Mendacity et al

            Mendacity, cynicism, hypocrisy.  These three words, in my opinion, characterize the Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate.

            Mendacity is the propensity to utter falsehoods, to hide the truth, to lie.  Not only did President Obama lie to the nation when he said people could keep their health plan, keep their doctors, and see reduced health costs, he repeated the lie over 30 times.  Presidential spokesperson Jay Carney, the man one congressman called a professional liar, defended the lie, as did a long list of Democrats in the Senate, including North Carolina's own prevaricator Kay Hagan. 
            And let's not forget the monstrous lie perpetrated by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in declaring that the loss of lives in Benghazi had been caused by a video, when they knew all along that it had been the result of a pre-planned terrorist attack.
            As for cynicism, what could be more cynical than Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats invoking the nuclear option to prevent filibusters, the only tool the minority had to stop Obama from stacking the courts with the most radical leftist judges?  Let's remember what Senator Obama said in opposition to Republicans changing this rule: "One day the Democrats will be in the majority again, and this rule change will be no fairer to a Republican minority than it is to a Democratic minority."  In 2005 Harry Reid himself said such a rule change would be an "assault on democracy."  Now that's cynicism.
            As for hypocrisy, we only have to recall the promise that the Obama administration would be the most transparent one in American history.  The obfuscation, stone-walling, and paranoid secrecy pervading the White House and the Justice Department are the very opposite of transparency.  Consider the lack of candor and co-operation in the investigations of Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and NSA surveillance.  Add to that the punishment and blacklisting of any insiders who dare to tell the truth; whistleblowers are routinely fired, but the guilty are sent on paid vacations.
            In spite of all the malfeasance, supporters claim it is all constitutional.  If it is, then I would have to agree with Charles Krauthammer who calls it "constitutional indecency."  Indecency, I was taught as a boy, is shameful.  Not in Washington.