Debunking an Obama-Rama "Jack Attack"

(I’ll try doing something a bit different here – let’s see if it works…)

The New York Times reported the following yesterday (here)…

In his speech before about 300 people at Savannah Technical College, the president urged Congress to approve a $6 billion proposal to provide cash rebates to homeowners who replace windows, insulate or install energy-saving heating and cooling systems. The so-called cash-for-caulkers initiative — modeled after the popular cash-for-clunkers program for old cars — would offer rebates directly at stores.

Representative Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia, said it was refreshing to hear Mr. Obama set aside health care — even briefly — to discuss the economy, even if the two parties do not see eye to eye on all of the proposals to create job growth.

“As long as we’re talking about jobs, it’s a positive thing,” Mr. Kingston said. “It will really hurt the tone by shoving health care through. It will spill over to other very important issues, and it’s going to be harder for us to get other things done.”

Oh, and in the matter of health care “spill(ing) over to other very important issues” (as if health care somehow isn’t an important issue also), this tells us that the National Association of Free clinics (the amazing Nicole Lamoureaux’s organization) is coming to the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta on March 27 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

And as far as Kingston is concerned, this tells us that he said the Dems’ “honeymoon” after the ’06 Congressional win “would explode on them like an IED” (nice), this tells us that he said our health care system “worked well” to Georgian Jim Parker even though Parker went bankrupt paying for his treatment, and here, Kingston claimed that the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington was “a partisan 527 organization” (referring to the section of the tax code designating that status) when, in fact, CREW is a nonpartisan and nonprofit (501)(c)(3) organization (and there are too many Kingston lies documented here from a 2008 appearance on “Real Time” to summarize in one sentence).

Oh, and by the way, I still can’t find a trace of Kingston’s flag lapel pin (here).