As I'm sure all of you know, A tornado almost a mile wide tore through Mississippi on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and causing significant injuries and damage. First, To those poor souls who lost their lives, I hope they are in a better place.
Second, the Republican Governor of Mississippi wants the Obama Administration to declare his State a National Disaster Area. This of course would open up billion in Federal Aid.
And I say Don't Give it them!
(O.K. I don't really mean it, but please read on)
Too Harsh? Alright, I take it back, we should of course give our Fellow Americans all the help we can. But atleast make Haley Barbour PAY for it, figuratively speaking. Get him on the Record that he and his party are LIARS.
I won't detail every lie the man has said, just the easily dis-proven more relevant lies.
You may remember Haley Barbour commenting at the recent Southern Republican Leadership Conference a few weeks ago, from TPM
Haley Barbour first thanked G.W. Bush for the great work he did dealing with Katrina (seriously)and the $20 Billion Mississippi didn't hurt either.
[and] as he pivoted from the horror of the worst natural disaster in American history to the politics of 2010. "But let's face it, today we're here because we know we need to deal with a man-made disaster."
Barbour then launched into a discussion of the "disaster" of the Democratic regime in Washington. The main problem Barbour said, is all the unchecked federal spending.
"Think about since this administration has been in -- stimulus, omnibus, Fannie, Freddie, of course health care reform," he said. "Every month they were spending trillions of dollars."
This of course is a lie.
Here's another constantly repeated, easily dis-proven Republican L.I.E. from CNN's STATE OF THE UNION
(I couldn't find the Video, not that I looked very long, but here is the transcript)
CROWLEY: But what in general? I mean, what makes it the radical president?
BARBOUR: Well, the most left wing, it's about spending. I mean, he has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget with a $1.6 trillion deficit. The whole budget in 1997 -- when Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House, the whole budget wasn't $1.6 trillion.
Yet they're proposing $1.3 trillion deficit, $1.4 trillion deficit, $1.6 trillion deficit in the first three years of the Obama administration.
CROWLEY: But, Governor, that's not all of his deficit. A lot of it came from George W. Bush.
BARBOUR: Yes, about $400 billion of it. If you look at what the deficit was for the first fiscal year, about $400 billion was run up during the Clinton administration -- I mean, the Bush administration.
And the other billion -- the other trillion, you know, Candy, it's hard for us normal people to talk about trillions, and we're -- they're spending trillions and trillions and trillions. This health care bill is going to be an enormously expensive proposal. And everybody in America knows it's not going to be budget neutral.
I hope I don't have to detail HOW much of a lie this is, we all know President Obama did Not Triple the National Deficit, or (I've even heard) Debt the day he took office. But this might be the most widely repeated, most infuriating (personally) lie, that NO ONE EVER CALLS THE REPUBLICANS ON!!!. LINK
The Lie about Healthcare Reform being an "enormously expensive proposal", even though the CBO says it will SAVE the federal government money, I'll let slide. That's not so easily dis-proven, but given what we know, it's definitely misrepresenting the truth, if not a flat out lie.
And just for good measure, one more Lie - the federal government will hire "16,000 new IRS agents" -- or a "health gestapo" -- to enforce the Affordable Care Act Lie. Media Matters
Now maybe its the Lib in me, I of course don't want to see any of my fellow Americans suffer. And if their is anything the Federal Government can do to help, they must.
But given the nature of these lies, that the Federal Government is BAD, that President Obama "has tripled the national deficit" Shouldn't Haley Barbour have to come clean if he wants Billions FROM the Federal Government?
Is it too much to ask that Haley Barbour admit he is a lying, liar who consistently lies out of his lying liars hole?