Posted on 11/09/2013 5:34:42 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s getting both comical and frustrating to watch liberals rush a prevent-style defense in the wake of Obama’s most recently broken promise. The now laughable claim that “if you like your private insurance plan, you can keep your private insurance plan” is haunting Democrats across the nation. It’s hard not to call such a line – uttered well after the White House estimated millions would lose their insurance – anything other than an outright lie.
Democrats Have Inventive Excuses for Obama's 'Keep Your Plan' Promise
From the party that decided to parse the meaning of the word “is” in the 1990’s has come a full range of defenses. The most popular being that “for 95 percent of Americans” the President’s claim will prove to be accurate. . . Of course this is merely the most recent lie to escape the lips of the Left’s most desperate salesmen.
This figure is based off the roughly 5 percent of Americans who get their insurance from the individual market, as opposed to their employer provided coverage. And yet, according to the rarely mentioned memo that proves the President’s malicious intent to deceive, as many as 69 percent of certain employer based insurance plans could lose coverage. According to McClatchy news, as many as 52 million Americans might be losing their coverage because of the pages of regulation in the “Affordable” Care Act.
Which brings us to another point: Aren’t the Democrats supposed to be the party for the disenfranchised? Are those 52 million (or for that matter, the 11 million people to which Obama, Wasserman-Schultz, and Jay Carney keep referring) not real people? Are they not cancer survivors who are depending on their current insurance, and current doctors for care? Or are we not supposed to concern ourselves with anecdotal stories when the narratives run contrary to Democrat platforms?
So far, in Obamacare’s infancy, far more people have lost their insurance than have signed up for the exchanges. Yet, I don’t see Obama holding a press conference with people like Edie Sundby standing behind him as a human prop. Maybe he should. . . From a pure PR standpoint, there are far more horror stories to highlight than success stories in relation to the “Affordable” Care Act.
And let’s not gloss over the name of the President’s signature piece of legislation. . . Now, which is the bigger lie: The President’s claim that you can keep your insurance, or the actual name of his healthcare bill? The “Affordable” Care Act is projected to increase premiums an average of 41 percent. And for many of those who will soon be losing insurance coverage, the increase (as they’re forced into more comprehensive and wide ranging plans) could be substantially more. Some victims of the President’s socialization of Healthcare have reported premium hikes up to 1000 percent.
In fact, as we learn more about the law and its implementation, we are learning that many aspects of the law were sold with less-than-honest sales pitches. Remember how Obama, Pelosi and Reid insisted this Frankenstein of regulation was necessary to insure the uninsured? Well, after a decade of implementation the law will still fail to cover tens of millions of Americans. . . And that’s assuming that those individuals who find themselves unexpectedly without coverage this year don’t decide to remain in the category of “uninsured.”
What’s more stunning, is that the Media is just now beginning to catch on to this theme. It’s not as if this is the first time the White House has let slip a non-truth. Much of the President’s tenure has been a tour of dishonesty and deceit.
Remember Fast and Furious? First there was denial. Then we were told the operation was small and isolated. Then the Department of Justice issued a letter stating no knowledge of the operation; only to retract that letter and admit to “administrative” knowledge of the gun running operation that ultimately took the lives of two US border Patrol Agents. Then there was Benghazi: At first we were told that Ambassador Stevens was killed in a protest-gone-wrong. . . Of course we now know that was not only false, but unconditionally and irretrievably false. And what about the IRS scandal that started as “a couple of rogue” agents in Cincinnati; but quickly ballooned to involve the IRS Director herself?
Not all of Obama’s non-truths, half-truths and outright-lies are the products of uncovered scandals. Some are more benign than others. After the government shutdown and debt ceiling negotiations, it’s almost comical to recollect his 2008 speech to the Mile High City, in which he portrayed himself as the great “Uniter.” After a full five years of stubbornly high unemployment, we should be reminded about his promise to create “shovel ready” jobs.
The implementation of Obamacare has simply exposed a long standing truth about our 44th President: His teleprompter has no periods. . . Only Asterisks. And while Democrats try to blame the private insurance companies (that Obamacare is responsible for regulating), and the purchasers of “inadequate” insurance, they will quickly lead the American people to another truth:
President Obama is merely a representative sample of today’s Democrat Party. Because let’s face it. . . There’s only one Party in America that is currently defending the claim that 51 million Americans will be able to keep the insurance they are currently losing. If you or I made a similar claim to Congress, it might be considered a felony.
The Rats have been lying for decades on every topic. That is not the problem. A majority know they are lying and still support them is the needle in the eye.
like George Bush’ “Read my lips no new taxes”—the “you can keep your policy” will haunt the Dems for generatons
Why aren’t these on billboards across the nation?
( It’s a rhetorical question.) My hear is sad. :-(
Pitchmen, Liars, Looters, Thieves, Criminals, Rapists, Crack Smokers, Child Molesters, Baby Killers, Free Shit Scumbags, Collectivists, Dysfunctional Dolts, Propagandists, Progressives, Socialists, Communists and every other deviancy that has crossed the mind of subhuman madmen.
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Yes, it will haunt them for years to come.
But...I am wondering since 0bamacare is being revealed as a complete and total fraud, none of what they claimed has proven true...from cutting costs, to saving consumers money, to being able to keep plans, to even giving people access to healthcare(which millions are finding they won’t have or have lost)...
Is there anyway to criminally prosecute them for fraud against the American people? I truly mean to ask that.
They’ve done a huckster shake and jive and the American people are the victims of this crime. It is not just a figure of speech, people have been duped.
As much as we want to ridicule the fools who believed 0bama and the democrats, like the suckers who fall for the flimflam artists later sue and take criminal prosecution against the perpetrator, is there no action to be taken against what is now obviously a sham?
Move over Bernie Madoff...0bama and the democrats got you beat.
They’ve done a huckster shake and jive and the American people are the victims of this crime
And that is the line that all Republicans should be using against Obamacare. I have heard nary a peep out of them though.
News from the DNC and President-for-Life Obama!
With the great success of the Obamacare program, our Dear Leader has looked out at the fly-over country ... and He sees a right for all Americans that needs to be provided. The inalienable right to transportation!
That’s right! With the passage of the new law, your right to cheap, dependable transportation can no longer be denied. There are currently 43 million Americans without transportation, but not after the enactment of ..... Obama-CAR!
Under Obama-CAR, if you like your current car, YOU CAN KEEP IT! ... as long as it gets 40 mpg city, 55 mpg on the highway. Otherwise, the new Obama-CAR! program will trade your old inefficient clunker for a new Obama-CAR. You will be able to choose any car from the vast array of Obama-CAR! choices ... including white, black or yellow GM (Government Motors) Metro!
Think of it ... a shiny new Metro in your driveway. You will be the envy of your neighbors, at least until they are forced to trade their old inefficient truck or SUV in for their Metro!
The advantages of the Obama-CAR! program are almost too numerous to mention. For instance:
No one can be denied cheap trusty transportation after the rollout of Obama-CAR!
Highways will be more roomy without over-sized trucks and SUV’s crowding everyone out.
No one will be envious of other drivers more expensive, impractical SUV’s or sports cars ... because there won’t be any!
Contact your Senator or Representative today! Let him/her know ... you want your Obama-CAR!
I am President-for -Life Obama and I appoved this message.
Emphasis mine. Gotta love it!
Even more amazing is this:
So what if he had been saying it for 3 years and there are numerous videos to prove he said it.
“If you like your plan, you can keep it PERIOD.”
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor PERIOD.”
Obama says he didn’t say that. Immediately, the media and many Dems jump on the bandwagon and concur.
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Just like that movie caused unrest in Egypt and the Benghazi attacks. Obama and Team were repeating that lie for weeks after the deaths of 4 Americans.
Convicting them in a court of "law" will NEVER happen. The political class and elite will ALWAYS protect themselves no matter what.
If you want the real truth as to how we fix the mess, it won't be at the voting booth. It will be in the streets.
Revolts aren't won by votes.
Obama was basically elected because he was the candidate of the nation’s losers. He was elected by the losers/parasites to get revenge on the winners/producers. The losers are only angry at Obama if he fails to punish the producers and steal the producer’s money for themselves. He’s done a poor job of that so far. That’s what is making them angry at their Dear Leader.
Democrats I've seen have done every kind of cartwheel and dodge NOT to use the term 'lie'... lucky for them the MSM sees them as 'teacher's pets' and covers for them. (Well, as best they can considering it was an out and out bald faced lie...)
Con men.
first they are theives, then con men
the democrat party is a criminal enterprise
Thanks. I knew I’d left some SUBHUMAN scumbags off the list. Back at ya with TOTALITARIANS.
The Democrat Party of Pitchmen and Liars has pimped misery hate and evil rich for fifty years and gave the have not’s hope and all they got was a few beads and lost rights Karl Marx would be proud.
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