Reports: Obama May Have Known His Keep-Your-Plan Promise Was Untrue

by JASmius

Gee, ya think?  But that isn't the interesting tidbit in this particular Newsmax piece:

Obama himself and members of his team have said in recent days that while they knew of the language in the bill, they fully expected people would find such great deals that they liked better in the exchanges that they technically wouldn't want to keep their old policies. So, at least in their own minds, it wasn't a lie to say people could keep their plans – if they liked them.... 

One member of Obama's own party admitted on ABC's  This Week  on Sunday that "we all knew" plans would be cancelled. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, said that Obama should have been "more specific," but she defended the promise because she said the law needed to be passed to ensure more people could get affordable healthcare.

So these are our choices: mealy-mouthed semantics and tunnel-visioned denial.  As Syndrome once said....





....lame, lame, lame, lame, LAME!

But take hope, my friends, for there are more interesting stories than that one:

The District of Columbia's insurance commissioner was given his walking papers on Friday, one day after he challenged President Barack Obama's fix of the troubled rollout of his signature healthcare law, the Washington Post reports.

Obama held a Thursday press conference, saying he would allow insurance companies to continue offering people policies they wanted to keep, though they had previously been dubbed substandard because they didn't offer all the benefits required under the new law."

"The action today undercuts the purpose of the exchanges, including the District’s DC Health Link, by creating exceptions that make it more difficult for them to operate," D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White said in a statement on the department's website afterward.

The next day, White was called into a meeting with the top deputies of Democratic D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and was told the mayor "wants to go in a different direction."

White told the Post that he was never told his statement was the reason for his firing, but he suspected the timing was not coincidental.

Again, ya think?

States with their own exchanges have refused to cooperate with the Fixer-In-Chief's "fix," so it isn't like the now-ex-DC insurance commissioner's resistance is without precedent.  But given that it's the District of Columbia we're talking about, if anybody doesn't believe that Mayor Gray didn't receive a phone call from The One regarding this little fit of leftwing purism....no, nobody can possibly not believe it.

Either that, or he was fired because his surname is "White".

But this may be the unkindest, most blasphemous cut of all - and note the source:

While many have called the failed rollout of HealthCare.gov President Barack Obama's "Katrina Moment" – NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory sees it more like another of President George W. Bush's problems: Iraq.

"Everybody looked at Bush through the prism of Iraq," Gregory said during Sunday's roundtable discussion on NBC's Meet the Press 

"Here, I think people are going to look at Obama through the implementation of ObamaCare."

Oh.  My.  Dear.  Lord.  When Barack Obama has lost NBCCCP, he really has lost it all.

And the piling-on continues:

Columnist Kathleen Parker agreed, saying that Iraq was the last straw with many when it came to the Bush presidency. They saw his administration not only as untruthful, but also incompetent.

Obama, too, is being seen as untruthful and incompetent after promising people they could keep health insurance plans they liked, which turned out not to be true, and with the failed ObamCare website rollout which wouldn't allow people to log in to buy insurance.

If all of that wasn't convincing evidence that the effective end of the Obamadency (and therefore, his coup de tat) is near, this clinches it:

Obama's approval numbers are at 40%, and MSNBC host Chris Matthews [!!!] said Republicans could conceivably cut that number in half.

"If you can hit Obama on character you can take that 40%, which is already eroding, down to about 20," he said.

Oh.  My.  Dear.  Lord.  When Barack Obama has lost MSNBCCCP and Tingle Matthews....oh, you get the point.

But, even here, even now, there is a cautionary point to be made:

GOP strategist Mike Murphy noted that Obama is facing a crisis of confidence and competence at the same time, which Republicans should take advantage of by coming up with their own policies.

"If we just sit around and high-five each other for being right about [ObamaCare] that's a mistake," he said.

Gosh, sounds like something Scott Walker would say....


UPDATE: When Barack Obama has lost the New York Times....oh, never mind.