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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Swindled: Obama's Healthcare Bait and Switch

By Rick Pearcey • September 24, 2009, 11:43 AM

"During the first nine months of his Presidency," writes David Catron at American Spectator, Barack Obama has accomplished the seemingly impossible: he has proven that a politician can be even less trustworthy than Bill Clinton."

Catron continues:

The broken promises of the latter were relatively conventional by Democrat standards.

Clinton ran on a middle class tax cut, for example, and promptly raised taxes. Dishonest, of course, but not terribly surprising.

Obama's policy pirouettes, however, have taken us to an entirely new level of presidential perfidy.

The man has reversed himself on virtually every position he espoused during last year's campaign.

And nowhere have these reversals been more brazen than in the case of health care. On a host of reform issues, including insurance mandates, taxing health benefits and patient choice,

Obama has demonstrated that his campaign rhetoric was utterly disingenuous.

Read the entire article.