The corruption that is permeating the Obama administration's health care push is being addressed by the lib media now.
It involves secret deals with Big Pharma and the questionable dealings of David Axelrod with AKPD and GMMB.
Firms with Obama ties profit from health push
President Barack Obama's push for a national health care overhaul is providing a financial windfall in the election offseason to Democratic consulting firms that are closely connected to the president and two top advisers.
Coalitions of interest groups running at least $24 million in pro-overhaul ads hired GMMB, which worked for Obama's 2008 campaign and whose partners include a top Obama campaign strategist. They also hired AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama's campaign and now to the White House. AKPD did work for Obama's campaign, and Axelrod's son Michael and Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe work there.
The firms were hired by Americans for Stable Quality Care and its predecessor, Healthy Economy Now. Each was formed by a coalition of interests with big stakes in health care policy, including the drug maker lobby PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the Service Employees International Union and Families USA, which calls itself "The Voice for Health Care Consumers."
Their ads press for changes in health care policy. Healthy Economy Now made one of the same arguments that Obama does: that health care costs are delaying the country's economic recovery and that changes are needed if the economy is to rebound.
There is no evidence that Axelrod directly profited from the group's ads. Axelrod took steps to separate himself from AKPD when he joined Obama's White House. AKPD owes him $2 million from his stock sale and will make preset payments over four years, starting with $350,000 on Dec. 31, according to Axelrod's personal financial disclosure report.
A larger issue is a network of relationships and overlapping interests that resembles some seen in past administrations and could prove a problem as Obama tries to win the public over on health care and fulfill his promise to change the way Washington works, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a government watchdog group.
"Even if these are obvious bedfellows and kind of standard PR maneuvers, it still stands to undercut Obama's credibility," Krumholz said. "The potential takeaway from the public is 'friends in cahoots to engineer a grass roots result.'"
These revelations come at a terrible time for Obama, when citizens are becoming more informed on ObamaCare and are, of course, rejecting it.
In addition to the policy objections that many Americans have about government-run health care, we now have corruption issues in the White House.
All the "hope and change" rhetoric that Obama used to sway Americans to elect him seems very, very empty now.
Obama isn't looking like a transcendent, new breed of politician.
He's looking like a terrible disappointment.
The opposition Obama faces from the American people on his health care scheme is part of our democratic process. People have policy disagreements. Debate is to be expected in a free society.
What's really bad for Obama is the corruption that's bubbling to the surface. That's inexcusable.
It provides another reason for Americans to be extremely wary of Obama, his administration and the Democrats.
They have shown they can't be trusted. Their word is not good.
It's been a long, LONG seven months of Obama.
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The Dems are corrupt and soon will be out of power.
For years I have sat and endured the constant contempt for the corruption of the Republicans and the lack of fiscal restraint.
I have been dutifully explained too that the Democrats, when they get their chance, will make this country a Utopian paradise, given time.
Obama rode in on a fiscal responsibility wave. He was going to stop the lobbyists, he was going to stop the pork. He was going to pay for utopia with equal spending cuts.
He was (as decided by the voters) the best man for the job. His speeches were electrifying! No one had seen his like MSNBC turned its entire cable network into a temple of blind faith. GE the parent company reaped great benefit for serving his call.
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand." The City's gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
—Horace Smith. (second rate Poem for a second rate community organizer)
The 2010 elections can't come soon enough.
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