We already know that the MSM isn’t going to be truthful, and I highly doubt that Obama will either. So, we the enlightened rednecks of RedState (as opposed to the – ugh – intellectual elites of the radical left) know this, and nod our heads in agreement, but unless the uninformed masses out there somehow “see the light”, the lies and deception and hypocrisy will continue. I just want to jump up and down, shouting “but Mommy, the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes”.

When one talking head after another blames this on, and I quote, “Eight years of Republican rule”, while conveniently ignoring the glaring fact that the Democrats controlled both the Senate and House for the last two.

Obama may try to skirt the blame for the deficits, and I hope he is not allowed to succeed, but the Democrat Party surely cannot. To do so would require a suspension of disbelief of which depths even the Obama media has not plumbed.

…will show that GWB was responsible as well for the deficits in the 1980s, and will also be responsible for deficits into the 22nd century. On the other hand, if the country develops budget surpluses in the 23rd century, that will solely be because of the beneficence of BHO.

Because you never know what he is going to say next, nor if what he said yesterday is true today.

Take a crash course in Obama jive talking.

I think we need to invent some kind of closing tag, akin to “/sarcasm”, to indicate that we are done writing about what is happening in the real world, and are going to back to thinking about life in the mainstream media world.

Something along the lines of:

“If Bush is responsible for the last year of Clinton’s presidency, than Obama is responsible for the last year of Bush’s.”
/real

…just read this web site? It matters because Clinton has been given a pass all these years. Bush inherited a recession, 9/11, the dot com bubble and a Congress that wouldn’t listen to him when he tried to warn them about Fannie and Freddie. Craig Steiner gets his data from The U.S. Treasury. The rest of his site is great too.

The Myth of the Clinton Surplus

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

Congress

The Democrats have controlled Congress since the elections of 2006. They are responsible for the deficits of this year, last year, and the year before.

They could blame a “Bush Budget,” but it is the current Congress That has yet to pass an Omnibus Budget for this year, because they never got the budget done last year!

President Obama

Bush can take the blame for the first $350 billion of the great bank bailout, but the second half … another $350 billion … was specifically held back until Obama could decide how to spend it.

The $787 billion stimulus package was written and passed entirely on Obama’s watch.

When Congress completes it, Obama will also sign off on the 2009 Omnibus Budget Bill. Make no mistake: that is this year’s Fiscal 2009 Budget … Bush didn’t write it.

The Republican Party

We are not off the hook. Years of Republican Congresses and our Republican President let the budget get out of control. The Party did not lose elections in 2006 and 2008 because of Iraq or Ideology … we lost because we abandoned fiscal responsibility starting in 2000. Our Conservative politicians just couldn’t conserve The People’s money.

You just don’t count the days when it dropped – those were Bush’s fault.

All he needed to do was borrow another half trillion or so to pay it off and then according to his version of new math (Obamath?) he would have reduced the deficit to zero.