RSSLies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Gene Lalor | September 12, 2009
During the president’s Thursday address to a joint session of congress, Rep. Joe Wilson (R. SC) could have yelled Fabricator! or Dissembler! or Fibber! or Prevaricator! or Falsifier!
However, none of those alternatives would have had quite the impact of what Wilson did blurt out, namely the fine old, straightforward, Middle English word, ”Liar!” although all the above synomyms are applicable.
What provoked his outburst was Obama’s lie that Obamacare wouldn’t be offered to illegal aliens when he knew, or should have known, that yes, indeed, illegals would be covered.
Was it boorish, rude, impolite to accuse the president of the United States a liar in such a forum and on national television? Yep, I guess, but it was right on target.
Then, too, Obama calling those who believe that “death panels” lurk in the bowels of Obamacare “liars” during that same address was equally boorish, rude, and impolite, but we haven’t heard any uproar over that even though those people are correct.
(Nor was there an uproar over Democrats calling GWB a liar for 8 years nor over their nasty treatment of President George H.W. Bush during his address to a joint session on October 1st, 1989.)
They won’t be called “death panels,” especially since Sarah Palin was one of the first to use that term and has been ridiculed and abused. The Obamians wouldn’t give her the credit.
The administration’s PC description is “end of life counseling” and “advanced care planning consultations” wherein elderly and/or gravely ill patients will be required to sit down with their government doctors and said doctors will “counsel” them.
Those consults will cover such topics as living wills, durable powers of attorney, health proxies, all of which would be better covered by lawyers rather than physicians.
Then, what other purpose could those consults serve?
To say they would serve to shuffle the very ill off to the Great Beyond may seem insensitive, but let’s call a spade a spade.
Over in the UK where the Brit version of Obamacare has been in place for decades, the NHS has “progressed” to the point that it “encourages doctors and other health care staff to consider removing medication, fluids and other treatments that no longer benefit the patient:” http://bit.ly/Rio1i.
In other words, to use a bad word for Obamacare-Mengeles, the NHS euthanizes those deemed too expensive to treat as decided by panels of “doctors and other health care staff.” Under penalty of being put on a death track, don’t dare call them death panels!
Will Obamacare follow that same path? Do ducks swim and do politicians lie? Is it a great leap from end of life counselling to pulling the plug on grandma when Obama has pledged to reduce the costs of our health care?
“Liar” is a pejorative and pungent word which should be understood in its context. Sarah Palin didn’t lie about death panels, Obama did.
Rep. Joe Wilson was also accurate in his description of the president as a liar and there was no need for his apology. Obama promised, in typical Chicago street thug fashion, to “call out” his opponents. Wilson simply did the same.
Shortly after THE SPEECH, House Democrats scurried off to their ratholes and began excising from their Obamacare bill all reference to including illegal aliens. There was no need for that scurrying until Wilson denounced Obama as a liar. Now they had to cover their tracks.
The fact is that “the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service study found that the House health care bill does not restrict illegal immigrants from receiving health care coverage,” (http://bit.ly/4g38gw). That feature had heretofore eluded publicity and public scrutiny.
Another possibility has been suggested by some conservative cranks: After the dust settles and Obamacare is the law of the land, Dems will push to make all illegals legals and therefore eligible.
Can we all say in unison, “Machiavellian?”
And let’s not forget the good news Obama inadvertently let slip during his speech. He and his minions had long been tossing out wild stats concerning how many Americans were without health insurance. Where he got his numbers no one knows but they ranged from 43 to 47 million. On Thursday he said it was 30 million!
It appears some 13 to 17 million people were able to get insured in a matter of weeks. Either that or Obama doesn’t know what the hell he’s been talking about and he makes up statistics as he goes along.
I vote for the latter and I also vote for Joe Wilson to be awarded a medal for outing the nation’s Liar in Chief. 
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