Lies & their derivatives

When did lying become the dominant political default position? That is followed with lying about the lie by calling it a misstatement or an oversight. Then it’s all ignored by the media and the entire country is expected to play this ignorance game as if we can’t see the lies staring us in the face.

This has become a systemic problem in this White House, beginning with the Stimulus Package.

The Stimulus Package has been a boondoggle. The economy has leveled out a little, but honestly it has been more in spite of the stimulus not because of it. The economy would have righted itself had it not been meddled with, but piling on debt from the stimulus looks like someone is doing something. It didn’t matter if it was the right thing.

The few jobs created came at a $500,000 each price tag. Few if any jobs were created in the private sector that is still hemorrhaging. Nothing about this Stimulus Pkg has done what was promised. Yet, the Obama administration keeps declaring victory by saying, “It could have been worse.” Really? No doubt that is true. However, this administration continues to claim superior intelligence and Nobel prizes know everything. Yet they seem to miss the fact that the 9.7% unemployment rate is not below 8%. Continuing to tell the American people “it could be worse” does not counteract the fact that they had no idea what they were doing and shoved this bill down the people’s throat and pretend it’s working. It’s not. IT IS A LIE.

Now, they’ve done it again with the new financial package that is supposed to prevent another bail out crisis. However, the leading banner-carrier for this legislation publicly stated that they won’t know if it works until we have another crisis. HUH? Talk about a circular argument. They have no idea what this financial package will do, who it will hurt, or what the collateral damage might be, yet they pat themselves on the back because their computer models tell them it will be great, even if it isn’t. IT IS A LIE.

Thus is the “logic” of the Obama Administration. Let’s try theories and computer models and inflict risky financial legislation onto American business and Americans. Then let’s watch to see what happens. I mean, they could look at our country’s history and previous economic woes and see that universally the one common thread that helped the economy recover has always been tax cuts. If you cut taxes there are more funds in Americans’ pockets to spend, which in turn creates jobs, which then produces more tax revenue. Taking money away from taxpayers prevents them from spending, causes unemployment, and ultimately causes serious economic problems. This happens every time taxes are raised. Every time. Yet they prefer to say government is the only way to save our economy. IT IS A LIE.

Let's move to health care. The debate droned on for almost a year. The key selling points to Democrats was that it would save money and reduce the debt and lower costs for American families. Low and behold, six months after the bill passed, the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) releases its updated figures. Not only will this program not save money, it will add to the deficit and substantially increase the costs to American families. Rather than re-examine the financial manipulation or even the practicality of this broad, damaging legislation, the Obama Administration pretends there is no difference, as if the financial damage to our country won't really occur. IT IS A LIE.

For a different kind of lie, just this week, Ken Salazar, former Colorado Senator and now the (completely inept) Secretary of the Interior, LIED and doctored reports on offshore drilling insisting that experts said drilling should be shut down. Said experts cried foul. They did not say that and, in fact, they said the opposite, that stopping drilling was not required and would damage the Gulf economy further. Salazar ignored that, the mainstream media ignored that, and President Obama ignored that, continuing to insist the drilling must be stopped according to experts. The drilling has now stopped and oil rigs are moving to other countries, further devastating the Gulf Coast economy. This is not a misstatement, miscalculation, or difference of interpretation. IT IS A LIE.

While we are on Salazar, last week, he defended pulling 77 oil lease contracts granted in the final days of the George W. Bush administration. Salazar's own inspector general concluded that there was no evidence of any rush to auction off the parcels -- as Salazar claimed. In fact, the leases were granted only after seven full years of rigorous study and debate. Leases have been pulled anyway. Again, this is not a misinterpretation. IT IS A LIE. This is a little thing, but in the U.S. struggle to be energy efficient and the continuing insistence by the Obama administration that they know more and know better than experts and the American people, this counts. A lot.

My favorite lie of the week has been over this Sherrod affair. Andrew Breitbart was set up. He was sent a doctored video and he went with it. His bad, he should have followed up and asked to see the entire video, but he didn’t, and neither did Fox News, the NAACP, or the Obama Administration. The interesting thing is that Fox News is being blamed for this woman’s dismissal. She was told on the phone to resign because she was going to be “on Glenn Beck” that night. Except that she wasn’t. LIE. Beck didn’t even talk about her. In fact, Beck’s first mention of her was the following day when he took her side and insisted the context should be examined before any steps were taken. The first Fox Report about her was Bill O’Reilly who has already apologized for not doing his own homework and checking the context. But O’Reilly’s report was at least an hour after Ms Sherrod had resigned. No one, no one on Fox mentioned Ms Sherrod until after she had resigned/was fired. So how could they be responsible for it? Of course, that isn’t stopping the NAACP, the Obama Administration, nor Ms Sherrod from accusing Fox of this fiasco. Again. IT IS A LIE.

This administration has become a joke of lies, manipulation (typically of its own party), and misdirection. All this discussion about racism and Ms Sherrod is ridiculous chatter usurping the news cycles and keeping Americans from focusing on the important stuff … unemployment, the economy and joblessness.

Need one more lie? Just a little one. Remember how President Obama insisted he “would not rest” until the Gulf oil spill was stopped and cleaned up? Then he went to play golf, and on three vacations, and singing with Paul McCartney at the White House (and a party there every Wednesday since). IT IS A LIE. But you already knew that.

Source material, Michelle Malkin's article today, "The Democrats War on the West."