On NPR’s Morning Edition recently, senior news analyst Cokie Roberts told host Renee Montagne that President Barack Obama had sent “signals” to the debt supercommittee in support of a deal–even though he was on his way out of the country at a critical time.

For weeks, Democrats had predicted–and hoped–that the supercommittee would fail, so that President Obama could continue his attempt to win a second term by running a Harry Truman-style campaign against a “do-nothing Congress” (even though his party controls the upper chamber).

Roberts suggested that a deal might be possible, because just as Democrats were starting to realize their scare tactics on Medicare and entitlement programs could backfire, Republicans who want the economy to fail are starting to worry that they would bear the blame (audio at 2:22):

Republicans who might have wanted to keep the economy bad to skewer the Democrats are now worried it could affect them and it could affect some of their key constituents, and they’re not so sanguine about letting it get worse. And Democrats who wanted to just, sort of demagogue against Republicans on Medicare cuts are worried it might all backfire.

Robert’s claim relied on a false equivalence–not only because Democrats have no intention of backing off their “Mediscare” tactics, but because there is not a single congressional Republican who wants the economy to fail. (more…)

Since America’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in history under President Obama, Democrats and their media structure have been working overtime to spin this as the tea party’s fault. They’re spinning so hard they’re absolutely dizzy.

John Kerry: “Blame the tea party!”

David Axelrod: “Blame the tea party!”

Then there are those who blame everything and everyone other than the party in charge.

Cokie Roberts blames the Constitution:

Barney Frank blames the military:

The White House said that S&P made a “mathematical error” (they downgraded the downgrade) even though S&P says it is irrelevant, the downgrade stands.

Except that military spending is only 4% of GDP. Mark Steyn notes in his latest book (which is a must-get) After America, in ten years we “will be spending more of our federal budget on interest payments than on the military”  – and “according to the CBO’s 2010 long-term budget outlook, by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 and 20 percent of its revenues in debt interest.” Steyn notes that “America will be spending more on debt interest than China, Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, Italy, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Spain Turkey, and Israel spend on their militaries combined.“ Frank is careful not to mention Libya when talking about war funding; he mentions only Iraq (which is ending) and Afghanistan (which his party extended and pledged more troops) because by reminding viewers that we lumbered into conflict with a country that posed no immediate threat to our interests, he’d be showcasing Democratic irony.

Blaming the tea party (or the military, or anything else) is asinine and an outright lie and I said exactly this on CNN this morning. Let’s review.

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ABC News talking head Cokie Roberts was shilling for the Obama administration once again on Good Morning America during an interview with former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos. She wasn’t just shilling for Obama but tying to mold the news and public opinion to her left-wing druthers instead of giving an honest review of today’s political climate.

Like the rest of the Old Media establishment, Roberts was filled with praise for the great success that Obama had in this lame duck Congress. “It was incredible,” she gushed.

Of course, Roberts interpreted the Lame Duck session to mean that the Republicans are the ones that came to Obama as opposed to the truth that he had to come to them for the first time in his political career. This lame duck session was the first time in Obama’s life he was forced to actually compromise with Republicans as opposed to merely giving compromise lip service but otherwise sticking to his hard-left agenda — and even at that he barely compromised at all here.

But instead of reporting the truth, Roberts spun it to make it seem as if the GOP came hat-in-hand to her powerful and righteous president. And she pronounced it good and insisted that the GOP must continue it despite gaining the upper hand in the recent midterm elections.

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This last Sunday on ABC’s This Week, round-table contributor Cokie Roberts said the following:

There was racism that came up during the health care debate with the vilification of John Lewis at the Capitol.

BigGovernment.com has posted numerous videos proving that no racial vilification of Rep. John Lewis occurred at the Capitol during the health care debate.

We kindly request that Cokie Roberts correct the record.