True Lies and False Confessions

Congress: We have decreed that all US citizens must purchase Government approved Health Insurance.

Citizen: Er … Is that even constitutional?

Congress: What a ridiculous question!! You can’t be serious!!

Citizen: No, I’m serious. What part of the enumerated powers in the constitution gives you the power to do that?

Congress: Well, it’s the Interstate Commerce Clause. That allows us to do pretty much anything we want.

Citizen: Interstate … That means between states, right?

Congress: Yes, that is correct.

Citizen: So why don’t you allow Insurance to be sold across State lines? Wouldn’t that create the competition you claim to desire?

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Congress: What a ridiculous question!! You can’t be serious!!

Mitch McConnell speaks out against the Federal Government telling private companies to “Shut Up”

The federal government has ordered health insurers (like Humana) to suspend “Misleading mailings” that said to Medicare beneficiaries ‘health reform legislation could hurt seniors and jeopardize their benefits’…

The Obamaman can!

Seen over at Sister Toldjah from a Fox News story.

Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., was criticized for interrupting Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress to accuse the president of lying about his health care reform plan prohibiting coverage for illegal immigrants. Wilson quickly apologized, and the White House accepted the apology.

Wilson apologized again Thursday morning, though he also says a massive loophole could wind up in the health care bill: no requirement to prove citizenship for health care coverage.

Among three House committees to pass bills for health reform, only one expressly bans federal funding for proving health coverage to illegal immigrants.

“The Congressional Research Service has indicated that indeed the bills that are before Congress would include illegal aliens,” Wilson said. “And I think this is wrong.”

Indeed, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service study found that the House health care bill does not restrict illegal immigrants from receiving health care coverage.

House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner amplified the complaint that without proof of citizenship, illegal immigrants could be insured.

“There were two opportunities for House Democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered by putting in requirements to show citizenships,” he said. “Both of those amendments were, in fact, rejected.”

In the Senate, Democrats in the so called “Gang of Six,” a group of bipartisan senators on the Senate Finance Committee which is the last panel yet to release its bill, began moving quickly to close the loophole that Wilson helped bring greater attention to.

“We absolutely assure that those who are here illegally would not get the benefit of any of these initiatives,” Sen. Kent Conrad said.

It’s blatantly obvious that the Democrats are moving quickly to clean up this little turd (the lie, of which Joe Wilson spoke, that illegals will not get coverage under the proposed plan) before it becomes a huge stink that garners a lot of attention from the general public.

I can’t see any other reason for San Fran Gran Nan to pass up an opportunity to punish the opposition.

Wolf Blitzer of CNN grilling David Axelrod on why allowing insurers to compete across state lines wouldn’t introduce the sort of competition Obama claims to want in his Health Care Plan.

Because, as Axelrod fumbles through explaining, the administration isn’t interested in competition at all, but in dictating terms to insurers, providers, and consumers.