I’ve always wondered what qualifications Kathleen Sebelius actually possessed that lead her to have been selected for her current position as our 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services. So in an effort to get better informed regarding this pathological liar, I went looking. And I gotta tell ya, there really wasn’t much there, there. Apparently she was able to hone her ability as a very skillful liar, first during her time spent in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1986 to 1994. From there she went onto become governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009. And again, it seems that if there is one thing that it can be said that she left office possessing, it was the ability to look people dead in the eye, and lie to them. Because, quite frankly, that’s all she has done for the last 5 years.
And she did so once again just this past Tuesday when she again made the claim that the administration never had a 7 million enrollment target for Obamacare. And in so doing she put her forth yet another attempt to backtrack on comments that she herself made just last year when she first volunteered that figure. It was in the more recent interview that she said, "First of all, 7 million was not the administration. That was a CBO, Congressional Budget Office prediction when the bill was first signed." She then when on to further downplay that number by saying, "I'm not quite sure where they even got their numbers. Their numbers are all over the board, and the vice president has looked and said it may be closer to 5 to 6." I can only assume that she thinks we’re all so stupid.
These recent comments, I think, can safely be said to contradict what it was that she told NBC News the day before the launch of the troubled healthcare website last fall when she said that "success," in her opinion, would be having 7 million Americans enrolled in the Obamacare exchanges by the end of March. It was on Sept 30 of last year that Sebelius told NBC's Nancy Snyderman, "I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014." And last June it was also Sebelius who volunteered the figure, telling reporters, "We're hopeful that 7 million is a realistic target." It’s like she either doesn’t know how videotape works, or she thinks she can just keep denying that she ever said any such thing. It’s all kinda weird!
And then we have Charles Krauthammer who thoroughly blasted Sebelius in an interview Tuesday on Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier." He said, "Of course, she was the one that said it, among others." He then went on to say, "You know, it's an old rule, 'say the truth, it's easier to memorize.'" Krauthammer also reacted to the latest Obamacare enrollment numbers released Tuesday by the administration which confirmed that 4 million people have now supposedly signed up for the new healthcare program. He said, "It will usually come out in the middle of the next month except when the secretary steps all over herself and makes bad news, so you want to trump it with a nice number, a round number which comes out in the middle of a week." It’s all some perverted charade.
Sebelius is far from being the only member of this, far from being a transparent, administration who has now tried to backtrack on the 7 million figure. White House healthcare policy adviser Phil Schiliro said back in December that attracting 7 million enrollees to Obamacare by March was never the administration's goal. "That figure was put out by the Congressional Budget Office in March, and was never our target number," he told NBC News at the time. The sad thing is at the present time we have no idea how many people have actually signed up for this train wreck of a debacle. All we know for sure is the number of people who no longer have the health insurance that they liked and were told they could keep. And you can now count me as being among those folks.
It just never quite ceases to amaze me the level to which Democrats are now willing to stoop in their continuing effort keep this Obamacare disaster of theirs afloat. It seems that there is no lie that they are unwilling to tell. And they’ve even now resorted to accusing those who have lost their coverage, again that they were told that they would be able to keep, as being the liars in all of this. I mean, how disgusting is that? What exactly do these folks have to gain by lying? From where I’m sitting, the ONLY ones who have something to gain by the telling of lies would be the Democrats who now stand an excellent chance of having their political asses handed to them this November. And things are only going to get much worse between now and Election Day, as Democrats try to limit the damage they now know is coming.
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