Political Potpourri

Here are a few political tidbits for the weekend, apparently unrelated and in no particular order...

Obama Spokesmouth Stephanie Cutter is a Shameless Liar

Here's what the lying liar said:

"you know, 27 months we’ve created 4.5 million private sector jobs. That’s more jobs than in the Bush recovery, in the Reagan recovery"

It's a brazen lie. Past servants of totalitarianism are applauding from graveyards all over the world.  James Pethokoukis sets the record straight:

From the end of the recession in June 2009 through July 2012 — the first 37 months of the Obama recovery — the U.S. economy has generated 2.7 million net new jobs. From the jobs low point in February 2010, the U.S. economy has generated 4 million net new jobs.

From the end of the 1981-82 recession through the end of of 1985 — the first 37 months of the Reagan recovery — the U.S.created 9.8 million net new jobs. And if you adjust for the larger U.S. population today, the comparable figure is more than 12 million jobs.

Go read the whole article here. He includes pictures for the illiterate left who won't pause to read the truth.

The Crisis-Solution-Crisis Cycle
Politics now consists almost exclusively of a negative cycle: Government enacts a “solution” that causes a crisis, necessitating another “solution” that causes another crisis…  Repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseum, ad bankruptcy.

Obama's solution to the drought?  Drive the price of food even higher!

Campaigning in Missouri Valley, Iowa, yesterday, President Obama announced yet another government spending program -- this time designed to inflate meat prices in Midwest swing states. "Today the Department of Agriculture announced that it will buy up to $100 million worth of pork products, $50 million worth of chicken, and $20 million worth of lamb and farm-raised catfish," Obama explained to reporters in front of a drought-stricken cornfield.

"Prices are low, farmers and ranchers need help, so it makes sense," Obama explained. "It makes sense for farmers who get to sell more of their product, and it makes sense for taxpayers who will save money because we're getting food we would have bought anyway at a better price."

None of this makes sense. In fact, Obama's move only harms American consumers while protecting a corrupt federal program. (Obama to the Rescue!)

This on top of the Ethanol mandate that starves people to feed cars. If he wanted to do some good, he would end all money-wasting government subsidies and mandates for inefficient corn-based fuels. No wonder we’re all sick of politics.
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Politifact – Lie of the Year 2011:  Republicans Voted to End Medicare

PolitiFact debunked the Medicare charge in nine separate fact-checks rated False or Pants on Fire, most often in attacks leveled against Republican House members.

The headline is from last year, but it's important because the hysterical Hottentots on the left will continue to demonize Paul Ryan with their fear and smear agitprop.

I suggest you go read it and then bookmark it.  We'll need it handy to repel the left's serial assaults on the truth throughout this campaign.  

It is particularly useful because Politifact doesn't just debunk that one lie, they unravel the entire ball of democrat party lies on this subject.
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

The Washington Post has a nice wrap-up of the recent Welfare Debate. The Romney camp went a little too far claiming Obama had removed the work requirement from the law.

What Obama did was make it optional. See the difference?

Romney got four Pinocchios. Obama got three

Lost in the debate was the important question: Where in the constitution does it say a president can unilaterally tinker with federal laws he doesn't like?
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Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

John Fund has written a useful article on voter fraud in Pennsylvania and that state's new voter ID law.

Last month, City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, issued a 27-page report on irregularities he found in a sample of Philadelphia precincts during this year’s primary. The report, which looked at only 1 percent of the city’s 1,687 districts, found cases of double voting, voter impersonation, and voting by non-citizens, as well as 23 people who were not registered to vote but nonetheless voted. Schmidt also found reports of people who were counted as voting in the wrong party’s primary.

Liberal critics here have pointed out that voter ID laws won't solve the whole problem, and they're right.  States also need the power to purge voter rolls.

Even worse for liberal democrats, almost nobody agrees with their come one, come all, vote early vote often attitude.  Guilty white far-left liberals are alone in their majority opposition to common sense voting laws.