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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 68636 07-06-2012 01:00 PM

The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this:

A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama's pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama's cronies to build a government-sponsored electronic medical record-sharing system.

The Chicago program, known as the Urban Health Initiative, is run by one of President Obama's closest golfing buddies, scandal magnet Eric Whitaker, who has been entangled with Illinois corruption celebrities Rod Blagojevich and Tony Rezko over the past decade.

Fun fact: Whitaker recently was named by author Edward Klein as the man who purportedly offered hate-mongering Rev. Jeremiah Wright $150,000 in hush money during the 2008 campaign.

The nearly $6 million grant was announced last week by the "Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation" at the Department of Health and Human Services. White House watchdog journalist Keith Koffler notes that "some 3,000 applications were received for a share on the $1 billion in 3-year grants available. Only 26 programs were included in the first batch of awards doled out." The administration grants circumvent any and all congressional deliberation as part of Team Obama's election-year "We Can't Wait" initiatives.

I warned two months ago that the Obamacare Innovation Center and its multibillion-dollar slush fund smacked of "another pipeline for political payoffs and Chicago-style boodle that will result in less patient autonomy, fewer health-care choices, more government intrusion and lower-quality care."

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 68636 07-06-2012 01:00 PM

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...14169.html

**Ultima_Thule**

I would like to propose a policy change. All political threads should require a registered user to post with their I.D.

It seems like every other thread these days is a "guest" spewing republican drivel. It's probably the same person doing it over and over, but they are too cowardly to show their real I.D.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 106566 07-06-2012 01:10 PM

Ultima_Thule Wrote:

I would like to propose a policy change. All political threads should require a registered user to post with their I.D.

It seems like every other thread these days is a "guest" spewing republican drivel. It's probably the same person doing it over and over, but they are too cowardly to show their real I.D.

Sorry, I'm a guest as well, but I do hope this politprop will cease after elections; way too much of inane bitching for my taste.

Else this is a great site.

**Ultima_Thule**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Ultima_Thule Wrote:
I would like to propose a policy change. All political threads should require a registered user to post with their I.D.

It seems like every other thread these days is a "guest" spewing republican drivel. It's probably the same person doing it over and over, but they are too cowardly to show their real I.D.

Sorry, I'm a guest as well, but I do hope this politprop will cease after elections; way too much of inane bitching for my taste.

Else this is a great site.

Exactly. It brings down the whole quality of the forum when every other thread is political in nature.

If you love politics that much, you should watch CSPAN all day.

? lop guest User ID: 103070 07-06-2012 02:32 PM

Ultima_Thule Wrote:

I would like to propose a policy change. All political threads should require a registered user to post with their I.D.

It seems like every other thread these days is a "guest" spewing republican drivel. It's probably the same person doing it over and over, but they are too cowardly to show their real I.D.

Good idea --- except every time my computer cleans itself - I can't log back into the site. My password no longer works and I gotta get put back on my D.

Pain in the ass. Truth be told.

This probably happens to others who are sick of not being able to log in.

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