DNC lies shamelessly about support for Obama’s horrific budget
posted at 4:44 pm on April 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
So epic was their failure in drumming up excitement among the grassroots for The One’s $3.6 trillion monstrosity that they decided simply to exaggerate the number of pledges with a little rhetorical sleight of hand. Which, to be fair, is far more efficient than the way ACORN typically does this sort of thing, by having the same guy sign up 40 times.
Anyway, don’t think of this as lying. Think of it as “creating or saving” an extra 400,000 pledges.
At Democratic National Committee headquarters yesterday morning, party workers were loading minivans with Xerox boxes, each addressed to a different congressional office. It was a classic campaign canvassing operation — except that the next election is 19 months away. “Supporters of President Obama’s Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill,” announced the Democrats’ news release.
CNN and the Huffington Post dutifully reported the DNC’s claim of 642,000 pledges. Network cameras and the BBC showed up to film the operation. “We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
In fact, the canvassing of Obama’s vaunted e-mail list of 13 million people resulted in just 114,000 pledges — a response rate of less than 1 percent. Workers gathered 100,000 more from street canvassing. The DNC got to 642,000 by making three photocopies of each pledge so that each signer’s senators and representative could get one.
Via yesterday’s FNC poll, here’s how popular Obama’s red-ink waterfall really is:
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Shock. Horror.
bluelightbrigade on April 3, 2009 at 4:47 PM
/sarc*
bluelightbrigade on April 3, 2009 at 4:48 PM
The Democrat Party, home to so many tax cheats, corrupt politicians and responsible for the single largest spending plan in the entire history of this country, lying?
Tell me it ain’t so!
SeniorD on April 3, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Isn’t that adorable!
ctmom on April 3, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Forgot to mention home to the two people whose political antics caused the financial meltdown we are still experiencing.
My bad.
SeniorD on April 3, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Saddam Hussein got 99.999% of the vote in his last election.
Hey, OT but – GM wants funding for Hybrids, you know, just like any other government agency that makes funding requests.
Akzed on April 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM
But they are usually so honest…
myrenovations on April 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM
seppuku time
blatantblue on April 3, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Obama will now have three TOTUS’s to keep up with this triplicate tactic.
A threesome for the two-faced.
profitsbeard on April 3, 2009 at 4:53 PM
we cannot be so blind our our concern over Obama’s budget to NOT attribute some of the debt spiral to W. It may be understood, but it is helpful to proportion the ‘blame’ whereever it leads and not turn a blind eye to the wreckless spending under W and what he did on his way out the door.
That said, Obama is a complete egg-head who should be lecturing some poly-sci class and not running the board of GM, let alone being our PO(tu)S
gatorboy on April 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Let’s see if the NYT will cover this story… (sarc)
Keemo on April 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM
It is amazing how the democrats are right in line with everybody else on question 25: “Do you worry that the national debt is getting so large…”, but in the same poll, they support the $3.6 trillion budget and the $10 trillion in deficits, at odds not only with republicans and independents, but with reality. I guess this is documentary proof of their low intelligence level.
Vashta.Nerada on April 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Yeah…….
………. that’s better.
Seven Percent Solution on April 3, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Dear Leader Obama has 130% support from the people.
Do not question the Party.
John_Locke on April 3, 2009 at 4:55 PM
It’s the new math.
JammieWearingFool on April 3, 2009 at 4:56 PM
I read something last week that puts this in perspective:
INC on April 3, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Chavez: Capitalism needs to go down.
Obama: Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
lorien1973 on April 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM
That’s not the big smoking printer I thought I knew.
Ferris on April 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Ha! Maybe we should alert the FTC.
Buy Danish on April 3, 2009 at 5:02 PM
INC on April 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Compare the Democratic responses to Questions 23 and 24 to their responses to Question 25.
WTF? Take the name Barack Obama out of the question and Democratic support plummets. How can they logically respond 74-20-6 (Question 23) and 62-25-12 (Question 24) and yet 59-37-4 (Question 25).
To Democrats everywhere, drink up! I’m buying you another round of Kool-Aid, you idiots. Ultimately, even you’re not able to buy Obama’s highway-to-hell budget. But who cares? All that matters is that we have a black president. What else matters?
BuckeyeSam on April 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM
The modern messiah’s ability to come up with 642k pledges out of nowhere is at par with Jesus feeding thousands with 5 loafs of bread and 2 fish. Next feat would be for Obambi to fly back from Europe all by himself without using Airforce One. :)
poxoma on April 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Predictably, the tea party protests will be taken over by communists.
lorien1973 on April 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM
And then, they’ll get media coverage.
lorien1973 on April 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM
If you compare the poor results in obtaining pledges with the 74% support among Dems in the FNC poll it shows you the support in real life is way softer than seen in the poll.
msmveritas on April 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Hillary Clinton said it best: “This is change you can Xerox!”
SCOOPTHIScarlos on April 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM
They print up signatures like they print up money to “pay” the debt. Except that monetary inflation is really reflected in future prices.
Steve Z on April 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Kind of like trying to get American Idol watchers to vote on their favorite differential equations theorem. The response rate’s going to be a bit thin, so you’d have to do what you can to pad it up to avoid looking like an utter idiot for thinking it would work.
mr.blacksheep on April 3, 2009 at 5:08 PM
All bull sh!t aside…how could a Democrat (Congress-person or not) ever show their face in public? But on the other hand, there are four fingers and a dumb-thumb Republican. Our ‘American Crisis’ has more culpable villians than a Chicago Fund Raiser…or if you choose, a ‘Hitler Tea Party’. Let’s just all point fingers…until there are no more fingers to point.
P.S. No pun intended “Rahm”
JoeySlippers on April 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Their budget amounts to photocopying currency; why shouldn’t they do the same with their supporters? There is consistency there, folks; consistency!
michaelo on April 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM
How many poor little trees had to die for this lie?
petunia on April 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Were it only so!
INC on April 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Hmm I wonder,did they learn how to do that from ACORN?
oldernwiser on April 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM
The current “budget” is only a shell–an authorization to spend up to $3.6 trillion. Since cap & trade on CO2 emissions is unpopular with coal-state Senators, Obama won’t have its “revenues” to pay for his programs, meaning some programs might get squeezed out when Congress votes on actual targeted spending in September or so.
By then, even MORE people will have caught on to the fact that Obama is clueless on the economy, and $ome member$ of Congre$$ (even Democrat$) might cut $pending to $ave their $eat$.
Steve Z on April 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Good point. How much planet killing petroleum and carbon was used to make the ink?
Buy Danish on April 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Okay what is really sad is that your tag of “Yawn” is so true. No one is surprized. But you can bet that some believe it lock stock and barrel. Aimed right at our check books.
Hey could I pay my taxes with a check from an empty account?
petunia on April 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Give him Amelia Earhart’s plane.
Besides, McCain (and George W. Bush) is a better pilot.
Steve Z on April 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM
“We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
If they can get 22 million more big printers to start smoking,
they will be able to fund S-CHIP with no problem.
elderberry on April 3, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Entire history of the world. Obama has out spent the entire population of earth from however million years to 6,000 years (depending on you religous affliation…) to present day.
Probably combined.
In 3 months.
This is pure and simple madness.
petunia on April 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Yeah. Not likely.
lorien1973 on April 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Gotta make this viral. The only way to get the “youths” to see how they are being played is in their own language:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cmUeG55PE&feature=player_embedded
Sugar Land on April 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM
What a coincident , 130% is the same percentage of their guns Mexican drug mafias buys in USA.
the_nile on April 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM
How dare you say that the DNC lied?
Every one of those pledges has been verified by the non-partisan group ACORN.
malclave on April 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM
+1
The theivery will continue until the productivity improves.
OhioCoastie on April 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I watched it. I think the message is too subtle. I mean it makes Obama too cool. It does scare me however.
I’m afraid he’s Hitler and I’m going to the gas chamber at some point in this administration.
Hey these posts could be like the diary of Anne Frank… I could be famous. Dead but famous.
petunia on April 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM
2010 and then 2012 cannot arrive soon enough.
exdeadhead on April 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I am less confident about thos years with each passing day.
myrenovations on April 3, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Here’s a little thought experiment, using a bit of rough “napkin math”: that $3.6 trillion budget includes about a trillion dollars of new spending, ostensibly for the sole purpose of “stimulating” the economy. The proposed federal budget increase between now and the end of Obama’s term is something like ten trillion dollars, all of it deficit spending seized from people who haven’t been born yet, and who will be expected to pay for it all.
Suppose we took that trillion dollar “stimulus” and divided it between every American making less than $100k per year (just to throw a bone to the “progressives” among us.) That would be something like five thousand dollars apiece. Divide it only between taxpayers and it becomes more like ten grand apiece. Divide the entire deficit-fueled increase in Obama’s bloated budget between all taxpayers and it’s close to fifty thousand dollars each.
So if we wanted the maximum economic stimulus immediately – if the President’s primary goal is to get this economy MOVING again – why not just cut every taxpayer a check for fifty thousand dollars? That would be a hell of a stimulus, right? Or if we just wanted a quick short-term stimulus, that five thousand apiece would do wonders. Think of all the consuming and investment that would be happening!
Of course, none of it would be in the junk loaded into the Porkulus bill, and there would be no government control attached to the money – a $5000 tax-free check to every American taxpayer wouldn’t even cost much overhead to distribute, since a lot of us would use direct deposit anyway.
No one is surprised this “stimulus” plan wasn’t attempted, of course. The interesting thing is that no one even considered it at the government level. I would enjoy hearing President Obama explain why giving stimulus checks to individual taxpayers is utterly unthinkable, to the degree that it cannot even be discussed, ever.
Doctor Zero on April 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Ah, CNN. Propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
Del Dolemonte on April 3, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Joe, the $32.00/hr maintenence worker at the Capitol building, looked at the boxes and figured it would take him about 8 weeks to haul them to the various offices. His BMW purred in it’s parking space.
Limerick on April 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Ummm… there ya go, its all fixed now
bigskinny on April 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM
If I did that with my U.S. currency and tried to pass the copies off to my bank as “dollars” to deposit in my account, then I’d have the feds busting down my door.
Blackacre on April 3, 2009 at 6:08 PM
The left has no problem lying, and then like any good spin doctors they have their pundits all saying that it’s the other side that lies. Wouldn’t it be great if we could ever get to the bottom of the ACORN lies? How about Geithner’s? or Dodd’s? or Frank’s? or Reid’s? or Obama’s?
Christian Conservative on April 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Doesn’t sound very “green” to me.
Where’s carbonfootprint when you need him (her)?
pain train on April 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM
God, I’d pay a fortune to get the lying bastards Obama, Axelrod, Emanuel, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank et al on a Lie Detector Machine.
marklmail on April 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I am glad to see someone with your knowledge saying this because it is certainly what myself and many people I know have been throwing around.
Sure we need to get the banks straightened out but even when that is done,so many people are in debt and jobs are not going to be as plentiful as advertised because of tax increases and the anti-business policies of our Paparazzi President,that this will certainly not be enough to “charge” the economy.
Straighten out the banks,put their toxic assets somewhere else on their balance sheets and send the majority of this “bail out” money to the people to get out of debt and purchase goods.
With the increase in lending profits the banks will get,they can pay off their own debts.
I know this is simplistic but I have not seen all these trillions of tax dollars being used any more efficiently or effectively.
Baxter Greene on April 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM
I don’t know about that….but I think it is time for some form or ritualized belly cutting resulting in death.
moxie_neanderthal on April 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Sounds great on paper. Only one small problem which is called inflation.
Think about it.
Knucklehead on April 3, 2009 at 7:53 PM
An excellent point, but would it not apply equally to a trillion dollars spent by 436 people in Washington? If we must have skyrocketing inflation, why is it better to cause it by giving a few billion to ACORN instead of giving every taxpayer enough to buy a new car, or pay off his credit cards, or put his kid through college?
Doctor Zero on April 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM
We’re going to get hit with bigtime inflation thanks to Washington. It works both ways. Have TOTUS tell everyone that we’re all going to get a big check for $50,000 and within hours that $20,000 car will go up to $50,000, the big screen TV goes from $1,000 to $5,000.
Kind of like dominoes. Does that make sense?
Knucklehead on April 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Those dominoes are falling anyway. They’re just really huge dominoes wreathed in shadow. The inflationary pressures of dumping a ton of money on everyone would be sudden, dramatic, and highly visible, as you pointed out. The inflationary pressures of titanic deficit spending by the government, targeted at favored constituencies, will be slower and less obvious, but they will still be there.
I don’t seriously advocate dumping fifty thousand dollar government checks on everyone, or even five thousand for that matter. I think the entire concept of handing future generations a bill for the Porkulus spending is an outrage, and the obscene national debt under Obama’s future spending plans amounts to arranging for the next generation to be born into chains. We’re now being told that we must “rescue” a $14 trillion economy by running up a $15 trillion national debt. I find that no less absurd than instructing the IRS to buy every taxpayer a new car.
I only suggest the idea of throwing government money to the taxpayers to point out that the idea of “stimulating” the economy by giving funds to free men and women, to use as they will, is never even considered – it’s an idea that is never allowed to threaten the trillion-dollar spending plans. The implicit assumption is that small band of government apparatchiks, led by a President with no experience at even working in the private sector, and a Treasury Secretary who claims he cannot understand the same tax forms used by the people who run pet grooming salons, can trump the accumulated wisdom, experience, and desires of the entire free market. And giving any of that money back to taxpayers in the most efficient and direct way possible – a tax cut – is portrayed as some kind of reckless, unthinkable flight of lunacy.
I challenge the notion that dollars automatically acquire wisdom and virtue when someone from the government handles them. In fact, the Obama Administration seems to think that having anyone from the government touch those dollars is enough to turn them into economic smart bombs.
Doctor Zero on April 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM
If we don’t call them out on this, then the policy of lie after lie after lie becomes commonplace and just par for the course. This is a very big deal because elections are based, in part, on how much you believe in the candidate’s word. If you cease to believe in any of them, you will just be pulling the lever for a party (if you show up at the polls at all)because the candidate won’t matter. After all, they are all liars, right?
Was this the plan all along? The Republicans have got to differentiate themselves from the Democrats in this regard. I still believe that most people vote for something, even if it’s something as nebulous as “change”. Let’s hammer the theme that “change” means “misery” and not let up. Make the Democrats own this lousy economy and every stinking vote for statism and central planning. Give Obama nothing. Make him squeeze his increasingly nervous Democrat majority for every socialist victory. Let those bastards continue to eat Obama’s flowery (canned) rhetoric until they sh*t sunshine and daisies. Eventually, we will know who we can count on to pick up the pieces of this fractured and wounded nation.
SKYFOX on April 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM
SAYING DEMOCRATS LIE IS LIKE SAYING TED KENNDY DRINKS .IMPEACH OBAMA NOW
wade underhile on April 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM
With Democrats in control of both houses of congress and all of them quaking at the mere whisper of “racism”, you are truly pushing a boulder uphill, Wade. Remember, Obama is too black, er…big to fail. Politically, he’s bulletproof…for now. This is not to say we shouldn’t aim all our rhetorical guns at him. If we can keep his head pinned down, he may be too busy dodging political shrapnel to see all his nefarious plan through to fruition.
Stay on the offensive. There is a crack somewhere in his armor and we need to find it and exploit it. Nobody is bulletproof forever.
SKYFOX on April 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM