There Are Lies, There Are Damn Lies And Then There Are The Democrats

That's A Crock A Shit! That’s the only thing I can call Harry Reid’s statement after President Bush’s news conference. Let’s start with his most insulting accusation:

Bush Sets Up Straw Man: Unnamed Democrats Want to Raise Taxes While Bush Has Been Fiscally Responsible. “Our job is to work with Congress to have wise fiscal policy. And wise fiscal policy means not only keeping revenues low, (sic) but it also means being wise about how we spend the people’s money…(Democrats) will couch it in all kinds of language. But really what they’re saying is, ‘We’re going to raise your taxes.’” (Press Conference, 6/14/06)
FACT: President Bush Turned Record Budget Surpluses into Record Deficits. President Bush inherited a unified budget surplus of $236 billion from President Clinton, the largest surplus in American history. Budget surpluses were expected to continue for another ten years when President Bush took office in January 2001. By 2002, however, the unified federal budget had returned to a deficit of $158 billion and has since reached historic highs. This year, the budget deficit is expected to reach $336 billion. (Office of Management and Budget; Congressional Budget Office, 03/06)

When Reid represents as fact that “President Bush Turned Record Budget Surpluses into Record Deficits”, he’s conveniently forgetting about this thing called 9/11. In the aftermath of 9/11 a couple trillion dollars were pulled from the American economy. Factor in the cost of waging a war we had to fight to the lost tax revenue and it would’ve taken an act of God to not run huge deficits.

Of course, Reid doesn’t want people to think that the deficit is shrinking because that would doom Democrats’ chances this November. Too bad. We’ll continue trumpeting the latest deficit reduction figures that the CBO is reporting. What’s more is that the deficit is dropping like a rock as a percentage of GDP.

Notice, too, that Reid doesn’t knock down the President’s “straw man” that Democrats would raise taxes. He’s hoping you won’t notice. Sorry, Harry, but that won’t work with the Right Blogosphere translating your misstatements.

Here’s another bunch of BS:

Last year, the Congress called on the President to make 2006 a year of significant transition in Iraq and yet halfway through this year, the President is simply maintaining the same tired mantra, ‘as Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.’ Yet at the same time more Iraqi security forces are in the field, U.S. force levels have actually increased in recent weeks. This is not a real plan and is not acceptable. The President must take responsibility for laying out a strategy for stabilizing Iraq and bringing our troops home.”

TRANSLATION: Last year, most Democrats and a few faint-hearted RINO’s said that they didn’t like President Bush’s strategy, that it wasn’t fast enough. They told him that they didn’t have the steadfastness and fortitude to stay the course.

Democrats are the only ones now who think that we don’t have a plan for victory. That’s because they haven’t expressed a consistent desire for victory. Instead, all they’ve offered is an endless litany of complaints. Chief among those complaints was that we hadn’t killed or captured Zarqawi. The minute the report broke that he’d been killed in an airstrike, they switched to saying that this was a nice accomplishment for the military but that it was mostly a symbolic event. RIGHT!!! They first said that killing Zarqawi should be our first, second and third priority, then they say the military’s killing him was only symbolic. And these idiots can’t figure out why they aren’t taken seriously on national security issues? Scary.

KILLING AMNESTY SOFTLY

By Michelle Malkin

With his words...

Hopes for a quick compromise on immigration were dealt a blow Tuesday after House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he wanted to take a "long look" at a Senate bill offering possible citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants.

Hastert said hearings on the Senate bill should be held before appointing anyone to a House-Senate committee to negotiate a compromise immigration bill. Later, he said he was unsure what the House's next move would be.

"We're going to take a long look at it," Hastert said late Tuesday.

House Majority Leader John Boehner agreed. "I think we should know clearly what's in the Senate bill," Boehner said. But he added there are lots of ways to understand its contents.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also scheduled a hearing for Monday to review provisions in the bill requiring employers to verify that their workers are legal.

Cornyn said he opposes a provision allowing workers to use up to 20 documents to verify they are legal workers. Also, the Department of Homeland Security has raised concerns about how quickly it must have in place an electronic system that employers will use to verify their workers legal status, Cornyn's spokesman Don Stewart said.

"This will give us a chance to look at it in more detail," Cornyn said.

Sending a bill that has already passed the Senate to hearings would be a highly unusual move and make completing a final bill before Congress goes on its summer recess in August far less likely. Disagreement on procedural issue has kept negotiations from starting, but there were hopes that could be resolved this week.

"It's an obvious retreat from where we are," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

And that is progress.