By Mr. Curmudgeon

In his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, President Obama told all who would listen that he and the yawning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid see eye to eye on one important issue. To that end, the president redefined redistributive payoffs to targeted constituents as “tax cut.”

“…We cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. We cut taxes for parents trying to care for their children. We cut taxes for 8 million Americans paying for college.
I thought I’d get some applause on that one.

“…Two hundred thousand work in construction and clean energy, 300,000 are teachers and other education workers. Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, first responders. And we’re on track to add another one-and-a-half-million jobs to this total by the end of the year.

“The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That’s right — the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus bill.”

It was a longer version of his answer to Joe The Plumber, who asked then candidate Obama if he would raise taxes. “I think when you spread the wealth around,” said Obama, “it’s good for everybody.” In other words, the president and Harry Reid are on the same page when it comes to buying power with your dollars.

WILSON v. OBAMA

The last time President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress, the month was September and the issue was health care. “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants,” said the president. “This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” In response to the president’s false claim, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) yelled, “you lie!”

In last night’s State of the Union speech, the president scolded the U.S Supreme Court for striking down provisions in the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law. Obama said, “…last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections.” In truth, what the Supreme Court did was uphold the supremacy of a two-hundred-year-plus First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito, in his front row seat, shook his head at the president’s mischaracterization and mouthed the words, “not true.”

Rep. Wilson made the charge, and the people of Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts recently rendered their electoral verdicts on the president’s veracity. In the court of public opinion, in the matter of Joe Wilson v. Barack Obama, Justice Alito has affirmed that President Obama is indeed a liar.