Obama "not familiar" with healthcare bill, wants us to be the same

Obama:  Master of Spin

Reminiscent of Al Gore’s infamous global warming reposte, “The debate is over,” President Obama advised a group of liberal bloggers during a conference call Monday: “The time for talk is through.”

Say what? As William Kristol observes in the Weekly Standard, the proposed healthcare reform bills in the House and Senate are a thousand pages long. They're still changing as committees try to mark them up. There's huge uncertainty about how lots of provisions in the bills and under consideration would work. Yet President Obama wants everyone to stop debating and deliberating, and act now--because he and he alone has decided "now is the time to go ahead and act."

Later in the conference call, one blogger said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”

So, here we have the President of the United States pressuring the country to pass legislation that he flatly admits he has not read and is not familiar with. If that’s not proof that the inmates have taken over the asylum, we don’t know that it is.

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