A Persistent Republican Lie In Action
Here's a perfect example of the manner in which Republican lies are injected into the public consciousness by endless repetition. This is a chart (this time from Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit) which we see over and over again in various forms: A cursory look at this chart would lead people to believe that Obama exploded the Federal budget deficit. This apparent fact is used to bolster the Republican myth that it is Democrats who are the out of control spenders in the U.S. However, one thing is wrong with this chart, which Hoft and all the other Republican propagandists know perfectly well: The line for the year 2009, when the deficit vastly increased, represents not Obama's budget, but the last Bush budget, passed in October of 2008. The chart should really look like this: Quite a different story, huh? Now, we see that it is the Republican Bush who tripled the budget deficit in one year. In fact, Obama has made significant cuts in the deficit every...