And not just “lies” but “nasty conservative lies”, in to the bargain. The list, compiled by Dave Johnson runs to 8 items which must, apparently, be set straight in order to save the Democrats by November 2nd. Here with the lies:

1. President Obama tripled the deficit.

Johnson notes that President Obama became President on January 20th, 2009 and that this was, gasp!, after the 2009 fiscal year had started. Presidents, you see, are not to be held accountable for things they were not 100% in on from the get-go. And so, Obama gets a pass until the start of fiscal year 2010 on October 1st, 2009. This would be a credible assertion if, on the other hand, the left didn’t loudly charged President Bush with both the 2001 economic downturn and the 9/11 attacks, both of which occurred prior to the magical date of October 1st, 2001, when Bush became responsible for all and sundry.

It is true that Obama is not entirely responsible for the fiscal year 2009 deficit – but he is 100% responsible for the 2010 deficit (nearly as large) and the upcoming 2011 deficit (which looks to be larger than 2010). While we may, in kindness, give Obama a pass for 2009 (though he did his fair share of piling up new spending before the year was out), the fact that he has made no effective moves to return the deficit to 2008 or lower levels places a great deal of responsibility on Obama for tripling the deficit.

UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: I’d like to add something about  Johnson’s claim that Obama cannot take blame for anything in FY2009… What cannot be ignored in this assessment are the bailouts and stimulus bills passed in 2009 by the Democratic Congress and signed by Obama. Johnson would have a hard time blaming Bush for that.

2. President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.

This would be a nasty lie needing of debunking if anyone had actually made the charge. We don’t charge Obama with raising taxes but with failure to act on retaining the current tax rates. Because Obama offered no leadership on this issue, it may be that he presides over the largest tax increase in American history come January 1st.

3. President Obama bailed out the banks.

Johnson notes that the TARP law was passed under the Bush Administration. He fails to note that it was a Democrat-controlled Congress which voted for it and it was almost entirely administered on Obama’s watch…and there are many accusations of mismanagement. The more important thing here is that the financial system has failed, and all Obama and Co can think to do is throw a bit more money at it, while making some quite pointless changes in banking regulation which will in no way limit the banks’ ability to screw up the economy one more time. The people are of the opinion that “too big to fail” is wrong – Obama doesn’t agree, and thus he’s failing the people on this issue.

4. The stimulus didn’t work.

Basing himself upon CBO guesstimates, Johnson asserts that the stimulus “raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs”. Using the phrase “raised employment” is a clever way to dodge around such absurdities as “saved or created”. The fact is that there are, quite simply, fewer people working in the United States here in October of 2010 than there were in January of 2009. If government stimulus worked, then we would have at least as many working today as we had then. Period. End of story.

5. Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.

This is to skewer another thing conservatives aren’t saying. Its not a cause/effect relationship in that if a business gets a tax cut it immediately puts out a “help wanted” ad. Its a matter of that by freeing up funds for private investment, businesses will see opportunities to expand and consumers will have more disposable income to spend. The hiring would come very quickly upon reduced taxes, but not the day after they are enacted. What is most crushing on business right now, at any rate, isn’t so much the tax rate but the gigantic level of uncertainty – they don’t know what taxes and regulations Obama will lay on them, so they are cautiously holding on to whatever they’ve got in order to weather the storm.

6. Health care reform costs $1 trillion.

Actually, it costs quite a lot more than that, though Johnson is holding to the ObamaCare spin used to force passage that it will reduce the deficit by $138 billion. This is a fabrication which even the Democrats have dropped – a set of accounting gimmicks (most notably front-loading the taxes and back-loading the expenditures) was used to get CBO scoring showing a net-reduction of spending. Real scoring putting together 10 years of spending with ten years of taxes shows a net increased deficit of $1 trillion; and that is if everything works as well as designed, which it won’t because it is run by the same sorts of incompetents who give us the Department of Motor Vehicles.

7. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is “going broke,” people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.

Johnson actually has the nerve to state that there are trillions of dollars in the “trust fund”; forgetting to mention that the trust fund only contains IOU’s from the federal government. In other words, once SS goes negative (which it did this year), then we’ll have to start taking money out of general fund revenue to cover the shortfall. This state of affairs – spending more money than you take in – is called being “broke”. And it was caused by the fact that people are living longer while having fewer babies and this means, surprise!, there are fewer people to pay in to the system. In other words, it works just like a Ponzi scheme (a scheme in which the first people “in” get big payouts by those brought in later, but eventually you run out of enough new people to give the sort of return you gave to the earlier groups of people).

8. Government spending takes money out of the economy.

Which is not what we say – we say, “government spending takes money out of the private economy”. Its not that the money doesn’t get spent, but that it is money which cannot now be spent by the private economy, which is vastly more efficient at spending money than government, which has no mechanism to ensure good performance other than the easily distracted oversight of President and Congress. Johnson brings out the old, liberal canard that we on the right don’t seem to understand that roads and bridges get built by government spending and that this helps the private economy. And this is true – but it ignores the fact that of the more than $3 trillion we’re going to spend this next year, only a tiny percentage will go to things as useful as roads and bridges (and this is especially true when even some of the roads and bridges are not particularly needed…we’ve got a super-highway between Harry Reid’s house in Searchlight and Laughlin, Nevada. It makes for a quick trip, but one cannot think of any particular need for that much road in that empty area).

If these are the lies – and nasty lies – which, debunked, will save the Democrats, then they really are doomed. They are mostly, of course, just liberal talking points about conservatives – and are, themselves, lies, half truths or just plain stupid. The problem of the United States, here in 2010, is that we’re flat broke. We’re really in the soup – and we need to get our spending under control. If we don’t fix that, then we’re going to have an economic collapse which will make the Great Depression seem like a picnic. Lots of issues are agitating the public, but they all revolve around this (very correct) conviction that if we don’t reign in government, we’re in for a world of hurt. Obama and his Democrats actually want to pile on even more spending and government than they have so far – and thus the impending blow out on November 2nd.

Cross Posted at Noonan for Nevada

From Rasmussen:

With only a few days until Election Day, Democrat Jerry Brown holds a slightly smaller lead over Republican Meg Whitman in California’s gubernatorial race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Brown picking up 49% support, while Whitman draws the vote from 45%…

Last week Rasmussen had Brown up by 6, so this is a significant improvement for Whitman. It remains to be seen if a big GOP turnout will help her overcome Brown in a very blue State. She certainly should win – no matter how you slice it, Brown would be an utter disaster for the State of California. He simply will not be permitted by his puppet-masters in the public employee unions to make any of the cuts necessary to stave off bankruptcy…at most, he might be able to paper over the fiscal cracks for 6 months – and that would end up making the eventual crash even worse than its going to be.

If Californians have any sense left, at all, they’ll elect Whitman – not because she necessarily a sure-fire genius who will fix all of California’s problems in a flash, but because she will be able to take on the public sector unions who are leading California to disaster.

The Washington Post story:

President Obama said Friday that packages mailed from Yemen and intercepted in the last 24 hours contained explosive material and represented a “credible terrorist threat.”

The packages, mailed via UPS and FedEx, were addressed to two places of Jewish worship in Chicago, the president said…

So, the plot goes like this – Terrorists in Yemen obtain the addresses of two synagogues in Chicago; they make up bombs and drop them in the mail to do….what? Why would you do something like this? Its not like crossing the US border is all that tricky an enterprise…pay $10,000 to the drug cartels and you’re across the border. And now with toner cartridges dressed up as bombs, but with whatever bombs you want, which you can just drive to Chicago and set off. These packages were sent by means most likely to be detected from a place we’ve got our eyes on pretty intensely.

Sorry, but this just isn’t making a lot of sense to me. I’ve heard that some figure this was a dry run. What for? Why risk the exposure of your plot and your network in a dry run. Good we caught them but its almost a matter of how could we not have caught them?

I’ll be watching developments on this – it is just very, very strange.

From Richard Pollock over at Pajamas Media:

The Democratic National Committee and the party’s private club in the nation’s capitol have been delinquent with tax payments on sixteen separate occasions over the last seven years, Pajamas Media has learned.

According to District of Columbia government records, since 2004 the Democrats’ main political committee and its National Democratic Club — an exclusive restaurant and hideaway on Capitol Hill where prominent Democrats and their guests dine — have been hit with fines and interest penalties in excess of $115,000 for failure to pay their property taxes on time…

No surprise from the party which figured a tax cheat like Geithner should be in charge of the Treasury. Taxes are for the little people – not for high ranking Democrats or Wall Street fat cats, don’t you know? Always keep in mind – “the rich” are those who are just hard working business people…the filthy rich, on the other hand, are never touched by Democrats, and seem to have a large problem with paying their taxes promptly. The sort of stuff which would get you and me in jail just doesn’t seem to affect the Ruling Class, now does it?

They are so out of touch that they are only barely conscious of what is going on in America. To them, things are fine – the government is shoveling money at them, they can skate on their taxes, property values in the DC area continue to rise. What is everyone complaining about?

Well, we’re going to teach them a lesson on November 2nd they’ll never forget…

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The end is near! For the Democrats, at any rate.

UPDATE: Chuck Muth issues a timely warning about the dangers of electing Sharron Angle to the Senate:

..And lastly, think about this: Who’s going to clean up the mess when thousands of liberal heads spontaneously explode next Tuesday night if Sharron Angle is declared the winner?…

UPDATE II: O’Donnell surges in new poll.

From Rasmussen:

…A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again. Only 20% would opt to keep the entire Congress instead. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure…

This is just a sign of how disgusted people are with the current state of affairs. No matter what happens on November 2nd, the key to the future lies in understanding that the people are furious and which ever party does the right thing the fastest will win a generation of power. Right now, the GOP is in the driver’s seat but we’ll have to see if we’re capable of doing the people’s business or whether we’ll blow it.

UPDATE: A prediction that Frank will be defeated. Nothing would better signal a new day in America than getting this corrupt political hack out of office.

Ok, so now that Ms. Stompee has been exposed, what other “October Surprise” events do you think the Democrats have up their sleeve? In a lot of ways, I don’t think it matters – unless you’ve got video of GOP leaders having an affair with a goat, I don’t think anything is going to stop the tidal wave.

I agree with the analysis, especially this bit:

I didn’t see the Big Debate, but I’ve read the consensus coming out of it was that Angle beat Reid – not just held her own. On the other hand, Reid performed nothing like the second most powerful man in Washington, which he arguably is. Not only did voters get a view of Angle as a credible option for the office of senator, they also saw the now-tarnished luster of their incumbent.

I, on the other hand, carried out my Nevada duty and watched the whole thing. I have to say, it was painful to watch – Reid was so incoherent and clearly out of touch that one wondered just why his handlers allowed him to even run this year. I’m sure his little boy, Rory, is regretting the old man’s decision…it is probably the fact that Harry is running that Rory is about to be utterly crushed in an embarrassing, my-goodness-why-did-you-think-you-could-win loss in the gubernatorial contest. Harry Reid should have retired – left the field clear for his son to run for governor, and leaving the Democrats an even shot at retaining the seat, even in this anti-Democrat year.

But now, Reid is doomed. With the usual sure-anything-can-happen caveat, I just don’t see a way for Reid to overcome the hostility Nevadans feels towards their senior Senator. Even liberals who are voting for him are doing so without enthusiasm…and everyone who is not a convinced liberal or a completely mindless Democrat is voting against, or just staying home. Beating Reid is the best way any American can register disapproval of the current state of affairs, and we Nevadans are ready to do our duty in this matter (I tend to vote on election day, but I’m thinking about picking up a slurpee in Searchlight tomorrow and casting my vote for Angle in that fair city).

It is time for Reid to go home to Searchlight – but, then again, Nevada has been the merest convenience for Reid and it wouldn’t surprise me if he stayed in DC as a lobbyists after we give him the boot.

From a conference at, and I’m not kidding, the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements at UC Berkeley:

“I wonder if we’re likely to see a Timothy McVeigh situation,” says Nicholas Robert, an attendee originally from Australia, who basically wonders if any Tea Partiers can be arrested. “It seems to be that we’re being very polite. I wonder if there are any legal mechanisms—one that comes to mind are the provisions used to crush the Wobblies.”…

Do read the whole article. It is absolutely astounding to read the sentiments expressed by the gathered leftist academics. In their view, the TEA Party movement isn’t a majority, is motivated entirely by hate (especially racial hatred of Obama) and is gravely threatening to all that is good…with one of the problems for America being that we’ve got this idiot idea that everyone has a right to put their two cents in to the debate. When I call these people “liberal fascists”, I’m being deadly earnest…I’d prefer to call them “junior-league Leninists”, to be even more accurate, but “liberal fascist” is apt, and rolls off the tongue better. These people are convinced that they know what is best and are determined to fit us in to their leftist box…and if we refuse, they get quite angry.

One thing we must remember to do is to de-fund the left. They mostly live off of government support of one form or another, and if we can cut their funding, they won’t have a means of support which allows them time to bother the rest of us.