What’s missing from the White House porkulus propaganda album
The White House has published an official photo album documenting its fantasy-land version of the porkulus journey. From the photo album, it looks like it was all smooth sailing and easy back-slapping for President Obama.
Missing: Photos of the dissenting House Democrats and unanimous House Republicans who opposed the behemoth bill.
Missing: The Reid/Pelosi backroom brawls and power plays.
Missing: Obama’s “no earmarks” lie and the Democrats’ broken promises on transparency.
Included? Why, yes, it’s Henrietta Hughes:

Missing? The rest of the story via WINK News:
A woman making national headlines after a tearful moment with President Obama has a new home.
Thursday morning, Chene Thompson handed Henrietta Hughes the keys to her home in Hendry County. Thompson is the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson (R-District 73). Hughes and her son will live at the home rent free.
At President Obama’s town hall meeting in Fort Myers on Tuesday, Henrietta Hughes stood up and told the President she has been homeless since 2003 and can’t find a job.
She also says she’s reach a dead end with government assistance and none of the local charity agencies will help.
However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn’t being honest about how much help she’s had in the past.
The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.
“We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free,” said Tanya Johnson.
We Care Outreach Ministry is a faith based organization in Fort Myers.
Johnson says she also gave Henrietta and her son Corey, money, food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused…Hughes says Tanya Johnson wanted $400 a month immediately.
The disability check Hughes gets is a little more than $800 a month.
Hughes owes money on a loan, has her car insurance payment, a monthly storage bill and says she couldn’t afford the rent.
“Where was I going to get $400 a month to give her if I got these expenses,” Hughes told WINK News.
WINK News Reporter Nick Spinetto went back to talk to Tanya Johnson.
She stands by her story.
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The stimulus package has kicked in and the dow is dropping like a rock…
Top pic- is that the Annointed One with one of the Treason Trio, Collins of Maine?
Weird things were happening in Asian markets overnight, and apparently a well financed attack on the Yen and Euro (at least temporarily benefitting the value of the dollar, which hurts US exports).
George Soros comes to mind, but, of course, he covers his tracks well, and there is no evidence.
Russian markets hit trading curbs.
Just the realization of the Porkulus, or something else as well.
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/803-Update-Russia-Exchanges-Closed.html
Only slightly related (Democrats, hypocrisy, not really pork)
Pro-abortion ‘Catholic’ Democrat arrested for running prostitution service.
Founded “Catholics for Kerry”, big Obama supporter, and sent a letter to the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus (I’m a 3rd degree, BTW) demanding he resign because he was against abortion.
Shazam - a disciple of Barry O is a proven liar!
YAH WE KNOW YOU TWIT!!!!!!!!!
Gregg Ditches Commerce Post, RNC Offers Specter
^^ (yes, its Scrappleface, but it feels so true.) ^^
I talk to a lot of people that never would talk about politics before the election that are now saying Obambi hasn’t a clue. Voters remorse is on the rise. The problem is it’s too late. Conservatives may make gains in 2010 but, Obambi and the liberals will cause a lot of damage before then. If you’re a Christian, and even if you voted for Obambi for whatever reason, time to pray.
Doesn’t Hughes have to claim the free rent as income? Will Obambi pony up and pay the tax on that?
How could “the One” leave out Henrietta? The perpetual freeloader.
Fantasy is right! It’s like all the spending bill’s critics have been saying: if this bill was so urgently needed and has the support of a majority of Americans, then why the lengthy delay in signing it?
Likewise, why did both Obama and Pelosi head out of town before the Senate signed off on it – were they that ashamed and desperate to get away from it?
This whole album thing is pure spin – a poor attempt to cover for the fact that Democrats would rather rob future generations of Americans of their prosperity, by enacting into law this terror of a spending bill, than admit their policies are wrong and offer up what will work: tax cuts and tax breaks.
If Tanya truly wanted everything free without having to work for it, she should run for congress. Wait. That involves work. OK, just go to the local city government and tell them you want a no-work lots of money job. I’m sure they have lots of those for the “correct” color person.
Weird things are happening to currencies in Eastern Europe as well. I think someone is tipping the first domino.
Hold onto your hats, here we go…..
Hey, good news! Barry’s great stimulus package has the Dow down almost 300 today. Change!
I haven’t been this happy since I got a PlayStation lll for Christmas!
But I did have to pay to fill my gas tank this morning. Perhaps the pumps have not been programmed yet; I said Stimulus three times but it still wanted money. When does it kick in?
Sub-title that scrapbook, “A Chronicle of America’s Last Days as a Free Society”. A good scrapbook should have the following…well-taken pictures, interesting subject matter, TRUTHFUL journaling that covers all the facts, and creative layout. Take it from a seasoned scrapbooker, this album is a piece of crap.
I believe Tanya is the one whose organization had offered help:
;
and that Henrietta Hughes) is the one who
requested?demanded? a handout:(Hughes)
Perhaps it should be called a “crapbook”?
This is one of the reasons why I LOVE Michael Steele! Don’t take that the wrong way! I don’t worship him, I don’t wish he was my son, and I don’t want to have sex with him! I just love him, plain and simple.I believe he will do a great job for us.
How long will this situation last with the free rent? Is there something in the pork that is covering this blatent buying of votes? It is really not “her” new home, it is one being provided to her at someone else’s expense. Will she being paying the taxes on the gift of free housing?
Typical Obama material. All fluff,no substance. This is just propaganda.
As Bill Cosby’s Noah says to God: “Riiight!”
Ha!! Excellent idea…Good one!
Obviously the “stuff” in the storage unit is more important than having a roof over her head.
Corey really doesn’t want a job if he refuses job training. Is that what the dems and RINO’s are selling as the way to get folks back to work. Isn’t he entitled to more?
He probably knows that if he held out long enough and complained the dems would give him more free stuff.
Oh oh, our muslim cousins in Britain do not feel the LOVE of BroBama, the Joy and Peace of Knowing the One Who Has Come
Sad to think of these poor tortured souls not Knowing the Love. Our Stimulus Package will lift the world, will it not?
All hold hands now and sing a Beatles song so our muslim cousins in Britain will love us and we can all get free PlayStation 3 for Christmas. Do it for Julio.
Obama hasn’t sat down and talked with the extremists yet. As soon as he does, there will be peace in the world. He’s busy right now, saving the U.S., from evil Bush.
Craig said: (#7)
Yes, WE know that. But the reporter and much of the public probably hadn’t figured it out.
Is it just me or does Steele remind anyone else of Humpty Hump?
Obama does not want to be the President. He wants to be some combination o The Dear Leader and Miss Congeniality.
One trillion in new debt and they have money to waste on a photo album? King Louis XV seems humbble compared this guy.
When those pictures show up in the history books along with stories about the bi-partisan passage of the bill, it will be heralded as the action that changed the course of America.
First question: No, she doesn’t, unless it’s considered compensation for her serving as a caretaker for the otherwise unoccupied house. She may be in for a pleasant surprise if the owner presents her with a Form 1099-MISC next year for the fair rental value in 2009. But the owner should iron that out before she allows Henrietta to occupy the house.
All that aside, because Henrietta sounds like a lazy freeloader, I doubt she’ll be lifting finger to maintain the residence. I bet this owner lives to regret this arrangement.
My experience is that people such as Henrietta don’t appreciate things when they get them free. After all, they’re owed that much.
C’mon guys, we all know Democrats don’t have to pay taxes!
C’mon guys, we all know Democrats don’t have to pay taxes!
Presumably, the storage expense would go away once they
hadgot a house to move the stuff into.You are saying she could be a Community Organizer?
There are a LOT of people who have been burned trying to help the Henriettas of the world. Cabrini-Green in Chicago gave a lot of Henriettas, 15,000 people, free or subsidized housing, legal aid and tutoring. It became a gang infested nightmare and ended being torn down.
The solution? More money of course.
I guess you said that to be funny? I just didn’t think it was.
Sorry, felt the urge to do a little editing.
It all depends on who the victors are. I like your version better.
b teach, #11 i believe you are absolutely correct. but because she is a democrat, the tax laws of the u.s. don’t apply. she is claiming the rangle exception, and backing it up with the geithner fica rule.
Right. We know he’ll always vote the exact opposite of how conservatives should vote if they stick to their principles.
I think that would be nuts.
Uncle Jay Explains how our nuts are safe thanks to the stimulus.
Obama between the house and senate – ROFL! Enjoy
Something that WILL be missing from it in the future is that it deepens the recession, thousands of jobs will be lost because of it, and our children will be stuck holding the bag.
Craig:
I believe you’re jumping on the wrong person here. Tanya Johnson was trying to give the family options to get in a better situation, but they apparently refused because it eventually led to actually getting a job.
Would you be so kind as to provide a link? Many thanks.
typical Republicans:
“The compromise plan announced last night includes $282 billion in tax cuts over two years. With that in mind, Steven Waldman argues, persuasively, that when the vast majority of congressional Republicans oppose the package, they’ll be voting against the biggest tax cut “in history.”
Henrietta Hughes…right! She and her son will live in the provided home rent free. Will the Republican Nick Thompson and his wife, the generous contributors of this new home be allowed to claim a tax deduction for charitable giving? It certain exceeds the maximum allowed by the Tax Code.
If they do declare it, they will be demonized, and the issue will be politicized.
If they don’t claim it, their generosity will be ignored. My guess is it will be ignored by the Hughes, as well. No thank you card will be sent. Bet on it!
So, are the Hughes’ paying for their own utility bills? How about cable or satellite service (you know the indigent can’t go without that necessity)? Will Hughes’ son be taking care of the lawn?
I hope the press keeps and eye on this, and let’s us know just how well this “leg up” helped the Hughes’…but they won’t, and it didn’t!
Welcome to Obamatopia!
I can’t believe that they are able to say “earmarks” when posting an article or story about the Obamanation. Didn’t he say he is sensitive about his ears?
Missing: The sign on the conference room door that read, “No Republicans Allowed…EVER! Remember…we won!”
Nope my bet is they’ll receive financial help for the utilities since they are below the poverty line.
Possibly that will come out of the $800 a month guberment payment they receive, now that they don’t need to buy gas for the mobile home(their car or truck).
Not if there is some illegals in the neighborhood and what are the chances of that not happening.
Take the comments with a grain of salt, but they are closer to the truth than most care to admit.
Actually, my money is on this woman and her obviously too old to be living with his mother and not having a career, let alone job of a son to act exactly like the unappreciative woman in New Orleans who complained about her free housing and everything she was getting from the tax payers while the whole time sitting in a well furnished home complete with the 50+ inch HDTV.
I am willing to bet that at some point, this wo,an will be interviewed and she will complain that they are not getting cable, that the rooms are too small, that it is inconveniently located from the bingo hall or some other unbelievably spoiled, unappreciative rhetoric.
People who do not earn things by their own hard work and struggle are never happy, can never be satiated, and are NEVER grateful. They only expect more and more.
SOrry if I am cynical, but I have seen and experienced it over and over again. As it is, it was reported over the weekend that this woman had already been offered free rent on a house, job placement etc. in the recent past and she turned it down because it was not good enough, in her eyes. Meanwhile, those of us who struggle daily to make sure there is a roof over the heads of our children and that they don’t go to bed hungry etc. get screwed. Sorry, but charity begins at home, and I would be willing to bet a paycheck that this woman and her son would not look twice at someone in need.
Bingo! Unfortunately all the feel good do gooders haven’t figured that out yet. But they call us mean spirited because we know it is highway robbery to take from the taxpayer and support the tax consumer and not receive any benefit or progress for the money wasted. The person being “helped’ (supported) is not going to have their standard of living improved.
Just what I’ve always wanted the white house to be doing – publishing official photo albums.
Yep – that there photo album stuff is important work.
Of course, when you are establishing a department of (mis)information, it’s very important to have in-house album creation skills.
All the news that I want you to hear.
It’s all propaganda. Nothing more than that. When you elect “style” over “substance”, you then have to constantly make sure that people are convinced they picked the right guy.
As there is no substance to this empty suit, his actions will never speak for themselves, thus they need to constantly propagate to the people.
That is why his face will constantly be in the Press. That is why anytime they speak about him, it will be like a “Mutual Admiration Society” meeting, where they constantly stroke him and themselves.
They know what they are doing to this country, and thus they need to be constantly vigilant in the pursuit of convincing the sheeple that what they are doing is beneficial as people watch with their own eyes, the country they live in collapse and change into the very thing that we fought against for well over 60 years.
They are being fed a plate of feces and being convinced it is filet mignon. This is just the beginning folks. Watch as it grows in a way that will have Goebbels turning over in whatever shallow grave he ended up in.
I have nothing but respect for the man. I think he was the best choice to lead the party. But every time I see him on tv, that’s what I think.
I dunno…trying to picture him with the fake, plastic nose and glasses…
But why?
…but he’s a Republican. How can any conservative respect him?
I getting more confused by the minute. He reminds JohnDeaux of an oreo cookie (which is racist, by the way) and your statement makes no sense to me either. I must be missing something. Maybe I just need a rest from the site for a while. Later…
He’s not the perfect conservative, but he has a clean past and given the other options, I think he was a good choice. I hope he decides to be a little more confrontational with the administration given that the “change” taking place is not in line with Republican policy.
I never called him an oreo. Where did you get that? I said he reminds me of Humpty Hump. I suspect it’s his nose and mustache that does it. I have never made any racist statement against him or anyone else. Geez Louise.
hap, I’ve given up on the Republican Party. In my book they are nothing but Democrat wanna-be’s. Republicans are unprincipled, logrolling, power mongering traitors to the Constitution and to the People. At best, they are cowards who calculate public opinion before acting. They’re always concerned about their political longevity rather than the good of the country. I’ll start to believe in them again when they defend the Constitution, but hey, I’ll probably win the lottery first.
Are dem thar pitcher booooks for sale or du de just want to gib them away?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Jet – I’ve given up on political parties, period. It’s all about power, getting rich from your contacts, and living a lifestyle you never imagined possible or wildest dreams. Pretty heddy stuff and totally corrupting. A pox on all their houses. Unfortunately for the country, they got us before we got them this time.
Sorry if I misjudged your comment. However, Humpty Hump is an oreo cookie! I just jumped to the conclusion that if Michael Steele reminds you of Humpty Hump, you were calling him an oreo cookie. Why wouldn’t I have thought that? It is logical, isn’t it?
I’ve never really had a good appreciation of the phrase “running dog lackey” until I saw Reid ushering Specter, Clooins and Snowe to the stand beside him in announcing the passage of the Crapulus package. And Snowe (or is that Collins?) looks so good as Obama’s Lap Dog.