By Selwyn Duke

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer certainly is a creative man.
Asked about Barack Obama’s promise that everyone would be able to keep his
health coverage if he liked it and the recent revelation that the Democrats
knew all along that millions of Americans would lose their health plans under
ObamaCare, he had an answer.

“I think the message [the promise] was accurate. It was not
precise enough…[it] should have been caveated with – ‘assuming you have a
policy that in fact does do what the bill is designed to do,’” reports
National Review.

My, that’s rich.

Almost Frank Rich.

Since Hoyer’s lie about a lie speaks for itself, let’s just
have a little fun here. Try this on for size:

Subject: “But you said that if we
supported your law, no one would lose his freedom of speech!”

Leader: “My message was accurate.
It just wasn’t precise enough. It should have been caveated with, ‘assuming you
agree with me.’”

Or how about this:

Subject: “But you said that if we
gave you power, no one would be killed!”

Leader: “My message was accurate.
It just wasn’t precise enough. It should have been caveated with, ‘assuming I
like you.’”

Man, I’m good at this. Hey, DNC, do I have a future?

If you’re old enough to have lived through the days of “no
Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” (hat tip: the liberal Gerald Ford), you
may remember the spectacle of a Soviet government representative being
interviewed on American television. He would just tell the most ridiculous
lies. I mean, up was down, black was white, day was night. It really was
laughable for any quasi-informed American viewer.

For Soviet subjects, however, it was no joke.

They were living under a government of the lie.

You see, one thing about this big, crazy world we live in
where there’s one in every bunch is that — no matter how corrupt or wicked you
are — you can always find someone to do your bidding. There are always a few
people willing to stuff the ballot boxes, intimidate political opponents, pull
the gas-chamber lever or the trigger, or tell any lie you want told with a face
straighter than the last man in a world of women (Jay Blarney comes to mind —
the straight face part, not the man part). “I vas just following orders, you
zee.”

Of course, we see people telling little lies all the time,
lies that don’t exceed the boundaries of their moral framework (it’s not right,
just reality). But do understand that with some people, there’s only one
limiting factor determining what lies they’ll tell:

What they can get away with.

So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Hussein Obama (PBUH)
said, when ObamaCare was up before the U.S. Extreme Court, that he was
confident the “Court will not take what would be an unprecedented,
extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of
a democratically elected Congress.” Of course, as many know, it was only
unprecedented when men still wore powdered wigs — the Court has been
overturning laws enacted by “democratically elected” Congresses for 200 years.
It’s called “judicial review.”

Now, being a former constitutional law lecturer, Obama
(PBUH) knew this full well. But he also knew the media wouldn’t call him on his
ridiculous Sovietesque lie and that the average reality-TV-watching American
hasn’t the foggiest idea what the Court’s role is, anyway. Heck, recent
man-on-the-street interviews show that some Americans don’t know what the
Holocaust was and that others were willing to sign
a petition advocating an “Orwellian,” “Nazi-style police state.”

This, by the way, is why Obama (PBUH) et al. want to import
and legalize as many low-info undocumented Democrats as possible. Many people
in this world are accustomed to overlords with whom they have a patron-client
relationship, and they accept government lies as long as the slave pork barrel
is kept stocked. It reminds me of a Mexican fellow I saw a few years ago
wearing a shirt stating, “Everybody lies. Nobody cares.” Well, I care, even
though I realize many Americans don’t care that I care.

The increased acceptance of lies is a sign of a nation in
decline. But the good news — or the bad news (depending on whether or not one
is a liar) — is that you can well live a lie, but you can’t live well with the
consequences of living a lie.

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