Rider On a Pale Horse

In a profoundly dispiriting missive to the Washington Post, Beelzobama, Lord of the Flying Excuse, has issued forth one of the most negative, doom-proclaiming pronouncements ever issued forth from the Oval Office ,The Actions Americans Need.

It is a ledge-walking lament of a false Prophet attempting to extort America into supporting his pursuit of a nakedly partisan ideological agenda.

Barack Obama has put radical orthodoxy over country, and chosen opportunism over leadership. It is, in short, an editorial that deserves to be read and understood so that a trainwreck of a President may be properly mocked and scorned.

The dishonesty begins with the first proverbial stroke of the pen:

By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring.

While we are indeed in the midst of a recession, Obama has purposefully and vastly overstated our nation's present economic condition. We find ourselves in what is indeed a financial downturn, one hastened and exacerbated by if not created by politicians, but a downturn nevertheless far less dire than the Crier in Chief suggests.

As Don Surber notes, Beelz inherited from Bush an inflation rate of 3.85% and an unemployment rate of 5.76%, both far lower than rates inherited by Ford (11% and 5.64%), Carter (5.75% and 7.05%), or Reagan, who inherited 13.58% inflation and 7.18% inflation from James Earl Carter—the failed President many critics find Obama to be most like.

Despite the demonstrable lies of the guileless fearmonger in the Oval Office, we are not approaching anything like the dark days of the Great Depression our neophyte President suggests.

If anything, there are some suggestions of improvement in the economy. Many of the best public companies, and some private companies, continue to hire employees and report growth.

From this profoundly depressed state our young President, in his first ever executive position, attempts to convince us that to get out of this recession, we should place our faith and our children's futures in the hands of the incompetents, tax cheats, business failures, and agenda-driven blowhards that helped lead us into this mess, otherwise known as Congress.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives -- action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out of this crisis.

Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.

That's why I feel such a sense of urgency about the recovery plan before Congress. With it, we will create or save more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, provide immediate tax relief to 95 percent of American workers, ignite spending by businesses and consumers alike, and take steps to strengthen our country for years to come.

This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education. And it's a strategy that will be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability, so Americans know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent.

Obama refuses to listen to even his own rhetoric of the past several years. Fresh off winning an election based in part upon laments that the prior administration was guilty of rushed decision making, he is furiously attempting to railroad through Congress that costs more than the total costs of the Iraq War and Afghan War combined, in less than two weeks, so rapidly that it is said that not so much as a single Congressman or Senator had a chance to read the bill in it's entirety, much less examine it critically.

There is a good reason for Obama's bum rush: the Congressional Budget Office has declared that this bloated trainwreck of a bill is more harmful to the nation's future than the government ignoring the issue entirely:

President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing.

Worse. Than. Nothing.

Hell of a job, Barry.

Hell of a job.