Incoming Chief of Staff Jack Lew's Past Statements Coming Under Fire

Big Government ^ | 1/9/12 | Wynton Hall

[Nachum]

President Obama’s decision today to replace White House chief of staff William Daley with the director of the Office of Management and Budget Jack Lew is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill as Washington watchers recall Mr. Lew’s past statements.

On Feb. 13, 2011, Mr. Lew appeared on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley and said of Mr. Obama’s proposed budget:

Our budget will get us, over the next several years, to the point where we can look the American people in the eye and say we’re not adding to the debt anymore; we’re spending money that we have each year, and then we can work on bringing down our national debt.

Mr. Lew’s statement was deemed “false” by the nonpartisan, Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact.com.

“The contention that ‘we will not be adding more to the national debt’ after the middle of the decade seems incorrect on its face,” reported PolitiFact. “So what is the administration thinking?”

[Nachum]

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

“So what is the administration thinking?”

Thinking about getting reelected. Period. Since the first day this Obamanation took office.

[Thrownatbirth]

I think Lew's background of being the former Citi CEO of "alternative" mortgages and his $1M salary with taxpayer bailout money deserves a lot more attention.

And wasn't Citi the target of an ACORN lawsuit for unfair mortgage lending and prosecuted by a young, shiny attorney named B. Obama?

The irony abounds.