{"id":11069,"date":"2013-10-23T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-23T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:48:20","slug":"barack_obama_s_stone_cold_lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/23\/barack_obama_s_stone_cold_lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama\u2019s Stone-Cold Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s time for some hard truths here. Barack Obama and his minions are recklessly manipulating and deceiving the entire private health insurance industry<\/a>. What has happened and what is happening to the best health care system ever developed in the history of man is more than a shame. It is simply outrageous. And it is being done purposefully and with a level of deceit that is apparent to anybody who wants to be open enough with themselves to admit it and to see it. <\/p>\n

It appears now that multiple officials who work for the president have misled millions of insured and uninsured Americans about a product that Americans have been coerced by law to buy or face a financial penalty. They have been lied to about it. They have been misled. Millions of people who were insured and uninsured, who are now, by law, required to buy a product, have been lied to and misled about the purchase and the cost and the availability and the level of service to be associated with that product. It is a major and intricate web of deceit that has been woven here, all for the advancement, not of the health care system<\/a>, not for the advancement of overall health care in America, but rather for the advancement of the Democrat Party and President Obama\u2019s legacy. And multiple people who work for the president are complicit in this. <\/p>\n

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It has been done in the name of political gamesmanship and without regard to consequence. I\u2019m gonna ask Vice President Cheney about this. Here\u2019s a man who\u2019s life has been held in the hands of the US health care system for years with his heart problem. There are a lot of people alive today, a lot of people getting well today because of the best health care system the world has ever seen, and it is being toyed with and torn down and rebuilt and restructured and dismantled and made worse by a bunch of political hacks. They are lying to the people who voted for them and telling them that they\u2019re creating for them a utopia with their health care. <\/p>\n

This goes beyond deceit, and all of it in the name of gamesmanship. All of it in the name of achieving political power over the Republicans and conservatives. And, again, without regard to consequence. Will there be lapses in health care coverage for people? Will some Americans be forced into bankruptcy? Will some be paying fines or go to jail? Will health insurance be contracted at all? Will the American taxpayer foot the bill for the destruction of the health insurance industry that started when the first dollar was spent on this quicksand website? There has been stone-cold lying about readiness. Nobody — I don\u2019t care who they are — nobody is this stupid. <\/p>\n

Kathleen Sebelius<\/a> is a former governor. She has been the Health and Human Services secretary for over five years. Obama kept her for his second term. He has praised her often. She is an absolute disaster. There has been — and I mean this — stone-cold lying about every aspect of this; about what it\u2019s gonna cost people; about how available it is going to be for people; about being able to keep your plan if you like it; about being able to keep your doctor if you like him or her; about having no interruption; about having your premiums reduced $2,500. The level of lying willfully, knowingly lying, and now the best they can do is to say, “Well, Obama was so busy with the shutdown, he didn\u2019t know.” Well, that\u2019s some president. That\u2019s some CEO. That\u2019s some chief executive. That\u2019s some messiah. <\/p>\n

“He didn\u2019t know” is the best they can come up with? He was so busy dealing with those mean-spirited, racist Republicans that he didn\u2019t know for three years that his health care website is an absolute dog? The real answer is, he didn\u2019t care. He didn\u2019t care enough to make it good. Remember the point that I made yesterday <\/a>about how people really devoted to something being led by a charismatic leader just do everything to make it happen, to impress the leader, to make the leader look good, to make a themselves look good, all those things tied together, inspiration, motivation. There hasn\u2019t been any of that. I\u2019ve got some sound bites in the Stack today which I\u2019m gonna get to. People questioning why wouldn\u2019t they even do this for Obama? Some of his supporters are asking why the Sebeliuses of the world and whoever else, why wouldn\u2019t they at least trying to make it work for Obama? <\/p>\n

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Let me tell you, everything in this country is not about Barack Obama. And the people of this country are getting fed up with being told through the prism of every news story is how does this affect Barack Obama? How will this affect his legacy? How will this make Obama feel? How will this make him look? Who cares, if he didn\u2019t care enough to stay involved in this to know what was happening with it? And now underlings are gonna get blamed again for not working hard enough for Obama. Well, what is it about Obama that they didn\u2019t want to work hard enough to get this done right? Or are the people there not qualified to do this, even if they are working at their best? <\/p>\n

Remember, folks, insurance companies have sent out notices terminating people. They have sent out notices adjusting policies by the millions already. An entire industry, private sector health insurance, was forced to look to Washington for answers. An entire industry was essentially hijacked by the power of the federal government and said, “You\u2019re going to play by our rules or you\u2019re not going to stay in business.” And they were even deceived. They were even lied to. They were promised billions of new customers. They were promised untold new profits. They were promised automatic, instant compliance. They were promised brand-new customers. <\/p>\n

They were led to believe that they were gonna be on the inside, that they were going to be crony capitalist beneficiaries of this new nationalization of health care. And, as is always the case, they were simply lied to, and instead they have been targets all along. They have been in the crosshairs all along. I, as an aside, don\u2019t know why they couldn\u2019t see it, but I guess the lure of being close to power is really seductive for a lot of people, so much so that they will deny the reality right in front of their face. An entire industry, folks. Not a few companies here. An entire industry, private sector health insurance forced to play ball with Barack Obama, who doesn\u2019t know the first thing about the insurance business, except that he doesn\u2019t like it; except that he thinks it screws people; except that he thinks it seals from people; except that he thinks it rips people off. That\u2019s the extent of his so-called knowledge.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been shown to use the power he has to intimidate and punish, and so when you\u2019re in his crosshairs, you bend over. You do what you have to do to stay in business as long as you can. So now these people who are, by definition of their success, they are experts, the private sector health business, they know, just like the hospital people, they\u2019re the experts. They\u2019re now being forced — when you stop and think of it, look at it this way, it\u2019s even more frustrating. They are being forced to look to Washington, to come to Washington for direction, for guidance, for instruction. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re being forced to talk to these unqualified Obama employees and get marching orders, instructions, guidance, law, from them on how they should really run their business. Helpless to proceed without instruction and assurances from Washington, an entire industry was deceived, just as the American people who bought into this have been deceived. A giant, intricately woven web of deceit. And it\u2019s now starting to unravel. <\/p>\n

“Hey, Rush, let it go, let it continue to unravel.”<\/p>\n

You know what the latest meme coming out of Washington is? Brit Hume is one of the sound bites we have. “Hey,” they\u2019re saying, “let this go, let this implode. This will be the death knell of liberalism.” I don\u2019t want to put words in their mouth. I don\u2019t have the exact words, but basically, “This is gonna show everybody. There wasn\u2019t one Republican vote. There wasn\u2019t one Republican on board. The Republican Party got nothing to do with it. There\u2019s no way any Republican can be blamed at all.” Right. Right. The Republicans already got blamed for the shutdown, right? <\/p>\n

You\u2019re telling me that Obama, the Democrats, the media won\u2019t find a way to blame the Republicans for this? They\u2019re already starting. This thing\u2019s failing because the Republicans aren\u2019t helping. This thing\u2019s failing because the Republicans never did want it to work. This thing\u2019s failing because the Republicans this, the Republicans that. Liberalism is nothing but failures. Why is this one gonna be the one to wake everybody up? I wish it were; don\u2019t misunderstand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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