From Mike Ramirez at the New York Post today.

But in the hope that meaningful questions might by asked of the president, Sen. Jim DeMint has put forward his Top Five:

1. If the major provisions of the health care bills will not kick in until 2013, four years from now, why the rush to pass a thousand-page bill before the August recess, a bill you admit that you haven’t fully read yourself?

2. You have said your health care bill will cut costs and not increase the deficit. But, independent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office contradicts both claims, saying it will raise costs and increase the deficit by $240 billion in the first ten years. What independent analysis will you provide that supports your claims and refutes CBO’s?

3. You have repeatedly said that your health care bill allows any American who likes their current employer-based plan to keep it. But the most comprehensive independent analysis available, by the Lewin Group, contradicts your claim and found your bill will force over 80 million Americans to lose their current coverage. Will you provide independent analysis to refute this study?

4. Your own record in the Senate reveals you spent years voting against nearly every reform to make health care more affordable and accessible, but this week you said that opponents of your plan are “content to perpetuate the status quo, [and] are, in fact, fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests.” Which specific elected officials will you cite that have proposed to keep the status quo, and is that how you characterize the opposition of the 52 Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the moderate Democrats in the Senate?

5. Yes or no question: Will you guarantee pro-life Americans that, under your plan, they will not be forced to subsidize elective abortions

The American people deserve real answers, not another presidential infomercial.

And if the mainstream media continues to prop up Obama and his policies with these silly T.V. shows, instead of asking tough, relevant questions, then he will become their Waterloo, just as surely as ObamaCare will be his.

. . . ‘Obama Care Bear’?”

Sigh.

As I’ve asked before . . . Just How Dumb Does This Guy Think We ARE????

It looks like we may have our answer.

I keep asking myself on a daily basis, Just how dumb does Obama think we are?

Yesterday at an AARP town hall meeting, V.P. Biden was trotted out to repeat the lie that ObamaCare will just be an option, and we will all have the choice to continue our private medical coverage. That wasn’t too surprising.

But then Biden repeated this administration’s really big whopper that the Obama plan to take over the health care system is the only way to keep us from going bankrupt as a nation.

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt? The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you,” said Biden.

Huh???

Obama and the president’s men, among them Emanuel and Axelrod, think they are so much smarter than the rest of us that they can manipulate the American people by telling bald-faced lies that they then repeat over and over again. It’s obvious they believe we are so dimwitted that if we hear their same b***sh*t enough times, we will come to accept that it must be true.

They may have a point. Heck, I think they have poor Joe believing them.

Obama says he will “allow” us (ain’t that just grand of him?) to retain our private insurance, but what he fails to mention is that his plan will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.

Investor’s concludes: “It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. It’s scary to think how many more breaches of liberty we’ll come across in the final 1,002.“

UPDATE:

Obama lies to liberal bloggers saying he is “not familiar” with the provision on P.16. Hear the audio.

“The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I’m amazed, I’m amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency . . .It’s a pattern of controlling the press . . . that is shocking . . . ,” Thomas said.

Gibbs was giggly and dismissive as usual. Take a look.

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