Obama Lies, ObamaCare Craters

by JASmius

Does this remind anybody else of our LORD's parable about the man who built his house on sand?

Or, rather, with sand?:

All the president’s men could not shield the commander-in-chief from fallout surrounding recently uncovered comments made by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber.

The health policy and implementation expert who worked closely on the [Una]ffordable Care[-Less] Act and the Massachusetts health care reform law has backed the administration into a corner after it was revealed he repeatedly celebrated the misleading way in which the law was crafted and the “stupidity” of the American voter over whose eyes the wool was pulled.

“The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was run,” Obama told reporters in Australia where he is attending a G-20 summit.

When asked directly if he or his administration had, as Gruber insisted, intentionally misled the public and oversight organizations like the Congressional Budget Office when they crafted the [Una]ffordable Care[-Less] Act, Obama’s reply was terse and direct. “No,” he said. “I did not.”

Which is, of course, thanks to the miracle of digital audio/video, yet another lie:



Barack Obama has known Jonathan Gruber for years.  Why?  Because Gruber is a far-Left academic whose dream was socialized medicine, and O was a far-Left politician whose dream was to "fundamentally transform" America into a socialist wasteland and rule it with an iron fist in perpetuity.  The only difference between the two "men," is that Gruber was more indiscrete about the requisite deceptions needed to cram ObamaCare down our throats than a streaker at the Super Bowl.

That cat is out of the bag - as is Barack Obama having presided over the same O-Care strategy session with Gruber, as the latter helpfully bragged in the vid that emerged last Friday.  How do we know that the Regime has been backed into a PR corner on this latest scandal?  Because they are bald-facedly lying about it in the face of incontrovertible video evidence to the contrary.  In essence, they are lying about having lied to force a policy on us that the country never believed to begin with, and lying about knowing the guy that was so honest about, and proud of, all the lying that he further insulted the American people beyond what the Regime had already done, and is reinforcing with their own lies about not knowing him.

Oh, what a tangled web, indeed.  Which goes a long way toward explaining this polling:

Cholera. New Coke. A snake in a mailbox. All these things are more popular than ObamaCare. At least among white people.ObamaCare’s approval ratings have hit a new low, down to 29% among white people from 32% and down to 56% among minorities from 62%. That is moving dangerously into evens territory.

It’s the first time non-white support has fallen below 60% and indicates that the lack of support is due to experience and is penetrating even Obama’s own base.
There is essentially no white support for ObamaCare left. Independents have backed further away from ObamaCare. Independent support for ObamaCare is down to 33% from 39%.

ObamaCare is no longer competitive among independents.

The most interesting detail of this survey?  O-Care support amongst Democrats is slightly up, which suggests that there is a steady exodus of rank & file members out of the Democrat Party, much like the House Donk caucus was much harder-Left after the 2010 midterms and their Senate counterparts will become January 9th.

It's not so surprising, really.  When somebody gets right up in your face and grinningly says, "[BLEEP] you!", those are generally taken to be what used to be called "fighting words".  When somebody else - "higher in the food chain," let's just say - gets up in your face and grinningly says, "Yeah, [BLEEP] you!", that's generally taken to be an escalation of the confrontation.  But when the first person laughs at your indignant reaction and then the second one tells you it never happened, there are only two rational reactions: Beat both of them unconscious with a brick, or flip them off in turn and walk away.  The latter is the collective reaction of the American people.

Pity it came a couple of years too late, thus essentially confirming Gruber's assessment of our collective voting intelligence.  Because that, my friends, is the deepest, saltiest wound of all.