POTUS Loses at Golf

It is a wonderful article,i like it,thank you very much!

Anyone really want to compare the work schedules of Obama and Bush? Bush was on vacation half the time and in bed by 8:00PM! Give me a break!

Who is the next (R) senator to switch from the pro-torture party?

According to other news sources, the folks who were scheduled to play at that time were bumped rather unceremoniously at the last moment. Apparently, President Obama and his staff DO have little regard for the "little people" in the military. That is a shame.

"The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization"

Is a either GOP toady or believe what he reads on FoxNews.

Probably a little from both columns.

Same "old" tired republicans, stop the bashing! Find the words "yes he can"!

Mo Wrote the following:
"There was no such proposal to make veterans pay for their own health benefits. The proposal, which came from last years Congressional Budget Office & OMB (Bush's) was for veterans in areas without a VA medical center, to use their private medical insurance and then the insurance companies would be reimbursed by the VA. "

Is that the #### you read on MoveOn.org or the Huffington Post...
The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.

What you said was baloney and you threw in it was Bush's fault like a good lefty....

Special Olympics Golf?

This article was posted on a Sunday. Not a big deal to include a sports related POTUS "fluff" article on a Sunday afternoon. Honestly.

Jake -- Perhaps you should go back to college and try for another degree. I could have read this in one of those News Rag magazines they have posted at the grocery store check-out line.

This is all you've got?
What happened to integrity in reporting?

Here are some of today's headlines:

"US calls EU travel warning unwarranted"

"US says not testing travelers from Mexico for flu "

"Napolitano wary of Mexican travel"

"Administration declares 'emergency'"

This is what happens when appoint an idiot to a serious job. Sibelius is no more qualified than is Napolitano.

"Perhaps some of you should ask WHY there is no HHS Secretary, THAT lies squarely on the shoulders of the new Do-Nothing Party (aka Republican Party), they're the ones holding up confirmations."

You mean Obama is too stupid to call CDC and ask what their recommendations are?

What exactly are Sibelius' qualifications to evaluate a viral outbreak? Do you people think abortions are the answer to everything?

BTW, the CDC says isolation and quarantine.

Npage, the problem with what you posted is, you're wrong.

There was no such proposal to make veterans pay for their own health benefits. The proposal, which came from last years Congressional Budget Office & OMB (Bush's) was for veterans in areas without a VA medical center, to use their private medical insurance and then the insurance companies would be reimbursed by the VA.

The job of those two agencies is to research and propose various cost-saving strategies. Their reports are not policy, and don't necessarily equal intent. In other words, just because something is in a report, doesn't mean anyone is considering making it policy.

And again, that report was from the PRIOR administration. I really wish facts meant something to people.

It doesn't bother me that the President of the United States took some time to play golf, or even that he hasn't filled his staff completely yet. It does bother me that he's playing golf at Andrews Air Force Base considering the attitude he's shown toward our military personnel, spending billions and trillions to save Wall Street and big business, but trying to get veterans to pay for their own benefits and other such offenses.
Have fun, Prez.

I can always count on the comment section of one Jake Tapper's ridiculous articles to see the latest right-wing talking points.

Perhaps some of you should ask WHY there is no HHS Secretary, THAT lies squarely on the shoulders of the new Do-Nothing Party (aka Republican Party), they're the ones holding up confirmations.

I'm sure an afternoon of golf on a Sunday didn't cause a complete shutdown of the federal government. Afterall, what was it you guys told us for eight years? The President is never really on vacation, all vacations are working vacations, the President's job is 24/7 no matter what he is doing - whether it's clearing brush, falling off a Segway, reading to children, or playing golf.

I've become increasingly amazed at what little journalistic ability & integrity it takes these days to become a Senior White House Correspondent.

This also belongs in the file of "What if George Bush did this?"

It's pathetic. Obama could ignore the deaths due to the freeze in Tennesee and west Virginia, the floods in Iowa and now this flu outbreak that should have been contained and no one cares because it's the Obama who ignored all of them.

And he's getting a pass from the press.

ALL of the press.

Can you imagine just how bad Ron Kirk's score must have been? So Obama is shooting somewhere in the middle 90's (and that assumes he had a good day) and Kirk and Locke lost to that - these guys are pure hacks.

Of course, Gawd forbid that we make the leap between their golf scores and the first 100 days' performance - or let's call it the first part of the front 9 of the Presidential course. THAT would be the wrong thing to do - and, I for won't do it - NOPE, count me out of that discussion. YOu have the hacking on the course not being anything like the hacking in the Oval office.

Period.

Can you image what the lefties would be screaming if this was shrub? My God! Golfing while the potentially greatest health threat to hit our continent is being faced with no Sec of HSH? Seriously? Maybe Brownie is available! He knows horses after all ....

This is the first problem of national significance that the current administration can't blame on the previous administration. .... oh wait, maybe they can ... let's see what the day brings.

I have read your article, I think very popular with this article.

They mobilized too late because Obama is playing golf?

The Obama administration declared a "public health emergency" Sunday to confront the swine flu — but is heading into its first medical outbreak with:

- No Secretary of Health and Human Services or appointees in any of the department's 19 key posts.
- No surgeon general
- No head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In addition, his choice to run the Food and Drug Administration awaits confirmation. Obama was caught off guard by the emergence of this virus and many decisions that should have been made have not been—as a direct result of no leadership in the departments responsible for dealing with a situation like an epidemic or pandemic.

They are also very slow to respond with the leadership in place:

http://tinyurl.com/d6fjxm