For all the morons in our local GOP who worked for or supported The Liar's election effort... perhaps they didn't know that he was an early endorser and supporter of the worst President since Jimmy Carter, a mantle he is striving mightily to change to "The Worst President EVAH!" (Copyright 2009) or is it that they just didn't care?
Ahhhhh, no matter. In another in the series of the "Similarities between The Liar and the Empty Suit, I bring your attention to yet another fine article detailing where, like our own Tim "The Liar" Leavitt, that empty suited, Anti-American racist bigot lies through his teeth on almost any occasion concerning any policy.
His most recent fantasy babble being no exception.
MICHAEL GOODWIN: Obama's WhoppersThere is much more here, which is truly unfortunate.- FOXNews.com
The president's still whining about the problems he inherited when he took office and he's still blaming Republicans. And the American people are tuning him out at a stunning pace.
The other day, I wrote that President Obama has "run out of both charm and ideas." I was too kind.
To judge from the string of whoppers in his dreary jobs speech yesterday, he's also run out of facts. And he's still whining about the problems he inherited and blaming Republicans.
He might as well be barking at the moon. That's sort of what he is doing, because the American people are tuning him out at a stunning pace.
The latest Gallup Poll gives him a record low 47 percent approval. Only 26 percent in another poll say he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Naturally, his press secretary attacks the pollsters, likening them to children with crayons.
And Obama plunges on with his blame-game act. It's tired, unpresidential and ineffective, all the more so because he's banking on a bill of goods to prop himself up.
The most egregious example came when Obama said yesterday the $700 billion bank-bailout fund, or TARP, was "launched hastily under the last administration" and was "flawed."
Here are the facts. George Bush was in the White House, but Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Obama himself, as a senator, voted for the bailout in October 2008.
No one claims the bill was perfect, but there is no record --zero -- of Obama trying to fix it. Remember, it was John McCain who rushed back to Washington after the first version failed and tried to get involved to reshape it.
McCain flubbed the effort, but Obama made none. He only reluctantly joined a White House conference with McCain and Bush on the bailout after urging Congress "to step up to the plate and get this done."
He went on the Senate floor and said there wasn't time to fiddle with the bill before leaving the details to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said at the time, "No one knows what to do."
Fortunately, there were people who knew what to do. Timothy Geithner, then chairman of the New York Federal Reserve and now Obama's treasury secretary, was deeply involved with Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, in shaping the legislation that helped to avert a financial crash.
That 2008 vote released half the TARP money, with a second vote coming in January 2009, a week before Obama was inaugurated. He wanted the second installment of $350 billion, and most Democrats, along with a handful of Republicans, voted to give it to him.
The record is clear: The $700 billion bailout was crafted on a bipartisan basis, with Obama's support and encouragement, and he has controlled most of the money. For him to now claim otherwise is disgraceful.
It's unfortunate because this country SHOULD have, as its president (Like Vancouver SHOULD have as its mayor), a man (or woman) of honor and integrity; a man whose words do not requiring parsing; a man who's words are already fact checked before he utters them.
Instead, we have Obama. And here locally, we have Tim "The Liar" Leavitt... two cancers on our society cut from the same cloth. And neither are any of those things.
And we will suffer for it.
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