liberals have academia, they have mainstream media, they have Hollywood. They’re all for diversity in everything but thought. And out here is this, this one channel, Fox, and they’re all up in arms because, in the words of Miss Dunn of the White House, “It is opinion journalism masquerading as news” which some of us would say describes the New York Times and certainly MSNBC. 

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Is he wrong?

TEL AVIV – President Obama’s presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was “controlled,” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” said Dunn.

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I believe every administration tries to control what the press will get out of them, that is one of the reasons why they have talking heads like Gibbs. But I find it very disturbing that if the Government doesn’t like what you report, they, the administration, will go after you.

“One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters,” said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama’s chief campaign manager.

Unfortunately until the MSM wakes up and sees they are being spoon-fed the information the Administration wants them to report on and begins to go off script and start asking real questions and demanding real answers, that this will continue. It’s pretty bad when Helen Thomas calls out this Administration for Controlling the Press:

I don’t care if you are for or against it, all I ask is that you read it.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

Don’t read part of it, grab a cup of coffee, sit down, and read it completely.

Then seriously, would love to hear your thoughts.

“I tend not to question law enforcement,” Gibbs said, explaining the scheduling of the exercise was “a decision that was made by the Coast Guard.”

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Congressman McMahon


My biggest question is… Did you READ the bill???  Not one of you could possibly have.  The 300 page amendment was not reconciled to the original bill at the time of your vote. It was sitting in the House clerks office.


Taken from the Congressional Budget Office website I suggest you go to that website and read it since you obviously did not take the time to read a bill you voted for!

http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/collections.cfm?collect=9#pt2


The Director of the CBO indicated that the price increases associated with an illustrative cap-and-trade program that CBO considered would result in an average cost per household of $1,600 a year. That figure is an estimate of the gross per-household cost due to the imposition of a price on emissions; the net per-household cost, which accounts for other features of the program that would reduce households’ costs or raise their income, would be substantially lower. In addition, the $1,600 cost estimate derives from the particular cap-and-trade program that CBO examined. The cost of cap-and-trade programs that have significantly different design features, such as the one that would be established under the bill recently approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee (H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009), could be significantly different.


Even if I did believe your email (which I do not) You justify your position by saying New York households will save on average $5.58 per month in electricity costs and $8.00 a month in fuel costs within the next 10 years under the Energy Bill.  Again, I still don’t understand how you can base your opinions on a bill you did not read.  Apparently YOUR CBO has a different opinion and even if you lawmakers do not raise taxes on consumers, you will raise costs for businesses who will then just pass those costs onto the consumer thus costing us more money.  Even President Obama, during the campaign, admitted that a Cap and Trade program would NECESSARILY cause electricity costs to skyrocket.  Your figures (for which you offer no basis) seem to belie what the President himself has stated.  Somehow I think perhaps you, your colleagues and the President should be reading from the same script.


The cost of the bill (as passed) to one oil company in particular will be in the range of $8 to $12 BILLION dollars raising the cost of gasoline by 50 to 60 cents a gallon for every American (including American businesses).  How will that not affect average New Yorkers?  This increase in the cost of fuel will significantly raise the price of everything transported over the roads and rails and ultimately be borne by the taxpayers you claim to represent.  So do not be fooled; not all of us are as stupid as you lawmakers seem to think we are!


It is likely that many US refineries will close and substitute their production with foreign production from India and China.  Those countries relative lack of environmental regulation will actually INCREASE the production of greenhouse gases worldwide.  So the actual effect of your vote and that of your misguided colleagues will be to destroy American jobs in favor of those overseas and drastically increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the global environment.  I think you need to actually read the bills you vote on and seek competent advice; rather than blindly following Ms. Pelosi and our president (he’s still MY president even though I disagree with nearly everything he is trying to do).  More important you need to listen to what your constituents want you to do!!!!!!  You do, after all, work for US.  Would you care to publish the ratio of calls and emails you received in favor and against this issue?  Or are you only transparent when its convenient? 


I further doubt, Congressman, that you read and comprehended the report on a similar Spanish Cap and Trade program that resulted in huge unemployment numbers.  For the record, in the Cap and Trade program in Spain there were 2.2 jobs lost for every green job created.  So it would seem to be that instead of trying to stimulate the economy you and your colleagues are trying to collapse it.