Could this have been said
any clearer? Thank you Matt Walsh for unabashedly writing so well what the rest
of us only can hope to say. (This is from themattwalshblog.com)
Dear Mr. Obama,
Congratulations on getting
7.1 million people enrolled in Obamacare before the March 31st deadline!
Not to muddy the
festivities by harping on technicalities, but I thought I’d pass along just a
few corrections, in case you plan on giving anymore speeches or anything:
Alright,
by ‘March 31st’ you mean ‘sometime
in April,’ and by ‘deadline’ you
mean‘suggestion which is subject to change.’
And,
obviously, by ‘enrolled’ you mean ‘people who have filled some information out
on a website.’
And
by ’7.1 million’ you mean ‘probably
like 858 thousand or something.’
In
your speech on
Tuesday, when you said that Obamacare is ‘the
law’ and ‘it’s here to stay,’ you really
meant that Obamacare is ‘a fluid and constantly adjusted set
of unconstitutional decrees, which can be imposed or withdrawn by the
Executive Branch at any point, for any reason, up to 21 times and counting.’ And by ‘here
to stay,’you actually meant to say that ‘most
of it is neither here nor staying, because you don’t want America to
feel the full brunt of it until after the midterm elections.’
You
claimed that ‘more than 3 million young adults have gained
insurance’ by staying on their parents’ plan. Even if
that were true, it seems to take for granted that there’s anything remotely
positive about the government forcing insurance companies to treat 25-year-old
men and women like children. But, more importantly, it isn’t.
Indeed,
when you said ‘more than 3 million,’ you really meant ‘extrapolations
based on faulty estimates conjured up by Health and Human Services almost two
years ago have brought us to the dubious conclusion that we can claim 3
million, because nobody will understand how we arrived at that figure, and most
everyone will be too lazy to even attempt to check our numbers.’
You appeared
to venture into the vicinity of truth when you stated that Obamacare is‘doing what it’s supposed to do,‘
but then you forgot to stipulate what, precisely, that happens to be.
It has not, nor was it
meant to, make insurance cheaper and more accessible – but it has stripped
away choice and freedom, and made more people dependent on the government.
It
has forced single men and elderly couples and nuns to
pay for maternity care and birth control. Likewise, it has compelled everyone
to purchase coverage for psychiatric illness and drug addiction treatment, even
if we aren’t necessarily psychiatrically ill or addicted to drugs (though, with
your help, the pharmaceutical industry will soon get us all under one or both
of those umbrellas).
And, while you spiked the
football in the Rose Garden, you still failed to indicate how many
people have purchased and paid for a plan, as opposed to just checking some
boxes. And you forgot to tell us how many of the Obamacare ’enrollees’
were only inclined to enroll in Obamacare because your law forced them off
of their original plans.
You
celebrated a ‘law’ that will supposedly ’insure the uninsurable,’ even
though most of the people now insured by Obamacare aren’t actually yet
insured, but they were insured before Obamacare made them uninsured under their
original insurance.
Of
course, this is all after you famously told
us we can ‘keep our plans’ if
we ‘like them,’while omitting that by ‘keep’ you meant ‘watch
as it is demolished in front of our eyes,’and when you said ‘like’ you
didn’t include the disclaimer that we’d all be legally obligated to
adjust our affections in the direction of the type of plan you think we should
like.
Whew. My head is spinning.
You’re a slippery one, Mr.
Obama.
I feel like I’m beginning
to learn your language, although I haven’t deciphered the entire code. I
do know that, essentially, when you say a certain thing, what you really mean
is anything but the thing you just said.
Honestly, I’m starting
to think that you’re doing this on purpose.
I’m starting to think that
you’re… lying.
You’re a liar.
Yes, that explains it.
You’re either enormously inaccurate and oblivious in ways that just so happen
to suit your political goals, or you’re a scheming, conniving liar.
I’m going with the latter.
You lie. That’s all you do. You’re a liar.
I know, in this day and age
of ‘civil discourse,’ we aren’t allowed use words like ‘liar’ anymore. It’s
such a harsh and startling term. It upsets people. It makes them sad. It makes
them feel all icky inside. But, Lord forgive me, I’d rather call a
spade a spade and a liar a liar — as opposed to your strategy, which is to call
a spade a tortoise, or an apple, or a three toed sloth, or anything but a
spade.
I would label you
pathological — as deception seems to drip like putrid sewage from every
single word and phrase that escapes your lips — but I know your lies are
calculated, not compulsive. You can’t be a pathological liar for the same
reason that an effective diamond thief can’t be a kleptomaniac. Your lie,
like his heist, requires careful planning and plotting. You’re very aware of
the truth, which is what makes you so adept at avoiding it.
Still, I’d like to, for
your sake, take you seriously on one count.
In your speech, you said
this:
“I’ve
got to admit, I don’t get it. Why are folks working so hard for people
not to have health insurance? Why are they so mad about the idea of folks
having health insurance?”
Why are
folks mad at you? Well, as you’ve pointed out
in the past, it’s probably because you’re black.
Yeah,
that’s gotta be part of it. I’m sure cancer patients would
be excited about having their plans abolished and their out-of-pocket expenses
skyrocket, if only it had come at the hands of a white dude.
But, beneath the
racism, maybe there’s something deeper going on.
Maybe, Mr. Obama, we’re all
just tired of the lies.
Maybe we’re mad because you
used the IRS against your political opponents, and lied about it. And
you spied on everyone’s phone records (after specifically condemning that
sort of practice), and lied about it. And you sent your Justice Department
after journalists and whistleblowers, and lied about it. And you funneled
weapons to drug cartels and terrorists, and lied about it. And you assassinated
American citizens and drone bombed hundreds of innocent civilians, and lied about
it. And you filled your administration with lobbyists, and lied about it. And
you armed a terrorist insurrection in Libya, then orchestrated a cover-up once
the terrorists murdered our ambassador, and lied about it. And, in general —
whether it’s wiretapping, or Guantanamo, or deficit spending, or Obamacare, or
whatever else – we’ve seen you do everything you said you wouldn’t, and
little of what you said you would.
We’ve heard you lie. Over.
And over. And over. And over again.
Maybe that’s why folks are
so mad.
Maybe you’re a liar, and we
know it.
And so do you.
I hope this helps clear up
your confusion.
Sincerely,
Matt Walsh
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