The Smothers Brothers

I don't know why, but I thought of these two comedians this AM, in a current context.

The Smothers Brothers were a funny comedy team of several decades ago.  I'd guess their popularity peaked in the  late '60s or early '70s.  They had a television show with what I thought was a funny title, "The Smothers Comedy Brothers Show."  I always found them funny.

One of there schticks was one brother, Tom, going off on some utterly ridiculous rant.  The other brother, Dick, would with logic, just shoot down the rant.  Tom would try to continue, from another angle perhaps, but Dick would still easily thwart his brother with facts and reason.  Finally, left with nothing, Tom would say, "But Mom always liked you best."

I thought of that today, in light of the past few weeks (far longer to anyone not drinking the Kool-Aid being served up by the LameStreams) of revelation after revelation of Obama Administration lies, deception, and other dishonesty.  Die-hard Obama supporters, like Tom Smothers, always had a final retort to any criticism of Obama, "But Bush lied."  That Bush's lie(s) had nothing to do with Obama's ineptitude and dishonesty was irrelevant, "But Bush lied."  It is esp funny now, looking back, at how many folks in everyday conversation just blurted out, "But Bush lied."

Is Obama a pathological liar, in that he lies even when he doesn't have to lie?  Clinton, at least, was trying to protect himself by telling all of his whoppers.  It seems Obama could have easily ended any inquiry by just admitting the truth, esp since it's so easy today to expose a lie. The latest, of course, is Obama's disavowal that he ever heard of this guy Gruber, one of the architects of ObamaCare.  This is despite records of multi-visits to the White House and Obama himself on tape thanking him for his work on ObamaCare.  Hmmm......  Of course there are far more.

One of them is "You can keep your health insurance, the same coverage you have now, and it won't cost you a penny more."  Or something like that.  Well, as I noted in a mass e-mail I sent out last week, I now pay almost $1500 more a year for "the same coverage," except it's not the same coverage.  My deductibles and co-pays have risen, too.  In my mass e-mail, I invited any ObamaCare supporters, those who believed Obama (certainly Congressman Wilson of SC, of "You lie!" fame didn't), to send me a check for $1500 ("Let's just make it even.") to counteract Obama's lies.  We now know, thanks to recordings of speeches and testimony from Gruber, that lies and other obfuscation were used to pass ObamaCare.  These liars even bamboozled the CBO in order to get the lesser figures they wanted for predicted costs.  And, as noted, they also figured American voters were "too stupid" to figure out the truth.  Now, that might have been something factual, that US voters are too stupid......

Of course, we can always fall back on the tried and true.  "But Bush lied......"