Robert Reich begins his recent column, "The Republicans' Big Lies About Jobs (And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them)," with a quote from George Orwell's novel, 1984: "And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became the truth."The reader might deduce from Reich's headline and from his opening quote that lying is the subject at hand. And indeed, Reich then quotes what he calls a "whopper" from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: "Cutting the federal deficit will create jobs."Reich responds: "It's not true. Cutting the deficit will create fewer jobs."Now this is passing strange. You see, Reich was the Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, and he has repeatedly touted Clinton's record of creating tens of millions of jobs during the 1990s. But Reich doesn't seem to recall that the deficit came down dramatically each year during Clinton's...(Read Full Post)