Matt Welch on the Death of Obama's "Noble Lie"
The disastrous ObamaCare rollout unmasks liberalism's paternalistic dishonesty.
Back in 2009, to accuse President Barack Obama of lying about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was to crawl onto a pretty lonely branch. Things have changed since then. His administration has created a bubble of deception surrounding ObamaCare that will affect millions of Americans for years to come. Matt Welch says that a lie this ignoble should stain the credibility of everyone who perpetuated it.
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