Associated Press: FACT CHECK: Obama thrifty spending claim, and MarketWatch analysis, are way off

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48. "Avoid asking who passed the stimulus?" Except that Nutting

credited Obama with the stimulus spending. It's right there in his graph. Check out the asterisk.

So right off the bat, this right wing swill is pulling the wool over your eyes. The very first line!

Then "But Obama gets credit for FY 2009 jobs." It ignores the stimulus spending which Nutting credits to Obama, not Bush. And Romney and other right wingers are HAPPY to credit Obama with 2009 job losses/gains, because they have been crowing about all those jobs Obama lost. Start crediting Obama at the stimulus or even at the beginning of FY 2010, and all those job losses become job gains. There's a reason the RWNJs cut off the chart at the beginning of 2010 - it's all job gains from there on out. Can't be showing that!

For numbers 2 and 3 (which actually are one point), Nutting uses CBO estimates for Obama for only 2 years - 2012 and 2013. For the other years, he uses actual spending. Take a guess why. I'll wait here while you think about it, here on May 28, 2012, three months before FY 2012 ends. Why oh why would Nutting use CBO estimates for FY 2012 and 2013 in May of 2012?

Could it be that no final spending numbers exist for FY 2012 and 2013 because, oh, I don't know, those fiscal years aren't complete or haven't even started yet????

P.S. Nutting DOESN'T use CBO projections for Bush's 2009. He uses the actual spending numbers. He doesn't cite the CBO. He cites the final figures at the Office of Management and Budget. So another right wing fail of a lie.

Point number four: do not use Obama's budget, use the CBO baseline. What Nutting is measuring is actual and projected spending as best he can. Is Obama's budget above projected spending? Very well, so noted. And so what? Is the House going to pass Obama's budget as is? No. So while the rightwingers finally have a fair point (Obama's asking for more spending than the CBO projection based on current law), they drown it in all the other bullshit and ignore that the Obama proposed budget has no real-world effect on spending other than being a negotiating stance.

Finally, the last chart - "Never show actual spending." What I see is Clinton maintaining spending, Bush overseeing a steady rise with a massive jump right at the end. That jump peaks right at the beginning of Obama. And then Obama shows a steady drop in spending. It amazes me that the rightwingers actually showed this. It shows Bush blowing the budget out of the water and Obama steadily reining spending back down. THAT'S NUTTING'S FUCKING POINT. Way to make our point for us!

Clearly the RWNJ knows his audience. He knows he can just post crap that kneecaps his own argument and his readers will gobble it down without debate. He told them, after all, that it shows OBAMA BAD. All this really does is highlight how the Tea Party doesn't think critically at all. They love it when they are spoonfed lies and deceit as typified by this graphic.