In all the rhetoric about “investing” in America…

As we all know, BO insisted that the sequestration be negotiated to include taxes along with the mandated spending cuts.

 (which, as we also know, are not really “cuts” but are simply a decrease in spending increases. It’s like this diet -  “This year, I am going to lose 2 pounds. Instead of gaining 10 lbs as I did last year, I will only gain 8 lbs.”). The GOP simply said “no”. BO created this deal last year when he publicly agreed to the automatic spending cuts in exchange for his increase in the debt ceiling. Now, he’s still trying to lie his way out of it. Even last week, he said, “First of all, the sequester is not something that I proposed, it's something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.” That was a lie.

Later in the day when Boehner was asked about this lie, he said, “The sequester was the president's idea.”At the subsequent press conference, Jay Carney was asked, “Didn't that idea for the sequester originate here in the White House?” Unable to dodge the truth, he tried to make it everyone’s idea but had to admit it was all BO’s, “The sequester was something that was discussed, and as has been reported, it was an idea that the White House put forward. What I will concede is that we were looking and the Republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build the mechanism to get us out of default possibility and  the sequester was one of the ideas put forward, yes, by the president's team.”

Whew!

Lots of obfuscation but the Truth prevailed. So, BO continues to repeat The Big Lie counting on the ignorance of his KoolAid drinkers. Plus, he doubled down by insisting that the sequestration, which specified cost cuts only, had to include tax increases also! Ya gotta give it to him, he has no shame. Can you imagine the media letting a Repub get away with these lies, double dealing and outright refusal to comply with a publicly established agreement…that he himself proposed…and signed in to law!

And his lies continue in his attempts to justify the need to "invest" more…

Why is pork considered to be an “investment”? When BO squanders mega-billions on teachers (unions), state and municipal police (unions), state and municipal fire fighters (unions), construction projects (unions), federal civil service (unions), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (unions), is he investing in America? Or buying votes? With our money.

Why did he demand more money in his SOTU speech claiming there are 70,000 bridges in this country that need fixing? Wasn’t the $861 billion stimulus supposed to fix our roads and bridges? Those 70,000 “structurally deficient bridges” were all reported by the Federal Highway Administration in 2007. Their engineers estimated to repair them all would cost about $188 billion. So why are they still not fixed? He got $861 billion.

Worse yet, he even has $150 billion still not spent. What’s he waiting for? How is it that four years later, we still have 70,000 bridges that are going to fall down on our heads? Why has he still not “invested” all that money that he insisted was desperately needed to create “shovel-ready” jobs…back in 2008/9. And with $150 billion still not spent, why does he need more money to fix our bridges?

When he plays amateur venture capitalist and invests in speculative Green Tech (and loses his butt… and our money), is he investing in America? Or buying donors? With our money.

And why does the media let him get away with calling it “investing”? It’s spending, not “investing”. And worse yet, it’s political pork spending!

The worst of all is that this “investing” would never be allowed in the real world. It’s obvious that if anyone is deep in debt and can’t pay their bills, there is no way they could borrow more money…let alone get their credit limit raised! Especially when they walk into the bank and say they need to borrow more money so they can invest!!! How can he continue getting away with this obvious ludicrous scenario? Oh of course - the media.

But where is the GOP in all of this? Why do they go on the defensive when BO attacks them for “not caring about the children, public safety, the infrastructure, the environment, etc?” Why not simply blast him back with “We cannot afford to keep putting additional money into programs that are already well funded? Especially with money that we do not have! That we borrow from China! And how can you, Obama, claim you care about the children when you are saddling them and future generations with an unprecedented debt? And insist on adding more. You need to grow up and stop asking for draws on your allowance. And please stop insulting the country’s intelligence with your accusatory tantrums - “you don’t care” and “that’s not fair” is what spoiled kids say.”

We all know that the GOP is pathetic at PR but it’s unbelievable that they can’t figure this out…AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!