John Perr — GOP Deploys Team Bush to Accuse Obama of Lying

For Republicans, nothing succeeds like failure. For proof, look no further than your television screen or the pages of the Washington Post. There, you will find George W. Bush's Iraq war salesman Andrew Card and speechwriter turned torture enthusiast Marc Thiessen calling President Obama a liar over his pledge that Americans could keep their current health insurance under the Affordable Care Act

To be sure, Obama cut corners in not stressing often enough that employers (as they have for years) might choose to alter their workers' coverage or that insurers selling substandard individual policies not grandfathered by the ACA in March 2010 would have to amend, replace or drop them. But for former Bush chief of staff Andy Card, Obama's was an effort "to mislead the American people for so long":

"So I do think words matter when they come out of the President's mouth, and people at the White House understand that and they should be helping to make sure his words are taken for what they are, the truth."

That's an amazing claim for Card to make, given his vital role in helping George W. Bush sell the Iraq war to the American people. It was Card, after all, who famously declared late in the summer of 2002:

''From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.''

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GOP Deploys Team Bush to Accuse Obama of Lying
John Perr