Jackalope Pursuivant

Tyrrany

Having broken my long meditation for that last piece, please don't get me started on this "I'm going to (fail to) enforce the law in ways that benefit my reelection campaign" thing that Obama has going. I say, without any reservation, that President Barack Obama has abandoned democracy, and is trying on a pair of tyrant's robes. The bogus "recess" appointments, the abdication of the First Amendment through bureaucratic rulemaking, and now the bald-faced revision of immigration enforcement policy. L'etat? C'est moi.

Please, November, come around soon.

Lying with statistics

I thought this claim had already been laughed out of the forum.

But there it was, naked as day, on my otherwise-innocent weather site. "Federal spending growth is lower under President Obama." Yeah...

Marketwatch floated this argument on 22 May, and got pounded from all corners:

Breitbart.com: "partisan and journalistic hackery".

Hot Air:"The argument was always absurd on its face."

Heritage Foundation: "unethical and fuzzy math".

The AP: "We can't keep a straight face on this one." (I may be paraphrasing.)

The Washington Post: "Even our ridiculous and mendacious Fact Checker column can't keep a straight face on this one." (Okay, not paraphrasing... we'll call it interpreting.)

Obama's campaign shows up with the above ad, three weeks after everyone, including the Obama campaign's would-be allies, had already laughed the multi-trillion dollar rounding error out of the room?

Audacity indeed.