Editorial dishonesty

I am not surprised to see that your July 5 editorial “Focus on getting Obamacare right” was laced with half-truths with a bit of dishonesty thrown in.

You said the efforts of formidable Nancy Pelosi got the bill passed: half-truth. It was a rarely used parliamentary trick that got the bill through Congress. A lot of Democrats had to be cajoled to vote for it.

You said House Republicans voted 37 times to repeal the entire law: dishonest. You failed to indicate that the Senate Democrats did not vote on any of them. None of them were ever brought to the floor or even discussed. How can you “tweak” the law if the Senate Democrats bury their heads in the sand? Tell the whole story.

You refer to a $2,000-per-employee “penalty”: Dishonesty. I must assume you were asleep when the Supreme Court’s chief justice legislated from the bench and changed the Obamacare penalties to taxes.

You blame private companies for one of the reasons for the delay: dishonest. That’s like saying it was the student’s fault that he failed the exam even though the teacher never showed up to teach. This is an Obama-ism — always someone else’s fault.

So let me get this straight. The reason for the delay is because of the House Republicans and private companies, not the fact that the Democrats did not even know what was in the law when they voted for it, the law is very complicated and over 2,000 pages, the accompanying regulations are over 10,000 pages, the law will be managed by the IRS which has managerial issues, the midterm elections are coming up and the majority of Americans hate it, making it difficult for Democrats to get re-elected.

It looks like you missed on this editorial, or maybe it is someone else’s fault.