I'm not lying lion, tripling down on Obamacare

I'm not lying lion, tripling down on Obamacare

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/07/a_petty_rant_republicans_are_the_real_lying_liars_on_obamacare/

""But I'm also feeling unusually petty at the moment, so let's proceed in that vein for fun.

Let's stipulate that when President Obama first said "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan," he was telling a "noble lie" in the Platonic sense of the term. I'm not sure I buy that. I think it was probably more a failure to think through the dangers of being so categorical in a situation where even small margins amount to millions of people.

But let's say it was a sinister deception undertaken by a man who believed he had to lie for the greater good. Why was he being so defensive?

Part of it can be attributed to the Democrats' elephantine memory of Bill Clinton's failed attempt to overhaul the healthcare system. It turns out that the biggest obstacle facing anyone trying to reform the healthcare system is that you can't do it without creating some amount of disruption, and most people in the country have insurance they're pretty happy with. So Obama wanted to minimize not just the disruption but the fear of disruption itself. A fair critique of Obamacare is that it leaves too many of the worst parts of the old system in place.

But another part of the story is that he was responding to an incredible amount of bullshit.

And this is where I want to be petty.

Noble lies have in many ways defined the debate over the Affordable Care Act, but the vast majority of them have been lies conservatives told in a failed effort to nix reform. Death panels are the most famous such lie. Another is that Obamacare is destroying the economy, creating a part-time labor pandemic and a major obstacle to recovery from the great recession. A third is that it will blow up the debt.""

The Dims are quick to advise republicans on the errors oaf there ways. It is said when your enemy is doing himself harm, you should let him.o therefore the Dims don't believe what they are saying. To mention that the Dims are tripling down on Obamacare is a mistake is probably a mistake. Fortunately the Dims don't Lisbon, and it is to late for them anyway.

When the president shutdown the government to prevent a delay in Obamacare, they destroyed their brand. When the above come true, they are done


Dave Farnsworth