The Washington Post would like Mr. Obama to stop lying.
I know, the Post, whodathunkit?
Problem: The Sequester. Obama is claiming it was Republicans who proposed it but this is not only ‘not true,’ Obama knows for a fact that the idea originated from his own Advisor – his Director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling.
Obama’s Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, was tasked with convincing Harry Reid to go along with the idea, which The Washington Post emphasises because Lew, like Obama, is lying about it as well.
Oddly, Lew in Tampa on Thursday, publicly asserted the opposite: “There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger…. [It] was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure at the end.”
So we’ve got an idea that needed bipartisan suppor to pass, and idea that passed and that Obama signed. But now that it is unpopular, Obama isn’t just dumping any credit he might have taken for signing it out the Hopey-Changey Bus, not just ignoring any evidence the sequestration might have offered to shore up his nonexistent bi-partisan street cred, he’s now claiming his administration is not even the source of the plan.
“Uhhh.. the Republicans proposed it. It wasn’t me. Ummm… The Republicans proposed the sequestration…and now…uhhh… America is going to suffer…unnn…unless you relect me Prsident.”
Obama is lying. Or is it possible, yet again, that ssomething designed by his own advisor and pushed by his own chief of staff, occured entirely without his knowledge? And, even if we could agree that this is even possible, what does that say about Mr. Leadership himself, Barack Obama?
I’m going with the lying thing. That makes this the latest of many Whoppers to come out of the White House. They try to sell so many of thees these things that they might think about putting in a drive thru. Oh, sorry, they alrady have one–for handing out money to cronies and unions and China oh my.
