When Michelle Bachmann makes a mistake when talking about American history, it makes national news. And the mainstream media are beside themselves. Meanwhile, many of my liberal friends rush in with Facebook posts to show what a dunce she is.
When, however, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid makes such a mistake, in apparently prepared remarks on the Senate floor no less (as opposed to Bachmann’s slip-up in an unscripted interview), well, then the media pay it no heed, attributing his error, not to ignorance, but to human imperfection.
(They do hold Republicans to higher standards now don’t they?)
Take a gander at the clip below, starting at 0:51.
Reid is claiming that congressional Democrats balanced the budget. Problem is is that the only Congresses to pass balanced budgets in the 1990s were Republicans ones. Unlike Bachmann, Harry Reid is not just wrong about history, but about history in which he played a part. He served in Congress in the 1990s when the Republican majority balanced the federal budget. Mrs. Bachmann wasn’t around in the founding era.
Jim Hoft who alerted me to Reid’s attempt to rewrite history has the details.
Harry Reid hasn’t known the truth since his first girlfriend told him he “totally satisfied” her.
It’s been all downhill from there.
Ok, that was mean. Completely accurate, but mean, nonetheless.
Grasping at straws here, really. His statement wasn’t false. “Democrats in the congress and white house” did balance the budget in the 90’s. Of course Republicans did too, he just didn’t give them credit. Somewhat rude and partisan? Yes. False? No.
If he had said the democratically controlled congress balanced the budget, then you’d be correct. Many people in the media may slant left, but this definitely isn’t an example of that at all.
If it weren’t for the Democrat Party, humanity might never have discovered the term, “disingenuous.”
Congratulations, Democrats, on achieving yet another low on the scale of credibility.
Disingenuous it may be. But to desire the media to call out someone for being disingenuous the same way they target someone who’s flat out wrong is ridiculous. Guess it’s ok to hold dems to a different standard though.
I’d comment on this, were it not for the fact that I am unaccustomed to dealing with alternate realities.
Or you could just comment on it and tell me how this post isn’t calling for the media to hold Reid to a higher standard.
Can’t….stop….laughing……please stop…..
Typical
My thoughts EXACTLY!!!!!! 🙂
Disingenuous, aj? He’s downright wrong.
Remember, folks, mere months ago, AJ was insisting that Sarah Palin had to go on TV and prove that she was not responsible for the Tucson shootings.
The problem aj has is that Harry Reid, one of aj’s precious Obama Party massas, is being held to any standards at all. AJ knows like the good programmed little Obama boy that he is that anything Harry Reid says is always right and anything Michele Bachmann says is always wrong.
We should remember that obedient Obama gays like AJ are just slavering to attack Bachmann’s family the way that they do Palin’s, and then call anyone who disagrees with them homophobes. It’s the way they are — just brainless little puppets who will support even the most disgusting crap because they’re owned and programmed.
Dan, how’s he wrong? Did democrats in congress play a role in balancing the budget? That’s all he said. Would love to know what’s wrong with that statement.
It’s wrong because it was Republicans who proposed the budget — and did all the hard work. He makes it appear that it was a Democratic Congress back in the 1990s, but not a single Democratic Congress in the 1990s balanced the federal budget nor did congressional Democrats take the initiative in working toward one. They merely followed the lead of House Republicans who threw down the gauntlet to President Clinton. And that politically savvy Democrat took it up.
He didn’t say a democratic congress did it. He said democrats in congress and the white house balanced the budget. Which is in fact a true statement.
Yes, he did, aj. Perhaps the video you watched on your computer is different than the one we’ere seeing.
Indeed it is, which gives everyone here a crystal clear example of how the Democrat Party operates….
YOU do the work, WE fight you tooth and nail, then WE take the credit when we invariably fall apart at the seams and bet the farm on YOU taking the fall for such irresponsible governance.
aj should be congratulated. He could lose his membership card for this, you know.
Please listen to the video. Find me where he said a “democratic congress”. You may want to hear that, but he said democrats in congress, there’s a difference. If you want to ignore facts in making your argument, then feel free to do so.
The unabashed obtuseness on display here is simply breathtaking.
When the facts fail you and you won’t make valid points, attack your opponent. Nice
aj, I get your point, but Reid’s remark pulls everything out of context, particularly given the fact that Senate Democrats, whose caucus Reid chairs, haven’t even presented a budget. And this chamber hasn’t voted on a budget in nearly 800 days.
Perhaps, it is indeed more disingenuous than it is dishonest and wrong, but unless he references the Republican leadership on that battle, then he is either deliberately distorting the history or outright ignorant of it
#19: “…particularly given the fact that Senate Democrats, whose caucus Reid chairs, haven’t even presented a budget. And this chamber hasn’t voted on a budget in nearly 800 days.”
My thoughts exactly. What exactly is Reid trying to accomplish with this speech? (Other than remind us that under his majority leadership, the Senate has failed to PASS a budget in over two years, much less BALANCE one?)
FAIL.
Notice he didn’t say the democreeps of 2007?
Pelousy’s “Drain the Swamp! has become “Save the Wetlands!”
Yea the democrats in the senate need to stop neglecting their duty. Now that Obama has finally applied some pressure, I hope they do. Democrats have talked long enough, it’s time they finally act.
AJ, Obama has applied no pressure; he’s been MIA for months. Demagoguery & class warfare is no excuse for a lack of leadership, but that’s all Obama can give, Obama isn’t a leader. He’s a cult of personality slowly coming apart at the seams.
#23: “Yea the democrats in the senate need to stop neglecting their duty. Now that Obama has finally applied some pressure, I hope they do. Democrats have talked long enough, it’s time they finally act.”
It’s not “neglect,” aj. The Senate Democrats haven’t “dropped the ball” on passing a budget. They have brazenly rejected their constitutional duty for over two years without remorse. In fact, it was Reid who just a couple of weeks ago said it would be “foolish” for them to pass a budget at this point. (Obviously, it would complicate the Democrats’ current strategy of simply demagogue-ing the GOP on spending/taxation issues and relying on the leftist media to carry that water instead of asking them any “awkward” questions like, “so…why haven’t Senate Democrats passed a proposed budget in over two years?”)