“I Have to Admit, as a Supporter, Obamacare was Built on a Foundation of Lies.”

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But at least it was built out of the best dishonest bricks that a billion dollars could buy.

Gruber’s videos have, if nothing else, have gotten some liberals to begin backing slowly away from ObamaCare. This latest comes from Ron Fournier at the National Journal.

He called you stupid. He admitted that the White House lied to you. Its officials lied to all of us—Republicans, Democrats, and independents; rich and poor; white and brown; men and women.

Liberals should be the angriest. Not only were they personally deceived, but the administration’s dishonest approach to health care reform has helped make Obamacare unpopular while undermining the public’s faith in an activist government. A double blow to progressives.

And a useful reminder to the rest of us what progs actually are.

And so even I have to admit, as a supporter, that Obamacare was built and sold on a foundation of lies. No way around it, unless you’re willing to accept a political system that colors its lies—the reds, the whites, and the blues.

Rush Limbaugh commented...

It sounds to me like what Gruber actually is saying, they had to lie because of the stupidity of the media.  They had to lie so as not to blow up the media bubble that they had created.  The media was all-in.  The media was thinking it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. The media and the left thought it was compassion central, gonna take care of the poor and the downtrodden, the hungry and the thirsty.  And if the truth had come out… look at Fournier’s reaction today.  What if Fournier had this reaction in 2009?  What if others in the media had this reaction they had yesterday and today in 2009?

What if in 2009 the media: “Wait a minute, you guys are lying to us”?

 

  • Patriot077

    This should make everyone angry, but it won’t. There are still true believers who think the end does justify the means. Many are those who want freebies, but I wager the most dangerous of them are those who want power more than free stuff.
    Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew right out of the gate that the promises could not possibly be kept. (I am one who had the mike taken away from me at a townhall meeting with my then congress rep Jay Inslee. He’s now wreaking havoc as governor of Washington!

    • pupsncats

      I’m surprised you were even given the mike considering Washington State is completely and totally run by the Obama-like ideologues who get on board and support every single piece of destructive and totalitarian idea the insane left has devised.

      • Patriot077

        Yeah, I know. It’s been bad since the 70′s when a lot of libs moved north as if they didn’t have enough home growns.
        (I must have looked unassuming enough that they risked handing me the mike!)

  • Space Cowboy

    Everyone who supports or ever supported Barack Obama, as for as I’m concerned, is a gullible useful idiot!

  • Space Cowboy

    Nevertheless, Obamacare was passed via fraud and on that reason alone it should be abandoned immediately now that the fraud has been exposed. We should not all be forced to pay the price. Especially since it never would have become the law of the land without major fraud being employed in the first place.

    And how about holding Obama and his stupid acolytes accountable for once?

  • truebearing

    Limbaugh is correct in saying the media is stupid, but they are even more corrupt than stupid, and they are really, really stupid. His insight on the media bubble is spot on. The Left needed to lie to Americans, deny access to legislators, and protect the media’s reputation in order to ram Obamacare through. Without the convoluted lies, continued support from the media would discredit the administration’s “objective” mouthpiece. The Left thought of everything, except Gruber’s big, fat, flapping lips.

    The media was complicit in every Obama scheme to defraud the American public and advance the incremental Gramscian revolution. What they and Obama have done together are crimes…high crimes. They should all be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law…except they won’t be because we have a criminal running the Department of Justice.

    • Bamaguje

      The lamestream media is not stupid, but willfully blind.
      They are part and parcel of the leftist conspiracy to “transform” America.

      • truebearing

        Have you ever watched MSNBC, PBS, CNN, or read the drivel coming out of the NY Times, Washington Post, etc? Ed Schultz, Don Lemon, Chris matthews, etc. There is plenty of stupidity emanating from all of them.

        One could argue that being willfully blind is actually quite stupid. look at their outrage when it was discovered that Holder was spying on them. What did they expect from an administration that makes Nixon look like a saint?

        Stupidity aside, they are complicit in the schemes to decieve Americans. They won’t report on anything that makes Obama look bad, and that is a lot of omissions.

    • william mony

      so true…this was NEVER about healthcare but about CONTROL over the American people and giving the government more power..
      Hillary, Barack, Pelosi, Reid-all believe the government can do no wrong and private business is the enemy..as long it is a private business that is not donating to the democratic party or owned by Pelosi husband or Michelle Obama’s schoolmates(failed Obamacare web site)
      our country is now a third world nation in its corruption at the federal level
      anyone who continued to support Barack supports the destruction of America
      Treason should be being discussed if he pushes Amnesty

  • Bamaguje

    “Liberals should be the angriest. Not only were they personally deceived,
    but the administration’s dishonest approach to health care reform has
    helped make Obamacare unpopular…” – Ron Fournier.

    Duh, what did you expect when Democrat controlled Congress voted for Obamacare without reading it? Remember Pelosi said, they had to pass it before they read it.

    I just wish this revelation came to light before the recent Congressional elections… GOP rout of Democrats would have been far more devastating.
    Or better still if the scandalous revelation had emerged before the 2012 presidential election… Romney would have been sitting pretty in the White House.

    • pupsncats

      When have liberals ever been angry about liberals lying? Truth and facts are not words in their language.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    “What if in 2009 the media: “Wait a minute, you guys are lying to us?” What? You were expecting the truth? You ARE stupid.

  • SoCalMike

    How about a class action lawsuit from the families of victims who died as a result of rural hospital closures due directly to Obamacare that prevented the victims from getting timely care they needed to survive the heart attack or stroke they suffered?
    Real damages pain, suffering and death which is what O-Care will produce on a massive scale if it isn’t stopped.

  • Sgt. Seth

    The media and the government are only as stupid as the electorate allow them to be. So long America…we’re waaaay past the tipping point.