If Bush Did It

From the first Morning Jolt of the week: Deliberate Dishonesty Is Something We Cannot A-Biden I’ll say this for Vice President Biden; his past history of having no ability, whatsoever, to control what blurts out of his mouth at any given moment makes one think that Biden probably very rarely consciously lies to people. Sure, he says things that aren’t true quite frequently, but for better or worse, Joe Biden is absolutely convinced of the veracity of every too-good-to-be-true factoid that pops into his noggin at any given movement, all of which are verbalized within an instant. Hook this man up to a polygraph, let him rip, and all the lines will remain straight, because he completely believes all of the BS he slings. Jake Tapper interviewed the veep Sunday, and Ed Morrissey was among the first to catch Biden making a blatant, irresolvable conflict with past administration statements, when the vice president insisted that the administration wanted a bigger stimulus, and was forced to trim it in order to win GOP votes: “You know,” Biden told Tapper, “there was a reality. In order to get what we got passed, we had to find Republican votes. And we found three. And we finally got it passed.” If it wasn’t for the legislative reality, Biden explained, “I think it would have been bigger. I think it would have been bigger. In fact, what we offered was slightly bigger than that.” Morrissey writes, “The Obama administration wanted to spend more than $862 billion, and it was the GOP that forced them into a supposed Pic-n-Save Porkulus instead? That is an easy allegation to fact-check. All we need to do is