The Great One gave an interview to the Washington Post today and challenged anyone to review his campaign promises on health care and compare them to what he has now brought forth with bribery and Harry Reid. The arrogance of the man continues unabated – he clearly didn’t believe anyone would bother accepting that challenge but someone did, and the results are ugly. Give the man an aircraft carrier and a “Mission Accomplished” sign and you’d swear there’s been no change, and no hope. Here’s a sampling:
I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.
Ya OK that didn’t happen. Next!
We’ll allow the safe re-importation of low-cost drugs from countries like Canada.
Bzzzt! Any others?
Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices.
Negatory, at least according to this blog post (which includes several other alleged broken promises). Still feeling lucky today, punk?
Offers a public health insurance option to provide the uninsured and those who can’t find affordable coverage with a real choice.
Note: That’s from Obama’s campaign website. It’s like he doesn’t expect us to check, or something.
To sum up: The president said he “didn’t campaign on the public option,” but it turns out he did. He said that there wasn’t any “gap” between his campaign promises and the final result, but it turns out there were several, as detectable by the most cursory Google search. He said “every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill,” but it turns out they’re not.
Maybe the guy’s on meds. Meds make it so you’re delusional and don’t give a crap. We would have had a lot more leapers during the meltdown if it hadn’t been for meds. Meds have a nifty way of blocking the agonizing effects of a bad conscience, if a person happens to have one and it becomes a nuisance.
Finally we have found something at which President Obama truly excels: lying.
So Joe Wilson was indeed prophetic when he shouted “You Lie!”