The BIG Lie

Part I. Barack Obama: “[W]e’ve got to move forward on [ObamaCare]. It took 100 years for us to even get to the point where we could start talking about and implementing a law to make sure everybody’s got health insurance. And my pledge to the American people is, is that we’re going to solve the problems that are there, we’re going to get it right, and the Affordable Care Act is going to work for the American people.”

Part II. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “There’s nothing in the Affordable Care Act that says that your insurance company should cancel you. That’s not what the Affordable Care Act is about. It simply didn’t happen.”

Part III. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer: “You understand that if you had a policy on the day that this bill was adopted, you got to keep it. Now, you didn’t get to keep it if the insurance companies didn’t want to offer it to you.”

Part IV. Rep. James Clyburn: “When [consumers] become aware of what they did not have, I don’t think there’s anything to apologize for.”

Non Compos Mentis

Obama adviser Valerie Jarret: “There isn’t an American who isn’t going to be touched in a positive way by the Affordable Care Act. Change is difficult. Even change for the better is difficult.”

Dezinformatsia

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “Nearly a million people have been approved for a private plan under ObamaCare. They’re still shopping. They haven’t chosen. It’s the shopping season. … This is the way the law was designed to work. They give you options. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head that you have to do it in the next six hours.”

Demo-gogues

Barack Obama: “[G]rowing our economy, creating new jobs is my top priority. We’ve got to stop the self-inflicted wounds in Washington. Because for many tribal nations, this year’s harmful sequester cuts and last month’s government shutdown made a tough situation worse. Your schools, your police departments, child welfare offices are all feeling the squeeze. That’s why I’m fighting for a responsible budget that invests in the things that we need in order to grow.”

Braying Jackass

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “[Republicans] keep looking for ways to keep this president from doing his job. … We need to call out these [Republican] filibusters for what they are: naked attempts to nullify the results of the last presidential election – to force us to govern as though President Obama hadn’t won the 2012 election.”

Village Idiots

Oprah Winfrey: “There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.”

Short Cuts

Humorist Frank J. Fleming: “The actual name of the legislation is not Obamacare, but the Affordable Care Act, named in the same playful manner as how the bald stooge is called ‘Curly.’ Not to imply that Obamacare is as capable or helpful as any of the three stooges.”