New Speak

It looks like folks are finally starting to realize what the President means when he says something and his definitions are generally not in keeping with Webster's New Collegiate. Our President is using NewSpeak, in which words mean things that they don't. For example, lets look at a part of his latest speech.

Keep in mind that under a balanced approach, the 98% of Americans who make under $250,000 would see no tax increases at all. None. In fact, I want to extend the payroll tax cut for working families. What we’re talking about under a balanced approach is asking Americans whose incomes have gone up the most over the last decade – millionaires and billionaires – to share in the sacrifice everyone else has to make.

So, when our President uses the term "balanced approach", he warns us that most Americans won't see a tax increase. However, under his "balanced approach", some Americans will see a tax increase. Which Americans are those? Why the ones that made over $250,000 last year. He calls those people "millionaires and billionaires".

Even CNN is beginning to notice.

Our President has not offered a plan of his own. Simply because he doesn't have a plan, but he's threatened to veto plans that are politically untenable. Listening to his administration, I'm beginning to suspect that August 2nd isn't a drop-dead date, either. It'll just be another Tuesday that will come and go without much fanfare.

The man's being not only disingenuous, but dishonest.