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In the category of empty suits, new White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, has to have a whole section of his own. This guy makes drying paint look exciting by comparison.

 

Dullness, however isn’t his only flaw, whereas presenting unadulterated fabrications also seems to be another of his characteristics.

 

Yesterday, according to CNSNews.com, he told reporters that, the administration’s foreign policies in a number of areas have enhanced the world’s “tranquility,” which “raised eyebrows as reporters pointed to situations in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine and the South China Sea.”

 

Following that comment, “More than one reporter during Monday’s press briefing referred to a front-page Wall Street Journal article highlighting some of those crises, and citing security strategists as saying “the breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn’t been seen since the late 1970s.”

 

ABC News’ Jon Karl quoted Attorney General Eric Holder’s assessment in an interview aired Sunday that the terrorist potential arising from Westerners returning home after fighting in Syria was “more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.”

 

Karl then pointed to “what’s looking like an all-out war” between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Sunni jihadist successes in “taking over vast territory in Iraq and in Syria,” Russian aggression in Ukraine, and concerns about Chinese handling of territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

 

“It doesn’t seem like a time to be touting tranquility on the international scene,” he told Earnest. “Do you think the president’s foreign policy bears any responsibility for any of this, or is there anything he can do about any of this?”

 

Earnest said President Obama’s thinking about foreign policy was guided by one core principle – “the national security interests of the United States of America.”

 

At the same time, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that 6 out of 10 disapprove of Obama’s handling of the border crisis, whereas fifty-eight percent of American adults disapprove of the way the incumbent’s the immigration influx is going.

 

Consequently, regardless that the incumbent's thinking may truly be “the national security interests of the United States of America,” it isn't his thoughts that accomplish the goal. It's his actions that count  the most. And in that regard, he's done nothing helpful or constructive at all. 

 

Which leads to another combination of fabrication and mismanagement, as reported by Jeffery H. Anderson of The Weekly Standard, as follows.

 

“In March 2010, Obamacare was about to be voted upon by the House of Representatives, and the Democrats were in the process of deciding whether to ignore public opinion at their peril.  At that time, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that Obamacare would cost $938 billion over a decade and would reduce the number of uninsured people by 19 million as of 2014 (with a reduction of 1 million prior to 2014 and 18 million in 2014 alone).”

 

Now, today, “[T]he Urban Institute finds that Obamacare has actually reduced the number of uninsured adults by 8 million since the rollout began last fall.  (Gallup shows a similar number.)  That’s far short of the number of newly insured that the CBO projected in April of this year, in February of this year, or in 2012 — and it’s less than half the tally the American people were told Obamacare would hit when they opposed it in 2010.”

 

So, I guess today’s question has to consider the extent of lying that constituents will accept from their chosen representatives. Because, what’s at stake isn’t simply political ideology. Health care alone comprises 20% of the nation’s economy. Therefore, huge costs derive when statistics are fabricated purely for electoral approval.

 

Foreign policy failures too take a toll that’s not only costly financially, but risks the safety and lives of the nation’s citizenry. Which means that ignoring international threats in order to please voters is a total dereliction of duty having immense consequences. And while being incapable is surely tragic, a national leader who purposefully ignores proper actions simply to avoid the embarrassment of ineptitude, places personal goals above responsible governance, which is truly unconscionable.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios