In the drive to get Obamacare enacted in some form, President Obama in his speach, said the 30,000,000 “cannot” get health insurance. Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget, said that figure was based upon “Census Bureau data.” Wrong, wrong, wrong – the Census Bureau does not report who “cannot” get health [...]

Washington, D. C. , September 18, 2009  (Commentary by eGrumps) When eGrumps was young, sometime in the Middle Ages, his Mother used to say to him when he exaggerated, or(gasp!) even lied to her, that he was full of prunes. I don’t know the derivation of that phrase, I can only guess what it means, [...]

Washington, D.C. September 13, 2009  (Commentary by eGrumps) President Obama has stated that by cutting out all of the waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare program, enough will be saved to pay for ObamaCare, no matter what form ObamaCare will take. A careful review of the facts by eGrumps has concluded that if eGrumps [...]

Sacramento, CA, September 2, 2009 (Commentary by eGrumps) Administrative Alert: Because of the save-the-environment-from-imminent-disaster movement eGrumps has decided to twiterize this report. Abbreviations will be used to save letters. Since letters are soon to be declared an endangered species, eGrumps wants to get ahead of the curve. The eGrumps Editorial Board decided it was not feasible [...]

The trouble with becoming an IRS Agent, 95% of them give the rest a bad name. The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion – the jail walls. Letter to the IRS: After hearing a sermon on Sunday, a man wrote the following to the IRS: “I have been unable to sleep, knowing that I have [...]

Washington D. C., Agust 25, 2009  (Commentary by eGrumps) In regard to the now pending rather nebulous health care bills, Washington is wondering which statement of a former President of the United States is President Obama following — Abraham Lincoln or George W. Bush: Abraham Lincoln: You can fool some of the people all of the [...]

Washington, D. C. August 19, 2008 (Commentary by eGrumps) The Obama Administration in a desperate effort to balance the budget and eliminate the negative fiscal effect of “Universal Health Care,” has proposed allowing Americans (but not illegals) to purchase, in advance, prepaid medical junkets for overseas treatment. Anticipating a possible, though remote, rationing of medical [...]

Washington D. C., August 18, 2009  (Commentary by eGrumps) In a remarkable example of how not to represent a client, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has filed a brief in the case of a gay couple suing the federal government to invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act which was enacted by Congress in 1996.  The [...]

Washington, D. C., August 14, 2009 (Commentary by eGrumps) Bowing to popular pressure, President Obama, after stating that there were no “Death Panel” provisions in any portion of the proposed Obamacare health bills, has ordered the non-existing provisions deleted from the proposed law. No longer  would “dying with dignity” be considered, rather “dying without dignity” [...]

Washington D. C., August 11, 2009 (Commentary by eGrumps) President Obama and his Administration are taking a number of steps to educate the public and prevent misinformation from distorting the true facts about health care reform. An Administration spokesman said the President was greatly disturbed by the number of people dying on the streets, in [...]

Washington D.C, August 7, 2009 (Commentary by eGrumps) The House of Representatives has decided to spend $550,000,000 to buy about 8 Gulfstream Jets (The exact number proposed is not quite clear). The Air Force had requested only 1 Gulfstream Jet.

  Washington, D.C., August 5, 2009 (Commentary by Grumps) Renaming the White House: In a momentus and unprecedented announcement from the White House (the “WH”), in view of the racial “controversy” surrounding  Sonya Sotomayor, Professor Gates, Barack Obama and others and  in view of all of the various ethnicity’s residing in the US (legally and [...]

Washington, D.C., July 31, 2009  (eGrumps Commentary) eGrumps has received advance information concerning  the Administration’s plan to curb health care costs under the proposed Health-Care-For-All Plan. The idea came from another plan adopted by Obama’s administration and its application to the health care cost problem is pure genius. The Administration has proposed that whenever the [...]

Washington D. C. July 30, 2009 Today’s beer party at the White House had to be the dullest beer party in history. Even with Joe Biden, famous for his rapier-like wit, the action was not too lively. Maybe they needed more peanuts. Next time – have a keg ready and invite a few of eGrump’s [...]

Washington, D. C. July 26, 2009 (Comentary by eGrumps) The gurus in Washington have, once again, found wondrous ways to confuse the issue by communicating with us, whom they believe to be the gullible American people, with rather strange choices of words. Words are our principal means of communication  and the Washington Press Corps seems [...]

Washington, D. C, July 24, 2009 (Commenteary by eGrumps) Despite saying that securing Afghanistan is near the top of his foreign policy initives, President Obama stated that “victory” isn’t necessarily the goal. eGrumps has two comments: 1. “His” foreign policy initives – shouldn’t he have said “America’s foreign policy initives?”  (It may not be near [...]

Washington D. C. July 23, 2009 (Reported by eGrumps) In an effort to revive public approval of his Health Care Plan, and to reassure the American people that they would continue to receive prompt, quality health care,  President Obama announced that he was recruiting senior executives from inside government departments. Their experience, he announced, should [...]

Washington, D. C., July 19, 2009  (eGrumps commentary) The following major legislative pushes are now being undertaken in Washington by the Obama administration: (1). Major Health Care Reform plan. (2) Cap and Trade plan. (3) Global Climate Change plan (formerlly know as Global Warming plan) (4) Stimulus 2 Plan. (5) Finance Plan to figure out [...]

Washington, D. C., July 17, 2009  (eGrumps Commentary) The Administration proudly announced today that 34 states have less than a 10% unemployment rate. A spokesman said “Considering today’s economic climate, and the mess the prior administration left us with, we consider this a remarkable achievement.” When questioned by eGrumps as to the unemployment rate when Pres. [...]

(Washington, D. C, (July 12, 2009) (eGrumps Comments) Barbara Boxer, Senator from the Great Insolvent State of California, has stated that if the bill to cut global climate change (no longer called the bill to eliminate global warming) is not passed there will be dire results: (1) droughts, (2) flood,  (3) fires,  (4) loss of species, [...]