The Prevaricator in Chief Speaks Again

I still haven’t decided whether our President is an extremely good liar or is delusional. Given we’ve been inundated with MSM stories telling us how bright the man is I have no option other than to conclude he’s raised deception to an art form. So we get to hear him tell us he’s tried his darnedest to work with Republicans while in reality his party has shut out the opposition party at every turn. He’s claimed he’s wanted to usher in a new period of bipartisanship while trashing anyone who doesn’t agree with him.

However, it would take the most talented ad man on Madison Avenue to come up with an adjective capable of modifying the noun “cojones” and creating in the mind’s eye anything as enormous as are Obama’s when he can say this without blinking:

Barack Obama: “We’ve been very fiscally responsible.”

Now, I’m sure there are some persons who’d say “The government ran a budget surplus under Clinton.” True enough. But he was dragged kicking and screaming to that balanced budget by Republicans then in Congress. Those same Obama apologists might also claim that Bush was handed a surplus and soon turned that into a deficit. They’ve got me there, I admit. But Bush was faced with 9/11 and creating the mess that is Homeland Security. And I’m on record as having been against the likes of No Child Left Behind and the Medicare Prescription Drug program. The biggest budget busters of the Bush administration were TARP and the auto bailouts. It’s pretty difficult for Obama to claim Republican profligacy when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and voted for these programs; the final vote tallies included the “ayes” of one Barack Hussein Obama.

Then came an $800 billion stimulus program. This single bill passed at the onset of Obama’s reign was larger than any single-year deficit in any of the eight Bush years. Democrats insist this level of spending was and is necessary to “save” the US from an economic meltdown. But Obama has proposed deficit spending for as far as the eye can see.