As I wrote last week, the Obama administration’s attempt to rewrite history in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare ranks among the most brazen dishonesty in recent American political history. The rhetorical manipulation by the president and his allies regarding his law’s most controversial provision, the individual mandate, is a scandalous attempt to deceive the American people.
It constitutes a level of systematic dishonesty worthy of Orwell’s “1984” or of the Communist newspaper Pravda at the peak of the Soviet Empire. Uncomfortable facts become nonexistent. “Necessary” falsehoods become the new truth. Doublespeak reigns.
It is the opposite of the fundamental honesty needed for self-government.
America was founded on an explicit contract between the governed and those to whom they loan power. There is a citizen-based freedom in America that has become a model for the world.
This American model began with a deep belief that power could only come with the consent of the governed. It was framed early on in a simple, direct fight over taxes. Ironically the very issue of taxation that is at the heart of the fight over Obamacare was also at the heart of the American Revolution.
