Obama Rips Off

His federal budget vastly expands the billions in taxpayer dollars that go to this evil enterprise. Planned Parenthood leaders and congressional supporters lustily applauded Mr. Obama at the White House signing ceremony for his Number One legislative priority, the measure that will take over the nation’s health care system. That’s the glittering, nationally televised ceremony that Vice President Joe Biden called “a big [bleeping] deal.” That one.

Now, in the dog days of summer, when most Americans are longing to escape to the mountains or the beach, the Obama administration issues HHS regulations for Pennsylvania that will vastly expand subsidies for abortion in that state. Mr. Obama has rudely ripped off even that pathetic fig leaf he allowed the faux-lifers.

The ever-watchful, ever truthful Doug Johnson, veteran legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, pounced on yesterday’s announcement and offered it as proof of the Obama administration’s duplicity on federal subsidies for abortion.

To his credit, Minority Leader of the House, John Boehner sprang into action. He issued this stinging indictment of the Obama pro-abortion policy for Pennsylvania:

“This is the boldest admission yet from the Obama administration that the President’s Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham. The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use [$160 million] in taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable.”

Leader Boehner went on to note that he had asked the White House only last month for a report on how the sham Executive Order Obama gave the faux lifers was being implemented. This was the Obama administration’s cynical answer.

The latest public opinion polls--including one from the Obamaphile CBS News organization--show that Americans are deeply disappointed with this president’s performance in office. Such great promise. Such poor delivery. Only 13% of Americans told CBS pollsters they had personally benefited from Obama’s policies. I had no idea that many people worked for Planned Parenthood.