Half a million in California finding out they can't keep their health insurance plan if they like their plan...

Never in history has a president lied so often to so many about such a major piece of legislation. It wasn't a white lie. It wasn't a fib. It wasn't a half truth. It was a bold-faced lie.

Via NRO:

According to this link as of December 2012, there were 491,977 covered lives in individual health care plans regulated by the state Department Insurance that are not grandfathered under the Affordable Care Act.
(If they bought a plan after March 2010, their coverage is not grandfathered.) This is a 2012 number, but if the number of people with private coverage hasn’t changed much in the last ten months, that’s half a million Californians who will lose their coverage.
Those canceled policies will have to be replaced with Obamacare-approved insurance
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Least shocking story of the week: Obama lied about WH involvement in bankrupt Abound Solar loans

Barack Obama is a compulsive liar...

Via Daily Caller:

Just one day after President Obama went on television saying that politics had nothing to do with the now bankrupt Abound Solar receiving a taxpayer-backed loan guarantee from the Energy Department, emails have surfaced that contradict these claims and suggest White House involvement in the company receiving the loan.

“And these are decisions, by the way, that are made by the Department of Energy, they have nothing to do with politics,” President Obama told KUSA’s Kyle Clark.

However, emails obtained by COMPLETECOLORADO.COM suggest that the White House was involved in the Energy Department awarding Abound Solar a $400 million loan gurantee, contradicting the President’s claim.

The emails also suggest that the loan guarantee was political payback to Democratic benefactor Pat Stryker.

In one email, DOE loan executive Jonathan Silver tells DOE credit advisor Jim McCrea that, “You better [let] him know the [White House] wants to move Abound forward,” referring to Treasury Advisor Ian Samuels who wasn’t moving fast enough on scheduling calls regarding Abound.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann on Obama's claim Republicans want to end middle class tax cuts: “Obama Flat-Out Lied” (Video)

Rep. Michele Bachmann calls out our Liar-in-Chief.



From the video:

“He said for instance…that Republicans want to end middle class tax cuts. I thought ‘are you kidding me? The Republicans want to end middle class tax cuts?’ He said that it’s his job to grow the economy. He made one kinda odd statement after the other. And he said Republicans oppose various credits for the middle class. Those are flat out lies!”

It has begun: Connecticut approves 22% health insurance rate hike to cover costs of Obamacare

But...but...President Obama promised his health care reform bill would lower health care insurance costs.

From BarackObama.com (small pdf):

OBAMA-BIDEN PLAN TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE HEALTH CARE TO ALL

Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s plan strengthens employer–based coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference. Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year. If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options. (emphasis mine)

Here is the actual truth about the effect of Obamacare on health insurance premiums.

The Hartford Courant reported:

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut requested a wide range of premium increases, which will take effect Oct. 1, to cover the costs of new benefits required by federal health reform. Higher prices mostly affect new members shopping for a health plan on the individual market rather than people who have group plans through an employer or some other organization.

The Connecticut Department of Insurance approved Anthem’s request without changes, including a boost of as much as 22.9 percent just to comply with one provision: eliminating annual spending limits per customer... (emphasis mine) Read more here.

Weasel Robert Gibbs Dodges Question About Health Care Transparency

Barack Obama has shamelessly lied about his promise to put health care reform negotiations on C-SPAN. Yesterday, reporters pressed WH spokesman Robert Gibbs about this broken campaign promise. Gibbs refused to answer the question.

Schwarzenegger Reaps What He Sows. Claims Democrats Lied to Him About Obamacare.

On October 6, 2009, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke with most Republicans and threw his support behind the Democrats health care reform.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement today in support of health care reform, making him the latest Republican to endorse the reform efforts currently underway.

Now, he is opposed to the current bills and claims Democrats lied to him. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is reaping what he sowed by supporting the Democrats health care reform. The latest bill will raise California's already sky high deficit by another $3 or more billion per year.

“When asked for my support, I was assured that federal legislation would not increase costs to California or include new unfunded mandates,” Schwarzenegger wrote. “Unfortunately, under nearly every scenario we can predict, the federal health care reform legislation being debated would cost California’s General Fund an additional $3 billion to $4 billion annually.”

Sorry Arnold, but Pelosi and Reid don't care.

John Boehner: Biden's lying about knowledge of economic condition

House Minority Leader John Boehner said,
“I found it ... interesting over the last couple of days to hear Vice President Biden and the president mention the fact that they didn’t realize how difficult an economic circumstance we were in. Now this is the greatest fabrication I have seen since I’ve been in Congress.”

From Politico:

Vice President Joe Biden is invading House Minority Leader John Boehner’s back yard tomorrow to tout the success of the stimulus package, but Boehner is redoubling his attacks, accusing the vice president of lying about the economy.

“I found it ... interesting over the last couple of days to hear Vice President Biden and the president mention the fact that they didn’t realize how difficult an economic circumstance we were in,” Boehner said. “Now this is the greatest fabrication I have seen since I’ve been in Congress.”

“I’ve sat in meetings in the White House with the vice president and the president. There’s not one person that sat in those rooms that didn’t understand how serious our economic crisis was,” Boehner said.

Boehner also took a shot at the idea of a second stimulus – something Biden said he was open to last week.

“All of this talk of a second stimulus bill, I think, is an admission on the part of the administration that their stimulus plan is not working,” Boehner said.

Global temperatures down .74°F since An Inconvenient Truth was released

Although the time period is not enough to claim a significant trend, globally averaged temperatures have plunged .74°F (-.39°C) since Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth. It must be very annoying to Al Gore to watch global temperatures and his credibility drop at the same time.

From Gore Lied:

Each month GORE LIED takes significant liberties with Dr. Roy Spencer’s globally averaged satellite-based temperatures and marks up the good doctor’s graph with a red marker to illustrate Al Gore’s personal inconvenient truth – that global temperatures have gone down, rather than up (as Al Gore and the IPCC predicted) since An Inconvenient Truth was released on January 24, 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival.

For the record, this month’s Al Gore / AIT Index indicates that global temperatures have plunged approximately .74°F (.39°C) since An Inconvenient Truth was released.

GORE LIED has been posting the Al Gore/ AIT Index since June, 2008. In that time the globally averaged temperatures have never been higher than they were when An Inconvenient Truth was released. Not one single month!