Obama lies--again. Episode 240.

One of the things the world learned from the Nazi's in WW2 was that although people are skeptical of small lies, if you tell a huge lie and repeat it often enough a lot of people will believe it--because it's hard to believe that someone would fabricate an outrageously huge lie.

Obama and the Democrats seem to have learned this.

The issue is the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts on December 31. The GOP wants to extend them or make them permanent, while the Dems only want the tax cuts extended to those making less than $250,000 per year.

Now I make a lot less than that, so I don't have a problem either way. But I have a fierce problem with politicians who lie--as Obama did, quoted on the leftist site Politico:

Obama said the jobs bill he just signed will cut taxes for small businesses, but that because the parties can’t agree on the Bush-era tax cuts, “we’re in danger of seeing a lapse in tax breaks.”

“A lot of people didn’t notice that they were getting a tax break,” he said. “That’s going to lapse if we don’t renew it, and Republicans are proposing to eliminate it.”

Did you get the last phrase? According to Obama the Republicans want to "eliminate" an existing "tax break" that everyone was/is getting. (Ozero would never credit Bush for the Bush tax cuts, of course.)

The truth, of course, is exactly the reverse: the GOP wants to extend the tax cuts to all taxpayers, while the Dems don't. There's no way on earth that one could rationally summarize this as "Republicans want to eliminate" the tax cuts.

Just one more piece of evidence that Obie and the Dems will lie outrageously--because they always get a free pass from the MSM on it.