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IG Watchdog Has Located Tens of Thousands of Lost Lerner Emails
Tens of thousands of Lerner emails have been found by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). This past Friday, TIGTA announced to congressional staffers that they were located “among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.”, and that it "took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes”. TIGTA has estimated it could contain nearly 30,000 emails. The emails date back to 2009 - 2011, an...
More Fuzzy Math: Admin Included Dental Plans to Boost Obamacare Numbers
On the heels of the Gruber scandal, more misinformation has been admitted in regard to Obamacare. Bloomberg has reported that "the Obama administration said it erroneously calculated the number of people with health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, incorrectly adding 380,000 dental subscribers to raise the total above 7 million." Health and Human Services clarified the total number of Obamacare plans as 6.7 million, a decrease of about 5-6%. "The new count puts enrollment short of a...
Executive Amnesty is Really Being Implemented in Order to Save Obamacare Numbers
Is Executive Amnesty is inexplicably tied to Obamacare? On Monday of last week, the New York Times reported that Health and Human Secretary, Sylvia Burwell, projected 9.1 million enrollees in Obamacare by the end of the year. This is in stark contrast to the original projections by the Congressional Budget Office, which "had estimated that 13 million people would be enrolled next year, with the total rising to 24 million in 2016". The New York Times also noted that, "in the past, the White...
Obama Video on Jonathan Gruber: “I Have Stolen Ideas From Liberally”
In case anyone wasn't sure about the White House denials regarding its ties to Jonathan Gruber, here we have video of Obama heaping praise upon him: "You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice." This seems to directly contrast...
Krauthammer on Gruber: Obamacare Was Sold on a Pack of Lies
With all the revelations surrounding Jonathan Gruber and the behind-the-scenes Obamacare manoeuvring, Charles Krauthammer weighs in with a solid, sobering analysis. Krauthammer explains, "It's refreshing that "the most transparent administration in history," as this administration fancies itself, should finally display candor about its signature act of social change. Inadvertently, of course. But now we know what lay behind Obama's smooth reassurances — the arrogance of an academic liberalism,...
State Budgets: Big (Empty) Promises
Many states continue to bamboozle their citizens by obfuscating the true depth of their debt that is occurring in the form of unfunded liabilities. Those liabilities are mainly state public pension plans, and they continue to routinely promise pie-in-the-sky returns, even after years of bleak economic growth and investment. A group called State Budget Solutions analyzes the problem of underfunding each year. Its annual report "reveals that state public pension plans are underfunded by $4.7...
Fuzzy Math: The CBO Has Not Actually Scored Obamacare’s Deficit Impact Since 2012
With all the discussion swirling with regard to Jonathan Gruber, the stupidity of the American voter, and the funny scoring of Obamacare by the CBO, it's worth it to note that CBO trickery is still ongoing. Hats off to The Weekly Standard last month for delving into the question of true Obamacare costs. The Senate Budget Committee (SBC) took the time to analyze the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections related to Obamacare and this is what they found: **"The Congressional Budget Office...
Romney Redux? No Thanks
Mitch Romney’s appearance on Fox News Sunday the weekend before Election Day confirmed that he should not be a candidate for President in 2016. Indeed, his inability to answer any of Chris Wallace’s questions made it painfully clear why he lost his election bid in 2012. The first question had to do with the old “outsourcing jobs” bit, which has been an omnipresent theme in several races, such as Quinn for Governor in Illinois, and Perdue for Senate in Georgia. The way Chris Wallace asked about...
The IRS Now Admits It Hasn’t Looked For Missing Lerner Emails
During the ongoing court case between Judicial Watch and the IRS, the IRS recently filed a "Defendant's Opposition to the Plaintiff's Motion Seeking Recovery", protesting the continued FOIA requests regarding Lerner's tapes. Some remarkable information emerged. In the document, the IRS wrote that they have not searched IRS servers because “the servers would not result in the recovery of any information.” The IRS further claimed no search was performed on the back-up tapes, because there was...
Romney Has Got to Go
Romney’s appearance on Fox News Sunday this past weekend confirmed that Romney should not be a candidate for President in 2016. Indeed, his inability to answer any of Chris Wallace’s questions at all made it painfully clear why he lost his election bid in 2012. The first question had to do with the old “outsourcing jobs” bit, which has been an omnipresent theme in several races, such as Quinn for Governor in Illinois, and Purdue for Senate in Georgia. The way Chris Wallace asked about it gave...
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