DEMS ARE LIARS IN DENIAL ABOUT OBAMACARE

Rangel: Obamacare "The Most Exciting Thing That's Happened For The United States Since The Republic Began"

...Asked by MSNBC's Thomas Roberts how he predicted 2014 will go for his campaign, Rangel suggested he would be proud to run on Obamacare.

"Health care is the most exciting thing that's happened for the United States of America since the republic began," Rangel said. "If the health care plan proved to be as bad as the rollout, we've shot crap. But as far as I'm concerned, the 50 million people that hoped, dreamed and prayed that one day they could get insurance no matter what their status was, this is going to start to roll in and all of those people who have been afraid to stand with the president I think will be making a great moral mistake, but more importantly, a great political mistake as well for 2014."

Meanwhile, the Obama Regime is now denying it's own stated goals regarding the number of ObamaCare signups it needs by the end of March in order for this scam plan to work:

White House health care adviser Phil Schiliro denied that the Obama administration ever set Obamacare enrollment goals of 7 million consumers, saying Tuesday it "was never our target number."

Schiliro spoke with MSNBC's Kristen Welker about the stumbling health care law's prospects moving forward. Current numbers show roughly 2 million signups for Obamacare at the end of December - 1 million short of what the White House projected months ago. Previous administration estimates counted on at least 7 million enrollees by the March 31 deadline, with concerns that government health exchanges could function poorly - or even break down - if a smaller number signed up.

But on Tuesday, Schiliro pretended the White House never set a goal of 7 million, even suggesting that benchmarks weren’t necessary at all:

WELKER: Are you confident that you're going to be able to meet your target of getting 7 million people by the end of March? And is that still your target number?

SCHILIRO: Well, that was never our target number. That was a target that was put out by the Congressional Budget Office and has become the accepted number. But there's no –

WELKER: Well Kathleen Sebelius has said 7 million people, that that's the goal.

SCHILIRO: But that was because it came from the Congressional Budget Office and it had become an accepted number. There’s no magic to the 7 million. What there is magic to is that in the month of December, a million Americans signed up for insurance. Not because they had to. They didn't face a penalty if they didn't. They signed up because they wanted insurance on Jan. 1.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did, of course, set a goal of 7 million sign ups back in June, calling it a "realistic target." The White House has since backtracked: In November, spokesman Dan Pfeiffer lowered the bar to simply "as many people as possible." But Tuesday marks the first time an administration official outright denied issuing the target in the first place.

Schiliro said he "wanted to come this morning and give some new numbers" on Obamacare enrollments, but that he was unable to do so at this point. "We don't want to put out any numbers that aren't absolutely accurate," he explained. He promised, however, that state and federal exchange numbers will be impressive when finally released.

Got that?  The Obama Regime "doesn't want to put out any numbers that aren't absolutely accurate."  Sounds legit...

Report: Only half of new ObamaCare enrollees in 17 states have paid first month of premiums

REALLY CHARLIE RANGEL? REALLY??

Harlem's shame, the disgraced Charlie Rangel (D-NY), is suing Speaker John Boehner and six other lawmakers, alleging problems with the House ethics investigation that led to his censure in 2010.

In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, Rangel alleges "numerous, flagrant, knowing and intentional violations" of his due process  rights.

The lawsuit names Boehner; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who was chairwoman of the House ethics committee at the time of the censure; and other committee members and staff. The congressman alleges that evidence was withheld by the committee staff.

The lawsuit doesn't allege any wrongdoing by Boehner. Democrats controlled the chamber and the ethics panel at the time of Rangel's censure. In the complaint, Rangel named Boehner as a defendant because he says it would be up to Boehner to purge the censure from the Congressional Record.

In December 2010, the House voted 333-79 to censure Rangel for multiple ethical misdeeds - including failing to pay taxes for 17 years on rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic and soliciting donations from companies with business before the Ways and Means Committee while he was chairman. The donations were going to a center being built in Rangel's honor at the City College of New York.

Censure is the most serious punishment, short of expulsion, that Congress can impose on one of its own members. Rangel became the first congressman in nearly three decades to be publicly rebuked in such a fashion.

It was a stunning fall for Rangel, who has spent more than four decades in Congress and once chaired the powerful tax-writing committee. He had lost the chairmanship earlier in 2010 in a separate ethics case involving accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean in violation of House rules.

It really should have happened sooner.  Only the fact that Nancy Pelosi was Speaker kept him out of trouble for so long.  Both the New York Times and the New York Post were reporting on his shady dealings in 2008.  But even Pelosi could cover for him only so long.  Rangel doesn't claim that he is innocent, just that he was smeared by his colleagues.

Rangel's lawyer also states that the Harlem lawmaker's due process rights were violated under the Constitution and that the U.S. District Court of D.C. has a responsibility to decide on the case.

"The court cannot, under the circumstances described above, leave undisturbed and without adequate remedy, a plaintiff who has been knowingly, intentionally and willfully denied his right to due process, the protection of his other fundamental rights and his protected liberty interest, where the House has been purposefully misled as described herein: he must have this court to repair to, in order to vindicate his constitutional rights," Rangel's complaint states.

Naturally he's the victim of a conspiracy, not his own greed.

Apparently he believes that his numerous, flagrant, knowing and intentional violations of federal and state tax laws should not have been subject to censure.  This is the problem with a thoroughly corrupt politician who is not held accountable by his constituency.  He is a joke, but nobody is laughing.