Lying Through His Teeth

In my lifetime, a lot of politicians have lied but usually made a pretense at the truth. Not any more. The President goes on TV and lies that he has legal authority to unilaterally grant amnesty to 5M illegals in this country when on multiple occasions in the past he has made a big show about saying that it would be nice but he simply does not have that power under the Constitution. He was right then, but now ... 

Jonathan Gruber spilled the beans on this whole approach when he candidly and publicly said that getting Obamacare into law was so important that they wrote a deliberately obtuse bill and then lied and lied again about its impact. I mean really lied - not little white lies but big fat whoppers like the President saying you can keep your doctor or your health insurance costs will go down $2,500/year. They knew none of this was true but the end justified the means and if the "stupid American people" would swallow this stuff, they deserve what they got.

It's now more of the same from the President. A standard jury instruction is that if a jury finds a witness's testimony false in part, then they are entitled to disbelieve the whole of that testimony. Since pretty much everything this Administration says is a lie and they have admitted they have and will do it solely for political gain, the American people should not believe anything they say. The President is no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt. We have to assume that political expediency dictates what he will say and the heck with the law, trust, honor, or the unbelievably corrosive effect on the Body Politic. Welcome to the Banana Republic of the United States.