Facts be damned. If Obama wants to walk away with another four years in 2012 he’s going to have to shelve the facts for a while. Of course, the only ones that are going to fall for the rhetoric are the ones that would be voting for him anyway, so he better think of another tactic to go along with it. I’m about to easily dismantle his latest pack of lies, and if I can do it, what can a presidential candidate do?
Just hours after Texas governor Rick Perry threw his hat into the presidential ring, the White House was attacking him for everything from phony job growth to once again, taking away grannie’s Social Security check. Let’s take a look at those statements and see how they stand up under the scrutiny of some random person in the blogosphere, such as myself.
White House hack Ben LaBolt issued a statement for Obama shortly after hearing of Perry’s intention to run for president.
Governor Perry’s economic policies are a carbon copy of the economic policies of Washington Republicans.
Really? He cites support for cut, cap and balance. Yes, the bill that would have actually saved our AAA debt rating. For Barack obama, this is being touted as some kind of liability.
He then goes on about preserving tax cuts for those dirty rich folks and…ending Medicare as we know it. Even Obama concedes Medicare can’t stay the way it is. Well, it won’t if Obamacare is fully implemented. Medicare doctors will be broadsided. LaBolt conveniently left that little fact out of his diatribe. In the same sentence he talks about Republicans eroding Social Security. Is it not eroded now? Is it not unsustainable now? Well, I guess if you implement massive tax increases you can kick the can a little further down the road. Still in the same sentence, he talks about eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs. He didn’t mention that Obama personally handed over jobs to China, and in fact, his jobs guru, Jeffrey Immelt just shipped more GE jobs over to China. But then, that’s not eliminating them is it? That’s just redistributing.
It was a very long sentence. He ended it with an attack on Republicans regarding erasing investments in education and research and development. In other words, propping up teacher’s unions. Certainly, the money dumped into schools at a federal level has produced nothing but failure. And the R&D? Obamacare will impose a tax on medical device research. Erosion indeed.
LaBolt then tried to tie all these disasters to Rick Perry’s record in Texas. The elimination of hundreds of thousands of jobs is what got me. He couldn’t have been talking about Texas.
From June 2009 to June 2011, Texas added 261,700 jobs, or 49.9 percent of U.S. job growth since the 1.5-year recession ended, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But according to LaBolt, it’s all a tall tale. He talks about Perry allowing special interests to write their own rules. Well, who wrote the stimulus bill? It wasn’t Congress. Look up the Apollo Alliance. He talks about lobbyists running wild in Texas. Remember, Obama vowed that no lobbyists would darken the doorstep of the White House, then proceeded to allow every lobbyist in Washington through the door. Then he babbled about cutting funding for programs that would help the middle class. I don’t know what those programs are. Do you?
The last swipe was at the tea party. The White House gave Perry a boost by linking him with basically, the American people. All in all, a disastrous statement. Maybe they should have just kept their mouth shut.
Between sips of champagne, and bites of imported Wagyu steak Obama and the Democrats bash something positive about the tanking economy while ignoring their own record.
“Yeah, but…(chomp, chomp), many of those jobs are low paying.”
Even if that’s true (and I don’t know that it is), compare that with Obama’s record of creating jobs. And the Dems can’t have it both ways either. Did he eliminate jobs or facilitate low paying jobs?
This article isn’t about Rick Perry as much as it is about the failure of the Obama regime-or maybe the success depending on close to the Cloward-Piven mindset you are. I know there are questions about Perry, especially his links to the NAU, and his stance on immigration, which appear to be linked to statements he made more than 10 years ago.
This article is about what the White House attacked. Everything that was reasonable, that was positive, that was a shining light in a dark economy was attacked. Again, if I can tear it apart, imagine what Rick Perry could do to that statement. Keep talking Barry, keep talking…
