Last night on Fox News Special Report, they showed video of the one meeting that president Obama had with Republican leaders to discuss Obamacare and the issues that the GOP had with that bill. The meeting was in February of 2010, a short time before the Obamacare law was passed with no Republican support. The key portion of the video was this: Eric Cantor, the second ranking Republican in the House, told president Obama that the "construct" of the Obamacare law was such that close to ten million people with individual plans would lose their current insurance coverage even though nearly all of those people were happy with their plans. Cantor described a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to senator Reid in which the non-partisan agency stated that its analysis of the Obamacare law showed that between 8 and 9 million people with individual policies would lose their coverage due to the proposed law.
Think about that! This is not some article written in a newspaper that Obama never saw. This is not something that Obama can put into the category of yet another matter of which he was unaware. Obama was sitting there listening to Cantor tell him that according to the CBO, even folks who liked their plans could not keep them under Obamacare. The president even responded to Cantor's statement at the time. In other words, what this means is that Obama knew that what he was saying over and over again to the country was not true. Obama did not misspeak. Obama was not mistaken. Obama lied.
I have tried to find the video so that I could link to it here. I found a much longer clip from the meeting here. It includes Cantor's telling the president about the folks losing their policies at roughly 3 to 4 minutes into the piece.
Think about that! This is not some article written in a newspaper that Obama never saw. This is not something that Obama can put into the category of yet another matter of which he was unaware. Obama was sitting there listening to Cantor tell him that according to the CBO, even folks who liked their plans could not keep them under Obamacare. The president even responded to Cantor's statement at the time. In other words, what this means is that Obama knew that what he was saying over and over again to the country was not true. Obama did not misspeak. Obama was not mistaken. Obama lied.
I have tried to find the video so that I could link to it here. I found a much longer clip from the meeting here. It includes Cantor's telling the president about the folks losing their policies at roughly 3 to 4 minutes into the piece.
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