Whoppers & Weiners
Let’s all agree that Anthony Weiner is a duplicitous, self-aggrandizing narcissist and a seriously deranged, habitual tweetvert. Think it’s safe to say there’s not much argument there. But in the grand scheme of political and moral transgressions, which is worse: lying about a freakish sexting jones, or lying about multiple financial catastrophes that threaten to undermine the stability of the country?
Because as Weiner was busy lying about his personal battle of the bulge exploits, President Obama has been equally busy dropping some serious whoppers of his own. This from CNSNews:
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the real cost of the federal government guaranteeing the business of failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $317 billion — not the $130 billion normally claimed by the Obama administration.
In a report delivered to the House Budget Committee on June 2, the CBO said a “fair value” accounting of guaranteeing the two defunct mortgage companies – known as Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) – was more than twice as high as the Office of Management and Budget had accounted for.
And then there’s the outright fabrications Obama weaved about the alleged success of the auto bailout, delivered during a speech in front of autoworkers at a Chrysler plant, no less, what The Washington Post skewered as “one of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech. Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just like the fine print in that too-good-to-be-true car loan.” The whole article is worth a read.
So which is worse: the duplicity and deceit of Congressman Weiner, or of President Whopper?
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