A campaign of organized, conscious mendacity
By Jay Bookman
Forty.
As their last official act before leaving on a five-week recess, House Republicans voted Friday for the 40th time to repeal or undo ObamaCare. Their vehicle this time was the Keep The IRS Off Our Health Care Bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Price of Marietta.
According to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the law is needed because otherwise, the IRS “will have access to the American people’s protected health care information” and, he implied, might use that against the administration's political enemies.
It's a theme that Cantor has hit repeatedly. "The doctor’s office is the last place anyone would want to find the IRS," he said in a radio speech last week. "Your health care information is private and should remain so."
It is also a bald-faced, blatant lie, a lie that exposes the moral bankruptcy of the case that Cantor and others are attempting to make. There is no conceivable means under federal law for the IRS to access "the American people's protected health care information," and he knows it. His intent is to foster paranoia and distrust in the government, and if he can't make that argument by telling the truth, he is perfectly willing to make it by telling falsehoods.
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