In just the last two days we have seen an avalanche of lies coming from the Democrats. And when they run out of lies, the Democrats have been pushing sheer nastiness in place of reason. I do not remember such dishonesty coming so consistently from any American political group. It is as if the Democrats have now decided to just use propaganda rather than facts. Here are some examples:
1) Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC, interrupted Gretchen Carlson on Fox News when Carlson pointed out that unemployment is substantially higher now than when president Obama took office. Wasserman claimed that Carlson was just plain wrong. Carlson gave Wasserman the chance to correct her statement, but she stuck with the lie. Unemployment at 8.6% is, in fact, much higher than it was when Obama took office. In fact, if you add back the people who have become so discouraged that they have given up looking for work, the unemployment rate is well over 11%.
2) Just today, senate Democrats led by Harry Reid have refused to allow their members on the conference committee sign off on the omnibus spending bill needed to keep the government operating after Friday. Everything has been agreed to, but Reid does not want to let the House leave town (which they would do after the spending bill gets passed). As a result, Reid has stated that there remain many open issues on the omnibus spending bill. This is just a blatant lie.
3) Representative Dennis Cardoza (D-Cal) has a piece in the Hill today criticizing president Obama for a lack of focus in getting things done. That actually is true. Nevertheless, Cardoza says that many of the problems in Obama's first two years were the result of Republican obstruction in Congress. Of course, during those two years, Democrats had unstoppable and overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress, so blaming the GOP is just another convenient lie.
4) A few hours ago, Obama announced that he would veto the bill about to be passed by the House even though that bill gives Obama everything he wanted. The House bill extends the payroll tax cut, it extends unemployment benefits and sets forth a plan to phase back to the original benefits packages from before the recession, and it resolves the Medicare problems with payment to doctors (the so-called doctors' fix). Of course, the bill also forces the federal government to go ahead with a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. That pipeline will create 20,000 construction jobs and many more permanent jobs in the energy industry. It is Obama's true objection to the bill. Obama, of course, blames the GOP for preventing and extension of the payroll tax, but that is a lie. If Obama just had the courage to deal with the pipeline decision before the election, he will have all that he wanted.
5) That is enough lies. So let's look at the nastiness. David Axelrod, the creepy looking Chicago political adviser running Obama's re-election campaign was asked about Newt Gingrich. Axelrod said that With Gingrich it was like watching a monkey climb higher and higher so that you can see more of his butt. It is incredible and inappropriate nastiness coming from Axelrod.
Look, I know that I often castigate Obama for his decisions and even more often for his lack of decision. I would never call him a monkey, however, even forgetting the issue of race. Think how it would be received to call Michelle Obama a giraffe because she is tall. How about Harry Reid? Can we call him a liar? Can we call Nancy Pelosi a moron? Sure, because both are true. But what if I called Reid a gangster or Pelosi a whore? It would be inappropriate since it would just be nasty and not limited to issues. I have always tried to keep to facts in what I write on this blog. My views are strongly against Obama and the Obamacrats, but they nevertheless remain Americans who are working for the people and they deserve some respect for doing that. Axelrod's comments go way beyond what is appropriate. I realize that it may sound hollow to rail against nastiness in a piece that is all about the Democrats' new non-stop lying offensive. Nevertheless, I think that there is a distinction here that must be made.
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