I’m sure we all remember how it was back in 2010 when the Democrats were absolutely salivating over the prospect of their finally being able to acquire that which they had sought since the days of FDR. They were finally going to be able to put the government in control of how the American people were able to obtain healthcare. It was something that they had been willing to spend every waking moment on, first in the crafting of it and then in seeking any way possible to shove it through Congress and finally onto Barry’s desk. No stone was left unturned, no lie was left untold and not one Republican vote was requested in the effort to give this disaster life.
It was back then that we heard, then 83 year old, John Dingell-berry say, "Today is a day that is going to rank with the day we passed the civil rights bill in 1964." Such idiotic drivel came in the form of a speech given there on the House floor exactly four years ago today, as House Democrats moved to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, without a single Republican vote needed, nor asked for. This toad then went on to say, "Today we are doing something that ranks with what we did on Social Security or Medicare. This is the day on which we can all be proud if we vote for that legislation." Yup, they were mighty proud.
Dingell-berry then proceeded to tell just one of the many lies that were told then, and have continued to be told ever since when he described the many things that it would supposedly make possible. He claimed, "Thirty-two more million Americans are going to have health care." He then said, "They don't now. America, which has health care of the best character in the world, does not make it available to 32 million people because they can't afford it, and Americans every day are losing their health care." The truth is that there were only roughly 8 million Americans who could not actually get insurance, not 32 million. He was lying then, and he knew it.
Now we fast forward just four short years to today and what we find is that with just 10 days left to go in the open enrollment period, Team Berry "Almighty" claims that around 5 million Americans have now signed up for insurance through the exchanges so far. But it claims that it doesn’t know, or it refuses to say, how many of those people have actually paid their premiums; nor does it say how many of those 5 million were previously uninsured. So you the lies and the mischaracterizations continue. In fact, the lies have been continuing, now, pretty much unabated for the last 5 years, since before it was ‘passed’ and signed into law.
"What does this bill do?" old Dingell-berry asked four years ago. And in answering his own question, this doddering old fool said, "It gives Americans the same health care that we here in the Congress have. It preserves their choice, and it sees that if those Americans want to change, they can do so." But last October, Barry & Co. were forced to admit that many people who wanted to keep their individual insurance plans, could not do so. That was despite Barry's repeated promise that if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. As it turned out, many of those plans folded because they did not meet Obamacare's minimum coverage standards.
"I want to commend my colleagues for this," Dingell-berry also said four years ago. "Madam Speaker, I have much humility, joy, and pride in supporting H.R. 3590 and H.R. 4872...As the historic vote draws near, I urge my colleagues to act on behalf of the American people." He said, "Let us this day stand boldly to do what is right for the health and well-being of our constituents, what is essential for the viability of American business, and what is necessary for our government...When we do this, history will smile upon us. And generations to come will say on this day, this President and this Congress performed something worthy to be remembered."
Let’s hope enough people remember this November 4 just what it was that old Dingell-berry and his fellow Democrats so proudly foisted on we the American people. How it was, because of their actions, that millions of Americans, myself included, would be forced to lose the insurance they not only liked, but that they could also afford. And when many of those folks chose to complain about having lost their insurance, the Democrats called them liars and accused them of concocting stories about how they were now worse off under the wonderful new healthcare law named for the president. This November let’s see just how many of them we can send home.
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