Dr. Hanson Schools President Obama
If you haven’t read Victor Davis Hanson’s article for NRO, put that down as today’s must reading. VDH excoriates President Obama for “making things up.” I particularly appreciate the fact that he isn’t gentle in his excoriation of President Obama. Here’s a sample:
The “Big Lie.” Team Obama says that Judge Sotomayor misspoke when she asserted that Latinas were inherently better judges than white males. Yet the people around Obama knew before Sotomayor was nominated that she has reiterated such racialist sentiments repeatedly over many years.
Obama complained that his deficits were largely inherited, even though his newly projected annual deficit and aggregate increase in the national debt may well, if they are not circumvented, equal all the deficit spending compiled by all previous administrations combined.
The president lectures Congress on its financial excesses. He advocates “pay as you go” budgeting. But he remains silent about the unfunded liabilities involved in his own proposals for cap-and-trade, universal health care, and education reform, which will in aggregate require well over a trillion dollars in new spending on top of existing deficits — but without any “pay as you go” proposals to fund them.
By the same token, his promise that 95 percent of Americans will receive an Obama “tax cut” is impossible. Remember, almost 40 percent of households currently pay no income taxes at all, and the $1.7-trillion annual deficit will necessitate a broad array of taxes well beyond those assessed on incomes above $250,000.
Obama talks about cutting federal outlays by eliminating $17 billion in expenditures, one-half of one percent of a $3.4-trillion budget. Here the gap between rhetoric and reality is already so wide that it simply makes no difference whether one goes completely beyond the limits of belief. Why would a liberal “budget hawk” go through the trouble of trying to cut 10 or 20 percent of the budget when he might as well celebrate a 0.5 percent cut and receive the same amount of credit or disdain? If one is going to distort, one might as well distort whole-hog.
Simply put, there isn’t a whopper that President Obama isn’t willing to tell if he thinks it’ll help him win an argument. President Obama hasn’t proven an ability to say no to telling big whoppers. I suspect that that’s because he’s willing to do anything to accumulate power and praise. Simply put, he’s a narcissist, perfectly willing to say anything to anyone if it’s said in the furtherance of achieving a goal.
President Obama isn’t the only administration official who is comfortable with telling whoppers. Vice President Biden is adept at it, too:
Vice President Joe Biden says “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the economic stimulus. Biden says the economy was worse off than anyone thought when officials estimated the number of jobs that could be saved or created under the administration’s $787 billion stimulus spending.
It’s long past time since the fawning traditional media held Democrats accountable on anything that wasn’t a scandal. If they scrutinized this administration’s statements and actions properly, this administration would have a job approval rating in the 40s.
Did anyone on the networks, other than Jake Tapper, report that Caterpillar’s CEO disputed President Obama’s statement about the impact of President Obama’s stimulus plan? Has anyone at the networks challenged President Obama’s saved or created nonsense?
As long as the traditional media treat President Obama with kid gloves, this administration’s lies will continue.
Fortunately for the American people, they don’t have to rely on the traditional media for their information. Fortunately, blogs and right-leaning websites like NRO are perfectly content to hold President Obama accountable for his doublespeak.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog