Last night Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina yelled "you lie" at President Obama when Obama claimed that his health care plan would not cover illegal aliens. While the democrats have gotten themselves in high dudgeon over this allegedly horrendous breach of etiquette (forgetting of course that they booed President Bush during a State of the Union address and said things far nastier than "you lie" both to and about him), the real important question is being ignored.
If Obama is telling the truth, where is the proof? Throughout this health care debate it has seemed that every time Obama has made a claim about what is or is not in the plan, that claim is readily refuted by actually reading the proposed legislation. Even if that was happening only half the time it would be enormously concerning. But by my reckoning far more than half of Obama's public claims about what is or is not in the plan have been proven false.
So if it is so easily proven that Obama's rhetoric does not match what is actually being proposed as legislation, one can draw only a couple of possible conclusions about why that would be the case. Either Joe Wilson is right and the President is lying. Or the President is simply profoundly ignorant of the content of legislation. One or the other must be true, but neither leaves me with a good feeling about what Obama and the democrats want to do to "reform" health care.
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