President tells Senate Democrats an astonishing bald-faced lie that they obviously had to know was a lie

Does the President know he is lying? Do the Democrats know he is lying? Do they even care if he is lying? Does anyone else care if the President is lying?

From Hugh Hewitt

Today President Obama told Senate Democrats that they had faced "enormous procedural obstacles that are unprecedented..."

"You had to cast more votes to break filibusters last year than in the entire 1950s and 1960s combined. That's 20 years of obstruction jammed into just one."

This is astonishing. A filibuster is the successful use of 41 or more votes to prevent the closing of debate. There wasn't a single filibuster in 2009. Not one.

The president will say anything to advance a narrative that makes him a victim of obstruction. It is clear that 2010 will be spent pivoting from his 2009 mantra of Bush's fault to his campaign year blasts at the "do nothing Republicans."

His advisors must foresee grim news on jobs to offer up such a transparent and unpersuasive, indeed almost purposefully alienating argument.