Don's Tuesday column

         THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   11/12/2013

The biggest liar, and lie, in our history

The State of Jefferson debate is the topic of tonight’s Tea Party Patriots meeting, as well as an informational meeting Wednesday at the Board of Supervisors chambers at 6 PM. Tom Knorr will speak in favor of the secession movement. I say, let Tehama County residents vote their choice and so inform our elected leaders. Even joining more populous majority-Republican counties to the south, our Democrat, urban superiors are unlikely to ever “let our people go.” Think of that line from the Eagles’ song, “Hotel California,” about being able to check in but never being able to leave.

It’s the same basic concept with Obamacare: You and your health insurance plans are legally swept into the One-Size-Fits-All mandates of Obamacare exchanges, but you can never leave. Freedom of choice is an anathema to these people. Purchasers of toasters, computers, smart-phones, automobiles, homes and financial investments have multitudes of options; that’s of no consequence when our political overlords decide what is best for our own health care choices.

Obamacare was designed to deprive us of economic freedoms from the start. Subsequent regulations made it inevitable that the vast majority of all health insurance plans would be “absorbed into the Borg” of government-mandated coverage and rates. You may recall advocates using the phrase “all in” to cheerily advance collective, regimented citizen involvement. The ruse was that only thus could we right the supposed wrongs of denial of coverage, the uninsured, the poor and sick. Guess what? Obamacare payment boards will still deny some coverage, many will pay the fine and remain uninsured and the poor and sick will still be with us.

Obamacrats problem: polling showed that upwards of 90 percent of people liked their health insurance. Most folks losing their individual or employer-provided plans probably like the plans they’re losing. Hence, Obama’s Big Lie that you could keep your plan. Followed by more lies: you had “substandard” coverage; it’s not the fault of Obamacare that insurers are dropping policyholders.

When McClatchy News pronounces the obvious (“Analysis: Tens of millions could be forced out of health insurance they had,” 11/7), the charade is blown—up to 70 percent of all insurance plans will disappear. Don’t take my word for it. The high-end estimate, 69 percent, was posted on the Federal Register in a chart on the low/medium/high estimates of individual/small employer/large employer insurance plans that would be dropped by insurance companies in favor of Obamacare exchange-required coverage. Once checked in, never allowed out.

Some of Obama’s staff argued that Americans needed to be told the truth but were overruled in favor of the politically necessary falsehood, repeated ad infinitum, ad nauseam: “If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period.” A promise mocked in a cartoon that provided a Clintonesque follow-up statement: “All of you not named ‘Period’ are on your own.” Also revealed (“Top Dem Admits: ‘We Knew’” National Review, 10/29) is that “House Democratic whip Steny Hoyer conceded to reporters today that Democrats knew people would not be able to keep their current health care plans under Obamacare and expressed qualified contrition for President Obama’s repeated vows to the contrary.” (Vows made for no reason other than to deceive us into grudging acceptance of Obamacare, and to provide political cover for Congressional Democrats)

The law intended to force as many people as possible into Obamacare; regulations written in June, 2010, all but eliminated “grandfathering” of plans (allowing people to keep what they had). Democrats in the Senate unanimously voted that September against a Republican bill to codify what Americans were promised—that they could keep health insurance plans they liked.

Look up (or find at DonPolson.blogspot.com) “Obama Lied, My Health Plan Died” by Michelle Malkin and “Obama’s Big Lie” by Jonah Goldberg at NationalReview.com; “Obama Lies, Health Care Dies” and an entire series under the heading “Lies of Obamacare, Documented” at Powerlineblog.com; and also “The Eight Biggest Falsehoods in Obama’s Rose Garden Speech” by David Hogberg of “The Federalist”. While “bait and switch” deception usually accompanies any massive government entitlement program—providing “subsidies” to tens of millions, paid by other taxpayers, is a huge entitlement—Obamacare’s inception, formulation, political and policy deceptions easily rise to the level of legal fraud.

The irreverent 76-year old comedian, Jackie Mason, is quoted in “Famous comic flays Obama as lying ‘maniac’” (‘If he wasn’t the president, he’d be in jail or in a sanitarium’): “He’s saying things that nobody believes … He looks at you straight in the face, and tells you that if you want your plan, you got your plan, you keep your plan. Now, a month-and-a-half later, you got no plan, you lost your plan, and he tells you you still got a plan.”

In “God, Lies and Obama” Roger L. Simon proposes, “to Obama these are not really lies, because he has no values, religious or otherwise, that make them so. This is more than just the prototypical Marxist ‘ends justifying the means’ … (and may be) an American form of ‘taqiyya’—the Muslim dictate that it is permissible to lie to non-believers. He believes in left-wing taqiyya … anti-imperialism augmented by Alinksyite methods (and) he had the consolation that he was lying for a better good.”

I see his followers, from the White House to the media to Organizing for America to liberal acolytes across the nation, have adopted the same ideological rationale for lying.