Newspaper: Stop the charade over Obamacare

If we've learned anything over the six months (with Obama's failed stimulus package, record deficit spending, his lack of accountability with TARP money and his cap-and-trade energy tax), it's that we can't trust anything he says.

An editorial in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review exposing the flawed Obama government-run health care plan:

Badly overexposed and his salesmanship abilities in deep question, President Obama is scheduled to take to the airwaves tonight to yet again attempt to sell the unsellable and defend the indefensible.

Yes, the president will use a nationally televised prime-time news conference (at 8 p.m.) to push his health-care "reform" package that even government auditors say is not fiscally sustainable.

Worse, though, is that he will continue to ascribe political and personal motives to those who have the courage to defend freedom and liberty against his clearly socialistic prescription.

America's supposedly first "post-partisan" president and his minions are fully engaged in the politics of personal destruction and Orwellian twisting to mask the administration's miscalculations and mistakes.

But no amount of Chicago-brand slicksterism can alter the facts. Government and consumer costs would rise under ObamaCare. Choice would be limited. Care would be rationed. And, yes, people will die by government's "beneficent" hand.

And yet the president tonight will continue to insist that his "reform" plan is the answer, that those who know better are catering to their personal and political interests instead of "the community's" and he will offer some variation of "We must have the courage to act now."

Actually, America must muster the courage to stop the ObamaCare charade. Failure to do so will represent the failure of a nation.