Despite Obama's claims that health care "reform" opponents were spreading "fabrications" and "bearing false witness" about his plan, even the non-partisan FactCheck.org has weighed in and admitted that currently proposed plans would indeed result in the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions.

The truth is that bills now before Congress don't require federal money to be used for supporting abortion coverage. So the president is right to that limited extent. But it's equally true that House and Senate legislation would allow a new "public" insurance plan to cover abortions, despite language added to the House bill that technically forbids using public funds to pay for them. Obama has said in the past that "reproductive services" would be covered by his public plan, so it's likely that any new federal insurance plan would cover abortion unless Congress expressly prohibits that. Low- and moderate-income persons who would choose the "public plan" would qualify for federal subsidies to purchase it. Private plans that cover abortion also could be purchased with the help of federal subsidies. Therefore, we judge that the president goes too far when he calls the statements that government would be funding abortions "fabrications."

Now we'll just sit back and wait for the White House to say FactCheck is "fabricating".

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Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall during this year's Thanksgiving dinner at the Jon Voight home with his daughter, Angelina Jolie and her boyfriend, Brad Pitt.  Pitt has recently been on talk shows pushing his new movie, "Inglorious Basterds" and answering the question of whether he is serious about running for mayor of New Orleans.  

Pitt replies that he could not get elected since he and Angelina have promised not to marry until homosexuals can marry everywhere in America; that he wants to get rid of religion, that he wants marijuana legalized.  As Brad Pitt kiddingly says, that is not a very electable agenda.   

His girlfriend, Angelina Jolie, has not spouted off much about politics lately, but she is sure to have a few strongly-expressed opinions over the Thanksgiving dinner.  Her father, Jon Voight, is Hollywood's number one most prominent conservative, by far, now that Charlton Heston has passed away and Mel Gibson has ceded the mantle.  

Jon Voight has joined with the number two talk show host in the country, Sean Hannity of Fox News, on his Freedom Concert tours to help the children of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan receive college educations.  Voight gives his conservative opinions to anyone who will listen.   

It would seem that not only is Obamacare not healthy for Democrat political fortunes, but it doesn't seem to be too healthy for the AARP either.

CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled
their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group’s position
on health care.

Elaine Guardiani has been with AARP for 14 years, and said, "I’m extremely disappointed in AARP."

Retired nurse Dale Anderson has 12 years with AARP and said, "I don’t wanna be connected with AARP."

Many are switching to the American Seniors Association, a group that
calls itself the conservative alternative as CBS News Investigative
Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.

Last week alone, they added more than 5,000 new members. Our camera was there Friday when the mail came.

Letters were filled with cut-up AARP cards.

"I think that probably the seniors are most upset with cuts in Medicare," said ASA President Stuart Barton.

Just in case you're tempted to get distracted by all that talk from the White House, Nancy Pelosi, etc. about how all those people showing up at townhall meetings really don't represent America, well it seems the numbers tell a different story:

Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll.
 
At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.

In 2009, 40% percent of respondents in Gallup surveys that have interviewed more than 160,000 Americans have said that they are either "conservative" (31%) or "very conservative" (9%). That is the highest percentage in any year since 2004.

Only 21% have told Gallup they are liberal, including 16% who say they are "liberal" and 5% who say they are "very liberal."
 
Thirty-five percent of Americans say they are moderate.

And, of course, we know that most "moderates" tend to be conservatives who are worried about running afoul of political correctness if they admit it.

Despite the trial balloon floated by Obama and Sebelius over the past few days, leading people to think that they’re really not that set on the "public" option (ie. government run healthcare) that has many people so upset, conservatives could do well not to lay down their arms, so to speak.

So what's going on?  It could mean several things.  It could be an attempt to allay the fears of some conservatives (or just folks in the middle) while town-halls are still going on...perhaps give Democrats some breathing room and reduce the incoming fire.  Maybe an attempt to gin up the liberal side of the debate by scaring them into seeing their dream of government run healthcare not coming to fruition...causing them to get more energized to counter conservatives.  Most likely all of the above.

But what we can rest fairly assuredly that it does NOT mean is that Obama and Company have given up on their objective of government run healthcare and eventually a single-payer system.

Those of us who have worked for a previously great company called Procter & Gamble are disappointed that P & G is so weak-kneed that it and 4 other companies have succumbed to the bully tactics of the Obama White House and have pulled their advertising from Fox News' Glenn Beck show.  The other 4 companies as reported in yesterday's "The Washington Times" are Geico, SC Johnson, Nexus Lexis and Progressive Insurance.    Americans need to consider a reverse boycott of these companies. 

One of Obama's chief thugs, a guy named Van Jones  --  who founded one of those racist groups called "Color of Change" which attacks anyone who does not agree with it and yells racism, for example, against those at town hall meetings who disagree with Obamacare which Obama is trying to ram down the throats of the American people  --  is personally trying to silence Glenn Beck.   

This is the same Van Jones who bragged that when he went to prison years ago he went in as a radical anarchist, but came out of prison as a communist.  This is the type of individual which Barack Obama has surrounded himself with in the White House; a group of left-wing thugs out to ambush the American people.  And this is the president who campaigned as a uniter, not a divider.   

For those of us who worked in the United States Congress before and during the Republicans' 12 year control of the Congress, it seemed that whenever a Democrat occupied the White House, the pornographic smut  --  paid for by hard-working American taxpayers  --  just kept churning out of the National Endowment for the Arts.   

Indeed, those of us working in the U.S. House of Representatives actually managed to eliminate funding altogether for the NEA one year because of such proclivities by the NEA.  Of course, some of the panty-waist blue-blood Republicans in the U.S. Senate went along with the Democrats and continued to fund, and increase funding for the NEA.  

Now that a Democrat is back in the White House, the mindless bureaucrats at the NEA are challenging the commonsense of the American people who do not want to pay for such smut posing as art such as "Piss Christ" and Maplethorpe's homo-erotic garbage, as they were forced to do in the 1980's, until the Republicans forced them to back off.   

Just when you think Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats have given-up on beating up on American troops and the U.S. military in general, along comes their latest action to "endanger" American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In today's "The Washington Times" page one story entitled:  "Mullen:  Detainee photos endanger troops; Sees release as 'devastating,'" House Democrats are reported to be blocking a bill, even supported by Barack Obama, to give the government the power to stop the photos supposedly showing poor treatment of terrorists.  

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, is warning the tone-deaf Democrats that the release of such photos will endanger the lives of our American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Democrat-turned-Independent Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut has co-sponsored the legislation with South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.   

Senator Lieberman says about the rabid left-wing anti-military House Democrats:  "What's the answer?  The administration or the White House needs to put as much pressure as it possibly can on the House and the House leadership to let this come to an up-or-down vote."   

While our fearless leaders in Washington are doing their best to give us what they call national health care "reform" (despite the protests of the "mobs"), which seeks to lay the foundation to a one-size-fits-all, single payer system that that have in more enlightened European countries like France, the french are trying to be more like us.

France claims it long ago achieved much of what today's U.S. health-care overhaul is seeking: It covers everyone, and provides what supporters say is high-quality care. But soaring costs are pushing the system into crisis. The result: As Congress fights over whether America should be more like France, the French government is trying to borrow U.S. tactics.

In recent months, France imposed American-style "co-pays" on patients to try to throttle back prescription-drug costs and forced state hospitals to crack down on expenses. "A hospital doesn't need to be money-losing to provide good-quality treatment," President Nicolas Sarkozy thundered in a recent speech to doctors.

And service cuts...are prompting complaints from patients, doctors and nurses that care is being rationed. That concern echos worries among some Americans that the U.S. changes could lead to rationing. ...

The shocking news this week coming out of Washington D.C. was the report that Barack Obama's White House wants us Americans to snitch on each other.  The apparent reason is that Obama is getting worried that the American people are overwhelmingly turning against his socialized medicine scheme.   

Videos on YouTube.com showing angry Americans at town hall meetings confronting their Senators  --  such as that hosted by Pennsylvania Democrat Arlen Specter and Obama's HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius  --  about their concerns about Obamacare have really shaken up the Obama White House.   

Indeed, Obama's health care scheme is in such deep trouble that even the massive lobby which represents tens of millions of senior citizens, the AARP, is now backing down and telling its irate members who are calling in that the AARP is definitely not supporting the Obama health care system or the Nancy Pelosi health care scheme in the House of Representatives.  That first fact is volunteered by an AARP representative even before a senior citizen can complain about a specific health care bill.   

Amanda Carpenter in today's "The Washington Times" reported that the left-wing former television network news "reporter," Linda Douglas, now the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, "caused the White House to start asking people to report information on the Web about 'health insurance reform that seems fishy.'"