President Obama said, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. Period.”

By MacPundit

He said it at least forty times with various rhetorical iterations:

“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. Period.”

“If you like your healthcare plan you can keep your healthcare plan. Guaranteed. Period.”

“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period. End of story.”

“If you like your hospital, you can keep your hospital. Period.”

Notice that he even added the word “guaranteed” occasionally, as if he was worried that we would not believe him when he simply said “period.” In fact, sometimes he actually used “period,” “guaranteed,” and “end of story” all in the same sentence. When people began to lose their healthcare plans—the ones they liked—he was asked why that was happening because he had promised they would not lose their plans. He said he should have been more clear. More clear? What could be more clear than, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. Period.”

Millions of healthcare plans already canceled and still counting …

Conservative estimates from credible non-partisan organizations are that private healthcare cancellations could total 15 million or about 5 percent of the population. But, apparently, that is just the beginning because some predict that cancellations may well reach as high as 129 million after the business mandate kicks in.

It’s only about 5 percent of the population. That’s what President Obama and the hardcore Obama apologists keep telling us. In other words, why is everyone so concerned that we misled a mere 15 million Americans?

If you I like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.

“But,” the spin-masters say, “the plans they had were sub-par, garbage plans and Obamacare will replace them with much better plans.” First, let’s not forget the promise that if you like your plan you can keep it. — Period. Guaranteed. End of story. Just where exactly is there even a hint of a caveat or condition to the very clear promises that the President of the United States of America made to we the people? When did our president say that you can keep your plan if it meets Obamacare standards? Of course the answer is that he never said any such thing. Period. End of story. In fact, now he is essentially saying, “If I like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.”

The insurance companies canceled the plans, not us.

Incredibly, the Obama White House spin machine, Democrats in Congress, and some of the left-wing media quickly added that tortured lie to the Big Lie. Really? The insurance companies are the culprits? Have you people no shame?

Let’s be clear: The lie is not always in the words alone, but it is always in the intent. It is true that the insurance companies canceled the healthcare policies, but they did so because they had no choice. If the healthcare plans do not meet the new requirements in the Obamacare regulations, the policies can no longer be offered. So any attempt to place blame on the insurance companies is blatantly dishonest.

Higher monthly premiums and deductibles

As shocking as it was for those who have been notified that their healthcare plans will be canceled as of January 1, 2014, the worst was yet to come. They soon realized that the plans offered by Obamacare are much more costly than their canceled plans. Many Obamacare plans increase monthly premiums by as much as 800 percent and some people have reported that their deductibles have gone from $3500 up to as much as $12,500 — increases they simply cannot afford. Not surprisingly, they have reacted with anger and fear — anger at President Obama for deceiving them and fear for their future.

Coverage I don’t need and don’t want

A common complaint is that the plans offered by Obamacare to replace the plans people have and like are loaded with coverage they do not need or want. For example, a thirty year old unmarried man is offered a plan with maternity care, pediatric care, and other coverage for which he has no need. The same unnecessary and unwelcome coverage is in Obamacare plans for older couples who are beyond their child-bearing years. Our governments reaction? – Take it or leave it.

Presidential fraud!

If anyone in the business sector had made the kind of false promises that President Obama made, they would have most certainly been charged with fraud. It is now well documented that the Obama White House knew years ago that upon the implementation of Obamacare, millions of Americans would lose their healthcare plans. Did Mr. Obama, himself, know this? That question is yet to be answered, but we must suspend all credulity and rational thought to believe that he did not.

President Obama is a dishonest man

President Obama’s intimacy with deception is well-documented on this website. He is a habitually dishonest man. This is not opinion, it is fact. So yours truly was not in the least surprised to learn that his repeated declarations that “If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it. Period.” were all false. Still, I was left with a troubling question: Why has it taken so long for so many to realize that our president is a very dishonest man?

See: Obama’s Dishonesty

By MacPundit

The Face of Deceit

The audacity of mendacity

It’s not hyperbole. It’s not Internet trash talk. It’s simple, old-fashioned fact: We cannot believe President Obama. This is a given for those of us who have paid attention for the past 5 years. Your fearless seeker of truth, your devoted blogger—yours truly—has been reporting on Mr. Obama’s astonishingly persistent record of mendacious behavior for what seems like an eternity. It seems that long because until now at least half of the country has had little to no interest in the notion that their president is a remarkably dishonest man. Some even describe him as a remarkably accomplished liar, which of course is to say the same thing but with a refreshingly common voice. Fearless honesty comes to mind.

Maybe, just maybe, things are beginning to change. Maybe Mr. Obama’s deceit is becoming ever-so-slightly visible to some of the media hacks who until now have been functionally blind to it. It is a big maybe, though. You see, Mr. Obama has a super human ability to get away with things that most of us mere mortals (with a conscience) would not want any part of. If Bill Clinton is “Slick Willy” and John Gotti was “The Teflon Don”, what’s left for Mr. Obama? Slick Willy headed the list of the most dishonest presidents until Barack Obama showed up and took the lead running away. Obama is the absolutely unchallenged champ. It’s a blowout. So what do we call him? “Barry The Dodge?”

Sequestration

If you are among the half of the country who are still unaware of our president’s history of deceit, you will find ample factual evidence of it on this website. Meanwhile, his most recent and, perhaps, his most ill-deployed attempt to mislead and manage the American people is about his and his administration’s handling of “Sequestration” and what it has revealed about him and his political machine.

Mr. Obama’s first most flagrant public lie about Sequestration occurred in the third debate of the 2012 Presidential Campaign. Let’s watch:

The Washington Post (not overly friendly to Republicans) gave our fearless leader 4 Pinocchios on that one. Why? Because a) The Obama White House did propose it—not Congress as the President claimed. And b) It did happen, contrary to what the President predicted.

Now I must confess to an active sense of skepticism about almost anything Barack Obama says. How could I not? There is nothing equivocal about the facts. Barack Obama has a very long history of deceptive behavior. But if you have any doubts, spend some time here to get informed. You do want to be informed. Right?

By MacPundit

Well documented false statements made by our Great Leader

These Obama false statements have been documented by PolitiFact. Some may already be listed elsewhere on this site simply because there are so many and our Great Leader shows no signs of slowing down. It is hard to keep up. (These range from 2008 to recent.)

Obama false statements compiled by PolitiFact.

1. “We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.” False (Where, exactly, did you here that one, Mr. President?)
2. “Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts” to create a legal framework on counter-terrorism. False (You forgot to tell the Members of Congress.)
3. “If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase.” False (Someone should tell him the difference between households and families.)
4. Says Mitt Romney “called the Arizona law a model for the nation.” False (One more widely spread “misquote.”
5. “Under Gov. Romney’s definition … Donald Trump is a small business.” False (Pure fabrication. There never was any such Romney definition.)
6. Because of Obamacare, “over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up — it’s true — but they’ve gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.” False (It had nothing to do with Obamacare and you know it, Mr. President. Or you should know it.)
7. “Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of” President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession. False (You continue to lie about George W. Bush. Shame on you.) See Obama’s Biggest Lie.
8. “Fast and Furious” began under the Bush administration. False (It was created in 2009 and guess what? You were president.)
9. Mitt Romney “says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation.” False (You just can’t help it, can you?)
10. Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children. False (Romney’s words say otherwise.)
11. “The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me.” False (It actually went down lower during a recession Reagan inherited from Carter. But then you often take credit for things you never did.)
12. “Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double.” False (You either never read the Romney/Ryan budget or you are simply lying again.)
13. If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” False (It was passed by a slim majority in a corrupt process. Also, it is not unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn a law passed by Congress.)
14. “For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.” False (Not true. Please stop making stuff up.)
15. “Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody.” False (Wrong in 2009, and wrong today)
16. “Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.” False (Only in your dreams can it be true.)
17. “I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. … We’ve got about 60 percent done in three years.” False (See Obama Broken Promises.)
18. Under President Barack Obama, the United States has “doubled our exports.” False (Not even close to the truth.)
19. The president’s proposed budget “will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.” False (Whew! He has no shame.)
20. Under the White House’s budget proposal, “we will not be adding more to the national debt” by the middle of the decade. False (He forgot to tell you about the growing interest on the debt. It is huge!)
21. Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected “the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.” False (The truth? Two to two on judges’ decisions on constitutionality. Big difference.)
22. “I didn’t raise taxes once.” False (Of course you did. If we had a few real journalists, you couldn’t keep getting away with all these lies.)
23. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, “it only affected widows and orphans,” and when Medicare began, “it was a small program.” False (An itsy-bitsy grain of truth here. But the lie is in the intent and he lied once again.)
24. The Bush administration had been “giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return.” False (Call in the shrinks. Our president cannot stop lying.)
25. “The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.” False (Big donors bankrolled much of Obama’s campaign.)
26. “We’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs.” False (Except for the ones in policy-making jobs.)
27. When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, “Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy.” False (Except for the ones that asked you.)
28. Insurers delayed an Illinois man’s treatment, “and he died because of it.” False (Hmm, I guess you forgot to tell the man to die, Mr. President, because the insurer’s decision was reversed and man lived three more years.)
29. Health reform will “give every American the same opportunity” to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do. False (I realize that none of you phonies have read the bill but couldn’t you just for once stop lying? You are really setting a bad example for our children. You know, the same children who you have burdened with massive debt.)
30. Preventive care “saves money.” False (Covering preventive care for everyone is a net cost.)
31. (No earmarks in spending bill) False (They are even there in your dreams.)
32. “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars.” False (Wrong, wrong, wrong … and still wrong!)
33. “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.” False (Oh yes you did and it’s on YouTube.)
34. Stimulus tax cuts “began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago.” False (How come the 4.8 million Indiana households didn’t notice?)
35. Health insurance companies are “making record profits, right now.” False (They’re making profits like they should, but not record profits like you would have us believe.)
36. “We import more oil today than ever before.” False (He said this on July 6, 2009 when oil imports were actually down.)
37. “There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy.” False (There is a lot of disagreement. At least half the country want the government to get out of the way so the private sector can rebuild our economy.)
38. “Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth.” False (Which one of your lackeys told you that, Mr. President? McCain never said it. Later, Obama and the Democrats actually did cut over $500 billion out of Medicare. Phony is as phony does.)
39. “The centerpiece of Senator McCain’s education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots.” False (Do you have a secret “Tzar of Lies” or what? Or do you make the lies up all by yourself? It’s scary and the media should call you on it.)
40. Under John McCain’s health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and “that’s a loss for you.” False (A major distortion on McCain’s policy.)
41. John McCain accused Barack Obama “of letting infants die.” False (Obama ad is wrong about McCain abortion charge. However the truth is that Senator Obama voted multiple times to defeat a bill that would have saved the lives of babies born alive in botched abortions.)
42. “Oil companies …currently have 68-million acres that they’re not using.” False (Unused does not mean they are being ignored.)
43. McCain “has opposed stem cell research.” False (Obama ad is misleading and it distorts McCain’s stem cell position.)
44. “But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would’ve had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week.” False (Where did you get that idea, Mr. Obama? It wasn’t from John McCain.)
45. “The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.” False (I know you Liberals hate real facts, but the fact is, they went down under George W. Bush.)
46. Oil companies “haven’t touched” 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill. False (68 million acres isn’t going untouched. You keep on making this stuff up and I’ll do my best to expose you.)
47. Fully inflating tires is “a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent.” False (Not on this planet but there are millions of suckers who believe whatever you say, and that is why you just keep making this stuff up. I was taught to call it lying. How about you?)
48. John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill “because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil.” False (McCain has not commented on the bill at all.)
49. The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation “than the pet food industry invests in its own products.” False (Pure baloney! What we should spend research money on is how stop our leaders from lying to us.)
50. “Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can’t function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding.” False (There was no shortage of helicopters for floods. I really wish you would resign. It is truly awful having such a grossly dishonest president of my country.)
51. “I think we came down here (to Florida) one time … but we weren’t actively fund-raising here.” False (Obama held fundraisers.)
52. “I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins.” False (Obama contradicts his previously stated pin philosophy.)
53. “We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.” False
54. “Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a ‘boon’ to our economy.” False (She never said it.)
55. “As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton’s former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs.” False (Experts rate Dem plans about the same.)
56. “She said, you know, ‘I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn’t pass.’ That was a quote on live TV.” False (That’s not the actual quote.)
57. Americans “have never paid more for gas at the pump.” False (He needs a fill-up on statistics.)
58. “I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy.” False (There is no evidence she said that.)
59. “Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil’s profits have never been higher.” False (He’s a year too late on this energy claim.)
60. “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.” False (He just makes it up.)
61. “John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago” when he ran for president. False (Edwards tagged ‘populist’ early on.)
62. “Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change.” False (Lightning strikes, but not like the feds.)
63. If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, “Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.” False (By itself, black voter increase does not flip Mississippi & mdash; or the South.)

By MacPundit

Big Bird Tells The Truth

If you watched the debate you will certainly remember Romney’s Big Bird remarks. While explaining how he would reduce unnecessary government spending, he said he would no longer help fund the Public Broadcasting System. He said he likes Big Bird but would cut all spending that was not important enough to borrow money from China to pay for it. He also pointed out that Sesame Street and Big Bird were doing just fine on their own and would continue to do so without taxpayer money. In other words, he made a logical, common sense, grownup proposition.

But the Democrats and the media spun it big time!

Ignoring all the obviously sensible solutions, which Romney clearly enumerated, President Obama, his political machine, and many in the media could not resist their instinctive use of disingenuous, populist demagoguery. The very next day Obama and his minions wasted no time in trying to distract the public from Obama’s pathetic performance. They tried to rename the Presidential Debate to the Big Bird Debate. Among other things, they told their adoring, ignorant followers how cruel Romney was to even consider depriving our children of Big Bird. So I thought it might be fun and instructive to see what it would look like when Big Bird tells the truth.

The liars also accused Romney of lying!

After Governor Romney gave President Obama a lesson in the finer points of serious debating, the President and his propaganda machine wasted no time in telling the world that Romney won because he lied a lot. The problem is, the accusation itself was a lie! But I’ll discuss that in another article. For now, I will merely point out that Barack Obama continues to be perhaps the most dishonest president in U.S. history. Take a look at: Is Obama The Most Dishonest President In History?.