One Wild Whopper

After the commute home, I pour a beautifully golden Pilsner, park my butt in my office, and begin to catch up on technological frivolities: Facebook, surfing the web for fun and interesting stuff (Does anyone call it "surfing" anymore? I may not be with it), and, of course, my blog. I've been slammed at work and by life and haven't been able to blog my normal week or so blog – in case anyone noticed my absence.

So let's see what's out there. Ah, that's an interesting headline. Let's take a gander.

Uncoiling himself from a pleather chair, he slithers to the podium, flashes his usual, beguiling smile, then from over his forked tongue hisses the words relayed off the teleprompter. And over the audience washes self-serving rhetoric about how he's cleaning up the "wild debt" left by others, and that he's the one fixing the economy, and implying he's the one who's reducing the debt. Baww haww haww, sploosh! There goes the Pilsner through my nose and bespeckling the monitor with frothy gold.  (Okay, that's a little too colorful, but like I said, I've been away for a bit, so let me have a little fun.)

Holy, cow! I can't believe what I just saw. Who's going to buy that? I mean, I guess some will, such as the gullible and unthinking that fear the Internet machine or those too lazy to simply google "U.S. Debt" and poke around a bit. 

You know, it's funny. One of the criticisms fired at conservatives from the left is that we don't believe in science or facts.  You hear it all the time in the climate debate or when they're extolling the undisputable evidence of <insert_new_scientific_reason_for_more_government_here>.  More often than not, they're simply trying to shut down debate instead of engaging in one, so they shout the science denier line, followed by the Gorean "the debate is over" before it actually is.  And here they are being deliberately mislead by their glorious leader (I use "their" here because I believe he made it clear that he's not our leader, and I actually agree with him; he's definitely not my leader) because he believes – he knows –  his flock will not look into the facts, even though he instructs them to. He's relying on the Obamabotic leftists to continue to Obaminate the nation and simply, unquestioningly gulp down the kool-aid their dear leader serves, thereby leaving by the wayside the fundamental tools of most science: discerning reason, observation, and math.  I guess science is only useful when it serves their purpose. Who knew?

Let there be no doubt, however, he is deliberately misleading. He is lying. Normally, I don't throw that word around because I believe it's misused or misapplied most of the time. I don't think if you mistakenly repeat something or say something that you believe is correct and turns out not to be, that you're lying. You're simply mistaken. I do believe stating a deliberate falsehood is a lie.  It's the intent to deceive that makes it repugnant and a lie. He lied. There's no way around it. I cannot believe "the smartest guy to ever become president," who racked up $5,000,000,000,000 in his first term, who proposed several budgets that increase deficit and debt – rejected even by his own party, mind you, exactly because of the increase in deficit and debt – is now somehow relieved of his sense of history and doesn't recall what he's done and proposed. 

But here's the real rub. He's lying to protect his philosophy that the government should do whatever it can, wherever it can, whenever it can.  That, to him, is more dear than the health of the country. He knows, not so deep down, the results of his philosophy brought on this wild debt. Again, back to math, the staple of the left's endeared science. If you spend more than you take in, the result is debt. He can lie to himself and his flock all he wants. Just don't expect me to believe the wild whoppers.