Recently, every time that I hear Obama speak (and before I have the time to change the channel), all that I hear is the “parent horn” from the Peanuts cartoons.

Credibility is an issue.  Blaming Bush has worn very thin.  And, how can you claim “saved” jobs, when there is no way to measure such a thing?  But I digress.

Remember, earlier this year, when they were trying to force Obamacare through?  They stated that it was not another tax.  There were “merely penalties” added.  So, some wonderful, brave, freedom loving states (of which, unfortunately mine is not, since it has deeply partaken of the liberal kool-aid) sued the feds, based on states rights, etc.

Well, now the administration changes its wording:

Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

Under the legislation signed by President Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.

In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes.

Congress can use its taxing power “even for purposes that would exceed its powers under other provisions” of the Constitution, the department said. For more than a century, it added, the Supreme Court has held that Congress can tax activities that it could not reach by using its power to regulate commerce.

While Congress was working on the health care legislation, Mr. Obama refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy insurance, enforced by financial penalties, was equivalent to a tax.

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”

Thus, this becomes yet another lie, in a long stream of lies.  Some of which are below (I’m sure that there are others, but on only one cup of coffee, this is my short list):

There was the forgery of scientific recommendations regarding a ban on deep water drilling.  Scientists had signed off on one document, after which time Interior Secretary Salazar added critical language recommending the ban.  Which, by the way, if a normal person did this, it would be considered forgery.

Back to Obamacare – remember the statement that it would not cover abortion?  Well, now you will be paying for them, like it or not.  Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Maryland are all in the process of covering them.  In PA, “high risk insurance pools” will be created.  While it states that elective abortions are not covered, it also states that “that an abortion is legal in Pennsylvania (consistent with Roe v. Wade) if a single physician believes that it is "necessary" based on "all factors (physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age) relevant to the well-being of the woman."  In fact, the only time that abortion will not be covered before 24 weeks is when it is solely based on the sex of the child.

Again on Obamacare, he promised that you could keep your health insurance, if you liked your plan.  Not so fast.  If you are a person who has only catastrophic coverage, you will need to change coverage.  If your premiums, copay or coinsurance increases, your insurance is no longer grandfathered, and you will have to change your coverage.  If your employer decides that paying the penalty is cheaper than paying for the health insurance, than you cannot keep your plan.  And if premiums increase too much, such as might happen when they have to pay a long list of "preventative care" items at 100%, then you will not keep your health insurance.

Then, there was the Sestak job offer, where he was offered a job by the administration (who sent Clinton) if he agreed not to run against Specter.  This offer was denied, then admitted, then denied, and now is just “Washington’ normal practice”.

Paralleling Sestak was the Romanoff job offer.  Basically the same lies and denials.

Obama lied to Gov. Jan Brewer, when he stated that he would send 1,200 National Guard members to the AZ border.  And then he sued.

And, there is Sen. Jon Kyl’s claim that Obama, in a private meeting, stated that they would not work to secure the border, until a comprehensive immigration reform package was passed.  Obama’s people have since denied.  But, definitely, someone is lying….

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