Buffalo Gal

“Lying through your teeth” is a well known adage among Americans. It is most often applied to politicians and their minions, I think. They seem to be the ones who are most glib and adept at lying through their teeth on any given day or hour or minute.
I think presidential press secretaries must be chosen based on their ability to look mildly at the assembled reporters in the White House Press Room and proceed to “lie through their teeth” completely destroying their own integrity…if they ever had any.
Today…. Jay Carney, the current Liar In Chief of press secretaries, actually kept somewhat of his “cool” when he got hammered by reporters asking him if there was a political motive behind the President scheduling his big “Jobs” speech and asking for a joint session of Congress at the same time as the next Republican presidential candidates debate takes place at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley , CA. Carney said there was no connection between those two events. HAH!
Of course there is a political reason for the speech at the same time as a Republican debate! Does Carney think the reporters are stupid?
How do the Pols keep their teeth that they lie through so often? I think that lying through your teeth could have the same effect as what happens to the teeth of Bulimics who flood their teeth many times a day with forced vomiting. Their teeth turn black and eventually become rotten. Maybe a good check to see if a politician is honest is to look him in the mouth and check his teeth like good horse buyers do. If there are blackened, rotten teeth…WHOA! This is a lie through your teeth politician!!!
Another recent example or examples of “lying through political teeth” is the insistence that our huge debt and deficit are caused by the Entitlement Programs of which so many Pols are fond of and have added onto in nearly un-understandable multiplications over the years.
The ones being most blamed most recently seem to be Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid…although the candidates for Entitlement Over- Spending are so gargantuan it is hard to distinguish between them sometimes.

Byron York, a nationally known political writer, had a good op-ed piece on August 22, 2011. (“Spending, Not Entitlements, Created Huge Deficits”)
York cites a lot of facts to back up his contentions. And here are a few he wrote about:

“There’s no doubt federal spending has exploded in recent years. In fiscal 2007, the last year before things went haywire, the government took in
$2,568 trillion in revenues and spent $2,728 trillion for a deficit of $160 billion. In 2011, according to the Congressional Budget Office estimates, the government will take in $2,230 trillion and spend $3,629 trillion for a deficit of $1,399 trillion.”

Ah yes…entitlements do put a strain on the deficit amount..however……

Referring to the increases, York says,”Was there a steep rise in entitlement spending? Did everyone turn 65 and begin collecting social security and using Medicare? NO…the deficits are largely the result not of entitlements but of an explosion in spending related to the economic downturn and the rise of Democrats to power in Washington. While entitlements must be controlled, in the long run, Washington’s current spending problem lies elsewhere.”

York goes on to compare spending in various years for things like “economic security” (the addition of extra unemployment payments to those without jobs.)

IN 2007 spending for unemployment, food stamps and related programs was at $365 billion. In 2011, the same costs are estimated at $622 billion and that is an increase of $257 billion! CHA-CHING!
Medicaid in 2007 cost $190 billion in 2007 to $276 billion in 2007.CHA-CHING!
Then consider the “stimulus” which the Democrats put through when they came to power after Obama’s election in 2008.
“It was the specific spending excesses of Obama and the Democrats tha that shot the deficit into the stratosphere.” (Byron York)

That stimulus bill cost $814 billion increased every part of the federal budget and that is from Douglas Holtz- Eakin, former head of the Congressional Budget Office. CHA-CHING!

Today’s deficit crisis is not one of entitlements {as many Democratic politicians like to think}….”but it was created by out-of-control spending on everything but entitlements.” (B. York op-ed)
Yorks’final paragraph:

“This issue could be an important one in the coming presidential race. Should Republicans base their platform on entitlement reform or should they focus on the here and now—specifically, on undoing the damage done by Obama and his Democratic allies?”

We can certain that there will be a lot of “lying through their teeth” in the upcoming elections— but Americans are too smart to fall for those lies.
The current approval polls of President Obama are falling to new lows every day. The American people need to make their concerns known to their representatives—-often and in a most powerful way if our nation is going to stay afloat economically—-and morally.