What’s interesting in the news today?

See that. I knew if we waited long enough we’d find some redeeming quality in ObamaCare.

From NBCNews, who along with their comment posters, doesn’t seem real fond of it.

“Abortion opponents have found a new way to restrict access to abortion – by using the authority states have over the new health insurance exchanges, which will be up and running in a year.

At least 21 states have legislation in place or in the works that will stop health insurance companies from paying for abortions for women. Arkansas governor Mike Beebe signed the latest piece on Monday.”

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Baghdad Bob Gibbs has finally finished making the obvious transition from Minister of Propaganda to consultant for America’s Pravda.

From NewsBusters

“Moments before Tuesday’s State of the Union address, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow  made a huge announcement.

As she introduced former Barack Obama senior campaign adviser/press  secretary Robert Gibbs, she said, “I am for the first time tonight able to  introduce you as an MSNBC contributor. Congratulations on that””

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Shocking news from DHS. OK, not really. From TheDailyCaller

“In a response letter to four top Republican lawmakers, the Department of Homeland  Security revealed it initiated only one case against an immigrant for becoming a “public  charge,” or being primarily dependent upon the government, in fiscal year 2012.  The case was later withdrawn.

While the department’s response to Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions, Chuck  Grassley, Orrin Hatch and Pat Roberts’ August oversight request offered an overview of the  centuries-old federal public-charge restrictions,  it noticeably avoided several of the senators’ direct questions and  demonstrated potentially significant inadequacies in record-keeping by  immigration officials, who legally should be enforcing public-charge rules for  immigrants both inside and outside of the country.”

But we don’t need to worry, the new immigration amnesty will fix this I’m sure. Not.

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Now that the fact-checkers have had a chance to check the SofUAddress, here’s a few on some of the Presidents assertions. And yes, they found much of it lacking.

HotAir does a fine job, with lots of links.

“After Barack Obama’s inaugural speech only mentioned the economy once and jobs just three times in a 2100-word address, the White House pronounced themselves shocked, shocked that anyone would have assumed that neither was a priority for Obama in his second term.  The White House promised that the State of the Union would focus more on jobs and growth, and at least rhetorically, they delivered.  The speech contains 32 mentions of the word “jobs,” and six mentions of “growth,” although one of those references was a claim that ObamaCare was already “helping to slow the growth of health care costs.”

Factually, though, Obama still hasn’t improved.  Instead, he continued his same cherry-picking ways of calculating job growth during his four years in office, and the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler was among the first to notice it.  Obama used — as he has done for more than two years now — a baseline of February 2010 to calculate jobs growth during his administration, which ignores the first 13 months of his presidency and the first 12 months of his supposed “stimulus” bill.  That led to some dishonest claims in the SOTU:”

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Even the AP agrees. From Yahoo

“President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that may be less onerous than he made it sound.”

“OBAMA: “We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.”

THE FACTS: Not so fast.

That’s expected to happen in 12 more years.”

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Townhall has 10 key quotes, and why they should be questioned.

“(1) The sequester:

We are more than halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances. Now we need to finish the job. And the question is: How? In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn’t agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars’ worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect this year. These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness, they’d devastate priorities like education and energy and medical research. They would certainly slow our recovery and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs. And that’s why Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts — known here in Washington as “the sequester” — are a really bad idea.

Though he tries to drop the sequester into Congress’ lap, it is simply a fact that this package of automatic spending cuts was conceptualized and proposed by the White House.  President Obama signed it into law as part of 2011’s debt deal — and yet the spending reductions are still lingering, unrealized.  The president has been all over the map on this issue, threatening to veto any attempt to replace the cuts, then averring that the cuts “will not happen.”  Obama now insists that some of the already agreed-to cuts be replaced with additional tax increases, which is unacceptable.  He has not offered his own specific plan about how to undo the sequester.”

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And HumanEvents asks a good question. I’m guessing no, he doesn’t.

“Does Obama Have Any Idea Why New Deal Failed?”

“The Great Depression dominated the 1930s, in large part because President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs failed to create jobs.  In May 1939, shortly after learning that unemployment stood at 20.7%, Henry Morgenthau, the secretary of the Treasury, exploded:  “We have tried spending money.  We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.”  Morgenthau concluded, “I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started.  . . .  And an enormous debt to boot!””

“President Obama publicly admires and tries to emulate FDR.  And Obama is experiencing two of FDR’s problems: expensive new programs that don’t work, and discouraged entrepreneurs who are saddled with much of the bill for taxes and new regulations.”

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