Saturday, March 23, 2013

Biden

KN: So much for the sequester.

Biden One-Night Hotel Tab: $585,000

AP
Vice President Joe Biden stayed one night in Paris during the first European tour of his second term racking up a hotel bill of $585,000.50, reports the Weekly Standard.

Matt Vespa | March 22, 2013 | 16:03
On March 20, the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein reported that it seems Obamacare’s true costs are starting to sink in with its most ardent supporters: Democrats.  Despite years of the liberal media reporting that this new trillion dollar health care entitlement will save money over the next decade, that outcome is, to be generous, highly dubious, especially with the possibility of eleven million new illegals being able to apply for health care benefits, the cost of health care will have to increase. 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2OK1anzEq
Paul Bremmer | March 22, 2013 | 17:37
On Thursday’s NewsHour, PBS co-anchor Hari Sreenivasan misled viewers in a story about the latest action in Congress regarding the $984-billion continuing resolution -- a spending bill which will fund federal government operations through September 30, when the current fiscal year ends. Said Sreenivasan: “That spending legislation was necessary because Congress hasn't passed a budget in years.

While that sentence is true, it's incredibly misleading in that the U.S. House of Representatives has repeatedly passed budget resolutions. It's just that the Democratic-controlled Senate has failed to approve a budget, any budget, in more than three years.

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