Unable to blame Bush directly for current and pending budget deficits, President Obama has taken to blaming Straw Men.On Saturday, May 23, during a C-SPAN interview with Steve Scully, the President had this exchange according to DRUDGE:SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money? OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades. (Enter Straw Man #1: Failure to nationalize health care sometime after Harry Truman first proposed the idea. In other words, it's not Obama's fault that "we are out of money." It's not the fault of the new health care system he wants. It's the fault of those who didn't pass a health care plan earlier.)So we've got a short-term problem, which...(Read Full Post)