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Lies and “Apologies”

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First he lied with his bald, clearly spoken, oft-repeated “Period.”

Then he lied with his denial that he said “Period,” insisting that he really said “If.”

Now he “apologizes.”

I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

Let’s leave aside whether we can believe him this third time around.  Let’s look at what he’s masquerading as an apology.

For what is he apologizing, really?  That folks find themselves in “this situation” as a result of his behavior.  There’s not the least syllable of an apology for his behavior.

A third lie.

Update: As I think about this a bit more, here’s another thought: Obama is sorry that folks took him at his word–that whole “based on assurances they got from me” thing.

Hmm….

Who Gets to Decide?

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White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer claimed Sunday on ABC’s This Week that millions of Americans lost insurance their insurance policies because ObamaCare had deemed them inadequate.

[I]f the president were to allow people to have those plans…or insurance companies to keep selling barebones plans…he’d be violating even more important promise to the American people, that everyone would have a guarantee to access of quality…health insurance[.]

Ex-Obama advisor Dr Ezekiel Emanuel (and University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost) said much the same thing on Sunday’s Fox News Sunday.

WALLACE: Dr. Emanuel, simple question—why does Betsy Tadder need you or President Obama telling her what insurance she needs?

EMANUEL: For two reasons: first of all, if she goes in and that insurance doesn’t cover enough…

WALLACE: But she likes her plan.

EMANUEL: But we’re cost shifting.

Plainly our Know Better Progressive Government is the only one qualified to decide.  Not us, not about our insurance, not about our money.

What the President Didn’t Know

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As Fox News puts it, “a string of embarrassing episodes for the Obama administration that the president didn’t seem to know about until the public did” is making a number of folks wonder about the quality, or the mendacity, of the staff with whom President Barack Obama has surrounded himself.

I have a different question.  Call me cynical, but on what basis do we conclude that Obama actually didn’t know in advance about IRS abuses of conservative groups, NSA overreaches, the likelihood of disaster for his Obamacare rollout, the risk to and the threat against his State Department’s Benghazi consulate, his DoJ’s search-and-seizure of press phone records, …?

Why do we believe that Obama didn’t know full well about these problems?  Besides his own claim that all he does is read the newspapers, I mean?

Truthfulness

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I asked my wife yesterday evening, “If I had lied as much as Obama has these last five years, told lies as big as he’s told these last five years, repeated them as often as he has these last five years, how long would you have stayed married to me?”

She answered, “It would depend on how much I was willing to deceive myself for the sake of status.”

The Usual Whine

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius—she of the previous party engagement excuse for declining to testify last week about Obamacare’s rollout failure—now is suggesting, with an absolutely straight face (say what you will about the lady; she’s a consummate actress), that Republicans, with their efforts to interfere with the infliction of Obamacare, contributed to Healthcare.gov’s failed rollout.

That’s because, you see, it was Republicans who were overseeing the writing and testing of all that bad code—both on the front end, where we can’t get in easily, and on the back end that manages data transfer to the insurers, claim processing and payment, and so on.

In an ideal world, there would have been a lot more testing, but we did not have the luxury of that.  And the law said the go-time was Oct. 1.  And frankly, a political atmosphere where the majority party, at least in the House, was determined to stop this anyway they possibly could…was not an ideal atmosphere.

[Emphasis added.]  Here’s her confession that her choices were politically made.  Aside from her decision to press with “the law said 1 Oct,” she had three years of development and testing available to her.  Her decision to dispense with adequate testing, and her decision to hew to a date on a calendar for rollout were purely political ones.

Evil Republicans.  Shiny.  Shut up.