Detroit Free Press' Rochelle Riley still blames GOP for deficit

Not exactly a surprise for the person that was quote as jokingly wanting to be stuffed like the Thanksgiving turkey by the anointed one and have Obama's love child. But even those smitten with their false god surely can see this data right in front of them, right?:

Apparently not. 3 years of deficits that tripled anything Bush overspent. And yet, Riley has the unmitigated gall to write this in her column today:

The expectation was for him to create a perfect national health care plan -- and to immediately get rid of the trillion-dollar deficit his predecessor left as a White House-warming gift.

Apparently Rochelle Riley doesn't read her own paper, because even the Detroit Free Press, long a bastion of liberalism in the Midwest, admitted that Obama inherited a $400 billion deficit, not the $1.6 trillion one that Obama claims.

So let me again remind Riley and her ilk of reality: Going all the way back to his community organizer days, he gathered ACORN types to protest banks to give loans to people that couldn't afford them. He fought against reforms to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that caused the mortgage meltdown and put us into recession. And he voted for the first budget that gave us $trillion deficits. Obama committed more deficit spending in his first 421 days in office than Bush did in more than 4 years.  And he can't blame Bush either, but tries to anyway.  What drones like Riley fail to mention is that Congress makes budgets, not the President, and that Congress the last 2 years under Bush was under Democrat control. The FY 2007 federal budget - the last one put together by Republicans - was $2.7 trillion. Since Pelosi and Reid took over the federal budget is at $3.8 trillion. The deficit is entirely comprised of new Democrat spending since 2007. And as bad as a $400 billion deficit sounds, it is absolutely puny compared to what has happened since Obama took office.

Need I remind anyone - again (I do) - that Obama 1) voted for as Senator or signed into law as President every single penny of the deficit he now says he inherited, and 2) the housing meltdown was due to policies that he helped put in place going all the way back to his community organizer days when he muscled banks to give loans to people that couldn't pay them back. For one, his own voting record:

• Voted "yea" March 18, 2008 on the $3.1 trillion in fiscal outlays with a projected $400 billion budget deficit (only 2 Republicans voted "yea", and not one Republican in the House voted for it after the conference committee)
• Biden, Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton voted "yea" as well
• Voted "yea" October 1, 2008 for the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) along with Biden and Clinton
• Pushed through and signed into law the $787 billion stimulus bill boondoggle in February 2009
• Signed into law $410 billion of additional spending in the 2009 budget in March 2009

Thus, how does he blame Bush when he either voted for (along party lines no less) or signed into law every single gosh-darned penny that is now the record $1.4 trillion deficit, with a 2010 deficit of $1.39 trillion and a 2011 projected deficit of $1.42 trillion? The above projections do not take into account either ObamaCare or cap-and-trade.This by the way does not absolve Bush for leaving a $400 billion deficit that I thought was unconscionable, but by comparison Bush looks like a fiscal conservative. Obama, in contrast, not only voted for the 2009 budget, but praised it afterwards. From NewsBusters:

March 14 (2008)
Obama Statement on the Senate's Passage of the FY 2009 Budget

Washington DC -- Sen. Obama today released a statement on the Senate's passage of the FY 2009 Federal Budget:

"In Illinois and throughout the country, Americans share common hopes and common struggles. They are worried about keeping their jobs and being able to pay record gas prices and stay ahead of their mortgages and credit card bills and still have enough left over to make ends meet. They want to know that they'll have health care when they get sick - not just for themselves, but for their children and elderly parents. They want to know that a quality education and a college degree are within reach for all Americans. They want to retire with security and dignity. And they want to know that our government is doing everything it can to keep our nation safe and secure.

"The budget passed by the Senate tonight makes significant progress in getting our nation's priorities back on track. After years of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, this year's budget helps restore fiscal responsibility in Washington, and provides tax relief for the middle class and low-income families who need help most. It includes an expansion in the Child Tax Credit that I have fought for and makes marriage penalty relief permanent. And it rejects the President's drastic cuts in important domestic programs.

"We need change in this country, and this budget is an important step in helping bring it about. I commend Chairman Conrad for his extraordinary leadership in moving this resolution forward and moving America's fiscal policies in the right direction."

With all that in tow, it's fair to say that Rochelle Riley is as aware of spending as the average Detroit voter:

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/10/detroit-free-press-rochelle-riley-still.html

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