To Be Fair to Phil Hare

Hot air has a clip from Rep. Phil Hare (famous for saying he doesn't care about the Constituion) under the headline Video: Hare calls deficit, debt a “myth”  Now as harsh as I have been to the Dems, I was reluctant to believe that he would say something so obviously untrue.  I mean that would either be proof of insanity, or a lie so unbelievably stupid, you would have to think he was nuts to think he could get away with it.

Then I read on and… I think there is a defensible (or at least less nuts) interpretation to his quote.  Here’s what he said:

And we will see a terrible price that we will pay years down the road for letting our children down when they need us the absolute most.  I’m not going to be part of that, so every minute that I have here is going to be spent debunking the myth that this country’s in debt and we just can’t spend.

So here’s where I think Hot air is going wrong.  The Myth is not just “we are in debt” but that because of it we can’t spend.  So the myth isn’t really the debt, in that sentence, but the claim it means we can’t spend.

Now of course that is wrong, but its not as batshit crazy (or as mendacious) as Hot Air’s interpretation.

Still I concur with Ed Morrissey.  Run this sound bite all across the nation.  Let us know that even as bad as things are, democrats are ready to make it even worse.  And if anyone is in the position to vote Mr. Hare out of office, please do.  No one who says they don't care about the constitution should even be allowed to hold public office.

Stupid Quote of the Day

“There are kids who are obese in this state who are going to school hungry.”

--Governor Ritter of Colorado

Clueless/Outrageous White House Quote of the Day (Update x2)

Big hat tip to DRJ posting at Patterico.  We get this little gem from White House spokes model Robert Gibbs:

We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can't spend more than you have.

Words fail me.  I mean my jaw just hit the floor.

Okay they aren’t failing me anymore.

Bobby, you are just fucking with us, right?  I mean do you have any idea how unreal that statement is?

Here Bobby, take a fucking look at how your administration applies that principle:

And that is just the deficit.  You get a deficit when you spend more money than you have coming in.  See how it goes up and down?  That is because sometimes you idiots are planning on reducing the rate of increase in our debt.

You hear that?  You aren’t even talking about reducing the debt, but occasionally reducing the rate of increase in our debt.

And here is other the galling thing.  Read the whole briefing at the link above.  He says this and there isn’t even one single follow up question.  The press is so blinkered that he can say something that unreal and they barely bat an eye.

Jesus, it’s a good thing I am not a member of the White House press corps.  I probably would have gone all Hulk on them and thrown a chair at Gibbs, hearing that in person.  I certainly would have asked a rude follow up question.  Something like, “are you fucking kidding me?”

Seriously, am I the only person who hasn’t noticed that this administration says wise things, and then utterly fails to apply them at all?  I guess they are “just words,” right Obama?

Sheesh.

Update:  Two updates.  I am sick at home, so I am watching the news.  A while ago the President had the nerve to sound a similar theme, but then he goes with this metaphor.  He says, okay if you are behind on the mortgage, you don’t go and buy a shiney new car.  But you still have to fix your water heater.  So we are just spending on the things we have to, that we can’t ever go without.