Joe Wilson Was Right

◼ “You lie!” - Jack Cashill/American Thinker

On the night of September 9, 2009, a still highly popular President Barack Obama spoke spiritedly to a joint session of Congress. He had summoned the members of both parties to introduce his plan to transform American health care.

The promises he made that night were many and, to most in the television audience, at least, sounded fresh. “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have,” said the president. “Let me repeat this: nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have.”

Simmering throughout this litany of disinformation was an obscure five-term South Carolina congressman named Joe Wilson. When Obama denounced as false the claim that this proposed health care system “would insure legal immigrants,” Wilson could hold his tongue no longer. “You lie!” he yelled.

Widely chastised at the time, Wilson had to feel vindicated this week when a report surfaced that 42 percent of new Medicaid sign-ups were immigrants, legal and otherwise. This added weight to the recent revelation that most of those newly insured for Obamacare had been insured through Medicaid.

It has been a good few weeks for Wilson. On November 4, he handily won re-election to Congress from South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district with nearly two thirds of the vote. A week later, the remarks made by MIT professor and self-styled Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber at a 2013 academic conference sobered up those who preferred to think Obama’s broken health care promises were unfortunate but unforeseen.

Gruber gave away the Obamacare game plan....

In this rare honest moment, Gruber put a lie not only to the basics of Obamacare, but also to the very foundation of the Obama presidency. “Let me say it as simply as I can,” Obama had told his assembled staff on his first full day in office. “Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” This was pure smokescreen. Obama would package and sell his plan on more lies than Bernie Madoff sold his – and with more disastrous consequences.

Obama started lying early on. In his second debate with John McCain, Obama repeated the canard he had used to outfox Hillary Clinton and John Edwards during the primary campaign – namely, that “there’s no mandate involved.” This was, of course, just one deception out of many.... KEEP READING

◼ The Obamacare Controversy Grows - Bill O'Reilly

If the Republicans manage to elect a president in 2016, Obamacare is likely to be repealed.

But even before that, Talking Points believes the Supreme Court will strike down major parts of the law.

And part of the reason I believe that is because Dr. Gruber has exposed what some judges might consider a fraud.

Believe me, the Supreme Court is taking notes.

And that's the memo.