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Mark Steyn: "Only Day Job Obama's Ever Had Was As A Professional Activist"

HUGH HEWITT, HOST: Oh, Mark Steyn, this tone is not in keeping with Reopening Day tone. President Obama instructed us on this tone today at the White House. Let me play for you a couple of his clips. Number one:

MARK STEYN: (laughing) Great.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now there’s been a lot of discussion lately of the politics of this shutdown. But let’s be clear. There are no winners here. These last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy. We don’t know, yet, the full scope of the damage, but every analyst out there believes it slowed our growth.

HEWITT: And he goes on to say, Mark Steyn…

OBAMA: And to all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this town has to change, because we’ve all got a lot of work to do on behalf of the American people, and that includes the hard work of regaining their trust. Our system of self-government doesn’t function without it. And now that the government has reopened, and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio, and the professional activists who profit from conflict, and focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do.

HEWITT: So I think you’re at least a two-fer, and you’re probably a three-fer, Mark Steyn, because you host for Rush, and you’re on with me, and you’re a professional activist. You’re writing books like After America, and you blog. And you’ve got the triple play.

STEYN: Yeah, and actually, I resent this coming from a guy like President Obama. The only day job he’s ever had was as a professional activist as a so-called community organizer. You know, the thing he said just after that, where he said you know, you have to stop using shutdowns and all the rest of us, and have to learn from now on that the way to do it is to win the election. I found that very interesting, because the Republican Party in the election for the House of Representatives won the election. They won that election. They’re the majority party in that house. And either that means something under the United States Constitution, or it doesn’t. He was talking, it was fascinating to me, in that moment, he saw that, he revealed that he saw this country as a presidential republic somewhat closer, to be polite, to France’s, or at worst, to Latin America. In other words, there’s the president, and nobody else matters. He won the only election that matters, and the rest of you are just lobby fodder, and should demonstrate no independent initiatives of your own. And again, he’s saying, he’s saying that essentially what has happened is that the United States Constitution now has become so deformed, that it is no longer operating as it’s meant to. (Hugh Hewitt Show, October 17, 2013)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/17/mark_steyn_only_day_job_obamas_ever_had_was_as_a_professional_activist.html

1. I will have the most transparent administration.
2. I have Shovel ready jobs.
3. The IRS is not targeting anyone.
4. If four Americans get killed, it is not optimal.
5. ObamaCare will be good for America.
6. You can keep your family doctor.
7. Premiums will be lowered by $2500
8. You can keep your current healthcare plan
9. Just shop around, for that healthcare I claimed you wouldn't lose.
9A. I did not say you could keep your health care. (Regardless that 29 recorded videos show I did)
10. No one making less than $250,000 will see their taxes raised one dime.
11. It was about a movie.
12. If I had a son.

From an on line comment:  Reference below to understand why I despise the standard operating procedure of democrats.  They are very creepy people:

Wasserman Schultz: "Nothing" Obama Said About Obamacare That Was Not True

CHRIS JANSING, MSNBC: There's another question that has been out there as you well know. They talked about it a lot on the Sunday shows and that's the president's health care plan pledge. I mean, it has infuriated a lot of the 3% or so of Americans who actually can't do that and frankly has upset a lot of other people who felt they were misled. And in a weekly address, Republican Senator Marco Rubio slammed the President, among others, for that keep your plan guarantee. Let me play that.

MARCO RUBIO: This week we learned that not only is that not true and that people are in fact losing their health plans, but that President Obama's administration has known this would happen for over three years. In essence, Obamacare's passage was built on a foundation of lies and promises that simply can't be delivered.

JANSING: Did the president, Congresswoman, knowingly oversimplify this and provide an opening for opponents of the ACA.

REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: You know, Marco Rubio has exactly zero credibility when it comes to whether or not Americans should have access to quality affordable health care and whether or not Obamacare gets implemented. So, I think most people just discount what he says because what he says because he's done everything he can to try to slow it down or stop it.

At the end of the day, Americans were not only -- the overwhelming majority of Americans are already insured and what we're talking about here is insurance companies who chose not to keep the plan that they could have grandfathered and they chose to change the plan that they were making available to people that they already insured in the individual market. At the end of the day, most of those people who are having their plans transitioned will have better benefits for lower costs. All they have to do is go on the exchange and shop around, which arguably needs to be easier than it is now, and they will be able to actually get better coverage for less.

So, no, there was nothing about what President Obama or that I or any other Democrat supporting the Affordable Care Act said that was not true. (A whopper about a whopper!)  And what is true is that the Republicans continue to do everything they can to stop people from getting quality affordable health coverage. And to allow companies under the old system to continue to overcharge them for less coverage and to make their life hard..  (Really????)

The thing about ms wasserman schitz is she only lies when her lips are moving. She lies when it would benefit her to tell the truth. Do these folks realize that there are such things as recorded speeches? Many watched them shown live at different locations and different times and heard the same message. We all have "known" that politicians lie, but no one expected the lies to be so destructive to so many. When a person has had trust in their doctor and/or hospital and someone has told you - don't worry you won't see any changes - and then you face the cold facts that your doctor is no longer in your "plan" that is most disturbing. It would be like finding out that your spouse or your child were no longer part of your family. These changes are way too personal for way too many folks.