Ramesh Ponnuru dismantles the “willful misrepresentations and outright distortions” put forth by the Liar in Chief and his commie cronies:

Count on it: If liberals lose on health care — either because no major legislation passes or because they consider whatever legislation does pass inadequate — they are going to blame the loss on a campaign of deception by their critics. While liberals have more political power now than at any point in at least three decades, they also have a generation of experience at being sore losers. So the town-hall protesters are going to be 2009’s version of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Bush v. Gore, or the people who ran the Willie Horton ads: a way for liberals to blame political disappointment on the perfidy of their opponents and thus make it a token of their own moral superiority. That way, they will not have to contemplate the possibility that the public has a rational basis for opposing their health-care proposals.

Liberals have a double standard on this question. They act as though any conservative who calls the Democrats’ health-care legislation a government takeover is uninformed, nuts, or cynically trying to take advantage of people who are uninformed or nuts. But they do not so treat other liberals who say that the bill will lead over time to a single-payer system. The bills include a “public option”: a new government-run insurance program open to anyone who wants in. Many liberals, such as the influential health-care expert Jacob Hacker, predict that this new government program will gradually take over — er, make that fill — the insurance market. (Mark Schmitt, writing at the liberal American Prospect’s website, says that the public option was designed to lead to single payer.) If it is reasonable to think that the bills will lead to a single-payer system, then isn’t it reasonable to say that the bills establish socialized medicine?

The only way to answer that question negatively is to deny that even single-payer — a government monopoly or near-monopoly on the financing of health care — would amount to socialized medicine. Ezra Klein has tried this gambit in the Washington Post. He notes that in single-payer systems the government does not employ health-care workers or “own the doctors.” The distinction between being employed by the government and paid by it may not be quite as important as Klein makes it out to be. But his unfortunate choice of the word “own” is instructive.

It surely is. But such a lapse into unintentional honesty merely underscores the fact that liberal-fascists always have to lie to sneak their collectivist agenda through, a tactic that has led to distorting even the very meaning of what “distortion” is. They’ve lied so much over the years, while angrily accusing their opponents of “lying,” that one needs hip waders, a compass, and a dictionary to untangle their hypocritical, dishonest propaganda at even the most elementary level. One reason I use sneer quotes so often around here, apart from the fact that they amuse me, is that they make it a lot easier to make the all-important distinction between the truth and whatever taradiddle some liberal excrescence is shoveling out his pie-hole at any given moment.

As good and incisive as this article is, though, Ramesh still seems inclined to give King Obama the benefit of the doubt, saying that “many of his falsehoods are no doubt unintentional.” There is absolutely no reason in the world to assume this, other than the forlorn hope that this charlatan simply can’t be as bad as his every word, tendency, and action clearly tell us he is.

As McCarthy said yesterday, Obama is not a good man to whom bad things are happening. He is a bad man, doing bad things to our country, and doing them in the most underhanded and deceitful way imaginable. He isn’t a swell but naive guy who’s been hoodwinked by the bad people he’s surrounded himself with his entire life; he is one of them, through and through. Obama is Jones is Ayers is Dorn is Wright is Holdren is the whole psych-ward circus of cracked, left-wing-revolutionary clowns. He may present a pretty face, a pleasant smile, and a courtly manner when he wishes to, but underneath the mask he’s all authoritarian degeneracy and collectivist rot. Based on what we’ve seen and heard from him, there is simply no other conclusion to be reached; anything else is just wishful thinking and/or misguided courtesy.

Update! The monster Palin unleashes still more truth on the lying clods; TEH OUTRAGE!1!eleventy™ surely to follow. Why, just read some of this hideous fascist moron’s outrageously outrageous swill:

Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another, and not over one another” as our health-care debate moves forward.

I couldn’t agree more. Let’s engage the other side’s arguments, and let’s allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats’ health-care proposals should become governing law.

SEE THAT? SEE IT?!? This unruly right-wing thug is attempting to shout down her opponents and stifle debate! JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY!!!

No-brainer update! Camille Paglia asks: “Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans?” Umm, because they don’t actually know any? I mean, preferring as they do to spend their time sucking up to nutjobs, whackadoodles, and sundry America-hating radicals while launching frothing attacks against ordinary Americans as angry, Astroturfed, Hitler-loving mobs…