Barney Frank on Obamacare rollout: ‘They just lied to people’

Washington Times ^ | 8-3-14 | Kellan Howell

[afraidfortherepublic]

the mishandling of the new health care law.

“The rollout was so bad, and I was appalled—I don’t understand how the president could have sat there and not been checking on that on a weekly basis,” the former Democratic congressman told the website.

“But frankly, he should never have said as much as he did, that if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it. That wasn’t true. And you shouldn’t lie to people. And they just lied to people,” he added.

Mr. Frank told The Huffington Post that Mr. Obama should have better explained the situation to the American people, and laid out the possibilities of losing their existing plans.

“He should have said, ‘Look, in some cases the health care plans that you’ve got are really inadequate, and in your own interests, we’re going to change them.’ But that’s not what he said,” Mr. Frank said.

[Tallguy]

Obama is having the Affordable Healthcare Act hung on him by fellows Democrats like a necklace — the flaming South African kind.

They will now shift gears and go for the Canadian Solution.

[Fightin Whitey]

Barney Frank lies under people.

Face down, usually.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“I don’t understand how the president could have sat there and not been checking on that on a weekly basis”

Because he’s never had a real job with actual responsibility in his life until he became including POTUS

Words mean things. A president has authority, but only a Republican president has responsibility.

[hosepipe]

Rumor has it Barney Frank..... SUCKS..

[Republican Wildcat]

“He should have said, ‘Look, in some cases the health care plans that you’ve got are really inadequate, and in your own interests, we’re going to change them.’ But that’s not what he said,” Mr. Frank said.

Well that wouldn't have been true either. The equivalent plan with a much higher deductible and much higher premiums is not an improvement of circumstances.

[Republican Wildcat]

Not to mention his role in the financial crisis which was devastating to the economy. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not in a crisis...they are very stable financially.”

[tanknetter]

Not to mention his role in the financial crisis which was devastating to the economy. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not in a crisis...they are very stable financially.”

You, and everyone else, should really read this

To summarize: the Bush Administration came to Congress (specifically to Frank's Committee) and issued major warnings. Frank and his Democrat colleagues assumed that the Bush Administration was just playing racial politics (aside: about as clear a case of projection as I've ever seen) so decided to play politics right back.

Frank, in his most detailed explanation to date about his actions, said in an interview he missed the warning signs because he was wearing ideological blinders. He said he had worried that Republican lawmakers and the Bush administration were going after Fannie and Freddie for their own ideological reasons and would curtail the lenders’ mission of providing affordable housing.

[hattend]

“They” didn’t know, huh?

You were just standing around and never voted for it, right?

FUBF...oh wait, he would like that.