The President is still holding out hope for his moribund health care program and tonight’s speech included a summary of ills that Obamacare would allegedly cure:
By the time I’m finished speaking tonight, more Americans will have lost their health insurance. Millions will lose it this year. Our deficit will grow. Premiums will go up. Patients will be denied the care they need. Small business owners will continue to drop coverage altogether.
He went on to recite a variety of long-ago-debunked claims about the benefits of Democrat health care “reform,” including two preposterous whoppers about premium and deficit reduction:
It would reduce costs and premiums for millions of families and businesses. And … our approach would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades.
We also got a stern lecture from the President concerning why his signature initiative hasn’t passed thus far. It had nothing to do with back room deals or broken promises:
We face a deficit of trust … deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years.
Did you get that? He INHERITED the problem! Nonetheless, he did take some responsibility for not talking slowly enough for those of us in flyover country to get it:
I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people.
Finally, he advised us that “the problem is not going away,” promised to continue ”fighting” for Obamacare, and admonished Congress to get with the program:
I will not walk away from these Americans. And neither should the people in this chamber.
The SOTU was, in other words, classic Barack Obama: He asked Congress to “overcome the numbing weight of our politics” while implicitly blaming others for his failures.
Moral posturing is all very well and good while running for office, but actual governing requires genuine leadership ability. This SOTU was not an example of that quality.
UPDATE:
I originally come from Virginia. So, I was pleased to see that the Old Dominion’s new governor was picked for the GOP’s response to Obama’s solipsistic SOTU. Here’s what McDonnell had to say about health care:
All Americans agree, we need a health care system that is affordable, accessible, and high quality. But most Americans do not want to turn over the best medical care system in the world to the federal government.
BTW, Obama didn’t limit his whoppers to health care. He told one about the Supreme Court, and Justice Alito shook his head and mouthed “not true.” Hot Air has a video.
Meanwhile, among the Obots, the Kool-Aid was good and the speech was better. In this hilarious collection of delusions, Ezra Klein applauds Obama’s patronizing “explain it” comment.
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