Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential wannabe Reverend Ricky Perry is calling ObamaCare “the closest this country has ever come to outright socialism” and in his political manifesto, Fed Up Ricky claimed the individual mandate was, “a total outrage;” he’s also declared if – God forbid – he was elected President he would use an executive order to repeal or block as much of ObamaCare as he possibly can.
This is all very interesting, but during the Clinton presidency Ricky wrote a letter to First Lady Hillary Clinton saying, “I think your efforts in trying to reform the nation’s health care system are most commendable.”
Ricky also asked Clinton to “give particular attention to the needs of the nation’s farmers, ranchers, agriculture workers, and other members of rural communities,” noting that many of them were uninsured and faced shortages of healthcare services. “Again,” Perry wrote in conclusion, “your efforts are worthy…. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance.”
Perry spokesman Dave Carney defended the Reverend’s letter stating, “You need to read the letter. He praised her efforts in trying to tackle the issue and urged her not to overlook rural Americans. The letter was at the onset of her efforts before she proposed anything. No one could have imagined the horrible monstrosity she cooked up, in fact not to be outdone until ObamaCare years later.”
Carney needs to go back and read history about the 1992 campaign, if he did he would discover that then candidate Clinton was not shy on pushing for an individual mandate, a single payer program; so, either Carney is ignorant of the facts or he’s a liar. Perry knew full well what kind of healthcare program Hillary Clinton would be looking to implement.
Ricky however is also pleading the case of ignorance telling Sean Hannity he was clueless as to what the ultimate outcome of Clinton’s healthcare task force was, “I didn’t want them collectively to overlook a very important constituency. I had no idea that was going to be the end product. What I thought they were truly going to work towards was trying to reform healthcare, and we had no idea, and then now we’ve got ObamaCare.”
Reverend Perry – like his spokesman – is either ignorant to facts of history or he’s a bald faced liar; I think it’s the latter.
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