Posted on 11/11/2014 5:59:45 PM PST by Starman417
"Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."
Barack Obama, January 2009.
See him say it for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4AJ843ERnU
This is HUGE. It proves that Obamacare is premised on lies. And it proves more than that.
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber:
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”
Here' that video again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI
So how does it feel, Obama voters? How does it feel knowing that Obama counted on you being stupid and that you came through?
Over at The Hill Elise Viebeck characterizes it this way:
"The clip is generating significant attention in conservative media."
No shit. The question is, why isn't all of the media interested in this?
Answer? Because they are stupid. They are useful idiots.
Candy Crowley? VERY useful idiot:
Romney: Yeah, I -- I certainly do. I certainly do. I -- I think it's interesting the president just said something which is that on the day after the attack, he went in the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror. You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. It was not a spontaneous demonstration.Obama: Please proceed.
Romney: Is that what you're saying?
Obama: Please proceed, Governor.
Romney: I -- I -- I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.
Obama: Get the transcript.
Crowley: It -- he did in fact, sir. So let me -- let me call it an act of terrorism -- (inaudible)
Obama: Can you say that a little louder, Candy? (Laughter, applause.)
Crowley: He did call it an act of terror. It did as well take -- it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out. You are correct about that.
Jeff Dunetz notes:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
If you like your stupidity, you can keep your stupidity.
One can never claim that Obama has never been right about anything. He is W.C. Fields with a sociopathic disposition.
Tonight is the closest I’ve seen Megyn Kelley becoming unglued.
Gowdy looked fatigued.
Exactly! They can only be talking about people who vote Democrat.
As I recall only democrat senators voted for the ACA. So who acted stupid? Not Republicans!
"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, because America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." ~Newt Gingrich
Obama knew if the American people voted for a man with the middle name HUSSEIN, seven years after 3200 Americans were slaughtered, that they were stupid.
this Thanksgiving, have fun telling the Obama voters who praise Obamacare that Obama and his advisors thought they were stupid!
The vast majority of Obama voters knew quite rationally what they were hoping for and, by and large, they have gotten it, especially given a Republican-controlled House since January 2011.
Government employees and contractors supported? Check (2009 stimulus, and subsequent spending, with more to come).
Gay marriage? Check, and more to come.
Strengthened affirmative action and civil rights enforcement? Check.
Amnesty for illegal aliens? Check (”Dreamers”) and more to come.
Regulating coal back into the ground? Check, and more to come.
Higher taxes to support spending on all of the above? Check.
Expanded health coverage for the working poor? Check.
Drug enthusiasts have gotten a “Feds will look the other way” on state legalization efforts, and potentially MUCH more to come. (I think that a full-on gay-marriage-in-2012 “change of heart” is coming on this issue; maybe a comprehensive federal non-prosecution policy on marijuana and street-level heroin and cocaine offendss.)
More taxes on the “rich” to pay for all the above? Check.
More liberal judges to perpetuate and expand all of the above for years to come? Check.
Now — there are Obama voters who aren’t happy.
Extremists wish he’d done more and faster on every front.
Peace and privacy activists legitimately complain that he’s done little, except maybe some unfriendly rhetoric about Israel, that George W. Bush wouldn’t have done with drones, spying, troops in wherever, etc.
Private sector unions haven’t gotten anything tangible, although the NLRB has taken some stabs at things without much effect.
I sent the video and transcript to my wife’s uncle, who is a big fan of OC. Fazed him not at all. He basically said that I just didn’t like Obama and anything he did. Which is true, of course. But not relevant to his stupidity regarding ObamaCare.
” He is W.C. Fields with a sociopathic disposition.”
Is that something like “an Ethiopian in the fuel supply”?
I truly believe that most Obama voters don’t care if the were lied to. As long as they were unaware that he was lying it was OK with them.
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