{"id":19374,"date":"2013-11-09T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19374"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:27:49","slug":"mccarthy-obamacare-fraud-a-reason-to-impeach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19374\/mccarthy-obamacare-fraud-a-reason-to-impeach\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy: Obamacare Fraud a Reason to Impeach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to a former federal prosecutor to make the case for impeaching President Barack Obama over the latter&#8217;s massive fraud regarding the security of insurance policies after Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFraud is a serious federal felony, usually punishable by up to 20 years\u2019 imprisonment \u2014 with every repetition of a fraudulent communication chargeable as a separate crime,\u201d writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/363538\/obamas-massive-fraud-andrew-c-mccarthy \" target=\"_blank\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a>. \u201cIn computing sentences, federal sentencing guidelines factor in such considerations as the dollar value of the fraud, the number of victims, and the degree to which the offender\u2019s treachery breaches any special fiduciary duties he owes. Cases of multi-million-dollar corporate frauds \u2014 to say nothing of multi-billion-dollar, Bernie Madoff\u2013level scams that nevertheless pale beside Obamacare\u2019s dimensions \u2014 often result in terms amounting to decades in the slammer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As everyone knows by now, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19339\/whitehouse-gov-contradicts-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama has lied repeatedly since at least 2010<\/a> that Americans who like their insurance will be able to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>But just because Obama won\u2019t be prosecuted doesn\u2019t mean that his actions should go unpunished. As McCarthy reminds us, the standard for impeachment is \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors,\u201d which Alexander Hamilton argued in the <em>Federalist Papers<\/em> as relating \u201cchiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I agree with McCarthy that the billions of dollars lost by millions of health insurance consumers seems to qualify as a massive injury to society perpetuated by the man in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/363538\/obamas-massive-fraud-andrew-c-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to a former federal prosecutor to make the case for impeaching President Barack Obama over the latter&#8217;s massive fraud regarding the security of insurance policies after Obamacare. \u201cFraud is a serious federal felony, usually punishable by up to 20 years\u2019 imprisonment \u2014 with every repetition of a fraudulent communication chargeable as a separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3242,3308,4167,1829,24,35],"class_list":["post-19374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fraud","tag-health","tag-impeach","tag-insurance","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19374"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19385,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions\/19385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}