I know you are but what am I?…

Are you really that “stoopid”? Sure you are. When no less than an esteemed Ph.D. from MIT tells you that you are, then by golly, you are. Although, one might assume that Dr. Gruber’s display of hubris tells you more about his intellect than his Doctorate does. But hey, he’s from MIT and certainly one of our betters, so there you have it. We’re all idiots, every one of us; easily duped and eagerly waiting for our lives to be fundamentally transformed by those who peddle destructive distributionist policies whether we like it or not. Because it’s good for us. So we are told.

Doesn’t have a Ph.D. in ethics no doubt…

On December 24^th, 2009, all sixty Democrat senators voted for Obamacare. Thirty-nine republicans voted nay. So, sixty senators were clearly more intelligent than the other thirty nine. So much so that they then proceeded to vote to exempt themselves from it. Pretty much tells you all you need to know right there. Either they were pretty damned stupid to vote for it in the first place or they were screaming loony-tunes for exempting themselves from such a wonderful penalty applied to the rest of us plebes. You make the call. Well, that is, if you’re smart enough to.

Gruber, unfortunately, may have a point. If exempting themselves from this debacle wasn’t an obvious enough sign for the general public, surely delaying the employer mandate and the individual mandates would give the public reason to at least be suspicious. Apparently, not so. Even though this was a clear indication of the failure of the policy, the blatant attempt to shield the Democrats from the mid-term elections couldn’t be denied, could it? Would the idiots catch on?

But delaying mandates was only part of the story; waivers granted to special interest groups should have angered the uneducated masses if they had possessed the intelligence to pick up on them. Even the state of Nevada got a partial waiver, courtesy of Harry “have a Koch and a smile” Reid, because as The Las Vegas Sun had reported, some of the law’s implementation requirements “may lead to the destabilization of the individual market.” I’m confused now. Is The Sun or half of Nevada filled with morons? Should they continue on with Obamacare, as Dr. Gruber insists? After all, he knows better than we what we need and what we want, what’s good for us. He’s a freakin’ genius.

Begs the question, doesn’t it, that if the administration willfully lied to pass this, continues to willfully lie to sustain it, is the good doctor actually right? Are the citizens of this great country the mouth-breathing, mentally-deficient populace they believe we are? Where do we go now? We just had the mid-terms where the Democrats paid a price for who knows what. Did the IQ of the nation suddenly go up last week? Was it that the country had finally had enough of the lies and obfuscation, or is this business as usual? What does this mean for Hillary as a nominee in 2016? Does she continue the great lie, fixing the leaks of Obamacare, hoping for the statist’s goal of income and wealth distribution through control of the country’s health care?

And what does this say about those Democrats in both the house and the senate, who voted for this fiasco late on the evening of December 24^th, hoping we were to busy doing the things stupid people do? Were they “stoopid” too? Or are they also invested in deceiving the public at large, knowing full well that we weren’t going to buy the snake oil unless they lied about it, re-branded it, eventually shoving it down our throats. Maybe they really didn’t read the bill; maybe they did. One way or another, they’re complicit with this administration, one of the most opaque in history. They all truly believe that we sent them there because they’re more intelligent than we; that we cannot govern ourselves as the founders would have it. Only they know what’s good for us and they’ll force it upon us, dammit, even if they have to lie to achieve it. Or of course, insult us if we dare question them about it.

That they keep getting elected shows that Dr. Gruber, in all his hideous arrogance, may in fact be right.

 

Yes, it was a lie…

 

Oh, who to believe;

You were lied to.  Plain and simple.  For years.  From a man who punctuated that lie with the phrase “period.”  As in “you can keep your plan, period.”  Spin it however helps you sleep at night.  Parse it.  Put it in context.  Deflect. Hell, blame it on Bush.  Or cover it with a “caveat.”  No matter, you were lied to.  Maybe you just wanted it to be true.  Wanted it too hard.  How do you feel now?  Are you in the least bit embarrassed?  Or angry?  Welcome to socialism, where all your dreams come true.  You voted for it.  Now, it’s time to pay for it.

You know what I meant….

This is pretty damned clear:

“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you, First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan.  Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”  

Barack Obama

 

Uh-oh, getting a little fuzzy here:

“I can’t pass a law that says, ‘I’m sorry, employers, you can never make changes to the health care plans that you provide your employees.’ What I can say is that the government is not going to force you to, your employer or you to join a government plan, for example.  If you’re happy with it, and your employer’s happy with it, keep it.”

Barack Obama

 

After all those years, this is what they “meant” to say:

“We should’ve been more precise. We used [the message that everyone could keep their plan] to allay the fears of people who had group policies or significant coverage through their employer, [which] was the overwhelming number.”

Steny Hoyer

 

So Hoyer feels that they should have clarified by telling citizens they could keep their current plans “unless you have coverage that’s insufficient to accomplish the objectives of giving you adequate quality health care.”

I’m not quite sure that Mr. Hoyer’s take on reality jibes with the President’s firm and unequivocal stance on being able to keep your plan, your doctor, your money, your privacy, your rights, your sanity.  So after years of staying on message, now the message was “unclear.”  Guess that’s the new euphemism for “we lied through our teeth and you idiots bought it.”

The only thing worse than their lack of shame, is the lack of embarrassment or even anger of their supporters, those folks who constantly reminded me how “un-caring” and “evil” I was, looking out only for my own selfish interests, all because I wouldn’t buy into their socialist utopian medical delivery system.  Of course, it was because I was racist no doubt.  One wonders, what will it take to awaken them from their “fairy-dust” dreams of “everything is free and government cares.”  Or will they broaden the pool of waivers to anyone who voted Democrat and be done with it.

 

Reminds one of another great equivocator:  I guess it depends on what the meaning of “you can keep your plan” is…