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OK so Politifact, clearly no conservative rag, cited Obama's "If you like your plan, you can keep it" as lie of the year, and in an online poll readers overwhelmingly concurred. Most liberal commentators have slowly come to agree that Obama "misled" the public, though some still shy away from the L-word.
But how could this happen? How could Congress be duped into passing a law based on a lie? Sadly, the answer seems to be that neither side listens to the other, and the democrats don't even listen to one another.
The republicans clearly knew there was something fishy going on from the beginning. On the very day Obama first told the lie -- August 22, 2009 in his Weekly Address -- a republican response was issued by Tom Price a house representative from Georgia who also happens to be a doctor: "For starters, within five years, every health care plan will have to meet a new federal definition for coverage – one that your current plan might not match, even if you like it.”
Of course the HHS clearly understood this way back in 2010 when they granted many union wavers giving these reasons 1) "premiums were going to go up [for those organizations]" and 2) "abiding by these mandates would force [these organizations] to drop their coverage." At least one prominent conservative journalist exhorted everyone to repeat this "at the top of our lungs!"
[video=youtube_share;P8GSw4cx-H0]http://youtu.be/P8GSw4cx-H0[/video]
Recorded from "Hannity" on Fox News in November of 2010
But Obama continued delivering the same lie, almost word for word, in speech after speech. Unfortunately, what HHS head Kathleen Sebelius knew in 2010 has little bearing on what the President knew, since Sebelius and Obama rarely communicated in person ... and his racquet needed to be restrung ... and the sun got in his eyes ... and ...
OK so Politifact, clearly no conservative rag, cited Obama's "If you like your plan, you can keep it" as lie of the year, and in an online poll readers overwhelmingly concurred. Most liberal commentators have slowly come to agree that Obama "misled" the public, though some still shy away from the L-word.
But how could this happen? How could Congress be duped into passing a law based on a lie? Sadly, the answer seems to be that neither side listens to the other, and the democrats don't even listen to one another.
The republicans clearly knew there was something fishy going on from the beginning. On the very day Obama first told the lie -- August 22, 2009 in his Weekly Address -- a republican response was issued by Tom Price a house representative from Georgia who also happens to be a doctor: "For starters, within five years, every health care plan will have to meet a new federal definition for coverage – one that your current plan might not match, even if you like it.”
Of course the HHS clearly understood this way back in 2010 when they granted many union wavers giving these reasons 1) "premiums were going to go up [for those organizations]" and 2) "abiding by these mandates would force [these organizations] to drop their coverage." At least one prominent conservative journalist exhorted everyone to repeat this "at the top of our lungs!"
[video=youtube_share;P8GSw4cx-H0]http://youtu.be/P8GSw4cx-H0[/video]
Recorded from "Hannity" on Fox News in November of 2010
But Obama continued delivering the same lie, almost word for word, in speech after speech. Unfortunately, what HHS head Kathleen Sebelius knew in 2010 has little bearing on what the President knew, since Sebelius and Obama rarely communicated in person ... and his racquet needed to be restrung ... and the sun got in his eyes ... and ...
