A half-hearted Apology for whole-hearted Lies

Included here are portions of the Washington Post article from this past week with quotes from an interview with the president by NBC's Chuck Todd.

President Obama apologized Thursday to Americans who are losing their health insurance despite his repeated promises that they wouldn’t, an unusual act of contrition for a president who has come under heavy criticism for misleading the public.

In a speech before the American Medical Association in June 2009, for instance, Obama said: “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

Obama defended the law several times over the course of the NBC interview, saying many of the people now receiving cancellation notices were in “subpar plans” and would probably benefit from new options — although they aren’t able to see them now because of continued problems with the Web site HealthCare.gov.

Republicans such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) voiced little sympathy for the president after his interview aired Thursday.

“If the president is truly sorry for breaking his promises to the American people, he’ll do more than just issue a half-hearted apology on TV,” McConnell said in a statement. “A great place to start would be to support the [Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ronald H.] Johnson bill that would allow Americans to do what the president promised in the first place: keep the plan they have and like.”

Zachary A. Goldfarb and Scott Wilson contributed to this report.

Years will be given to this "Boondoggle" in order to repair and replace the ills and frills created by a non-partisan health care "Act" which is yet being modified at will by the same folk who passed it through the Congress to begin with.