Vice President Biden caught in blatant lie
As our host noted yesterday, serial fabulist extraordinaire Joe Biden was out doing the talk show rounds in support of “The One’s” fiscal policies.
Rob did a good job, but missed one vital point. Joe was claiming that no-one foresaw that the “stimulous” would not work, and that just ain’t so.
Joe Tries to Spin, But Ends Up Twisting in the Wind
Innocent BystandersIn the comments, lauraw linked to Joe Biden’s spin on the economic predictions for the stimulus package:
Vice President Joe Biden says “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the economic stimulus.
Really. Let’s look back about 4 months and try to remember who was guessing what:
- Obama reminds GOP in stimulus meeting: “I won” (Hot Air): 1/23/09
- House passes stimulus plan, but with no Republican votes (McClatchy): 1/28/09
- Pence Opposes Democrat Stimulus Bill: “It Won’t Work”: 1/28/09
- Economists say stimulus won’t work (St. Louis Post-Dispatch): 1/29/09
- Analysis: Stimulus Won’t Jump-start Economy (AP): 2/13/2009
- Sen. Cornyn: Stimulus Won’t Work (Fox): 2/13/09
- Republican Governors Step Up Attacks on Obama Economic Policies (Bloomberg): 2/23/09
And among the highlights to the opposition to the bill, we had 200 economists taking out an ad in the New York Times saying it wouldn’t work, all GOP representatives voting against the bill, and all but 3 GOP senators voting against the bill. [And as Joey Buzz points out in the comments, I’d forgotten to mention the Tea Paries, which involved hundreds of thousands of American citizens of all political affiliations.]
Seems like more than a few people lacked faith in the impact of the economic stimulus, and the only people who “guessed wrong” were its ardent supporters. There have been few cases in politics where one party so completely and unequivocally owned a piece of legislation. Joe is a desperate, desperate man to even try to revise that history.
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