The Wall Street Journal’s front page recently carried the headline, “Obama Pitches Stimulus to Skeptics”.
Does the campaign ever end? Does the deception know any limits? Does the Obama White House fail to understand the consequences of lying to the American people? Again. And again.
As Obama arrived in Holland, Mich., last week to celebrate the opening of an advanced battery plant underwritten by stimulus funding of $151 million, polls continue to defy the economic recovery optimism Obama and his surrogates are proclaiming. In remarks at the plant, Obama underscored the 600 jobs the new facility eventually will provide (earlier, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm put the figure at 400) the community. It was not clear if these were added to the 3.6 million jobs the White House claims have been spawned by stimulus spending. A nationwide search for these jobs is under way.
By contrast, Americans reject the narrative that growing the national debt to $13 trillion is jump starting the economy and putting people to work. In a Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll released last week, 94 percent say federal stimulus spending has generated “a few”, “hardly any” or no new jobs.
The Great Deception is not limited to the economy.
With his cover-of-darkness appointment of unapologetic social justice advocate Dr. Donald Berwick to take over Medicare and Medicaid, Obama has defied promises that his push for health insurance reform amounts to European-style socialized medicine. Presidents before Obama have used so-called “recess appointments” to flush the pipeline of stalled nominees. This is a particularly egregious one given the magnitude of a federal takeover of the American healthcare system, always Obama’s principal goal.
Berwick has given speeches praising Great Britain’s government controlled healthcare program. He sees healthcare as only a part of government’s pervasive role in the lives of the people. The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger found one particularly alarming nugget spewed by Berwick:
“The main health determinants are not health care but sanitation, nutrition, housing, social justice, employment, and the like.”
The Great Deception is especially coming back to haunt Democrats who refused to go along with the reckless ObamaCare bill until — and only until — the President signed an executive order banning the use of funds provided for by the bill to cover the costs of abortion. Guess what? According to recent reports, that ban is not stopping federal abortion funding in New Mexico and Pennsylvania. And this likely is only the beginning.
The Blue Dogs have been had and now join the ranks of Americans swept into submission by the Big Lie that is the Obama Era.