According to Andrew McCarthy - the former federal prosecutor not the actor - President Obama has not only committed fraud against the American people but serial fraud. The numerous lies and misrepresentations from the Obama and his administration concerning the health care law would be enough to put any corporate CEO or regular citizen in prison.
About half of the people in this country believe the President knowingly lied about the health care bill. About 40 percent believe he truly didn't know that his promise to the people (that they could keep their doctors and their insurance plans) would turn out to be untrue. "Mostly conservative" talk show host Bill O'Reilly gives the President a pass by saying that in his opinion President Obama never read the law and was deliberately unfamiliar with it so he had no idea he was not telling the truth.
IF that's true (and I don't believe it for a minute) then President Obama's hand selected cabinet members and assistants are failing him big time. Keeping the President of the United States in the dark and allowing him to go out and tell the people things that aren't true would be a ludicrous way to run an administration. It would make Barack Obama merely a puppet.
But we know it's not true. I do believe the President didn't read the bill before he signed it and that he hasn't sat down and read it to this day. But I also believe he knew people would lose their insurance policies, that many premiums would skyrocket and that families would not see a $2500 yearly reduction in their insurance costs. It was discussed and documented in White House meetings back in 2010, after Kathleen Sebelius and her staff inserted changes that would deliberately cause policies to be cancelled.
According to Mr. McCarthy, U.S. Attorney guidelines say if someone repeatedly lie about something that eventually causes losses for a large group of people then that person is guilty of fraud.
Another lie told by the President is that the new law would not raise taxes on anyone. They wrote the individual mandate saying anyone who did not acquire health insurance, either on their own or through Obamacare, would be fined by the IRS. The President, in an interview, actually scolded George Stephanopoulos for suggesting Obamacare was a tax. Then Obama's attorneys went to the Supreme Court and successfully argued that it was not a fine but a tax. (And still people praise him for it. Unbelievable.)
President Obama's approval rating is falling markedly because of the revelations of Obamacare since the implementation of the sign-up phase on October 1st. Even Democrats are beginning to criticize him for making them look bad. With a mid-term election now less than a year away many of them are worried about the fallout from the disastrous turn of recent Obamacare events.
On the radio yesterday I heard about a Republican bill that would call for people to be allowed to keep their current insurance policies. That bill, however, is more message than substance because it only allows for people keep their plans if the insurance companies decide to let them. There is no mandate in the law to force the insurance companies to keep the plans they have already cancelled or are considering for cancellation. Republicans believe this law will make people think they (Republicans) aren't the ogres Democrats make them out to be and are actually listening to the people. It's a feel good law, that's it.
Senate Democrats also have a bill. Their bill mandates that insurance companies keep people on their current policies. They will replace the House bill with theirs and send it back to the House for approval. If Republicans, who have no intention of forcing insurance companies to comply, refuse to approve the Senate bill they will be demonized by Democrats as uncaring ogres who won't do what's best for the people. Once again the Republicans are killing themselves.
If what Mr. McCarthy says is true Republicans now have everything they need to level impeachment charges against President Obama. Everything that is... except the cojones to do it. Republicans will never file impeachment charges against the first African-American President of the United States unless he does something so blatantly illegal that a huge majority of Americans call for it. They will not take the chance of being labeled racists - even though they have already been so labeled by many Democrats, pundits and Obama supporters nationwide.
I guess people will believe what they wish to believe. Obamacare is a disaster and President Obama has been lying to us about it for three years. But he'll get a pass. He always does. One can only hope the Republicans have the cojones to bring this topic up next year during their campaigns - along with all the other lies that have been told by this administration. With the main stream media a part of the Democrat National Committee, hitting the Democrats with the truth is the only way Republicans have a chance to win.
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