I swear these butt monkeys at the Charlotte Observer can twist logic into a pretzel. An
associate editor at this rag acknowledges that Obama shouldn’t have lied to the
American people. In doing so, the
president’s deception disallowed the choice Americans should have had over the
implementation of this monstrosity called the Affordable Care Act. However, the law is for the greater
good.
There’s another
rationalization, of course, although it’s one you’ll never hear from the
president: He couldn’t tell the truth about Obamacare. If he had – if he’d said
“millions of you will have to buy new plans, but they’ll be better plans” – the
Affordable Care Act would have died on the table, a victim of severe anxiety.
That’s why many are
perfectly content with Obama’s choice. A greater good was accomplished, which
is all that ultimately will matter. And besides, don’t we often trust our
leaders to be the judge of what’s best for all?
But Americans have an
implicit pact with the people who represent us. Unless national security is
involved, we expect to have a voice in their deliberations, and that voice is
neutered when it’s not fully informed. That was the result of the president’s
deception, and it’s why Republicans are pivoting from the botched Obamacare
rollout to the broken Obamacare promise. Americans, they know, have less
tolerance for dishonesty than incompetence.
Obama, not surprisingly,
doubled down last week, blaming the media for “misleading” people by not reporting
on the better deal many Americans are getting. Did you expect, “Sorry about
that, but I had to fib”?
That’s the calculation
the president faced four years ago when deciding what we should know. Should he
jeopardize a worthy law – which it is, by the way – by acknowledging its
shortcomings up front? Or should he risk a political hit after Obamacare is the
law of the land?
But in choosing the
latter, he forgot a more basic truth: It should have been our decision, not
his.
Obamacare is a worthy
law, Mr. St. Onge? Ask the millions of
Americans who are losing the health insurance they like for an overpriced,
substandard government issued one. Deep
down, we all know that the editors at the Disturber harbor the liberal maxim: The Ends Justify the Means.
They too, like the
president, have to constantly deceive their readers.
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