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Plouffe, All the Logic is Gone

Yes, I saw David Plouffe Doing the rounds over the weekend.  I’ve had a chance to review some of the video.  All of them should contain the title “incoherency”. 

The Politico: [1]

White House senior adviser David Plouffe said on Sunday Republicans want “huge tax cuts for the wealthy, more war, more debt.”

“They want to return us back to the same policies that caused the recession — huge tax cuts for the wealthy, more war, more debt. And independent economists last week just said the Romney congressional agenda would cause us harm in the short term economically and slow down the recovery. So that’s the wrong direction,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Host George Stephanopoulos pressed Plouffe on his statement, asking “more war? Where are the Republicans calling for more war?”

“Well, listen, the point is, George, our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war,” Plouffe said. “I think Gov. Romney called it a tragic mistake, oppose a timeline in Afghanistan. So — and, by the way, you know, that also has fiscal and economic consequences, because we have to focus on rebuilding this country. And that’s what the president wants to do, is take half the money from ending the wars and focus on rebuilding this country.”

first of all, the exit timeline from Iraq was not dictated by the Obama administration.  I’ve told you several times in the past that the only successes in foreign policy that Obama has ever had, involved in the extension of Bush administration policies.  Arguably, this move in terms of removing the U.S. from Iraq was less than successful [2] as evidenced just the other day.  But to claim credit for something that the bush administration did whilst trying to blame everything on Bush seems disingenuous at best. 

As for the democrats not wanting more war, another incoherent claim from Plouffe, perhaps someone should refer him to the voting records of those sitting on the senate intelligence committee like Dianne Feinstein who voted for the Iraq and Afghanistan war approval.  And who is it, I ask, who has escalated the drone attacks in the region?  The Obama administration itself.  And these are undeclared wars.  Which, were there a republican in the white house, and particularly a conservative republican, the democrats in Congress and the press would be raising holy hell about it right now. 

Of course Plouffe is suggesting that the White House released no classified information.  [3] that, of course, it is an easily detectable lie on its face. The amount of dancing he did on that subject on Fox over the weekend should be the stuff of legend very shortly. See for yourself.

The only way I can see Plouffe being able to look at itself in the mirror and the morning is that like most liberals, the man has no shame whatsoever.  Which of course makes him a perfect spokesman for this administration.