In the Chron:
The same people who cheered as George Bush and the Republican Congress turned the $236 billion surplus left to them by Bill Clinton into a nearly trillion-dollar deficit are this week up in arms because the Obamas spent money hosting a 2009 Halloween party for children of members of the military. The country was in the midst of a recession and the White House purposefully kept the opulent celebration quiet, they claim.
Right, except for…let’s see…the very quiet official White House YouTube Channel which posted video of the event at the time, the top-secret White House website which posted pictures and descriptions of the event at the time, the pool reporting, blogs and other media which reported the details of the event at the time, not to mention the contemporaneous accounts from people who were there.
Former Texas Republican Party Chair Cathie Adams and I discussed the right’s latest bout with hysterical Obama hatred on News 92FM this morning with host Scott Braddock:
