On the Stephanie Miller Show today, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) called in to discuss Willard M. Romney’s accusations that President Obama is a horrible, terrible, no good chief executive because it is he, King Barack, who is solely responsible for our 5 trillion dollar debt increase (wrong):

DAVID GREGORY:
I want to ask you one other question about the broader economy and what sort of holds us back. And a lot of people I talked to, asked to me what’s the most basic question, which is, “What role does the debt really play?” Because here’s the fact about the debt under this administration and the prior administration. If you go back– the debt increase for the tol– total Bush presidency was about $5 trillion, which is about the increase in the debt for just this president’s– first term, about $5 trillion. Is the debt so big that it keeps the economy from breaking through?

SECRETARY TIMOTHY GEITHNER:
No, there’s no evidence and no basis for concern that those– long-term problems about our fiscal sustainability are hurting the economy today. But let me just go back to your statistics, David. The president’s policies in the– the design to put out the financial fires and rescue an economy in– in crisis caused only about 12%, a very small fraction of the increase in debt you’ve seen over this period of time.

The vast bulk of that increase in debt is the result of the policy choices made by his predecessor to finance some very expensive tax cuts by borrowing, to finance two wars by borrowing, and to finance a big expansion of Medicare by borrowing, not by cutting other– other spending or raising taxes.

And those are the– that’s the bulk of the contribution combined with the effects of the crisis. So it’s a slightly misleading figure.

In other words, Romney’s lying again, and getting away with it, because there are very few challenges to his Opposite World tales.

Of course, GW Bush is not the least bit responsible. His two unpaid-for wars and unpaid-for tax cuts for the very wealthy clearly had nothing to do with creating the debt. Nonono, you silly geese, it was Obama’s fault. Blame Obama… for everything… because he is so powerful that he’s also been causing floods, venereal disease, and The Boehner’s bad breath.

Rep. Speier:

“Facts don’t mean anything. That’s what’s so disturbing.”

You know what else is disturbing? This: