Grand Theft Obama: The Biggest Heist in U.S. History

James Simpson:

Our nation is being stolen before our very eyes. The American people are being robbed of their livelihoods, their security and their freedom. President Obama makes grand sweeping gestures and delivers soaring rhetoric about helping the poor and achieving fairness. But he merely draws our attention away from the hand that is reaching deep into our pockets. Such is the nature of his extremist legislative agenda. Call it Grand Theft Obama, but it is no video game; this is for real.

And it is not merely monetary theft, as is apparent from Obamacare. America is being fundamentally transformed, as Obama promised. This is one promise that he clearly intends to keep, no matter how many people lose their health insurance policies, their jobs, or their productive futures.

Even the liberal media have been forced to acknowledge President Obama’s lies regarding the Affordable Care Act, especially the whopper about being able to keep your own health insurance policy.

Consider what we have learned so far as the lies are being exposed:

• Despite repeatedly being told we could keep our healthcare plans and doctors, the White House estimated three years ago that 93 million ^[1] people would lose their plans. Obama knew this and has been lying about it all along.

• Obamacare provides millions of dollars to leftwing community organizers ^[2], including ACORN descendants ^[3]. A radical illegal alien is running the NYC Obamacare “navigator” program ^[4].

• Rather than provide healthcare, the Obamacare website is being used to boost low-income Democrat voter registration ^[5]. Election integrity activists have called it ^[6] “The biggest voter registration fraud scheme in history.” The Soros-funded Demos has bragged that Obamacare exchanges will register “68 million people to vote ^[7].”

• Progressive activist Jeanne Lambrew, now in charge of Obamacare implementation, traded confidential taxpayer information ^[8] with the IRS.

While some of this is now being discussed and debated, the revelations come three years after the passage of the health care legislation. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi famously said they would have to pass the legislation to find out what was in it, but the media should not have used that same excuse. They failed in their jobs to uncover the hidden costs and real agenda. They failed, in other words, to do their jobs.

Simply put, they took Obama at his word—that he just wanted to help the poor. His actual agenda was political power.

For the most part, until the Obamacare lies became a national story, Obama was aided and abetted in this process by the institutionally corrupt and ideologically driven mass media. They attack, smear, and assassinate the character of anyone with the gall to speak the truth. Today’s media do not provide information, but misinformation. As Pat Caddell famously said ^[9], the mainstream media have literally become the “enemy of the American people.”

For modern-day progressives, lying is not merely something one does to avoid getting caught, lying is tradecraft. Thus our President lies. But these are no ordinary lies; they are grand, sweeping, all-encompassing lies. He says exactly the opposite of truth, consistently, to confuse people, and tops it off by accusing his opponents of doing what he does.

This may sound harsh, but Obamacare provides the proof.

Media Malpractice

During the 2008 election one commenter stated ^[10], “It’s like running against God. The media have anointed him.” Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe claimed 90 percent ^[11] of the media were behind Obama. This was reflected in the unwillingness of the major media, such as The Washington Post, to subject candidate Obama to elementary vetting. Hence, his relationship with Communist Frank Marshall Davis and backing from the Democratic Socialists of America were topics considered off-limits. Even some conservatives in the media thought Obama would turn out to be a centrist.

The important film “Media Malpractice ^[10]” catalogs the breathtaking conspiracy of media advocacy for Barack Obama during the 2008 election.

This may be changing, judging by media reporting on the Obamacare lies and the belated coverage by the CBS “60 Minutes” program of the official lies about what caused the Benghazi terror attacks.

Shutdown Police State Tactics

To understand how lies drive the administration’s policies and agenda, consider the coverage of the recent government “shutdown.” From what you probably heard in the media, Republicans forced the government shutdown. Actually, Republicans provided funding for most government activities except the problematic Obamacare. Obama orchestrated the shutdown to pin blame on Republicans ^[12] and improve chances for Democrats to retake the House of Representatives in 2014. With media help, the strategy worked perfectly.

Unlike previous shutdowns, agencies got specific orders ^[13] to “make life as difficult for people as we can.” In many cases this actually cost the government more than if they left things running. Breitbart compiled a list of 47 outrages ^[14] the Obama administration committed to pressure Republicans, while Obama consistently refused to negotiate. This list included:

1. Suspending Treatments for Children Suffering From Cancer ^[15]
2. Barricading the World War II Memorial ^[16]
3. Blocking sports and entertainment programming to overseas troops ^[17]
4. Closing the Vietnam Memorial ^[18] and Overseas Memorials ^[19]
5. Closing base exchanges but leaving the Andrews Golf Course open for Obama. ^[20]
6. Forcing residents out of private homes ^[21]
7. Locking Yellowstone tourists in hotel rooms under armed guard ^[22]
8. Closing 1,100 square miles of Florida ocean to fishing ^[23]
9. Closing private businesses on federal land ^[24]
10. Attempting to block people from even LOOKING at Mt. Rushmore ^[25]

Finally, Obama furloughed intelligence operatives ^[26], putting our entire nation at risk, according to his own Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.

When protests over one aspect of the shutdown, the barricades in front of the monuments, became too impossible to ignore, the media smeared the protesters. Leftist “comedian” Bill Maher ^[27] said, “[WW II veterans are] the greatest generation—nobody said they were the brightest generation.” Radio host Bill Press called ^[28] veterans of the Million Vets March ^[29] “Idiots.” Meanwhile Democrats called Republicans ^[30] everything including jihadists, arsonists, blackmailers, and terrorists running around with bombs strapped to their chest.

As a result, the conventional wisdom is that Republicans have suffered from the shutdown. The “conventional wisdom” is provided by the media, and their often-skewed polls ^[31] designed to exaggerate that effect.

Debt Limit Brinkmanship

Prior to the latest debt limit agreement, Obama threatened ^[32] to default on the federal debt—sending jitters through financial markets. It would have been the first default in history. Obama’s Treasury Department also issued areport titled ^[33], The Potential Macroeconomic Effect of Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship. But President Obama was the one engaged in “brinkmanship,” even while accusing Republicans of doing so.

To avoid default, the government needs only to pay interest, about $35 billion per month ^[34]. The Treasury collects about $250 billion per month, more than enough. But Obama claimed he didn’t have the authority.

Read more