My congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) should issue a profound apology to his 750,000 constituents for his nine years of lies about the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). From Day One in the 2009 debate over the ACA passed March 27, 2010, Roskam was all in on the GOP's Big Lie that the ACA was a 'job killer'. Roskam fully supported GOP response legislation with the lying title 'Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Act.' In the ensuing nine years Roskam hurled the job killing whopper loudly and often.

Though still a fierce opponent of the ACA which has given 20,000,000 of America's needy first time health insurance and arguably saved 50,000 lives, Roskam has gone silent on his ACA job killing lie. It certainly isn't guilt over a lie that caused his nose to stretch from one end of his gerrymandered district to the other. No, it's likely the report of the non-profit health care think tank Altarum, that the ACA was a huge JOB CREATOR, adding 240,000 health care jobs during the first three years of the ACA's full implementation. And the jobs were good ones including doctors, nurses, and other skilled health care professionals. No burger flippers among that quarter million increase. It's not hard for us Average Joe's to figure out the ACA as a job creation engine. Add 20,000,000 customers to any industry and you'll stimulate an avalanche of new jobs. That truth wasn't lost on Roskam who chose to spew lies instead to curry favor with his anti Obama, anti government base. Exploiting the tens of millions of vulnerable Americans seeking health care with lies to play politics is not leadership. It is unconscionable.

Roskam's ACA lies are not unforgivable. A genuine apology and promise to make amends seeking to insure the balance of 40,000,000 uninsured will be celebrated. The road to redemption begins with the truth.