Obama gives life to my blog slogan

My blog slogan is “Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.”  In a scathing article at PJM, Jennifer Rubin details one area after another in which the Obama administration announces a conclusion, markets it as a fact, and spends all of the taxpayers once and future money to address these fallacious conclusions:

Throughout the campaign and continuing into his presidency Obama has decried George W. Bush as an “ideologue,” a man blinded by preexisting conceptions and inured to evidence which contradicted his worldview. But it is the Obama team which in just seven months has perfected the art of denying or evading facts. It doesn’t matter if the subject is small or large. It can be a domestic or foreign policy issue. The modus operandi is the same: don’t give them the facts; they’ve made up their minds.

This really isn’t surprising given that Obama and so many of his closet advisors have spent an inordinate amount of time cloistered in the Ivy Towers.  It took me years to undo the damage of a high end academic education and make my re-entry into the real world.  All of you were lucky that, as I went through that process, I didn’t have my hand in your pocketbooks.

If I could resurrect one president right now, it would be John Adams, just so that he could haunt the White House halls (he was the first president to occupy that house, after all) and whisper in Barack’s ear that “facts are stubbon things.”