I was only able to watch clips of the President’s news conference this morning having spent yesterday with AFP’s National President Tim Phillips, out here for a whirlwind one day tour. What stood out to me was the President is now rolling the dice on his entire Presidency on this one issue and is getting desperate. He is once again reverting to campaign mode to try to convince people with his great oratorical skills that he can say anything and the people will simply lap it up, even though he contradicts himself as the AP points out in their recap of his news conference.

Now, his brilliant spin machine knows his ideas are losing big time in the court of public opinion and they are now repackaging the message because they know it isn’t selling. It is no longer “health care reform” but it is now “health insurance reform”. It really doesn’t matter, because regardless of how much the President tries to put lipstick on a pig, "Obamacare" will still be a pig and the people know it. Once again the liberal socialists have over-reached and the people are reacting negatively, thankfully.

I believe that the people are getting tired of Obama’s constant need to be in front a camera and the constant campaign mode.

Obama fatigue has set in.

The stimulus scam continues to be slowly exposed as more details emerge as noted in the Portland Tribune story today. The number of jobs to be produced by stimulus spending in Oregon is about half of what Transportation Department officials say it will be, which just smacks of absolute dishonesty. I guess elected officials and bureaucrats think that no one is going to notice that their figures don’t add up and call them on their lies. Too bad, because it just fuels the cynicism about our government. Which might not be a bad thing if it moves people to get off their tushies and get involved to make a stand for their principles and values. I expect more will come out about the abuses that are sure to be buried in a massive bill that no Member of Congress read before it passed.

Finally, the President and a lot of talking heads seem to repeat the lie that 47 million Americans are uninsured, which is being refuted by the US Census Bureau which estimates it at 35 million. Why the discrepancy? Well the Census folks estimate that of 45.6 million uninsured, 10 million are classified by them as “non-citizens”, which means they are likely illegal aliens. So once again, more smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the truth in an effort by the Marxists to artificially inflate the true number of uninsured Americans by adding in the illegals. In fact, if you compare the numbers from year over year, you see that the number of uninsured Americans is actually declining! A side note is that the Bureau’s own numbers show that 9 million legal Americans who are not insured earn over $70,000 per year and are simply choosing to not buy health insurance. If they don’t want health insurance (not smart) why should we force it on them?

Let freedom ring!