Scary Chart Of The Day

I think this one definitively disproves the Obama myth that today's deficit is the result of the Bush tax cuts and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Via Instapundit.
 

Is the Benghazi Attack Obama's Madrid Train Bombings?

I was actually living in Madrid at the time of the bombings at the Atocha Train Station and have been drawing the same parallels for a while.  One difference, however, is that Spain's conservative PP did not enjoy the media run interference Obama has.  Still, it is looking less likely that Obama will be able to rely on that holding up until the election.  While it was only a matter of days until the election in Spain, here there will be two months for the truth to reach the American people. 

Remind Me: How Many Died In Watergate?

New evidence on the Libya debacle and false White House spin.

Worse Than Watergate

The Libya Scandal Boils Over.

Benghazi Worse Than Watergate

Roger L. Simon: 

For over forty years now, the Watergate scandal — the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the subsequent cover-up by the Nixon administration — has been the sine qua non of American political malfeasance. It has been followed by myriad other “gates” affecting both parties but has never been superseded.

Until now.

Benghazi or Benghazigate, as some call it, is worse. Far worse. Incomparably worse.

Watergate caught numerous public officials lying, including the president of the United States, but Benghazigate has all that and more.

It involves the terrorist murder (not an electorally irrelevant burglary) of government officials, their reckless endangerment, the undermining of the Bill of Rights and free speech by our own administration in response to Islamist threats, and, ultimately, the complicity of that same administration, consciously or unconsciously, in the downfall of Western civilization.

Plus - A video timeline of the cover-up.

Narrative Fail

Some Administration Officials Were Concerned About Initial White House Push Blaming Benghazi Attack on Mob, Video.

Plus:  Intercepts showed AQ terrorists celebrating success hours after Benghazi attack.

Definitive Proof That Harry Reid Is A Lying Son of A $#@*&

Via Hot Air:  Mitt Romney’s campaign released his 2011 tax information this afternoon, as well as a notarized letter from PriceWaterhouseCoopers attesting to Romney’s tax rates from 1990-2009.

Obama Cluless About Amount of Debt?!?!

Blatt:  The president who, in his first days in office promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, says he doesn’t know how high the federal debt is today, unaware then that it increased by a greater amount in his three years and eight months in office than it did in his predecessor’s eight full years in office. Bear in mind that Obama called $9 trillion dollars in debt “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic“.

At least he seems confident that, whatever it is, it isn't a short term problem.  Sigh.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a media that spent even a few minutes asking how the President can claim to be unaware of the single greatest threat facing our nation?  But no, we have one that will spend a third day hammering Romney's 47% comment.

Obama official: Yes, Benghazi was a terrorist attack and there are “indications” Al Qaeda was involved

And here I thought it was just a "spontaneous protest" on 9-11, with people carrying RPGs and machine guns, that happened to turn violent.

Related:  Despite claiming not to need them, Obama starts attending in-person intel briefings.

"Completely Unfounded and Preposterous."

Michael Totten: 

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice says the assassination of her colleague, Ambassador Chris Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya, was a “spontaneous” event....

Libya’s President Mohammed el-Megarif begs to differ.

“The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous,” he said.

I wasn’t there and I don’t know what happened, exactly, but I have to say the Libyan government’s account is more credible than what the U.S. government is saying right now. I never thought I’d type that particular sentence....

Who Needs Facts When You Have A Pliant Media?

B. Daniel Blatt:  Facts barely figure into Libya narrative of Obama officials.

Obama At DNC: "I Will Never Turn Medicare Into a Voucher Program"

Next Day:  HHS pilot program to send 2 million poor seniors from medicare into voucher. 

The lifespan of his promises are getting shorter and shorter.

A Friendly Reminder

From Jim Treacher:  Before Obama ran for president, he falsely claimed to have been born in Kenya.

Both the Reagan and Bush Recoveries Were Better Than Obama's

Or in other words, never believe what you hear from an Obama campaign spokesperson (especially if that spokesperson is Stephanie Cutter).

The Media Stands Up

Jack Tapper: 

CBS News’ Nancy Cordes said that “your campaign has suggested repeatedly without proof that Mr. Romney might be hiding something in his tax returns, they have suggested that Mr. Romney might be a felon for the way that he handed over power of Bain Capital, and your campaign and the White House have declined to condemn an ad by one of your top supporters that links Mr. Romney to a woman’s death from cancer.”

“I’m not sure all those characterizations that you laid out there were accurate,” the president said. “For example, nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon.”

But what Cordes said was that the Obama campaign “suggested that Mr. Romney might be a felon,” and she had it exactly right.

Then there was the latest cover story from Newsweek:

Politifact's #1 Lie of 2011

Now Obama's  #1 talking point.

Obama Camp's Top Ten Most Audacious Lies

Breitbart.com:  "Obama's overall goal isn't to stereotype Romney as Scrooge McDuck, his overall goal is -- by any means he can -- to win the "Devil You Know" campaign. And if that's your goal, one way to accomplish it is to keep Romney and his team forever on defense and explaining and smothered in distractions that never allow them to come up for oxygen and talk about a message. And it doesn’t matter how dirty or dishonest what your hurling is -- all that matters is keeping your opponent off-balance so he looks foolish." 

Obama knows that he cannot run on his record.  His only hope is to tear Romney down (with an assist from the legacy media).

Geithner, Treasury Drove Cutoff on Non-Union Delphi Workers Pensions

Matthew Boyle: 

Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.

The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.

The internal government emails contradict sworn testimony, in federal court and before Congress, given by several Obama administration figures. They also indicate that the administration misled lawmakers and the courts about the sequence of events surrounding the termination of those non-union pensions, and that administration figures violated federal law.

Reality Deficit: Left and Obama Misrepresent Debt and Deficit Over Last Four Years

Liar-in-Chief

Hinderaker: 

Contrary to popular belief, politicians are not, as a rule, particularly dishonest people. But there are exceptions. On the current scene, it would be hard to find another politician as dishonest as Barack Obama. Currently, he is running an ad that says he has a plan to “pay down the debt in a balanced way.” He also tries to justify his call for a tax increase on the ground that the increased revenues will reduce the deficit.

But where, exactly, is Obama’s plan to “pay down the debt?” It is a figment of his imagination; or, rather, a convenient lie that he thinks will help him politically. The only plan Obama has authored is a budget so outrageous that no one–not one Republican, not one Democrat, in either the House or the Senate–will vote for it.