Mr. President, President Obama and congressional Democrats tried to sell the American people on their clunker of a health care law by saying it would bring down Federal health care spending. That would have been a miracle if it were true. But even the Obama administration's own actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has confirmed that claim was false and that Federal spending on health care would actually increase as the result of the health spending law. Some estimate as much as $2,100 per policy. The Cash for Clunkers Program was bad enough, but Democrats managed to outdo themselves spending $2.6 trillion in cash for this clunker of a health care law. This reminds me of a scene from the movie ``Vacation.'' At the beginning of that film, Clark Griswold goes into a dealership to buy a new car before setting off with his family for a cross-country trip to Wally World. Yet instead of getting the new car he had ordered as part of a trade-in, the dealer gave him a pea green Family Truckster, as we can see in this beautiful photograph. Chevy Chase was, of course, Griswold. One only had to look at the Family Truckster to know that it was a lemon. Clark told the dealer he wanted his old car back. Unfortunately for Clark--or the actor, in this case--his old car was crushed before he could get it back. You can imagine the consternation Chevy Chase faced. You can see the Family Truckster in this picture behind me.…
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