http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=999B86A8-9E9E-452F-8587-DA1CB644D91D Trey Gowdy: President Obama's ACA ‘fiction’
By: Lucy McCalmont
November 5, 2013 08:24 AM EST
Rep. Trey Gowdy says President Barack Obama’s latest comments about his health care law could earn him another Nobel Prize — for fiction.
“The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace, I think he’s shooting for one in fiction,” Gowdy (R-S.C) said Monday on Fox News’s “The Kelly File.”
Gowdy hit the president on changing his language on whether people would be able to keep their insurance plans under Obamacare, after host Megyn Kelly made reference to remarks Obama made Monday regarding existing coverage.
“What we said was you could keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed,” Obama said on Monday night, in a new claim about who could keep their plans.
Gowdy responded, “I could have sworn he said ‘period’ at the end of that statement [in the past] and now he’s added a rather a lengthy footnote.”
The South Carolina Republican also criticized the president for not admitting he made a mistake for saying repeatedly for years that everyone could keep their plans if they wanted to.
“Instead of saying, ‘We made a mistake,’ even, ‘We made an intentional misstatement, we need you to forgive us,’ the response is to evade and to answer questions falsely and then the worst of all is to assume the American people are stupid enough to believe the explanation that he came up with today,” Gowdy said.
