On November 25, 2008, Reuters reported that “Obama vows to slash wasteful spending.” (HatTip to the Center For Individual Freedom)
In his news conference on Tuesday Obama vowed to run a cost-effective and efficient government. “If we’re going to make the investments we need, we must also be willing to shed the spending we don’t.”
“We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist or interest group,” he said.
Yeah, right.
It’s starting to look like the number of things Obama has said and actually meant over the course of the past two years is approximately zero, though my estimate may be generous.
Who would have thought that even the Democrats could produce so soon such a smooth and easy liar as to make Bill Clinton look like an honest man.