Posted by
Patrick Henry on Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:11:59 AM
The Associated Press recently ran a story stating that government had substantially axaggerated the
number of jobs created or saved by the stimulus. Quicker than a congressman can say "you lie," they
joined Fox News in Barack Obama's doghouse, while his minions blasted the story as "misleading."
What's presently going on between Obama and certain media outlets and personalities reminds one
greatly of the repartee between an exasperated, dithering parent and his recalcitrant child. When the
child continues to ask impertinent questions, however valid those questions may be, there often comes
a time when the parent either cannot or will not justify himself/herself and snaps, "That's the way it is
because I say so." It's not very good parenting, and it's a disaster when it becomes the modus operandi
for the leader of the free world.
White House communications troll Anita Dunn has boasted openly about how, during the election
campaign, Obama and his people were able to control (read "manipulate") the press, getting them
to cover what they wanted covered and not cover what they didn't want covered, putting out their
own version of reality without having to talk to reporters. But as it becomes increasingly apparent
that the latest messiah impostor cannot, with the stroke of his bailout pen, turn the water of recession
into the wine of prosperity, some of those pesky reporters are spending less time taking dictation and
more time digging out the facts. Uh oh!
AP's artcile was right on point. Arguing that one is working miracles to stave off a depression as
the job rate continues to tank, first time unemployment applications are going steadily up and
businesses who hoped to rehire laid off workers aren't, is the political equivalent of spitting into the
wind. The White House's rebuttal of the AP piece (which really isn't) is just like an ill-tempered
parent who chooses to construct his/her own private version of reality shrilling, "It's so because I
say it's so." Sorry Obama, Joe Biden, Robert Gobbs, David Axelrod. It really isn't so just because
you say so, and the media sharks are just beginning to taste the blood in the water.
Democrats have tried to cast Republicans as the "partyof no," and the Tea Party movement as
astroturf, something that looks real enough but isn't. But what Republicans are saying "no" to is
more big government boondoggles based on false and overly rosy projections. For example, in
arguing that healthcare reform practically pays for itself, a lie any child can see through, Democrats
continue to posit thAT they can slash three=hundred to five-hundred billion from Medicare and
Medicaid by simply eliminating waste and fraud. But those dumb Republicans keep on asking
how they're going to do that, why they aren't doing it now if it can be done, and how the arbitrary
reduction in payments (which is how they plan to try to do it) won't hurt patient care. The answer?
Because we say so!
And Tea Partiers are asking how new taxes Like the cap-and-trade energy tax aren't just new
ways of bilking the middle class. They're not really taxes and they won't hurt the middle class
because we say so, retort the Democrats.
"Because we say so" rarely works in an election campaign. The media's slobbering love affair with
a charismatic candidate created a momentary rift in grim reality that is now slowly beginning to
evaporate. Barack Obama, Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel. Harry Reid and Nancy
Pelosi have gotten just about all the mileage they're going to get out of that tired postulate. Real
questions demand real answers, and it is clearer by the day that the only ones this administration has
come straight out of the European socialist playbook. Book burning generally isn't a good thing, but
Americans are darn sure going to want to end up burning that one.