….One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s medical care before the August recess– for a program that would not take effect until 2013! . . Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid . . . If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years– more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?….
If It’s So Urgent, Why Wait ’til 2013?
….One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s medical care before the August recess– for a program that would not take effect until 2013! . . Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid . . . If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years– more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?….
“Listening to a Liar“, By Thomas Sowell, TownHall.com, September 08, 2009
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/08/listening_to_a_liar