Obama: We Had Nothing to Do With Cornhusker Kickback, Emanuel: Yes We Did
by Kristinn Taylor
Rahm Emanuel: "We were involved in the legislation all the way through."
Hours before his embattled boss gave his first State of the Union address, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel contradicted President Barack Obama’s claim made just two days before that he had nothing to do with the much maligned deal to get the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) for the Senate’s healthcare bill just before Christmas.
Speaking to ABC News’ World News Tonight anchor Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on Monday, Obama denied being involved in what has come to be known as the “Cornhusker Kickback”
SAWYER: A lot of people think you must say at the end of the day, this is not who I was in 2008, these deals with Nebraska, with Florida…
OBAMA: Let’s hold on a second, Diane. I mean, I think that this gets into a big mush. So let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked. So that’s point number one.
In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday, Emanuel flatly stated that he and the Obama administration were heavily involved in the Cornhusker Kickback as well as the other deals that provoked outrage from the public and helped Republican Scott Brown win the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Couric: As you know, people were pretty disgusted by deals that were made up on Capitol Hill like the one given to Ben Nelson to win his support. If the White House was so involved, was this done with your blessing? But…
Emanuel: Look, we were involved in the legislation all the way through.
Couric: Were you involved in that?
Emanuel: Yeah. I’m not gonna go through all of it…
Couric: But in the Ben Nelson deal?
Emanuel: We were helpful in getting the bill off the Senate floor. And in retrospect the things – as I said to you just earlier, things you woulda done different.
To repeat what Obama told Diane Sawyer about the Cornhusker Kickback:
So let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked.
The mainstream media has thus far ignored Obama being exposed as a liar by his own chief of staff. A few conservative outlets have noted a Washington Post article from December 20, 2009 that reported the involvement of Emanuel and other White House staff in the Senate negotiations. With Emanuel himself confirming the Obama administration’s involvement with the Cornhusker Kickback, Obama has some explaining to do. Well, he would if he were a Republican president.
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Don't you dare criticize Rahm, you anti-Semite! He is so patriotic he served the military. Not our military, but still!
Credit to Ann who posted this on another video:
“The truth of the matter is,” he not only is failure as a liar, he also lacks the qualities to be an effective leader, such as vision, integrity, fairness, humility, and openness. It’s a little late to take responsibility after the ball game is over.
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg,1742-1799
“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” ~Abraham Lincoln
OBAMA: Let’s hold on a second, Diane. I mean, I think that this gets into a big mush. So let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked. So that’s point number one.
WOW!!! Obamao just threw Congress,/u> under the bus!
Typical of that misogynist Lincoln to say that.
What Rahm meant to say is that "we were involved deeply in the process…before we were'nt involved deeply in the process".
Can you hear it??? Obamao shouting at Rahm "What the hell are you doing telling our secrets? We never tell the truth…the union leaders were not here…Jodie Evans was never here…Bertha Lewis was never here…I don't care what the log says…those were different people. Get the story straight!"
Clean Hands?
I think not.
He is such a gifted speaker that he can lie and don't you dare call him out on it or criticize.
You're still batting a thousand a see.
And all over Washington, D.C. pants are bursting into flames.
This is a tough one. Who do you believe Obama or Rahm? I'll defer to Gibbs on this one.
I think I just did. What's he going to do about it?
The scary part is not that he got elected, we've had lying buffons in the white house before. What's scary is there are enough people who voted for him to get him elected; and these people walk among us!!
"Rahm Emanuel: "We were involved in the legislation all the way through.""
Of corse NO-Bama was…..it's his deal. He (NO-Bama) lies about lieing and couldn't tell the truith to save his life.
We need a real President, not a fool acting like one.
Wait for it. The money hasn't run out yet. As soon as it does, he'll be Public Enemy #1 !
It's getting very crowded under there. I think the bus has turned into a Monster Truck Bus,
Reread that and pay close attention to the comment, "I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked". Obama isn't taking the hint of MA at all!! WE don't want YOUR idea of government and WE will be doing more about it come November!!!
That's a smart move…I think? ROFLMFAO!
Because if you do your a racists!!
I agree with the zeros…not so sure about the one in front
What's THAT going to do for global warming? AHA! We just found the source of man-made global warming! It's caused by "liar-liar pants on fire" syndrome! Stop global warming: shoot all the liars!
Have Eric Holder come to your house with a "No-Knock-Warrant", kick your door in and drag you off to a redoctrination center.
I can hear a bus coming…..who's going to be thrown under this one?
The boy wonder is a veritable genius.
Unfortunately, he keeps wrapping the bat around his neck every time he swings.
He needs to aim a little higher…the neck is too low.
The 44th president is the most unpresidential president I have ever witnessed. It appears we have a Chicago thug in the WH.
Everyone except Obamao it would seem.
I'm sorry, but I can't follow that convoluted train of thought. Although your assertion is most likely correct, it doesn't tie in to my observation at all as far as I can see.
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OK, where did you plant the microphone? LOL!
This is why the first thing you do during a police interrogation is separate the suspects.
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
This is something that will send a 'tingle' up Rahm's leg:
Just reported on Chicago news radio stations:—-"The Cook County Board President, Toddy Stroeger, has been accused of possible sexual crimes. His accuser is reported to be a "BUS BOY" who Stroeger had hired to the "Crook County" payroll.
Rahms' good friend Toddy Stroeger. (You gotta love Chicago politicians…………!)
Wait…wasnt NO-Bama one of the clowns in the worst "B" movie ever made…."Killer Clowns from Outer Space"? He is a clown….so maybe just maybe
That is the truly scary part! Look at California. Not only do they continue to elect the likes of Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi but the CA Senate has just passed single payer healthcare for California! I mean, they are beyond broke, but that's ok, let's pay for everyone's healthcare! With what, I ask? They've let unions totally run the state to the point that they can't afford to get any work done and kids can't afford college. Are they all total idiots there or what?
I'm convinced Dhasselhoff is an Islamic fundamentalist….His head is wired to explode if he get's too near a Jew.
OK!! Just how big is that F*****N bus anway
Wait….."didn't change congress" ….. wasn't he a MEMBER OF CONGRESS?
Tired lies, weary worn out lies.
Unprincipled men + The most pwerful office in the world + A fawning media + A sleeping populace = Disaster.
Have another drink and a cheeseburger
J-K OFF
Native Texan
Guess they all went to Berkeley or is it Berzerkeley?
In a TACO
Uh Oh, you just used that 'm' word Cowboy…watch out the trolls will get you.
That'd be neat.
……..bait.
That's the only way to catch a rat………….
BUSH—Miss me yet
Cowboy Logic
The conversation will go like this……ugh, err, ahh, well aaah, oh, ugg arugra.
Oh, wait I just committed plagiarism, sorry the source (mr oboma)
If I were to reword it-"I want to change the way congress works-I want to control it".
Is that what you were looking at?
ginger, good one! They turn the water off, turning the breadbasket of the country (San Joaquin valley) into a dust bowl, putting 60,000 out of work for a minnow! Then the union nuts won't let the green nuts build solar arrays unless they use union workers… If that fault is gonna turn CA into an island, I hope it's in my lifetime! They should just be their own country!
Rahm is Iago, playing to Obama's Othello. So, that would make Desdemona…Barney Frank? Anyway,
never forget that we're talking about a tragedy here.
You "get it'.
I wouldn't trust that swarmy Rahm if he were the last man in the foxhole.
Funny.
Words are harmless.
I love using them to make people gasp.
I write the words that everyone else thinks, but are afraid to use. Call it what you will, but I call a spade a spade, and let the chips fall where they may.
I learned last night, on "Meltdown with Keith Olberman" that there are a whole slew of new words that as a white man I can't use. He said they were code words. I thought it was hilarious. Olberman is such an imbecile.
If you want to know more about Obama go to web site: http://www.commieblaster.com and it will tell you all you need to
know along with pictures.
Just keep thinking how the MSM would respond if W had been caught in such lies.
The press’ catterwauling would have stripped the paint off the walls.
Don't mind M.Knight, he's had too much drink.
Obama’s stance is that if you tell a lie often and strong enough, not only will you believe it but also those around you.
obama said "words, just words" on the campaign trail
well, the cornhusker deal and the Lousiana deal were just "words"
What a Phony!
Eric Holder couldn't find his butt with both hands in a room full of mirrors.
Tell me you guys have seen this? It's flarkin' hilarious and totally relevant to this discussion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfL-Oj1rQ-c
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Hey, we are really trying out here in CA to change things. I'm working my butt off on weekends to qualify the petition for stopping public union dues from being used for political activities. We're not going off into the Pacific yet – although I'm happy if San Francisco does! (I'm a native Texan but moved after school to CA)
For all from CA – go to
http://www.unplugthepoliticalmachine.org/
NO MORE NASA, OBAMA KILLS SCIENCE and hands OUTER SPACE over to CHINA like a good boy.
IMPEACH THE LEECH.
TEA BAGG OBAMMIE 2010…permanently shut him up.
Never trust anyone who refuses to eat barbecue (it is a noun).
Thank you for proper use of the apostrophe on the possessive noun ending in s.
Do you like eating barbecue (pork)?
Oh boy.
I'm on thin ice here, and can hear it cracking.
Is that what those folk in Newwwww Yarkkkkkkk call a double entendre?
Hmmm.
Multiple choice.
I have a 50% chance of getting one right out of three.
1. You are referring to Dhasslehoff as being an anti-semite.
2. You are referring to Emaneul as being a Jew and he doesn't eat from cloven hoofed critters.
3. Muslims don't eat pork barbecue.
Can I pick #'s 1,2, and 3?
All of them.
/humor and sarcasm off………
UMM, UHH… likely response from Baldar Conehead Gibbs.
Future leaders in space… India, Russia and China… unless we get rid of the progressives.
Cowboy Logic
Well I know 'truck' is one of the words, let me guess–rope, tree, watermelon, fried chicken, poor, hoodie, gang, narcissistic, stupid, fool and Dumbo. How close am I?
Or at the ballet studio. Remember he's a very trained ballet dancer.
These "progressives" put on quite the show. If you really understand their motives, you will quickly see the answer to countering their goals. To put it simply, they want to control everything in our lives. They think they can "progress" beyond our Constitution because we are less intelligent. It has never worked and it never will. Know the enemy and attack intelligently. There are progressives in both parties. Make the right choices and get rid of them. Our country will be stronger.
SJCTeaParty
You might be best served to move back to a real state.
Good luck with your petition.
Yes.
When they seriously aren't studying their respective parts, for fun they read the Desiderata, and Hafiz.
No.
I was serious, Here is an article, and video of Olbermans "code words". Use these and you might be a racist!
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/01/29...
CL-
No more calls folks, take your phones off the hook… we have a winner. Congratulations!
Watching Obama and Emanue reminds me of a duet tap dance routine.
These two are as pure and innocent as the driven snow.
Ben Nelson, I believe, has knowledge of something kinky between these two and he blackmailed them.
WoW!
I'm impressed. Thats the first I've won anything since I won a buckle and some picture show money at the junior rodeo.
See how tactful I was?
I didn't even fall through the ice, or insult too many minorities.
I am not sure of what you say, but I believe you may have creditable evidence.
CB-
We do not give trophies for "just showing up". You earned it and we appreciate your contributions. Forget the minorities… I have many Jewish friends and Black friends who enjoy good barbecue.
Cowboy Logic
This means when I call my Nephew ..'an arrogant, flippant, cocky young punk', I am really saying he is black.
By the way Overbite did say that 'truck' was a type of code that Scott Brown used in a racist way during his campaign. Didn't quite understand that, but hey guess I went to the wrong schools.
Som do I.
Unfortunately, the poor misguided souls think babrecue is chicken……….
Chicken is only meant to be fried, burt we allow folks to grill, smoke and (reluctantly) bake it… only so much you can do with yard bird.
Cowboy Logic
I don't watch Olberman's show. From the the little I have seen and read about him, he needs a thick tinfoil hat, or a padded room. Conspiracies abound in his otherwise empty head.
I meant "but", but I did a boo boo.
Exactly!! Thats what I got out of the statement!!!!
You might want to think about moving back to Texas. A lot of companies are!!!
Hey Obama, if you can part the waters, why can't you change Congress?
Is this something like the lie Dick Cheney told to House Majority Leader Dick Armey?
For those of us who have been around awhile,the Nixon era and the Obama era have some similar characteristics. Both men display an arrogance and contempt of us. The first man met his fate as we all know. Wondering if the second will also.
I knew a few facts about good old Rahm, but I just did a quick scan of his bio, and it is something to behold! It pretty much serves as an example of Democratic Chicago Crooked Cronyism. Just amazing!
For instance, I knew he was a ballet dancer. He graduated from the Evanston School of Ballet, and he was offered a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet, which he declined.
He is said to have sent a dead fish in a box to a pollster who was late delivering polling results.
On the night after the 1996 election, "Emanuel was so angry at President Clinton's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting 'Dead! … Dead! … Dead!' and plunging the knife into the table after every name."
Edit is your friend
…………………………Hanzo
L4S, it dosen't compute because a logical mind does not except gibberish as fact.
………….Hanzo
He is only a gifted speaker as far as the TOTUS will allow………………………Hanzo
Now that these networks have finally discovered the obvious fact that BO is a "pathological" liar, something a single cell amoeba can figure out, "what will they do with it?"
I suspect nothing because because they are like BO.
Gibbs will have to get back with us on that……………..Hanzo
You must use union workers to drill a water well……………………..Hanzo
I think that might have been lil' Chrissy Matthews, but maybe Olbernut. Whoever said it went on to reveal that "truck" has racist meanings in that only racist rednecks would identify with it, thereby voting for Scott Brown…………………Hanzo
Yes, Emperor of the Thugocracy………………………Hanzo
Cool avatar, ol' Schulzie………………….Hanzo
Rahm emmanuel was a spokesliar for Herr Klinton……………Hanzo
Barney Frank as Desdemona? Ha ha ha ha ………..Awww crap, more nightmares tonight
…………Hanzo
Yes, straight out of Marxs' Communist Manifesto, and Alinsky's Rules for Radicals…………………hanzo
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