No Republican Could Ever Get Away With Such Lies

Can you imagine if George Bush were president and he bragged about having "saved or created x [fill in the blank] number of jobs"? He'd be howled off the podium with scorn and derision.

So what happens when Barack Obama actually does that, as he did yesterday in claiming that he had "saved or created 150,000 jobs" with the stimulus bill? The lapdog, fawning liberal media sucked it all in and praised the great man for his accomplishment.

Meanwhile, remember how Obama promised that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment below 8 percent and that, without it, unemployment would rise about 9 percent? Got news for you, Obamaites, unemployment is now at 9.4 percent nationwide, and while you claim to have "created or saved 150,000 jobs," the economy has actually lost another 1.6 million jobs since inauguration day.

Nice job.

Though the media will never call the Obama administration out on this particular deceit, one from the Democrats' own ranks did during a hearing with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner:

"You created a situation where you cannot be wrong," said Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana. "If the economy loses two million jobs over the next few years, you can say yes, but it would've lost 5.5 million jobs. If we create a million jobs, you can say, well, it would have lost 2.5 million jobs. You've given yourself complete leverage where you cannot be wrong, because you can take any scenario and make yourself look correct."

Again, just imagine what would happen if some Republican tried to get away with such self-evident acts of deception?