{"id":11712,"date":"2009-06-16T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2009-06-17T08:01:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T13:01:02","slug":"chaka-fattah-meets-neil-cavuto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11712","title":{"rendered":"Chaka Fattah meets Neil Cavuto (Video added)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched Neil Cavuto interview Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/fattah.house.gov\/\">Chaka Fattah<\/a> on Cavuto&#8217;s show.  I&#8217;ve never listened to Fattah before, but I get impression that Fattah is another one of those double talking hucksters that made Philadelphia famous. If I find the video, I&#8217;ll put it up here &#8211; but I guarantee that you&#8217;ll be chucking things at the screen like I did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I added the video at 6:40AM June 17;<br \/>\n<embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='http:\/\/foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live\/current\/largeplayer011008\/fncLargePlayer\/client\/embedded\/embedded.swf' id='mediumFlashEmbedded' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' bgcolor='#000000' allowScriptAccess='always' allowFullScreen='true' quality='high' name='undefined' play='false' scale='noscale' menu='false' salign='LT' scriptAccess='always' wmode='false' height='275' width='305' flashvars='playerId=011008&#038;playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&#038;categoryTitle=&#038;referralObject=6045187&#038;referralPlaylistId=playlist' \/><\/p>\n<p>Cavuto&#8217;s main point that he was trying to get Fattah to admit was that this health care bill was actually a tax hike on working Americans. Fattah wandered all over the map trying to avoid answering. He preached about what he learned in church about giving to the least of us. He said that the President has promised that we don&#8217;t have to participate in the government health plan and we can keep our own current plan. <\/p>\n<p>Fattah said that he didn&#8217;t know who was going to pay for this healthcare plan &#8220;whether it&#8217;s the rich or corporations&#8221; or whether it&#8217;s just those of us who decide not to participate and keep our own insurance &#8211; while we pay for everyone else&#8217;s health insurance as well as our own.<\/p>\n<p>He even said that 95% of Americans got a tax cut. We did? My Army pension shot up $64\/month. Is that the tax cut he&#8217;s talking about? That was just a reduction in my withholding &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t affect my tax bill at the end of the year. I finally figured out my withholding and the Democrats just screwed me all up. Just like they did in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>And since we got that whopping tax cut &#8211; is that justification to slam us with someone else&#8217;s health insurance bill?<\/p>\n<p>I have a rule of thumb; as soon as an interviewee begins an answer with either phrase &#8220;Well, look&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;I mean&#8230;&#8221;, I&#8217;m about to hear a lie. Fattah began every answer with &#8220;Well, look&#8230;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In fairness, he probably didn&#8217;t lie &#8211; but he didn&#8217;t say anything to convince me he wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched Neil Cavuto interview Congressman Chaka Fattah on Cavuto&#8217;s show. 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