So argues Rex Nutting at Market Watch.
Of course, to believe Nutting, you have to engage in an awful lot of revisionist history — assign the 2009 budget to the GOP (hi, Nancy!), then keep it as the baseline — but then, that’s what the left is about these days: framing and re-framing narratives to create perception, which they then claim is reality. Manufacturing consent, so to speak.
And honestly, those who tout this kid of column don’t believe it in the first place: all they care about is that it sounds plausible; and once they’ve accomplished that, they’ll set about trying to get Americans to mistrust their own senses and to doubt their own experiences.
This is about power and how to retain it. And any truth that troubles that power must therefore be re-imagined. Or re-invented. Or differently framed. Which is how, for instance, the Democrats can now run now as the Party of growth while the hapless GOP establishment is being labeled the “austerity” Party — as if a paring back of the size and scope of government is commensurate to an attack on wealth creation.
Fortunately, there are those willing to point to bullshit and call it bullshit, even as a compliant mainstream press keeps telling us it’s chocolate cream pie and demanding that we eat it and like it.
And then there’s all of you, who have learned that the mainstream press is actively working against you — and that it is often doing so intentionally and with a specific political purpose.
Keep spreading the word.
Next up: The complete failure to correct any substantial aspect of the banking and monetary systems’ ongoing defrauding of the American people since 2008? Bush’s fault.
And it’ll sell. I realize that every time I see a fucking Prius bearing a Obama 2012 sticker here in my increasingly red state.
The Fed’s lying tool Narayana Kocherlakota: U.S. close to full employment.
Obama’s bank JPMorgan’s Senior Officers’ Addiction to Gambling on Derivatives to the tune of sixty trillion dollars, or five times the total GDP of the US. The recent “$2Bn loss” is actually in the vicinity of $32Bn.
Max Keiser on the new wild wild west that is Wall Street.
This is not the five trillion dollars you were looking for.
-Obi Wan Obami mind trick
mittens mr 1oth amendment
link
but then, that’s what the left is about these days: framing and re-framing narratives to create perception
I think this is beyond framing and on to full-on PhotoShop fakery.
It’s one thing to crop the image to suit your purposes; it’s another to cobble together an image of something that never existed.
But which lives forever in people’s minds as if it were the truth, our mind’s ability to tag everything as REAL or FICTION being notoriously wobbly.
Yeah. The lame duck Republican President made Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats running Congress spend all that money. Bastard.
“Obama spending binge never happened”
…and this horde of purple-shirted union thugs bused in from Chicago represents a growing contingent of disgruntled Wisconsin citizens starting a grass-roots effort to overthrow their evil Emperor.
Our old friend timb is in the comments over there. It’s funny.
Oh, I just noticed that Pethokoukis has a follow-up on his previous post.
If his spending never happened, then can I just pretend his presidency never happened either? ‘Cause I would really like that…
commies under cover
link
That timb fellow is funny as hell. How come we didn’t keep him around for a pet?
Does the evil genius of Karl Rove know no bounds?!? First he tricks the Democrats into spending massive amounts of borrowed money on useless
graftconstitutent & interest group paybacks, and then he makes sure that the massive amounts of borrowed money weren’t massive enough to fend off an alien invasion! Isn’t that right Paul?Poor Obama. Heezza victum ah soycumstances!
Next week, Rex Nothing presents: Obama’s Unemployment Explosion Never Happened! He’ll have tables and charts documenting the millions of people who fell off the unemployment rolls during Obama’s time in office. (Never mind that none of them actually found employment.)
That’s all well and good, nr, but if it’s all the same to Mittens I’d rather he not take my “federal edumacation funds” from me, run it through a federal bureaucracy or twelve, thus reducing it by several tens of percents before giving me back my own money to spend on my kids.
Oh well, baby steps are better than nothing, I suppose.
mittens education is a local/state thingy
Sullivan is posting the same crap at the Daily Beast Dish. Isn’t that like saying he never had a dick in his ass?
baracky the funny guy
New White House website offers children lessons on … financial literacy
Ann Coulter has a good writeup on this.
but then, that’s what the left is about these days: framing and re-framing narratives to create perception
The only thing more aggravating than the Left’s denial and non-acknowledgement of its fuckups, is its repeated co-option of other peoples’ achievements.
Yes, Sullivan the “fiscal conservative” wondering how we (that is, the federal government and all it’s waste fraud abuse and redundancy) can “afford” tax cuts — that is, allowing people who earned their money to keep it and do with it as they please.
My God, what a fucking joke that guy has become.
Sullivan is quite obviously a tax cheat or he would still be living in the UK and paying his fair share.
yea its bush’s spending. the congress of pelosi,reid,obama had nothing to do with it.
Didn’t Senator Obama vote for that budget he inherited from Bush?
Budget for FY 2009 signed into law on 12 March, 2009. So I guess maybe he didn’t vote for it.
But he did sign it.
Own it bitches.
Didn’t Senator Obama vote for that budget he inherited from Bush?
w/o research why do i imagine a missed vote on that one?
Budget for FY 2009 signed into law on 12 March, 2009.
huffpo disagrees
Obama’s Budget Vote: Poised To Pass House, Senate
DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR 04/ 3/09 12:56 AM ET AP
WASHINGTON — Acting in quick succession, the House and Senate approved budgets Thursday night drawn to President Barack Obama’s specifications and pointing the way toward major legislation later this year on health care, energy and education.
“It’s going to take a lot of work to clean up the mess we inherited, and passing this budget is a critical step in the right direction,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said. “Staying true to these priorities will help turn around the economy for the many Americans who are underwater right now.”
Republicans in both houses accused Democrats of drafting plans that would hurt the recession-ravaged economy in the long run, rather than help it, and saddle future generations with too much debt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/02/obamas-budget-vote-poised_n_182185.html
Yes. Pelosi and Reid wouldn’t and didn’t send Bush a budget. We were operating on continuing resolutions. And that budget he did sign was the last one he signed. This:
…is a lie, as demonstrated by the last transition.
I don’t regret the error.
So, is this doofus hoping that we’re all looking at Obama and singing this?
I don’t regret the error.
who cares about your error. baracky’s minions act like 300,000,000 americans can’t fact check their bs.
Average monthly Treasury balances for fiscal years ending September (in millions):
2001…. -10,606
2002…. 13,149
2003…. 31,428
2004…. 34,404
2005…. 26,562
2006…. 20,683
2007…. 13,461
2008…. 37,900
2009… 117,977
2010… 107,850
2011… 108,066
2012… 102,837 (through April)
……….receipts………outlays….Monthly averages in millions:
2001… 165,921…..155,314
2002… 154,435…..167,585
2003… 148,509…..179,937
2004… 156,649….191,052
2005… 179,446…..206,008
2006… 200,556….221,239
2007… 213,973…..227,433
2008… 210,303….248,203
2009… 175,364…..293,341
2010… 180,145…..287,996
2011… 191,875……299,941
2012… 197,599…..300,346 (through April)
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/barack-obama-skinflint.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29
Funny what you can do with the numbers if you misplace a year.
I should have specified that positive numbers mean a deficit in the first tabulation above.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/23/obama-denounces-republicans-for-bamboozling-folks-into-thinking-hes-a-big-spender/
No coordination between his supporters and Obama. None at all.
If Obama’s going around denying that he’s a spendthrift, then we’re winning.
Make him deny it right up until we hit that debt ceiling in September, and then see what he does.
http://blog.american.com/2012/05/actually-the-obama-spending-binge-really-did-happen/
Agree Ernst. Especially when he is lying, we know it, and we can prove it.
Does he think people are really that stupid or does he think he’s got them all under a spell?
He knows his supporters are really that stupid. That is self evident.
I dunno. Stupid can’t explain it all. That’s way too much stupid to be naturally occurring. Mental illness? Some Stockholm Syndrome variant? Mass hypnosis?
newrouter: two things jump out
1. “For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to a student,”
Wonder if this means a federal database chock full of citizen information.
2. “where permitted.”
So this won’t actually pretain to DC (which Romney used as an example) or many other prog bastions.
Pander without meaning – guess Romney learned something from Obama.
According to Rush Limbaugh a few minutes ago, Nutting is parroting a Nancy Pelosi press release from last year.
Somebody give Rex a cracker. He’s earned it.