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Obama, Lying (take 2)

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A pithy, logical column from Kyle Smith. Key ideas:

Bulls–t is airy, meaningless drivel, the stuff that campaigns are made of. Or it’s a misleading oversimplification with hidden qualifiers. Not only do we forgive bulls–t, we like it…

This week was something new…

Some 10 million Americans are going to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act. [But] On June 15, 2009, Obama said, in one of hundreds of similar statements, “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

This wasn’t just bulls–t. This was a lie…

What Obama said wasn’t true and that’s all there is to it. To the American public, he is a different man…Obama has rebranded himself as a liar…He will carry this new label to his grave.

UPDATE (well, more a REMINDER): Per NBC News, the Obama administration knew at least as early as 2010 that 67% to 80% of Americans who buy health coverage themselves would not be allowed to keep their plans. And that doesn’t count Americans who are losing their employer-sponsored plans, job hours or jobs because their employers simply can’t afford Obamacare’s pricey coverage mandates.

The administration lies about its pricey coverage mandates now, via Orwellian language. It claims to have made insurance companies “offer more benefits” (NBC’s phrasing). What it has really done is deny companies the ability to tailor plans to consumers’ needs, and deny the consumer the opportunity to buy a plan that is affordably tailored.

UPDATES via The Economic Collapse blog:

UPDATE: Even Anderson Cooper wore his ‘concerned face’ last week on hearing that the Obama administration has told insurance companies to stay quiet about what is really going on.

Comments

  1. Obama the Liar is a problem but the larger issue is the electorate who went to the polls without bothering to find out who Obama is and what he had done prior to running for the most powerful job on earth. Readers, get out and vote and drag (nothing intended) your friends with you. We are in the process of watching this great Country go down the toilet.

  2. The WaPo had an excellent article on how Obama made the choice to put the implantation of ObamaCare into the hands of ideologues instead of people experienced at rolling out huge enterprises.

    Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel (Rahm’s brother) has been on several FoxNews shows and he is a real piece of work. He is the ultimate legend-in-his-own-mind man with no patience for anything said that does not issue from out of his own mouth. Obnoxious, rude, overbearing, intolerant, full of contempt, this man knows no rules, no courtesy, and triumphs by abusive motormouth shouting.

    ObamaCare has reached the stage in mafia-style Chicago politics where it is an offer that cannot be refused. We will all wake up with a severed horse’s head on out beds and we will pay the vigorish out of the realization that the Godfather can make it worse.

    This national epiphany that Obama lied is too little, too late. Huge sums of money have already been poured down the ObamaCare sump pit and thousands of pages of biting regulation gnats have been set loose. We can not “put it back the way it was.” Chicago has come to Dogpatch and we are all in this together.

    How do you patch the hull of the Titanic? How do you come up with all the extra lifeboats needed, but not supplied? How do you decide to conduct an orderly exit and divide those who will survive from those who will go down with the ship?

    Now is the time to understand something about chaos. ObamaCare is the present determining the future. We are in the approximate present where ObamaCare is spinning, wobbling, diverging, misfiring, taking random tracks, erratic and we are not able to approximately determine the future due to its aberrations. That is chaos. It is the moment in war when all the best laid plans are null and void and the battle has become one of disjointed decisions from within individual centers of crisis all operating in a fog of trying to survive.

    It is possible to go over American Falls in a barrel and survive. But once the barrel passes over a certain point in the current near the edge of the falls, chaos takes over.

    ObamaCare should not have had such a crucial design flaw which would permit the crucial website to fail. Furthermore, it should not have been erected on a skeleton of lies fully known to the designers.

    Had the Republicans ever been brought into the planning of the legislation and the writing and implementation of the regulations, they would have had a sense of ownership and responsibility.

    But from the outset, Obama, Reid and Pelosi simply gave the Republicans the finger and advised them not to stand in from of their ObamaCare steam roller.

    Shortly into the War in Iraq, Teddy Kennedy stood up in the Senate and declared that Iraq and Afghanistan would be “George Bush’s Vietnam.” In saying this, Kennedy tacitly vowed to undermine Bush and the war and make him eat it. The Democrats fell in line and followed suit.

    This is not to say that “turn about is fair play” but, rather, to point out that politics in sometime tough and tumble. There is no rule that says the Republicans are obligated to go along and get along with the ObamaCare steamroller.

    All that aside, we are in chaos and the ObamaCare Titanic has hit the iceberg. So, is it time to let the Democrats bring in the captain of the Costa Concordia to take the helm? I believe that they are so wrapped up in their bantam rooster strutting that they will not think rationally. They will think first about saving face.

    Can we pull the plug and stop this stinker dead in the water and try to bail it out, keep it afloat and patch it all at the same time?

    There is an esoteric branch of math lodged in la-la land that fiddles with chaos theory. However, Einstein advised that “things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

    Ready to leap from the core of this chaos is the “simple” solution of running all of healthcare by a specialized government department in Washington and paying the costs from checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury. This, of course, would require a vast new source of revenue which could be most easily generated by a 15% to 20% consumption tax added to the existing tax programs. This is the single-payer wet dream of every Progressive.

    If you read Cloward and Piven, this “solution” was to be reached by creating chaos that left it as the only way out.

    I believe that there are other solutions, but I don’t believe that Obama, Reid and Pelosi are the least bit amenable to them.

    If we can manage the chaos until the 2014 elections, there is one remaining gasp left for a turn toward sanity.

    Now we will just have to see how diligent the Republican establishment is in trying to crush the TEA Party so that the Republicans blow the 2014 elections.

  3. mike – Right on. Without revealing anyone’s personal info, I want to note for the record that you appear to be a different lowercase ‘mike’ than the one that people on GP know as an Obama supporter.

  7. A single-payer (the taxpayer) system is what the left has always craved. Obamacare is a means to an end, that’s all; it’s meant to collapse, to fail. The conditions are being created so that the public (or a very vocal minority with connections) will clamor for a simpler single-payer system, as the one we now have is far too complicated to implement. This is all by design. Once this goal is announced to the public with great fanfare via public service announcements, focus groups, and the like, Big Labor will fall into line behind Big Government, the Big Business will realize that the Big Subsidy Carrot (like ethanol, like food stamps, and so much else) is far more lucrative than the Big Stick, and Keynes’ theory of triangulation will be a fait accompli.

  8. I think that is what many on the Left plan, or hope. If America were to go communist single-payer, that is just how it would come about.

    But nothing is written. Big Government has a lot of egg on its face right now, and is coming up against the laws of math (a financial crisis may well hit) and many Americans’ plain unwillingness to go along with the program.

  10. Well, lower case mike tries on so many costumes… Obama-supporting moderate, Obama-supporting conservative, Tea Party hating moderate conservative… it wouldn’t surprise me so much to see him pretend to actually Obama. So, I’m glad you checked.

  11. I´m back from the dead. The only promise that remember was back in 2008, telling ¨Joe the Plumber¨ that he wanted to redistrbute the wealth. Thanks to the 2009 what he couldn´t move through
    Congress an executive order would do. Even during the return of Rep Gifford , he talked about civilty but blamed the TEA Party. Thanks to Speaker Pelosi, in 2010 you had to pass the bill before you could find what was in it: Senator McCain complained that not one Republican contributed, only to be told ¨we won.¨ I wonder if the presnt Obama package is the same which the SCOTUS approved. The damn thing has had so many changes, is this still the same thing, or no?