Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece written by John Boehner where Mr. Boehner blames the entire sequester crisis on President Obama, (no Republicans were involved). He calls it the "President's sequester" to let us know how innocent he and his party are.
what eye thynk: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant, Mr. Boehner. But, frankly, I'm a little insulted that you seem to believe we're all stupid enough to swallow your self-serving, fantasy based diatribe whole.
What the Speaker actually said in 2011 on the day that the sequester bill passed the House, with 174 Republicans voting "yay": "When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy."
Steve Benen has written a rebuttal article, Reality 1, Boehner 0, where he takes Mr. Boehner's writing apart, point by point, and exposes all the lies. Please take the time to read it here: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/20/17030297-reality-1-boehner-0
Mr. Boehner's blatant espousal of an alternate reality makes me wonder if we will ever again be able to move forward as a united country. This kind of create-your-own-facts mentality is, frankly, as scary as it is counter-productive.
I need to remind myself of how well lying worked for Mitt Romney. Remembering that lets me hope that the Republican Party will eventually fabricate its way out of existence...or at least find itself forced back into a world where standing up for the truth is not a sign of weakness, compromise is not a dirty word and where representing the people is more important than corporate money or self-promotion.
Gotta have a dream, right?
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