April 28, 2009

Obama's Good Cop-Bad Cop Scam

By Lee Cary
President Obama may deplore enhanced interrogation techniques, but he's learned a few things from cops and criminals.Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer's article entitled "The Sting, in Four Parts" may have missed one part. The good cop bad cop scam.Krauthammer listed four parts to "The Sting": (1) The Whopper, Obama's phony computation of deficit reductions; (2) The Puzzler, his brazen misrepresentation of domestic discretionary spending; (3) The Non Sequitur, his false connection between the economic crisis and radical reforms in healthcare, education and energy; and (4) The Swindle, the unsustainable level of federal spending he proposes.  All four parts of "The Sting" pertain to government spending and rely on the bait-and-switch move.  Obama preaches fiscal responsibility and then proposes a cosmic-sized budget. For packaging purposes, people focus on his words (the bait) and miss the switch to real numbers.  He uses words as a...(Read Full Article)