February 23rd 2009
Photo-Editorializing
I. Kid. You. Not. Out of ten-gazillion photos snapped at the balance-the-budget summit spin session today, this is the one AP chose to run with its run-down story:
Lovely, isn’t it? Prez-O appears so humble as the golden light of his aura encircles him. Good thing: It’ll take a miracle for him to cut the ballooning deficit in half … as the stock market apparently knows better than the sycophants at the spin fest – the Dow fell another 251 points on bizarre quotes like this:
“If we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road. We cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences.”
If deficits helped cause the crisis, why is Obama quintupling the deficit with his stimulus program? Anyone? Anyone? And if he really wanted to avoid deferring the consequences, would he be content to end his first (and last?) term with the national debt still at two and a half times the size of the Bush deficit?
And how, pray tell, will he accomplish that if next week he holds a health care summit, which is sure to lead to another round of unparalleled spending and the accompanying expansion of government?
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February 24th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Someone at AP must be reading your blog as they have changed the picture ;o)
February 24th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Yeah, I noticed that and chuckled … someone at AP dredged up some objectivity from somewhere.