I Had a Feeling This Was't Kosher

Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner (D) resigned in disgrace after sending pictures of himself in flagrante delicto to female Twitter fans of his.  Despite having acknowledged his transgression and never blaming anyone else for his actions (apparently breaking from the Bill Clinton legacy), there are those who believe the whole thing was a right wing conspiracy brewed up by Andrew Breitbart.  Weinergate is the modern vast right wing conspiracy to a select few who feel that whatever lay beneath the underwear in his photos was not a Hebrew National.  Luckily, they are a select few and given the confluence of his actions, his name, and their idiocy, they make for a good joke.

The He Who Smelt it Dealt it of Political BS

White House spokesman Jay Carney has floated a new Obama campaign theme, President Barack Obama, fiscal conservative. I'll give you a few minutes to clean up whatever you just spit out after reading that. That's right, the Obama campaign is running with the blatant lie that President Obama has been fiscally responsible. Now, I'm not going to argue that prior Republican presidents have been fiscally conservative by any stretch. That's often hard to do when Democrats renig on their promises to make cuts in exchange for tax raises as they did with President Bush the elder and Ronald Reagan.

But Mr. Carney called it "BS" to listen to people who think President Obama has been spending irresponsibly. The President, ever one to assure that the truth is stringently adhered to, said he couldn't understand how Republicans have been "bamboozeling" people into believing they are the party of fiscal responsibility and the Democrats have to come in to clean up their mess. In fact, he further went on to note that since he became President, federal spending has risen at it's lowest rate in nearly 60 years. Amazingly, he got all of this out without his pants catching fire, being struck by lightning, his nose growing into a pole vault, or bursting into laughter.

Where, pray tell, did they get support for such an insane proposition? The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch contributor Rex Nutting. Perhaps he should consider knocking the last four letters off his name.

The problem with Mr. Nutting's figures? He places all 2009 spending on President Bush. This includes the stimulus (which we all remember President Bush passing, right?), the bailouts, the propping up of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, TARP, etc. Mr. Nutting ignores these one-time spending items and just calls them part of the last Bush budget. That way, the additional $1.45 trillion is considered the baseline for comparison of Mr. Obama's non-emergency spending budgets. This might explain how the "0.4% budget increase" Mr. Nutting finds somehow resulted in an additional $5 trillion in debt, more than President Bush racked up in eight years. Fact is, the budget has increased at a whopping average of 8% per year according to Charles Krauthammer.

But never mind all that, President Obama is a fiscal conservative, unicorns exist, puppies fart gold dust which is collected by the Fed to back up the dollar, I'm Shaquille O'Neal...well, you get the picture. I probably shouldn't be too upset about this. It's not like the President isn't lying most of the time.

Pulling the Blanket Out From Under Them

As I listen to President Obama give a speech regarding the race to exit Afghanistan, I note one thing. A person who lives in Afghanistan is not an afghan, Mr. President, they are Afghani. Please stop calling them blankets (though nifty blankets they would be). This is reminiscent of President Kennedy referring to himself as a doughnut when saying "Ich bin ein Berliner" rather than "Ich bin aus Berlin".

That Color Isn't Blue, It's Salty!

The best way to win an argument when you're wrong is to ensure that your opponent can't bring up the fact that you are wrong. Democrats have mastered this tactic. When news broke that Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a long time associate of President Obama, claimed that he was offered $150,000.00 by an associate of Mr. Obama to stop preaching until after the November 2008 election, the liberals engaged in their usual smokescreen, only in an even more disturbing manner than usual.

Democrats took to the airwaves claiming that any discussion of an attempt to bribe the Reverend was actually a discussion of President Obama's religious views. They immediately followed by saying that if religious views are on the table, then Mormonism is also up for discussion, and they were free to smear Mitt Romney with arguments regarding his religious beliefs. Never mind that his was all in reaction to a report that an ad might be run (that's two degrees removed from something actually happening).

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure no religion considers bribing a preacher to shut up because he's a racist, anti-semite and generally loathsome piece of crap and might cost you an election a central tenet of the faith. The point of the story is about the bribe, not President Obama's faith (which I believe is about as apparent as his academic record). But, as always, because a liberal cannot win an argument on the merit of the illogic they use to come to conclusions, they resort to changing the argument and threatening their opponents if they bring up the actual argument.

Today's Recommended Reading

John Stossel writes for Human Events on economic freedom and fairness.

An Ego that Transcends Time

President Obama is such a great President, that should you want to read up on the biographies of prior Presidents on whitehouse.gov, you'll still read about President Obama.  In fact, every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge (excepting Gerald Ford) has had items added about President Obama in their biographies.  I guess it makes sense.  I often get the sense from him that he thinks he is the culmination of the last century of United States, if not world, history.  I don't know if I believe the rumor that he actually doesn't have ears, that's spare ego flowing out of his head that inflates them, but I'm willing to listen.

Today's Recommended Reading

Mark Steyn writing for the National Review brilliantly exposes the Islamic war on free speech and any of those critical of them in examining the case of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.  It is truly frightening to thin that the United Kingdom, once the bastion of free speech, denied Wilders entry into the country not because he posed a threat, but because Islam posed a threat to him.