…or liar?
Governor O’Malley on Fox News Sunday, in an attempt to defend the president, said that it “was not true” that he hadn’t cut the deficit in half as he promised. How? By confusing the deficit with the debt. He said that when the president came into office it was ten trillion, and it had only gone up six trillion since then, which was about “half.” Or something like that. It wasn’t clear what his point was, but it was clear that he either doesn’t know what the word deficit means, and the difference between it and the debt, or he thinks we’re stupid. Unfortunately, Senator Ayotte, while sticking to her guns, didn’t point out his ignorance in real time, nor did Chris Wallace.
Of course, being an economic ignoramus and a liar are not mutually exclusive by any means. Many Democrats seem to be both.
Whaddya expect from someone who was a Baltimore City (a.k.a. Detroit by the Bay) councilman just a few years ago?
Hale Adams
Pikesville, People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland
When you couple “Obama supporter” with “economic ignoramus,” isn’t that just redundancy?
This is what happens when you use language to confuse rather than for communication. Any time they say a percentage of an increase is a decrees they should get slapped with a Vogon Flyswatter.
Not mutually exclusive? No, the opposite seems more the truth. Being an economic ignoramus is mutually inclusive. I know of no one who espouses conservative or libertarian economic policies who is ignorant of how money works as any liberal I know or have heard speak or when I’ve seen their written word. And I’m not just talking about money above a municipal spending level.
Most of the liberals I know are forever broke, overextended or upside down on car payments, or credit cards and are bitching about being broke and they don’t know why it keeps happening over and over.
Yes, cutting the predicted two trillion dollar deficit in half when it’s more than double your predecessor’s deficit truly strikes me as gaslighting. That’s the point in the debate I turned it off.
Sam Dinkin,
good term to use with this crowd, gaslighting. But it’s Charles Boyer who winds up being tied to a chair.
(…and hopefully he’ll be tied to a chair that get’s carried to a moving van on or around January 20, 2013!)