More Stupid Lies

George Stephanopoulos asks Barack Obama about the “individual mandate” in the health care bills that forces people to either buy insurance or face a tax. George proceeds to let President Barack Obama completely destroy himself.

1. OK, first off , Marie tries to filibuster the whole thing for three minutes, and doesn’t answer George’s question.

2. Marie calls an increase in private health care costs a tax increase. What?

3. George again asks him if it’s a tax increase, and Marie goes off and filibusters some more, and refuses to talk about the individual mandate being a tax increase.

4. Marie says that government forcing you to buy insurance is just you "taking responsibility" for yourself. How does having your taxes raised make you more responsible?

5. Marie says that "we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you." However, the main purpose of the individual mandate is to force healthy people into insurance programs so that they can pay the benefits for people who need them. In other words, the healthy people who don’t have insurance are freeloaders, but the sick people who have other people pay their health care bills are not. What?

6. Then Marie uses the stupid auto insurance comparison again, without mentioning that if you don’t drive a car, you don’t have to have insurance, that the IRS doesn’t enforce auto insurance laws, and that even though there’s a mandate, there’s still a large number of people who go uninsured. Do we need to buy uninsured human insurance it insure us against the uninsured?

7. After coming up with a new definition for taxes, he then accuses George of "making up language," then makes fun of him for referencing a fucking dictionary definition of the word!

8. He tries to shrug off his critics by suggestion they’re crazy for accusing him of taking over the economy. Nevermind that he’s taken over the banks, the auto industry, the student loan industry, expanded government control of the mortgage industry, has suggested that the government fund the newspaper industry, and proposed buying your foreclosed house and letting you rent it from him. Silly critics!

9. Finally, he "absolutely rejects" the notion that the individual mandate is a tax increase. However, according to Senate bill and the House bill, it absolutely is a tax:

Page 29, sentence one of the bill introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) says: “The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax.”

And the rest of the bill is clear that the Finance Committee does, in fact, consider it a tax: “The excise tax would be assessed through the tax code and applied as an additional amount of Federal tax owed.”

The bill requires every American, with few exceptions, to carry health insurance. To enforce this individual mandate, the Senate Finance Committee created the excise tax as a penalty for people who don’t have insurance – and it can run as much as $3,800 a year per family.

The House bill also refers to the penalties for not carrying insurance as a tax. It calls for a “tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage” and amends the tax code to implement it.

He’s not even a good liar. He runs this showboat through 5 different Sunday morning shows, intending to charm us with his coolness, saying the same stuff that he’s been saying and we’ve been rejecting for the last 8 months, and then drops a dook right on stage. I guess we’re supposed to respect him and take him seriously or something? I don’t know.