{"id":15344,"date":"2012-09-03T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15344"},"modified":"2012-09-03T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:34:40","slug":"taken-to-the-woodshed-for-telling-thetruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15344","title":{"rendered":"Taken To The Woodshed For Telling TheTruth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ed Morrissey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Morrissey\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Morrissey<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/09\/03\/maryland-governor-flip-flops-on-better-off-question-in-24-hours\/\">Hot Air<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today about some recent comments by Maryland <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Martin O'Malley\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_O%27Malley\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Martin O\u2019Malley<\/a>. On &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Face the Nation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/ftn\/main3460.shtml\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Face The Nation<\/a>&#8221; yesterday, Governor O&#8217;Malley told <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bob Schieffer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2002\/11\/20\/ftn\/bios\/main530179.shtml\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Schieffer<\/a> that he couldn&#8217;t say that we were better off now than we were four years ago, but \u201cbut that\u2019s not the question for this election.&#8221; Really? (or &#8216;seriously?&#8217; as my three-year-old granddaughter likes to say)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyh9gfznuEM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The logical question at that point was, &#8220;Then what <em>is<\/em> the point of this election?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today Governor O&#8217;Malley has changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A day after saying, no, the country was not better off than it was four years ago, Maryland Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley reversed course on Monday and said, yes, indeed it was.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe are clearly better of as a country because we\u2019re now creating jobs rathare than losing them,\u201d O\u2019Malley, a Democrat, said on CNN\u2019s <em>Starting Point<\/em>. \u201cBut we have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That\u2019s why we need to continue to move forward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He then motioned to a panel that included Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, among others. \u201cIs there anyone on this panel that thinks we\u2019ve recovered all we lost in the Bush recession? Clearly we\u2019re moving forward, we\u2019re creating jobs, unemployment is down, job creation is up. And that job creation would not happen without the president\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I get it&#8211;it&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George W. Bush\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/george_w_bush\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\" target=\"_blank\">George Bush&#8217;s<\/a> fault. These people are getting so desperate they are becoming comical. We need to make sure no one votes for them out of sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>This is the chart posted at Hot Air:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"romer-chart-2012-08\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/romer-chart-2012-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Republicans are echoing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ronald Reagan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/ronald_reagan\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Reagan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5VMX2JahrU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"439\" height=\"260\"><\/iframe>I am sorry (but not surprised) to see the failure of the Obama Administration in so many areas. President Obama has done nothing that had a positive impact on our economy, and he has treated many of our friends around the world\u00a0badly. I celebrate the fact that America elected a black President, but I fear that because President Obama has done such an inadequate job in the office that it will be difficult in the future for a black man to convince Americans that he is qualified to be President.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: currentColor; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e8e9ce89-4ed6-45f7-84c9-ae70190609dc\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air\u00a0posted an article today about some recent comments by Maryland Governor Martin O\u2019Malley. On &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; yesterday, Governor O&#8217;Malley told Bob Schieffer that he couldn&#8217;t say that we were better off now than we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,3876,2605,251,3429,1637,1974],"class_list":["post-15344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-bob-schieffer","tag-face-the-nation","tag-george-w-bush","tag-martin-omalley","tag-maryland","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15349,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}