Lying

The reality is that something new and quite significant was learned at the hearing: Within hours of the attack on the U.S. facility, Clinton told the Egyptian prime minister “we know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.”

But two days later, while standing before the flag-draped coffins of the four Americans killed in the attack, grieving members of their families and millions of Americans watching on TV, Clinton attributed the tragedy to protests of “an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.”

I’m sorry, folks, but that circle cannot be squared. If “it was a planned attack, not a protest” and “had nothing to do with the film,” it could not have been caused by “an awful Internet video.” Yet Clinton — and President Obama, his spokesman Jay Carney, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and others in the White House — repeated the video lie over and over again for days thereafter.

Four Americans died, then Clinton, Obama, Rice, et. al. lied. And we wonder why nobody believes anything said by the government these days, and why the mainstream media has a profound credibility problem. Americans in flyover country know that liars cannot be trusted.

Before Republicans get too self-righteous, however, they better look at the beam of lies in their own eyes. For years, GOP leaders have promised they would reduce the size, costs and power of the federal government, but over and over again, once they get elected, too many of them act as if they never made that promise.

...They had hardly taken their oaths of office in January before Republican leaders were walking back their promise, saying there was no point in passing legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare because Obama would simply veto it. They knew before the election that Obama would be president after the election, so why did they make a promise they obviously didn’t intend to keep? That’s lying.

This country is in terrible shape. Our military is aging, worn-out and in the grip of debilitating political correctness. The national debt is nearly $19 trillion and much of it is owed to China. Hundreds of billions of tax dollars are redistributed every year from productive citizens to wasteful, ineffective federal programs that lock generations into a permanent cycle of poverty and dependence. Year after year, public schools graduate legions of students who can’t read, write a coherent sentence, do basic math, or explain why the American Revolution was fought.

Read more here.