The new deal with the Iranians which provides a framework for Teheran to move forward towards nuclear weapons (although it supposedly does the reverse) took a new twist today. The Iranians said that there is a secret side deal between them and the six world powers on the other side led by the USA. Since the side deal is secret, the exact terms were not announced. In response, the State Department said that there is no secret side agreement. Five years ago, I would have accepted the State Department explanation without question. Today, I don't know which story to believe.
In the last five years, we have been consistently told lies by president Obama and his administration. Just yesterday, for example, we learned that without a doubt Obama and his top people were immediately told that the Benghazi attack was a coordinated terrorist assault on our consulate. Despite that, Obama spent the next two plus weeks covering up that fact by claiming to the world that the attack was a spontaneous eruption of anger over a youtube video that essentially no one in Libya had even seen. America got a coordinated program of lies run by the White House. Or how about Obama's descriptions of how Obamacare is doing. Again, just this week, we have been repeatedly told how "wonderful" the program is now doing because 2.2 million people have selected insurance policies. The original lowball goal for the end of 2013 was over a million policies higher and that was for the number of new insurance plans rather than replacements. A big chunk of the 2.2 million plans sold just replaced some part of the seven million plans cancelled due to Obamacare, so the 2.2 million figure is worse than represented. Then you get the games played by Obama in which policies selected is equated with policies purchased, when that is not so. I don't want to go on and on about the details. Suffice to say that the White House announcement about the performance of Obamacare is clearly designed to mislead the country. We just get lies and more lies. And let's give one last example. Remember Sequestration? That program was, according to Obama, going to destroy the country. We all knew that was just political nonsense, but Obama also lambasted the program as a Republican idea that would cause much harm. Of course, the problem is that Sequestration was Obama's idea. Even when multiple sources confirmed that the idea had come from the White House and not the Republicans, Obama kept repeating the lie.
The short story here is that America has a pathological liar as president. When a group a disgusting and disreputable as the Iranian government has a factual disagreement with America's government, we should be able to rely on the truthfulness of our own leaders. Sadly, if we have to choose between the honesty of the Iranians and the truthfulness of Obama, there is no good choice.
Senator Franken, Democrat of Minnesota wrote a book a while back called "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them." I never read it. I only recently realized, however, that it was not an attempt at humor but actually a "how to" book for his party.
In the last five years, we have been consistently told lies by president Obama and his administration. Just yesterday, for example, we learned that without a doubt Obama and his top people were immediately told that the Benghazi attack was a coordinated terrorist assault on our consulate. Despite that, Obama spent the next two plus weeks covering up that fact by claiming to the world that the attack was a spontaneous eruption of anger over a youtube video that essentially no one in Libya had even seen. America got a coordinated program of lies run by the White House. Or how about Obama's descriptions of how Obamacare is doing. Again, just this week, we have been repeatedly told how "wonderful" the program is now doing because 2.2 million people have selected insurance policies. The original lowball goal for the end of 2013 was over a million policies higher and that was for the number of new insurance plans rather than replacements. A big chunk of the 2.2 million plans sold just replaced some part of the seven million plans cancelled due to Obamacare, so the 2.2 million figure is worse than represented. Then you get the games played by Obama in which policies selected is equated with policies purchased, when that is not so. I don't want to go on and on about the details. Suffice to say that the White House announcement about the performance of Obamacare is clearly designed to mislead the country. We just get lies and more lies. And let's give one last example. Remember Sequestration? That program was, according to Obama, going to destroy the country. We all knew that was just political nonsense, but Obama also lambasted the program as a Republican idea that would cause much harm. Of course, the problem is that Sequestration was Obama's idea. Even when multiple sources confirmed that the idea had come from the White House and not the Republicans, Obama kept repeating the lie.
The short story here is that America has a pathological liar as president. When a group a disgusting and disreputable as the Iranian government has a factual disagreement with America's government, we should be able to rely on the truthfulness of our own leaders. Sadly, if we have to choose between the honesty of the Iranians and the truthfulness of Obama, there is no good choice.
Senator Franken, Democrat of Minnesota wrote a book a while back called "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them." I never read it. I only recently realized, however, that it was not an attempt at humor but actually a "how to" book for his party.
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