President Barack Obama has been claiming that the United States has “doubled our use of renewable energy.” Not true. Wind and solar have doubled, but total renewable energy consumption is up by about one quarter from 2008 to 2011. Plus, since wind and solar started at such a low level, a doubling may not be as impressive to voters as it sounds.

The largest category of renewable energy is biomass, such as ethanol that is blended in gasoline. And the second-biggest category is hydropower — electricity generated from dams. Hydro was 35 percent of all renewable energy in 2008 and 2011, and biomass dipped a bit to 49 percent for last year.

Obama has made the claim in his speech at the Democratic National Convention and at several recent campaign stops.

But it’s simply not the case. All renewable energy accounted for 9 percent of the nation’s energy consumption in 2011, up from 7 percent in 2008. Measured in units of energy, BTUs, the consumption went up by about 26 percent and production went up by about 27 percent .

On Sept. 4, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made a startling assertion saying that Obama circumvented the law when he summarily waived the work requirements in the welfare law. Perhaps not as shocking, few news outlets seem interested in the story.

In its Sept. 4 letter, the GAO found that Health and Human Services (HHS) should have formally submitted a letter of its intent to make the changes to Congress and the Comptroller General before any waivers can be legally issued.

The letter also said that the GAO had not determined if HHS had the legal right to even make such waivers available. The GAO is basically saying that the Obama administration is breaking the law with its waivers.

But, according to a review of the shocking news of the GAO’s determination, neither CNN, nor CBS, nor ABC have bothered to report the story.

For their part, Republicans and GOP nominee Mitt Romney have maintained that Obama’s gutting of the work requirements in the welfare law was an illicit move.

Former U.S. Representative Ron Haskins, who helped pass the work requirements back in 1996, feels that Obama acted improperly by summarily changing the rules without going through Congress saying, “But [HHS] didn’t even consult with the Republicans. They knew the spirit of the law, and they violated that.”

Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Representative Dave Camp, agrees with Haskins. Camp says that the move was an “end run” around Congress.

Obama, however, has defended his move even going so far as to claim that it was several Republican Governors that requested the change. 

At least one governor refuted the claim, though, saying his office was only asking what the rules were for waivers but that he had yet to actually request any.

The lies began even before President Barack Obama started speaking. The introductory video claimed that Obama had been affected—and roused to action—by “watching [his] mother die.” Obama, while very emotive about his mother, neglected to visit her before she died of cancer—a mistake he admitted and regretted. Yet he has repeatedly lied about her in his speeches, including the lie that she died without health insurance.

In an unintentionally hilarious video put out by the Obama campaign, they attempted to create a “preview” of a film depicting the Romney campaign titled “The Do-Over.”

Superimposed over a shot of the New York Times, the screen reads “Romney advisors believe he’s viewed as ‘stiff, aloof and distant’ and that the GOP convention will be ‘a chance for a fresh start.’  Their plan includes mad men ‘slick packaging’ and a ‘theatrical’ Hollywood style reinvention.”

Slick packaging? Theatrical Hollywood style?

This from the Anointed One, who posed and primped in front of Greek columns on a football field?

Wow.

The “preview” continues with a stentorian voice reciting the usual attacks on Romney with a frantic Carmina Burana type of score under it,  and concludes with the voice-over saying, “critics have called his work ‘wildly misleading’ (salon.com) ‘4 Pinocchios’ (Washington Post)  ‘Pants on Fire’ (Politifact).”  

Salon.com, WaPo, and Politifact. Now there are three impartial observers.

At the end, a box appears with the rating N, as the voice-over intones “Rated N, for not gonna work.”

Not gonna work? Are they sure they’re not speaking about Barack Obama’s job history?

If this is what passes for wit in the Obama campaign, they’d better not take it on the road.

Oops, too late. Obama’s already there.

Job Growth

·         Obama: Cutter counts the job gains from the low point of Obama’s term forward. The low point was February 2010 when U.S. nonfarm payrolls measured 129,244,00. In July, they measured 133,245,000 for a gain of 4.0 million jobs in 27 months

·         Reagan: If you measure the Reagan recovery the same way, he created 8.0 million new jobs in 27 months.

·         Bush: And if you measure the Bush recovery the same way, the low point was in August 2003 when U.S. employment stood at 129,820,00. But 27 months later, the figure was 134,654,000 in November 2005 — a gain of 4.8 million jobs.

In this recovery, we’re still down over 3 million private sector jobs. By any number of measures, according to the AP, this recovery has been the weakest since WWII.

Obama: ‘Chicago Is an Example of What Makes This Country Great’

Man, if conservatives are excited over this, our standards have pretty much collapsed.

While it’s fun to watch Wasserman Schultz squirm, this is just Cooper doing the bare minimum of what a journalist is supposed to do. If you look at the title of that YouTube video — “DNC Chair Torn To Shreds Over False Claims” — that tells me our standards really are pretty low when it comes to what we expect from our media overlords and holding Democrats accountable.

She’s merely held accountable for two outrageous and flagrant lies. But if you watch Cooper as closely as Wasserman Schultz, he looks as uncomfortable confronting her and she does being confronted. And in the long run, what does any of this matter?

In fact, it doesn’t matter on whit.

Less than a half-million people watched the original broadcast of this confrontation on CNN, and the YouTube sensation that immediately followed was only spread among those who are already determined to vote against Barack Obama.

Wasserman Schultz is so relentlessly shameless here — because she knows there will be no political price for The Head Of The Freakin’ DNC brazenly lying about Mitt Romney’s abortion stand and just as brazenly misquoting The Los Angeles Times.

Team Obama knows they can lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and face no political consequence whatsoever because those lies are either covered up or dutifully noted (like last night) and just as dutifully forgotten immediately afterwards.

Just last week, President Obama himself stood before the so-called cream of the American media — the White House Press Corps — and lied. And like the good little lapdogs they are, the cream of the American media just rolled over and let him get away with it.

There’s no two ways about it. When Obama looked the White House Press Corps in the eye and said his campaign had nothing to do with the disgraceful “felony” charges hurled at Romney and had no part in Joe Soptic’s accusation that Romney was responsible for his wife’s cancer…

Obama.

Was.

Lying.

One of Obama’s tippy-top campaign officials and spokespeople, Stephanie Cutter, told the exact same lie about Soptic just the week before and neither she nor the campaign nor her boss (Obama) paid any kind of political price for it. 

But the examples listed above are not spin or nuance. They are bald-faced lies coming from the President of the United States and his top surrogates.

That’s a coverup — a coverup courtesy of a disgracefully partisan and cowardly media filled with the President Obama’s punks.

And those punks might think Obama’s grateful for their help, but he’s really just laughing at them.