Manipulating, Flip-Flopping, Deceiving, & Lying. Do You Care That Describes Your President?

Three problems are undermining the fabric of America. We have such short memories, integrity matters too little any more and so does the spirit of our constitution.

Everyone understood the seriousness of our economic troubles four years ago. That's why ANY legislation that created a tax, especially a big tax, was doomed before it began. Even Democrats embraced "The Bush Tax Cuts" as necessary and good for our ailing economy ... albeit while holding their collective noses.

Three plus years ago President Obama and Democratic leadership were lock-step vociferously proclaiming that the individual mandate IS NOT a tax. (Remember the exchange between Stephanopoulos and Obama described in this article?) Was it because they believed it wasn't a tax? Hardly, and their charade was exposed in this month's arguments before the Supreme Court and in that court's ruling today.

The reason the "individual mandate" was upheld today: White House lawyers convinced the Supreme Court that the individual mandate IS a tax. If even the Supreme Court believes it is a tax, most certainly in their hearts those in the Obama administration believed three plus years ago that is a tax. To argue otherwise is to claim Obama is even more clueless than most conservatives think. The proclaimed (self- and otherwise) smartest person on the planet couldn't possibly change his mind on something so fundamental as whether the biggest tax in our history is a tax or not. A rational person doesn't change his mind on something so fundamental. (Note the assumption.)

That leaves us choosing between only three possible conclusions. Either he knew it was a tax all along and he lied to us to get it passed, he's completely irrational or he's so politically vested in the progressive agenda that he doesn't understand or care(!) what he did (ie, he's not so smart after all, just off-the-scale 'political').

So, his own words prove he's a flip-flopper (check the Stephanopoulos reference above). That fact also means he lied to and deceived us (unless you're willing to admit he's so not smart after all).

Bottom line: he and the American people are losers in this proposition. Yes, he's a winner in terms of this battle but how he did it defines him in terms of integrity, honesty and genuine fairness as a loser. Americans are losers for two reasons: ObamaCare was upheld and we have a proven, totally agenda-driven deceiver as our president. If a Wall-Streeter had consciously mislead investors about what an 'investment' would cost them in this way liberals would be outraged, he'd be sued for all he's worth and he'd likely be going to jail. What just happened is a crime. It may not be a crime in a legal sense but it is a crime punishable by removal from office.