This past week we were treated to a revelation of sorts as a video surfaced with Jonathan Gruber mentioning how easy it was to hide critical issues
from the public in order to pass a monstrous piece of legislation; we’re just
too stupid to figure it out. Gruber was
the architect who put together the Affordable Care act, more popularly called,
Obamacare.
“Lack of
transparency is a huge political advantage,” says the MIT economist who helped
write Obamacare. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or
whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to
pass.”
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of (Obamacare) back in 2012, a ruling which expanded the Federal
government’s role and powers. The
accumulated wisdom and knowledge of our judicial system, nine black robed
demi-gods, came to the conclusion:
“The Affordable Care Act’s
requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining
health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax,” Chief Justice
Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “Because the Constitution permits such a
tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness.”
Gruber is correct, at least to a certain extent, nothing
else explains how the American public elected Obama, not just once but a second
time. Nothing else explains how the same
liars and thieves continue to be elected to Congress and the Senate.
Long after Obamacare passed and was imposed on us by the
President and Democrats who rallied their wagons around Obama’s most important
piece of legislation, not one Republican voted for it; we found that all these
loyal Democrats knew all along that Obamacare was a lie, that it wouldn’t do much of what was
promised.
“In what should be considered a
shameful admission, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand admitted on ABC’s This Week that all democrats
knew that Obama was lying when he fraudulently repeated over 30 times that, “If
you like your insurance plan, you can keep it, period.” When asked by host
guest host, Martha Raddatz, if Gillibrand felt misled by Obama’s promise to
Americans of being able to keep their current health insurance plan, Gillibrand
responded, “He should have just been more specific. No, we all knew.”’
Over two thousand pages of deceptions and hidden agenda
items... and the highest court in the land focused their attention on an obscure
loophole which permits the imposition of a tax…amazing, what more can you say
than amazing! The American people were lied
to and all the Supreme Court justices can say, “Hey, it’s a tax, that’s what
governments do; get over it”, or something to that effect.
There was an address given by Gene Nichol to members of the
military,
Conference on Strategic Deception in Modern Democracies, in which an
interesting fact regarding our Executive Branch of government was brought out;
the President can lie and get away with it.
While the topic that day had to do with military decisions it applies
equally to all other aspects of the presidency; keep that in mind.
“First of all, there is no
constitutional principle that says that the President of the United States
or the Executive Branch must tell the truth. I teach constitutional law. If
there such a principle existed, then surely the Nixon and Clinton
administrations would have filled my case book! Yet they do not. Nor was there
any constitutional cause of action when President Eisenhower was caught
dissembling about the U2 flights.
Constitutional law does little to restrict strategic deception, whether
we are talking of deception perpetrated in order to protect the country or
deception carried out in order to support a war effort.”
I have no issue with the Commander in Chief of our armed
forces protecting America’s
interests by deceiving our enemies, leading them down the proverbial ‘garden
path’ in order to safeguard national interests.
That said, it would appear that the President’s administration, the
Democratically controlled Senate and the Supreme Court now consider the
American public as the enemy; why else would they be united in their deception
of the public?
The Supreme Court is supposed to be part of the checks and
balance, a means of stopping questionable legislation from escaping the
tyrannical grasps of either the legislative or executive branches of government. They're supposed to safeguard the public
from legislation which runs contrary to individual liberties; yea, that’s
really working out well.
It has become painfully clear that the ‘Men in Black’, as
they are often referred to, have lost sight of their purpose. They're too busy checking the jot’s and tittles
while missing the elephant in the living room.
If Congress passed a law saying, “We be taking you money to
pay for prostitutes getting free health care”, it wouldn’t surprise me if the
Supreme Court came back and said, “We are in favor of it in spite of the law
being grammatically challenged”.
Jonathan Gruber may be lacking in integrity or character;
but he did get it right, American’s are just too stupid to recognize they are
being lied to by those who are supposed to be representing their interest; that
includes the Supreme Court.
This article has been cross posted to
The Moral Liberal , a publication whose banner reads, “Defending The
Judeo-Christian Ethic, Limited Government, & The American Constitution”.
These four Norman Rockwell illustrations came to mind while
considering my thoughts on Thanksgiving as an American holiday. We have the opportunity to express gratitude
to God for all of the blessing we have here in our country, even when dark
clouds appear on the horizon. The
paintings are specifically named; Freedom From Want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom
From Fear, and Freedom of Worship, and for most of us, stir those thoughts in
our minds and offer hope that our nation will always have these freedoms. 
Isn’t that a
bit odd, I mean…, to reference communism when introducing a purely American
holiday since the virtues of a pluralistic
democracy (socialism) are highlighted in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the first Marxist-Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia? After a while you
come to expect a leftist slant to most articles that find their way into the
Houston Chronicle. 
