August, 2014 The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care, Part 4: The 12 Dirty Lies of Obama Care

Note: yesterday we thought that we were done with our monthly update on the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. However, I came across a great article from the February, 2014 issue of Reason magazine which summarized the biggest dozen lies that Obama and his supporters spewed forth to promote and enact the Obama Care legislation, lies that many of those supporters very well knew were lies when they stated them. Thus, let’s spend one more day on Obama Care disasters by reviewing the research and findings from the Reason article from back in early, 2014, an article written by Peter Suderman.

The first post in this month's Obama Care unfolding disaster series can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/08/august-2014-unfolding-disaster-that-is.html

Reason Magazine - The 12 biggest lies of Obama Care

Deception #1 President Obama: “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It Hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen in the future.”

Comments: He did not only make this claim and promise once, he repeated it dozens of times in many different ways but with the same unequivocal conviction: you can keep any plan that you have and like, Obama Care will not disrupt that reality. 

But according to the Reason article, Politico reported back November, 2014 that more than 3.5 million Americans got slammed with cancellations of their current health insurance policies, directly as a result of Obama Care tenets. Since then, reliable sources have estimated that an additional 1.5 to 2.5 million Americans suffered the same fate, a fate that Obama promised would never happen.

Deception # 2 President Obama: "What we said was you can keep it [your current health insurance plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.”

Comments: This was a weasely attempt to back track out of the first deception listed above. As millions of Americans began losing access to their preferred insurance plans, the administration tried to put the blame on the insurance companies that were doing nothing more than complying with Obama Care rules. 

But the weasel words did not gain credibility since there never were these types of conditions place on the situation when the President promised if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Again, it was unequivocal, not conditional as his deceptions tried to spin.

Deception #3 President Obama: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.” 

Comments: another whopper of a lie. First of all, those 5-6 million American who lost their current insurance policy coverage lost access to their doctors since they were no longer insured. 

Those Americans who actually bought an Obama Care insurance policy shortly found out that those policies had very narrow networks of doctors so that even if they did get insurance, they often could not get access to the doctors and specialist they had been seeing or wanted to see since their new Obama Care policies prohibited that access.

Deception #4 President Obama: “We’ll start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family." 

Comments: Not even close. The majority of people that purchased Obama Care polices were confronted with both sky high premiums and sky high deductibles, realities that came nowhere close to getting each American family a $2,500 annual reduction in heir health insurance rates.

And that sticker shock was for 2014 policy costs. As we have reported many times in this blog, Obama Care policy holders are now facing double digit, and in some states, large double digit, increases in their policy costs in 2015 as insurance companies file their rate requests in each state. A $2,500 reduction is nowhere to be found in the Obama Care reality.

Deception #5 Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi: “It [Obama Care] will create 4 million jobs - 400,00 jobs almost immediately.”

Comments: I always chuckle when I hear Ms. Pelosi try to sound smart with numbers. Obama Care became and still is a major job and economic growth killer as companies have been shown to reduce their expansion and hiring plans in the face of additional business costs and taxes that will be caused by Obama Care.

Just this week we cited credible research that shows just in the medical device industry over 160,000 jobs have been lost as a result of Obama Care. There have been at least dozens and dozens of mergers in the health care field as hospitals merge with other hospitals, medical practices merge, etc. 

There have been very few instance in human history where businesses merged and incremental new jobs were created. Businesses merge to find synergies and to reduce costs, costs that almost always include layoffs. As always, Pelosi never provided the assumption set and underlying calculations to show how she got to such ridiculous numbers, most likely because they did not exist, making her assertion an outright deception.

Deception # 6 President Obama: Obama Care “pushed back on the undue influence of special interests.”

Comments: According to the Reason article, this how the legislation “pushed back:”

• America’s health insurance companies, through their industry group, backed the President’s plans because it forced every American to purchase an insurance company from….America’s health insurance companies.
• The American Medical Association, and their member doctors, were promised that for their support, Obama Care supporters in Congress would fix/increase how much Medicare pays doctors for their services (another promise that apparently never came true).
• The Obama Care administration also cut deals with the drug industry by agreeing to not pursue several policies that were not in the best interests of the drug companies in exchange for their support of the legislation.

Hardly “push backs,” more like cronyism backroom deals among friends.

Deception # 7 President Obama: “We are on schedule, and will be ready for the marketplace to open on October 1.”

Comments: Needless to say, they were not ready on October 1. The supporting data systems processes, crashed, locked up, provided bad information, everything that could have gone wrong from a data processing perspective did go wrong. And this failure happened despite the wasteful and useless expenditure of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and three years worth of work.

But worse of all, high ranking members of the administration knew things were a disaster despite the public promises that everything was fine. According to new York Times reporting on October 12, 2013: “Confidential progress reports from the Health and Human Services department show that senior officials repeatedly expressed doubts that the computer systems for the federal exchange would be ready on time.” 

That is why it is deception # 7.

Deception # 8 President Obama: “Regardless of how the Marketplace [i.e. the Obama Care online website where you could purchase insurance online] is managed, consumers will be able to access the Marketplace with ease.” 

Comments: Just days before the system went live, both the Washington Post and Business Week reported that end-to-end testing of the computer systems had not been completed or verified operationally. Once the untested systems went live, potential customers were faced with access problems, turnaround problems, inaccurate information, hardly like another Obama quote where he promised that accessing Obama Care’s online website would be “the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak - the same way you shop for a TV on Amazon.” 

The reality of the roll out could not be further from this experience.

Deception #9 President Obama: "We expect to resolve these issues in the coming hours.”

Comments: Another deception or outright lie depending on your definition. Those hours turned into days which turned into weeks which turned into months, an ever lengthening time frame that frustrated millions of Americans trying to sign up for a policy “with ease.” 

In the first month that the website was deemed “live,” it was actually accessible by Americans 42% of the time, an abysmal performance considering the cost of over $600 million. Imagine how ticked off you would-be if your email account, your Facebook page, your ability to use Google, etc. was accessible less than 50% of the time. Abysmal.

Deception #10 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: “Take away the volume, and it works.”

Comments: This was another attempt to correct previous deceptions. The claim was that there was nothing wrong with the website, there were just too many people trying to get onto the site at the same time. 

First of all, this is an excuse for incompetence. The scenario of heavy volume should have been taken into consideration during the development of the website’s software. The administration had been hyping this process for years, did they think that all of the hype and all of the attention in the press was going to result in only a few hundred people trying to use the site? Pathetic planning skills if true.

Second, this was merely an excuse, not a reality. When outside experts were called in to review the situation, they quickly found that volume was not the issue, incompetent computer programming was the issue. It was not a volume issue, it was a basic program design issue, making this assertion by Sebelius deception #10.

Deception #11 Press Secretary Jay Carney: "No, we don’t have that data.”

Comments: It is unheard of to build any website and not know how many people are using it. But yet here was the Press Secretary saying, nope, we don’t have any data to share.

However, subsequent leaks from secret White House Obama Care meetings shows that the administration actually did have enrollment numbers that Carney claimed did not exist. The reasons for the lie is, in all likelihood, the numbers were pathetic. 

Nationwide, only six people, in a nation of over 300 million people, signed up for Obama Care in the first day. By the end of the second day, only 248 people had signed up. Rather than admit this current failure, the administration decided just to lie that existing numbers of enrollment did not exist.

Deception #12 The head of the administration’s Obama Care exchange operation Gary Cohen: “The final Marketplace rule ensures Marketplace develop and follow high standards regarding the privacy and security of personal information while following Affordable Health Care Act requirements regarding the use of data.”

Comments: Sounds impressive, sounds like they were very concerned about protecting personal information from identity thieves. However, behind the scenes, at the same time that Cohen was giving the above deception to a Senate hearing, an internal HHS document stated the truth and not Cohen’s deception: “aspects of the system were not tested due to the ongoing development exposed a level of uncertainty that can be deemed as a high risk.”

The system had high risk elements, not "high standards regarding the privacy and security of personal information.” Subsequent experts who reviewed the security protocols called Obama Care’s data systems “an identity thief’s paradise.” 

I understand why the administration would want to make the process look as positive as possible. However, when political spin turns into outright lies, then the credibility of this administration, this President, and Washington as a whole goes right down the tubes. 

Combining these twelve lies with the many other lies of this administration, e.g. the NSA is not spying on ordinary Americans, Benghazi was caused by a video, Guantanamo’s prison would be shut down, etc., we end up with nation crisis in integrity and truth between the governing and the governed. 

Trust is earned and Obama and his cohorts have a lot of earning to do if they ever expect us to believe anything they say in the future. The interesting question is whether they actually care if we believe them.

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November, 2013 The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care, Part 7: Chicago Tribune and Doctors Abandoning Obama Care, Sergeant Shultz In The Administration and More

This is our seventh post this month on the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. These seven posts follow more than twenty other posts we did over the past three months trying to document, review, and quantify all of the fiascos being spawned by this legislation. 

We will finish up this month’s review over the next 2-3 days. Not because there is nothing else to talk about. On the contrary, the bad news grows every day as more glitches, failures, and lies are uncovered. We are just getting tired and depressed of the whole topic. 

It is a failure. The administration lied. It is causing millions of Americans to lose access to their preferred insurance policies and doctors. The administration lied some more. The website for signups was designed as if a bunch of chimps did the programming. The administration continued to lie. The estimated cost of the whole effort has doubled in just three years. They lied again. The logic of the whole effort will not rein in skyrocketing health care costs; if anything, it will cause them to rise quicker. They continue to lie. The legislation is depressing and suppressing economic growth. More lies. Americans are losing their jobs and having their hours cut back substantially as a result of the legislation. And yes, they continue to lie.

1) The President’s home town newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, correctly crucified the legislation and the operations of the government in mid-October:

If you’ve tried to sign up online for health coverage under the problem-plagued Obamacare exchange, our sympathies. Many people have tried to create accounts and shop for insurance under the new law. Few have succeeded. Those that have enrolled have found that the system is prone to mistakes. Some applications have been sent to the wrong insurance company.

Wait. It gets worse. Those who have managed to browse the marketplace have often been hit by sticker shock. Take Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner and single father from Carpentersville. He sought the same level of coverage on the exchange as he and his 7-year-old daughter have now, with the same insurer and the same network of doctors and hospitals. At best, Weldzius found, his monthly premium of $233 would more than double. If he chose a plan priced at the same level, the annual deductible would be $12,700, more than three times his current $3,500 deductible.

2) Journalist Ezra Klein, a longtime Obama supporter also recently got in on the shredding of the Obama Care effort:

So far, the Affordable Care Act’s launch has been a failure. Not “troubled.” Not “glitchy.” A failure. The Obama administration’s top job isn’t beating the Republicans. It’s running the government well. On this — the most important initiative they’ve launched — they’ve run the government badly. They deserve all the criticism they’re getting and more.

When your close friends and supporters are publicly calling your effort a failure, things must be really bad.

3) Three years and over $600 million dollars were not enough to create a relatively simple website to have people sign up for health insurance policies via Obama Care exchanges. When the system went live on October 1, 2013, it was a nightmare. The Obama administration promised that it would all be fixed and ready to go correctly by the end of November. 

This was a highly doubtful and probably stupid promise to make, given that those involved could not make it work in the three years head start they had. It is doubtful they can fix it in eight weeks. 

This is the view of a recent Washington Post story from November 12, 2013:

Software problems with the federal online health insurance marketplace, especially in handling high volumes, are proving so stubborn that the system is unlikely to work fully by the end of the month as the White House has promised, according to an official with knowledge of the project.

The insurance exchange is balking when more than 20,000 to 30,000 people attempt to use it at the same time — about half its intended capacity, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose internal information. And CGI Federal, the main contractor that built the site, has succeeded in repairing only about six of every 10 of the defects it has addressed so far.

Looks like another promise broken, another potential lie uncovered, at least in the view of the Post.

4) In late October, 2013, a poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society was made public. The survey invited 409 doctors to anonymously share opinions about the new health care law, and many took time out of their busy days to rip into Obama Care. The findings of the survey of the Society are quite distressing in that they point out another dangerous facet of Obama Care. Many doctors do not like the legislation, will not participate with the people who get health insurance through the exchanges, and many may retire out of disgust or economic necessity because of Obama Care.

Which raises a gruesome scenario: what happens if millions of Americans get insurance via Obama Care but there are no doctors to serve them? The scary results of the survey include the following statistics and quotes:

• 44% of doctors survey said they will not participate in the nation’s new health-care plan.
• Another 33% said they’re still not sure whether to become Obama Care providers.
• Only 23% of the 409 physicians in the survey said they’re taking patients who signed up through Obama Care’s health exchanges.
• “This is so poorly designed that a lot of doctors are afraid to participate,” said Dr. Sam Unterricht, president of the 29,000-member organization. “There’s a lot of resistance. Doctors don’t know what they’re going to get paid.”
• About 75% of doctors who are participated in the Obama Care effort said they “had to participate” because of existing contractual obligations with an insurer or medical provider, not because they wanted to.
• Only one in four doctors “affirmatively” chose to sign up for the exchanges.
• 77% said they had not even been given an Obama Care fee schedule to show much they’ll get paid if they sign up.
• “Obama Care wants to start right away, but who see all these new patients???? Not me,” e-mailed one doctor.
• Another said, “I plan to retire if this disaster is implemented. This is a train wreck.”
• “I refuse to participate in the exchange plans! I am completely opposed to this new law,” said a third respondent.
• One doctor was quite blunt relative to participating in Obama Care: “The solution is simple: Just say no.”
• One physician was so disgusted, he threatened to taken only cash patients going forward.
• “I am seriously considering opting out of all insurance plans including Medicare because of [ObamaCare].”
• “OBAMACARE is a disaster. I have already seen denial of medication, denial of referrals,” one doc said.
• “Any doctor who accepts the exchange is just a bad businessman/woman. Pays terrible,” argued one doctor.
• Said another MD, “Can’t imagine any doctors would be willing to work for so little money? All doctors should boycott.
• “I get screwed from insurance companies already. I refuse to get screwed any longer,” one doctor said.
• Others said they don’t have enough information to make an informed choice: “This is a joke. We are flying blind,” said one doctor.

Old medical saying: the operation was a success but the patient died. Even if Obama Care supporters and the President are able to work out all of the numerous and difficult problems with the operations of the legislation and people do indeed get health care insurance via the exchanges, what if there are only a few doctors around that will service the newly insured? The legislation was a success but the insured still died. Pitiful legislation and inability to anticipate unintended consequences.

5) Another lie and/or deception from the White House was recently reported by CNN, which up until recently was blind to anything that went wrong in the Obama administration. CNN is reporting that a month before the Obama Care website was to go live, many people in the know were warning the White House that the website was not ready to launch despite testimony from administration officials that that was not the case:

• The Obama administration was given stark warnings just one month before launch that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN.
• The caution, from the main contractor CGI, warned of a number of open risks and issues for the HealthCare.gov web site even as company executives were testifying publicly that the project had achieved key milestones.
• On Capitol Hill on Monday, Medicaid Chief Marilyn Tavenner, whose job it was to oversee the October 1 rollout of the website, said she did not foresee its problems.
• “No, we had tested the website and we were comfortable with its performance,” she said. “Now, like I said, we knew all along there would be as with any new website, some individual glitches we would have to work out. But, the volume issue and the creation of account issues was not anticipated and obviously took us by surprise. And did not show up in testing.”
• But the CGI document, which describes “top risks currently open” and “outstanding issues currently being mitigated” says the testing timeframes are “not adequate to complete full functional, system, and integration testing activities” and lists the impact of the problems as “significant.”
• Another element is listed as ” not enough time in schedule to conduct adequate performance testing” and given the highest priority.
• CGI had no comment other than to confirm authenticity of the report that also gave “the highest priority” and warns “we don’t have access to monitoring tools” and “hub services are intermittently unavailable” — short for the “site’s not working sometimes.”

The week before this CNN reporting, CNN also reported that: 

President Barack Obama didn’t know of problems with the Affordable Care Act’s website — despite insurance companies’ complaints and the site’s crashing during a test run — until after its now well-documented abysmal launch, the nation’s health chief told CNN on Tuesday.

So all of this garbage was going on but no one told the lady in charge of the roll out and no one told the President that his signature legislation victory was about to implode? Are we to believe that Obama and Tavenner were so out of touch with reality that they thought everything was going to be fine? Or did they suppress that information to avoid political and public embarrassment for as long as possible, not telling Americans to take cover to avoid the fallout of this fiasco? 

They are either liars or ignorant, two characteristics no one wants in their leaders.

That will do it for today. Doctors saying no way to Obama Care, highly ranking administration officials either out of the loop or deceptive, a liberal press turning on the administration for its outright failures, and a likely other failure/lie when the system is still not glitch free by the promised November 30 date.

Is there any doubt that this is the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Washington by the most inept set of politicians in the history of our country?

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The Week The Obama Administration Entered Lame Duck Status, Part 2: Spying On Friends, Spying On Americans, Lying About The IRS and More

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity. Debra Wilson

Yesterday, we postulated that we have already entered the lame duck era of the Obama administration despite the fact that he still has three years left in his term. We used the three words, humility, humanity, and integrity in conjunction with two major administration scandals, Benghazi and Obama Care, to support our lame duck theory.

From a Benghazi perspective, we pointed out the details from a recent CBS News “60 Minutes” broadcast that proved the administration was aware that the consulate attack in Benghazi was a true Al Qaeda terrorist attack while it was going on. How do we know that? The ambassador, Chris Stephens, actually completed an outgoing call in the midst of the attack stating they were under attack and that Al Qaeda flags were clearly visible, a call he completed before he was murdered.

Despite having this information and other intelligence information readily at hand, the Obama administration via the President, Hillary Clinton, U.N. ambassador, and other administration shills tried to cover up the facts and blame an obscure YouTube video for the attack. They tried to falsely paint the incident as just a street demonstration that got out of hand. The “60 Minutes” investigation shows clearly this was an intentional deception and cover up to keep intact the President’s campaign slogan that Al Qaeda was on the run and on the decline.

Obviously, this President and his administration were out of integrity when they lied about the cause of the Benghazi tragedy, they were void of humanity when the abandoned over 20 Americans in the midst of a terrorist attack, and probably never had any humility since their election year politics were more important than American lives or the truth.

The Obama Care lies are even more obvious. We showed yesterday via numerous video clips that the President often, clearly, and emphatically pledged that no American would ever lose access to their preferred health care insurance plans or their doctors under Obama Care if they liked their insurance policy and their doctors. There is no doubt that is what he meant, no American would ever lose access to their preferred policy or doctor.

However, events over the past week have showed that nothing could be further from the truth. Millions of Americans have either already or will shortly lose access to the insurance policies they desire and the doctors the desire. The President’s promise does not hold water. 

But the real integrity hit comes from the fact that NBC News’ investigative journalists uncovered administration documentation from 2010 that correctly predicted the carnage Obama Care would befall Americans’ health care situations. Three years ago those official documents estimated between 45% and 67% of Americans would lose access to their current policies and doctors.

Despite that reality and understanding, the President continued to lie and deceive Americans about what Obama Care had in store for them. We asserted that the President was certainly out if integrity by hoisting that sham promise on the American people while all the time knowing it was not true. 

We also noted his lack of humanity by never telling us the truth when it was known three years ago. It would have been a lot more humane if he had given Americans three years notice to adjust their family health care situation rather than waiting until weeks before that situation will change as a result of Obama Care. 

We also judged him void of humility since as we have seen this past week he refuses to apologize and make the situation right, e.g. possibly delaying or fixing the mess that the legislation has created. Instead of humility and leadership, we get political spin and smoke and mirrors to try and bury his deception.

When your constituents can longer trust you because you lied about Benghazi and Obama Care, when you show no humanity by leaving Americans to die in Benghazi or by not giving them the true impacts of Obama Care, and you never show any regrets or humility, your ability to convince, to cajole to energize, and to lead a nation is null and void. And null and void is just another name for being a lame duck.

These two scandals are bad enough and sufficient to cause a lame duck status but the lame duck train does not stop there. It turns out that the President has allowed the National Security Agency and other Federal agencies to spy on the leaders of our allies and innocent Americans, as recent news reports have uncovered:

• The Week reported in its September 27, 2013 edition that the President of Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff was besides herself when she learned that the Obama administration was spying on Brazilian government AND private communications. This spying included intercepting her own phone calls and emails. She was so upset that she cancelled a planned state visit to the U.S., a major, major slap in the face to the President.
• On October 28, 2013, the Associated Press ran a long, detailed article on the outrage in Europe over the fact that the Obama and Bush administrations, via the National Security Agency, has been doing massive spying and intercepting electronic messages of European leaders, governments and European citizens. Unbelievably, the agency had tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel's own cell phone! The spying situation is so bad that European leaders and countries are seriously considering sanctions against the Obama administration and the U.S. for such a gross invasion of privacy of our allies. German has joined forces with Brazil, who recently denounced NSA espionage as a “breach of international law,” to promote the adoption of a U.N. resolution that would promote the right to privacy on the Internet.
  21 counries have lined up in the United Nations to draft a right of Internet privacy while the furor over the U.S. spying on at least 35 world leaders. Some of the details of this mess can be accessed:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/oct/29/europe-mulls-sanctions-against-us-over-spying/

• The September 20, 2013 issue of The Week magazine contained an article detailing the fact that the National Security Agency had violated its own privacy rules and regulations on domestic, private citizen surveillance for at least three years. While the agency is expected to show a “reasonable, articulate suspicion” that a phone number and citizen are involved with terrorist activity or groups, official government documents show that over a recent three year period, only 1,935 out of 17, 385 numbers on its “alert list” met that criteria. 
• Combine this finding with the knowledge we have already reported on that the Obama administration is collecting just about every single bit of electronic communications of every American and storing this information in a massive center in Utah, you realize the Europeans and the Brazilians are not the only people getting electronically violated by the Obama administration.
• According to a Washington Post article from October 13, 2013, The National Security Agency is constantly collecting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. The article asserts the intelligence officials estimate that the buddy contacts lists of millions or possibly tens of millions of Americans have been collected without due cause or their knowledge.

Scary, scary abuse of power and control. And again, a complete lack of integrity, humanity, and humility. From a lack of integrity perspective, first consider the President’s own words from a Washington Post article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/politics/obama-nsa-not-collecting-americans-emails/2013/10/15/523988f2-cf95-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_video.html

In his own words, he claims no American is being spied on. But we know from the Washington Post and other news outlets that this is a lie and deception, we are being spied on by this administration. 

A second angle on lack of integrity is to not tell Americans or foreign allies we are spying on you, it is all done in secrecy. And secrecy makes it a lot tougher to trust you and believe you and follow your lead, making you a lame duck and the objective you desire that much further out of reach.

From a humility perspective, even after this administration got caught spying on our allies, they were not repentant. In the President’s own words, via the White House, relative to the Brazil spying scandal and outrage, that President Obama “understands the and regrets the concerns that disclosures of alleged U.S. intelligence activities have generated in Brazil.” 

Note that the President and the White House do not regret the act of spying and privacy invasion, they regret the “disclosures” of alleged spying. No humility or apologies at all, they are more ticked off that they got caught than from the heinous spying activity itself.

From a humanity perspective, how bad is it when this administration distrusts every American and most of our allies that they have to secretly spy on everything we do and what our allies do? Trust is one of humanity’s most cherished emotions and feelings, but trust is lost on this soulless administration.

We could  on and on about the lack of integrity, humanity, and humility in this administration. Remember the lies about the IRS and the White House harassing Americans’ freedom of speech who happened to disagree with this administration? 

We were initially lied to and told that only a few “rogue” IRS agents in Cincinnati were harassing Obama’s political opponents. That lie and deception have long been disproven as we know from IRS testimony in front of Congress, by people like Lois Lerner, that the harassment originated and was controlled from the highest government circles in Washington.

Remember the lies and deceit about Fast and Furious, the botched illegal gun running operation with the Mexican drug cartels? That operation is so bad and illegal that Obama has issued executive orders in an attempt to cover that lie and deception.

You cannot not lead when no one believes anything you say based on your past history of lies and deceptions. 

You cannot lead when no one believes your humanity, no one believes that you actually care what happens to them when you leave people to die in a far away land, when you force them to change their entire health care safety net for no reason, or when you track their every communication because you have no trust that most Americans are not terrorists.

You cannot lead when you have no humility. When nothing is your fault, when you refuse to admit mistakes, where you show no ability to learn from your mistakes or to be flexible about the needs of others, the lack of humility is not a true mark of a leader.

As we have tried to show over the past two days, this administration is extremely devoid of integrity, humanity, and humility. You cannot lead when that is you history, the lack of those three characteristics makes you a lame duck, going through the motions because no on believes your motions and even worst, no one cares about or trusts your motions. 

Bottom line: when your behavior causes your allies and friends to fear you and your enemies not to fear you, your have entered the realm  of failure and lameness.

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