Your federal tax dollars are being used to send out this fancy Medicare brochure (PDF) to tout the glories and benefits of our Dear Leader’s health care deform plan.If a Republican had done this, Henry Waxman would be demanding an investigation while drafting articles of impeachment. It is actually against the law for the government to propagandize to the American public, but that is exactly what’s happening here.A number of the claims in the brochure are flat out lies and most are great distortions of the truth. It’s all being paid for by you and me. It comes on the heels of Barack Obama trying to yet again sell his health care plan.Why sell it when it does not go into effect for a few more years and it has already passed Congress? To improve Democrats’ chances in November, of course. Duh.Let’s take a walk down memory lane and remember that past performance is the best indication of future success. So you liberals shouldn’t expect this time will be any more successful than all the other times.June 7, 2010: “Tomorrow, Democrats and the White House will hold more than 100 simultaneous events nationwide as President Obama plunges back into health reform, selling the historic plan all over again…” (Politico Playbook) “White House Mounts PR Blitz for Health Care Reform” (AOL News)May 18, 2010: “White House seeks missing health bounce. The White House is aggressively touting the new healthcare law after failing to see an immediate bounce in polls from congressional approval of the legislation.” (The Hill)May 11, 2010: “White House health-care campaign begins. The Obama administration’s campaign to sell the new health-care law to a skeptical public is beginning to take shape…” (The Washington Post)May 8, 2010: “President Barack Obama on Saturday touted the benefits of his healthcare overhaul, renewing a bid to counter Republican criticism and ease public doubts more than a month after he signed reform into law.” (Reuters)April 22, 2010: “Stephanie Cutter, the Democratic communications strategist who spearheaded the White House effort last year to win Senate confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, is returning to the Obama administration to help sell the newly passed health care bill.” (The New York Times)March 24, 2010: “Clearly, inside the White House there is acknowledgement that Republicans outmaneuvered Democrats in the weeks after the stimulus bill passed and did a better job of defining for the public what was in that bill. … The White House is determined to learn from that experience. ‘Obama and the Democrats won’t make the same mistake,’ said Thomas Mann, who studies Congress for the Brookings Institution.” (CongressDaily)March 22, 2010: “President Obama is set to begin an immediate public relations blitz aimed at turning around Americans’ opinion of the health-care bill.” (The Washington Post )March 21, 2010: “Obama is set to begin an immediate public-relations blitz aimed at turning around Americans’ opinion of health-care overhaul … And it could not come soon enough for some nervous House members, many of whom have been disappointed by the weak support they have received from the administration and Democratic groups.” (The Seattle Times)March 16, 2010: “President Obama is touting the latest version of health care reform as a measure that should draw bipartisan support — and in a way, it does. Both sides hate it. In the windup to final consideration of reform, the White House is honing its message… (Washington Examiner)March 13, 2010: “President Barack Obama’s pollster said the healthcare bill will win over public support once it becomes law despite polls showing Americans against the plan.” (The Hill)February 15, 2010: “White House officials are retooling the administration’s communications strategy to produce faster responses to political adversaries… Obama has publicly expressed frustration recently that his broader message, especially on health-care reform and the economy, has not been received.” (The Washington Post)December 22, 2009: “With a health care overhaul inching closer to reality, Democrats have begun devising and testing arguments to persuade a skeptical public that passage of the bill justifies keeping President Barack Obama’s party in power in the 2010 elections.” (Chicago Tribune)September 21, 2009: “The president’s Sunday blitz — which skipped Fox News Channel — marked yet another effort to explain to a divided public why he is trying to remake the healthcare system.” (Los Angeles Times)September 7, 2009: “Obama prepares to try to reclaim lost ground in health debate — again. … Obama’s heavily anticipated address to a joint session of Congress comes just six weeks after the White House tried to reclaim the healthcare debate in a nationally televised primetime press conference.” (The Hill)September 2, 2009: “Eager to turn the page after a politically damaging month, President Barack Obama will launch a new push next week to overhaul health care, highlighted by an evening address next Wednesday to a joint session of Congress.” (McClatchy Newspapers)August 19, 2009: “White House Rethinks How It Sells Health Overhaul. More Emotional Appeal May Surface as Obama’s Backers Criticize Him for Focusing on Regulatory Details Instead of Lofty Themes.” (The Wall Street Journal)August 10, 2009: “Under Pressure on Health Care, White House Fights Back. The White House on Monday started a new Web site to fight questionable but potentially damaging charges… But in introducing the Web site, White House officials were tacitly acknowledging a difficult reality: they are suddenly at risk of losing control of the public debate over a signature issue…” (The New York Times)July 22, 2009: “Obama Moves to Reclaim the Debate on Health Care. …Mr. Obama used the news conference to take his message over the heads of lawmakers and straight to the public.” (The New York Times)July 19, 2009: “The tightly programmed White House also is champing at the bit, kicking off what officials say will be a relentless three-week push on health care, starting with the hastily scheduled Friday address.” (Politico)May 13, 2009: “Democrats to Develop Plan to Sell Health Care. … Senate Democrats met for more than an hour at the Capitol with David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, and Jim Messina, a deputy White House chief of staff. ‘Axelrod came to reassure us that they do have a strategy,’ Mr. Bayh said.” (The New York Times)