They knew! Obama aides debated 'you can keep your plan' lie

◼ Obama Administration Debated Whether President Should Lie About Obamacare - Yid With Lid

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Presidents, "you can keep your healthcare, period" promise was not an error it was a conscious political decision by the president and his political advisers made in 2009.

◼ Behind the Scenes, White House Officials Worried About Insurance Pledge - By Colleen McCain Nelson, Peter Nicholas, Carol E. Lee/Wall St. Journal
◼ In a bombshell report, the Wall Street Journal has gotten Obama advisers -- some on the record, others anonymous -- talking about the internal debate over the president's false guarantee that Americans could keep their insurance plan if they liked it, under Obamacare. In the end, politics trumped the truth. - Thomas Lifson/American Thinker

Throughout the discussion as reported by the Journal, aides relied on the notion that the only people who would potentially lose their health plans were those who bought them as individuals - about 15 million in number. (Note, this is half the number of claimed uninsured who were potentially to benefit. That number initially given was 30 million.) But of course, there were internal reports that 93 million Americans could lose their health insurance plans, as reported by Avik Roy in Forbes.

Now we know that for political reasons, the president's advisers told him to go out and lie. The excuses they offer for the lie are those of a con man. They sound like a bunch of used car salesmen who neglected to mention that the vehicle was involved in a serious accident and has an oil leak, because that would confuse the buyer dazzled by the chrome on the grille.

They knew that if the president told the truth, there would be Democrat senators and representatives who would vote against it. Those members of Congress who voted for Obamacare and now face the wrath of voters in 2014 have a stark choice to make. Either they turn on the president for lying to them, or they support the president. If they turn on him, they will retaliation, no doubt. Turning on the president could include supporting legislation to modify or repeal the ACA legislation.

◼ Revealed: Obama, aides debated whether to tell the truth about people keeping their plans - HotAir
◼ Report: Obama aides debated “you can keep your plan” promise - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
◼ lConfirmed: Obama Aides Debated the “You Can Keep Your Insurance” Line Before Deciding to Lie to American Publicnk - Jim Hoft/Gateway Pundit

More than two million Americans have already lost their health care coverage due to Obamacare.
__________________And he lied. Knowingly.
What else is he lying about?

◼ 407 430 Sourced Examples Of Obama’s Lies, Deceptions, Distortions, Etc. - Robert Gehl/Downtrend

An independent journalist has released – into the public domain – a list of 407 430 examples of President Obama’s lies, deceptions, distortions, stupidity, cronyism and so on.

“Dan from Squirrel Hill” ◼ has a blog at WordPress where he regularly writes on conservative issues. His list is complete, authoritative and well-sourced.

Treasures lost under Nazis found in elderly German's flat

◼ A random background check designed to expose money-launderers travelling to Switzerland has uncovered a treasure trove of modern art thought to have been destroyed in Nazi Germany.

Hildebrandt Gurlitt was an associate of the Nazi leadership who is thought to have acquired works deemed “degenerate” that had largely been seized from Jewish collectors.

His surviving son had apparently kept the collection in his home and is thought to have sold off some of the works as a means of support....

We went into the apartment expecting to find a few thousand undeclared euros, maybe a black bank account,” a Customs spokesman told Focus. 'But we were stunned with what we found. From floor to ceiling, from bedroom to bathroom, were piles and piles of old food in tins and old noodles. Behind it all these pictures worth tens, hundreds of millions of euros.”

...Meike Hoffmann, a Berlin-based art dealer has been asked to help track down the potential owners of the works. At least 200 pieces are thought to be on lists of missing treasures.

Blame Obamacare: 7 in 10 think the federal government stinks

◼ The disastrous rollout of President Obama’s signature healthcare initiative has helped to crater the faith Americans have in the federal government, with only 19 percent having a favorable view of Washington and a shocking 67 percent with an unfavorable view. - Paul Bedard/Washington Examiner

GALLUP: OBAMA CRASHES TO 40%...

◼ Obama Job Approval: Approve 40% DISAPPROVE 53%

◼ Obama’s Ex-Bodyguard: Scandals ‘Worse Than You Know’ - Western Journalism

Judge Jeanine Rips Obama for Lying About His Healthcare Law

HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs

◼ "You had the policy people, largely at the White House, pushing the deadlines and tinkering with the policy, rather than the people who had to run the critical operating path design and program the system” - Washington Post
◼ The first of many "How Obamacare exploded" articles. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ How Obama crossed the line from bulls–t to dishonesty - Kyle Smith/New York Post

How Americans see President Obama changed in an important way this week. It’s because there is a huge difference between lies and bulls – - t.

Obama says a lot of things that are not true, even nonsensical. But it’s easy to shrug off most of these, because they aren’t really lies. They’re just bulls – - t.

Bulls – - t is airy, meaningless drivel, the stuff that campaigns are made of. Or it’s a misleading oversimplification with hidden qualifiers. Not only do we forgive bulls – - t, we like it. Especially suckers who have far too high an opinion of the importance and efficacy of politicians, people who hope casting a ballot is a way to expunge sin or join a noble crusade. “We are the ones we have been waiting for”? Not a lie. Just bulls – - t.

On June 15, 2009, Obama said, in one of hundreds of similar statements, “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

This wasn’t just bulls – - t. This was a lie.

This was a direct, specific detail that left no wiggle room. It couldn’t be excused as “campaign rhetoric” because he wasn’t running for anything in 2009. It wasn’t a gassy generality. It wasn’t a pie-in-the-sky platitude.

◼ With a jolt, the nation gets the difference between harmless b.s. and treasonous lying. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ Barack Obama’s Narrative Illusions - Andrew Klavan/PJ Media

It is now apparent to any honest observer that Obama is a rank incompetent too arrogant and foolish to alter his political philosophy even after reality has proven it false. As his record at the time of his original candidacy should have warned us, he has no business in the Oval Office. He simply isn’t up for the job....

But in this left-wing country of the blind, even a one-eyed man can see: Obama’s political achievements, like Hillary Clinton’s political achievements, like Ben Kingsley’s role in freeing India from British rule, are all of a piece — a narrative illusion fostered on us by those who do not believe there is any truth to tell.

◼ The audacity of taupe. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ Obama ´Matrix´ -- a world of deniability - USA Today
◼ Now the White House has a problem. Finally, Americans have had enough. Reality has encircled the White House. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ The Silence of the Left - Clarice Feldman/American Thinker
◼ You could hear this coming. - Discussion at Lucianne