Obama’s chief propagandist Jay Carney, no doubt, has one of the hardest jobs in Washington: defending the hack he works for.  But Jay Carney really told a doozy yesterday that is so laughable that even a government-educated Democrat would be able to see through it as a line of Bolshoi.

Carney said, "I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration. I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness."  He continues, “The president has demonstrated significant fiscal restraint … Of all the falsehoods told about … President Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. It didn’t happen.”  He also apparently said that the evil “tax cuts for the rich” were the reason why the “red in was gushing” when Obama began his reign.

First of all, I’ve put the rest this myth about the tax cuts for the rich causing our outrageous deficit.  Go ahead, click the link.  Secondly, I’m lazy and someone who understands this stuff more than me has already done the research.  So if you want to understand what is really going on here (and why Jay Carney is full of it), just read this post by James Pethokoukis: Actually, the Obama spending binge really did happen.

The administration can try to spin a lot of things, but trying to claim that Obama has demonstrated fiscal restraint is flat-out insulting.