Lies and Liars!

It headlines: "It's time for governmental truth-no lie. " This is the weekly comment from Mark Trahant, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's editorial page editor. It's his opinion that differences of opinion are lies. Now isn't untruthful name-calling the realm of the political parties and the elected, not newspapers' editors with special constitutional protections, you might ask? Not today when America's newspapers are the breeding ground for hate and envy gorged writers that seek to end America as we know it.

What these opinions always seem to wallow in is Bush bashing. The hate for the president overshadows any sense of honesty or integrity that once seemed to define Trahant's and others' moral and ethical fabric. Dismissing lying by Clinton was fine while lying to disparage Bush is just as comfortable. Situational ethics and relative morality are the cornerstone of secular progressive thinking.

It seems irrational to answer irrationality, but let's go through the exercise. The mantra is that Bush lied because he attacked Iraq for reasons other than the "made up" weapons of mass destruction. Facts always get in the way of situational make-believe. Every major intelligence organization stated there were WMD. In fact, our CIA had missed the weapons before Desert Storm which exposed the Iraqi nuclear program.

Clinton didn't meet with any CIA officials directly during his 8 years in the White house. Why? Because he didn't like nor trusted them. So why would Bush trust a few of the more liberal agents when they said that there is scant evidence that Saddam has continued his WMD programs after the early 1990s? He and his administration rightly distrust the CIA because of their history of getting "IT" wrong. No matter what the "IT" was. They told Reagan that the Soviets were a "fast rising economic power" right up to the day the Soviets imploded.

Then Trahant wallows deeper into the sty of media lying. He attacks the Bush economic policies as lies. Why? Because they are working. Tax cuts work, which distresses the hate and envy crowd that seeks to keep wealth from others. President Bush said that his "pro-growth" policies are "proof" that tax cuts work. Trahant lies by calling Bush a liar due to his claims. Trahant says that: "The message is that the federal deficit is below projection (Fact), the trend is in the right direction (Fact), and the fiscal house is in order (Fact).

Then Trahant used the General Accounting Office, the oft wrong and never right tea leaf readers of the left of center bureaucrats in government to make his case. The GAO delivered projections of $10 trillion in surplus tax collections to the Bush administration in January 2001. Those projections were based on static dreams of tax collections and expenditures based on the late 1990s. We all know that the Tech-Bubble burst in 2000 costing Americans over $11 trillion in wealth and eventually reducing employment by an estimated 3.5 million. Then the recession caused by the bubble crash and the Clinton tax collections began. Then we had the Clinton 9/11 attacks. That reduced our economic activity by several percentage points.

Yet Trahant merrily stumbles along with the GAO projections of 2000 that have been proven wrong and "dumb and dumberer." In fact, dynamic projections using the Clinton delivered Tech-crash and the recession and 9/11 predict over $10 trillion in deficits by 2008. Yet it seems that it will be closer to $1.5 trillion even when Iraq is included (about 1/3 of the deficit). A Bush supported would say that his policy is 10 times better than Clinton using the $1 trillion governmental deficit rather than the $10 trillion expected deficit.

The lying charge comes at a most inopportune time for Trahant and his secular progressive push. The Swedes have given the Nobel Prize for Economics to a anti-big-government scholar and worse they gave the Peace Prize to a Reagan/conservative style individual empowerment guru. Both prizes are proof that secular socialism is dead man walking. So Trahant goes back to the bread & butter "Bush lied" (lying) bash to use smoke and mirrors to hide the sad news.

Worse is that Trahant demagogues and dismisses the Bush effort to correct the miserably failing New Deal Social Security and New Deal style Medicare and Medicaid programs. Why? Because they are all that's left of the secular progressive push to mold America in the image of the economically failing, morally bankrupt, and ethically challenged "Old Europe."

.