President Obama frequently blames the unpopularity of his health care reform on the “scare tactics” of his meany critics. For example (but it is only one of many), ABC News posted a transcript of an interview on Nightline, noting that one point that “The president blows it [reform unpopularity] off and blames his critics and their ‘scare tactics.’”
Today, the president who is always so critical of “scare tactics” told Charlie Gibson of ABC News that if his health care reform is not passed “the federal government “will go bankrupt.”
And that’s not the worst of it.
The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails.
“If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year….
Aren’t we fortunate to have a post-partisan president who eschews scare tactics,
