[Shaudius]

What part of this is half truths?

Okay lets go line by line

US Credit Rating: AA+, not AA, no they aren't the same thing. Reason given for why our credit rating was downgraded, "Lowering the nation’s rating to one notch below AAA

, the credit rating company said “political brinkmanship” in the debate over the debt had made the U.S. government’s ability to manage its finances “less stable, less effective and less predictable.”" Gee, I don't know what could possibly be causing political brinkmanship. Richard Mourdock: "

“If people on the far left have a principle they want to stand by, they should never compromise. Those of us on the right should not either,” Mitch McConnell: "

our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term."

Unemployment:

7.8% in January of 2009, this is correct, do you think Obama is responsible for unemployment in February when he has been in office less than a month, because it was 8.3% How about in March when it was 8.7% and went up until it reached a high of 10% in October. What percentage unemployment is it fair to attribute to Obama, by the logic of your post its only fair to judge based on the day someone takes office. Well by that logic unemployment was ~4% when Bush took office and 7.8% when he left. Do you think Bush is responsible for approximately doubling the unemployment rate?

Gas/Gallon: When economies deflate the price of oil goes down as demand goes down. The economy has recovered substantially since January 2009 when gas was 1.81 dollars/gallon on average. That's why this one is a half truth, the reason gas is higher because the economy has recovered to some degree. It also doesn't tell the whole story since gas over $4 a gallon in July of 2008, did Bush magically lower the price of gas over the next six months or was there something else at play...gee I wonder.

Debt: This one is complicated, but if you'd look you would see that the last budget that George W. Bush signed had a deficit of approximately 1 trillion dollars(assuming 2008 tax revenue). Obama did not have the chance to effect a fiscal policy for over a year. So even if Obama had done nothing the national debt would have risen over a trillion dollars and more like 1.5 trillion, even if Obama had cut the deficit in half with his first budget(a tall order) the debt would have risen 2.5 or so trillion just by 2011. If you go to the present day if Obama had cut the deficit in half, we would have over 13 trillion debt. Also see Tully Mars' post.

But it goes beyond that, the Ryan plan, the plan that Romney supports, doesn't balance the budget until 2040. How much do you think the national debt will go up until that time?

2 Wars/3 Wars: We're not in Iraq. So what wars are these three wars? Libya? That was a brief incursion. NATO just agreed today to a pullout of Afghanistan in 2014. So again, what three wars?

26 weeks unemployment/99 weeks unemployment: I don't really know what this is supposed to show. That people can get unemployment benefits for longer? That's not really an inheritance but whatever.

Annual budget/No Annual Budget: Yes, Bush's last budget added one trillion to the debt(as enacted, assuming revenue was what was expected, which it wasn't), the current resolution which funded the government for as long as an actual budget, actually has less deficit than the last Bush budget, but what do the Republicans want to do, turn back the defense spending cuts in that last budget deal, and instead cut them from other areas. What else won't the Republicans do, raise taxes(thank you Grover Norquist), so explain to me how we're going to get to a balanced budget without cutting from defense or raising taxes?