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When President Obama made his health care speech to a joint session of Congress, he said, “And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up: Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.”  This seems pretty cut and dry — no federal dollars for abortions means no tax money for abortions.  In spite of what the President said, both the House and the Senate versions of health care reform include federal money or tax credits for abortions.  The Senate bill even provides money for Planned Parenthood!  Was the President lying?  The answer, according to Obama, is no.  Even though the health care bills in Congress do provide federal dollars for abortion, Obama’s health care plan does not.  From CNSNews.com,

Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written.

Does Obama think we ‘re stupid?  He claims that he was referring to his own health care plan when he gave that speech to Congress but does his plan even exist?  Where is his health care plan?  Can we go to the White House web site and read it?  If Congress passes health care reform will he veto it because it is not the same as his plan?  Why hasn’t he introduced a written form of his plan to the Congress?

I think this is a way of trying to distance himself from an unpopular policy that he actually supports.  People will say that he lied because the health care bill includes money for abortions.  He can then reply that his plan did not include money for abortions.

Here is a video of the interview with Rep. Stupak.

In his speech to the United Nations, President Obama said that America will always stand with those who stand up for their dignity and their rights, for voters demanding to be heard, for the innocent who demand to be free, and for the oppressed who yearn to be equal.  Really?  Is that what he did with Iran?  What about Honduras? Is this his new policy because he sure hasn’t been following it so far?

During the campaign, we all heard Obama say over and over again that he would not raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year.  George Stephanopoulos, on his “This Week” program, asked Treasury Secretary Giethner if taxes would have to be raised on the middle class to lower the record deficit the Obama administration is creating (transcript of the interview).  Giethner’s response was, “…we’re not at the point yet where we’re going to make a judgment about what it’s going to take.”  Stephanopoulos pressed him saying, “But you’re not ruling it out, you can’t rule it out.”  Giethner replied, “I think what the country needs to do is understand we’re going to have to do what it takes, we’re going to do what’s necessary.”  Apparently, to the Obama administration, doing what’s necessary to reduce the deficit includes raising taxes on the middle class.  I have an idea.  Instead of raising taxes, how about we stop spending TRILLIONS of dollars we don’t have.  I guess that’s not an option.