From last night’s Fox News All-Stars:
On Obama’s health-care speech Wednesday night:
He sounded smooth and polished and strong and convincing — and what he was selling was snake oil. …
When he talked about what would be in his bill and how he would not end up with a dime of deficit, he said it will cost almost $1 trillion dollars and the majority of it, more than half, will come from — what? From removing waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare.
Now, that’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people. That phrase was a joke when it was used by Richard Nixon in 1971!
And if there is all this waste and abuse in the system waiting to be squeezed out, why hasn’t he started already? Where is it? Why do you have to have a bill?
If you tell us Medicare is destroying our budget and our economy, he ought to be on this from Day One, and we’re eight months in. Why doesn’t he start today and give us a report in six months how the attack on waste and abuse is going? That was a fraud.
I mean, a lot of this stuff he sold — again, smoothly and extremely effectively — was amazing.
What he offered last night was the greatest free lunch in American history: no new taxes, no deficits, and he gave away everything. He is going to insure all these uninsured, have the lifetime guaranteed insurance [for those who have it], nobody is going to have to change it [one’s current insurance].
Of course people will lose health insurance [as a result of this plan]. All of this elided over brilliantly.
On reports that Iran is working actively to undermine the U.S. in Afghanistan:
There was early evidence of this in the late years of the Bush administration. It is now a lot stronger. It has always been happening in Iraq. We always knew about that.
The problem is the Iranians look at Obama and they have never seen less pushback. They are getting an administration that is on bended knee, that offered an outstretched hand and makes an apology for a coup that happened 50 years ago. It [the administration] says not a word in the middle of a revolution in which democrats are getting shot in the street.
The U.S. — the Obama administration — is expecting a response [from Iran]. So what does it get on nuclear weaponry? It expected — all of us had expected — as the U.N. General Assembly approaches that Iran would at least offer a delaying action, offer a hint of moderation.
It [Iran] offered… a response of ten pages today that is an insult. It says not a word about restraining itself on nukes It is showing contempt because it imagines the United States will do nothing.
And we had a statement from Robert Gibbs today which had the usual mush – “concern,” “international community,” “gravity of this situation.” There is no evidence that the Obama administration is serious about any pressure, and in the absence of it, Iran is going to act up in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and is going to accelerate its nuclear program.






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