Obamacare’s 18 New Tax Hikes

The Foundry  "Not only did the President and his partners in Congress take $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare, but they also raise taxes by $836.3 billion to pay for it, with $36.3 billion hitting Americans in 2013 alone. Here’s the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation‘s (JCT) updated cost of the Obamacare tax hikes and penalties."  You'll need glasses for this one:

More here from Heritage on healthcare

Mean old Fox News

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp

Dem poll pushes Todd Akin

American Thinker  "The Republican Senate Campaign Committee will not back Akin at this point. He is too toxic for all the other candidates running. Neither will CrossRoads Super Pac. If Todd Akin cares about his party, his country, Senate control,and the ability of Romney and Ryan to talk about the issues they want to discuss, rather than Todd akin, he should withdraw . If he sticks in at this point, he may be delusional. Of course, that was the point of the PPP poll, to feed that delusion."

Strange things happening with the ObaMedia

Building off the stories we posted in the Tunnel Wall previously.
 
Thomas Lifson:  Obama's MSM shield starts to crumble  "We should be treated to quite an amusing spectacle as Obama supporters turn on Tina Brown and Newsweek. The campaign may have entered a news stage, if this approach to media survival -- treating conservative critiques of Obama as worthy of attention -- catches on."

Obama’s Campaign Speech ‘Press Conference’ In The White House "While the President has been continually appearing on television and radio programs that are considered to be extremely “light media”, he has been avoiding any and all media outlets that would ask the difficult questions about policies including the present troubled economy."

Jake Tapper Tells Ingraham ‘Media Helped Tip The Scales’ In 2008  Via Memeorandum

Sounds Of Discord At Obama HQ "Glenn Thrush of Politico has a new ebook out today which paints a picture of the wheels coming off at Team Obama. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people…" 

The People Magazine president elected by People Magazine voters

After Weekend Of Bashing, Obama Meets WH Press Corps: 'Jay Tells Me That You Guys Have Been Missing Me'   "President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing today, after growing criticism that he had been avoiding reporters. He used the occasion to criticize the GOP's candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, to borrow a line from Harry Reid about Mitt Romney's father, and to claim that presidents' lives should be an "open book," among other statements of varied interest."



Obama Spokesthing: People Magazine ‘Equally Important’ as Political Media  "This Stefanie Cutter is a regular laugh riot. Trying to defend the wimpy president’s granting interviews to People magazine and Entertainment Tonight, the clueless Cutter offered up this whopper."

Israel’s Options After America’s Foreign Policy Debacle (from Gatestone)

David P. Goldman  "The problem is that American foreign policy faces catastrophic failure, or rather a comprehensive set of failures, bearing directly on Israeli security. Not only have sanctions failed to deter Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but the Islamic Republic has broken out of diplomatic isolation. Turkey, supposedly America’s partner in regional diplomacy, has reached out to Russia and China. And Egypt has reached out to Iran while threatening Israel in the Sinai." 

Jerusalem Post

The latest on Todd Akin of Missoura

Neal Boortz on Today's Drama;  "Is this how the Republicans blow the chance to win control of the Senate in November?  Listening to Jamie Dupree this morning, that could well be the case. 
...."Akin needs to withdraw from the race TODAY.  The only thing that will prevent him from doing so will be his ego.  If he stays in he will most likely lose.  He will lose not only because of his remarks, but because he showed after those remarks that this election is more about him than it is about the country and reversing the damage done by Obama and mindless proggies like Claire McCaskill." 

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/08/20/102891

Beltway Confidential; Democrats spent $1.5 mil to help Akin win GOP primary  "Here’s how the Democrats did it, running ads in the GOP primary that were intended to boost his appeal among  the most conservative primary voters:"

Dennis Prager; The Pro-Life Movement Must Disavow Akin Comment  "Therefore, the pro-life movement should announce that the comment on pregnancy has no basis in truth. And since truth is a supreme conservative and religious value, the movement neither espouses nor condones untruths. The Republican Party has said this. And since Todd Akin has not said this, his candidacy is no longer viable.

"Morality, truth, and the most important elections on our lifetime demand no less."

Meanwhile the cartoonists are having a field day with this:

Newsday

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/08/21/cartoons-of-the-day-todd-akin-says/

Mexico's Strategy

STRATFOR  "A few years ago, I wrote about Mexico possibly becoming a failed state because of the effect of the cartels on the country. Mexico may have come close to that, but it stabilized itself and took a different course instead -- one of impressive economic growth in the face of instability. "
....
"Another aspect is the movement of migrants. For Mexicans, the movement of migrants has been part of their social policy: It shifts the poor out of Mexico and generates remittances. For the United States, this has provided a consistent source of low-cost labor. The borderland has been the uncontrollable venue through which the migrants pass. The Mexicans don't want to stop it, and neither, in the end, do the Americans."
Especially the Democrats, who - I firmly believe-see these immigrants as a source of Democrat voters.

EXCLUSIVE: Obama 'cancelled missions to kill bin Laden THREE TIMES after getting cold feet - until Hillary Clinton stepped in', claims explosive new book

UK Daily Mail  "At the start of his presidency, Miniter writes, Obama was ‘studiously undecided’ about whether to kill the mastermind of 9/11.

"‘He refused to weigh in or commit himself on even small matters related to a possible strike on bin Laden.’

"He continues: ‘Obama was often disengaged as the bin Laden operation took shape; he left critical decisions to the then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, then-Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

"‘Obama feared taking responsibility for a risky raid that might go tragically wrong.’

"Initially, Miniter writes, Obama deferred to Jarrett over whether to go after bin Laden.

"‘Jarrett opposed the idea. She worried about a backlash against the president if the operation failed, or even if it succeeded. Clinton privately fumed about Jarrett’s relentless presence and her injection of political considerations at every turn.

"‘Throughout 2009 Obama demanded more and more certainty about U.S. intelligence concerning bin Laden. Jarrett repeatedly reminded Obama and other executive-branch officials that the president had campaigned on the “intelligence failures” of the Bush years.

"‘There was no need, she said, to hand our political rivals a set of intelligence failures of our own."

GM is Alive! Says the administration.

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Poll shows Todd Akin with one-point lead as GOP pressure grows for him to quit

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The left doesn't care; all that matters is that Obama must continue to be president...

...no matter what.