Tall tree, new rope..
They are disgusting...all of them.
'Harry Reid is a prime example of this. In an interview on CNN yesterday with Dana Bash, he was asked why he lied on the floor of the Senate about Mitt Romney not having paid taxes for ten years:
"Bash: 'So no regrets about Mitt Romney, about the Koch Brothers. Some people have even called it McCarthyite.'
REID: Well… [shrug] … they can call it whatever they want. Um … Romney didn’t win, did he?"
In other words, he lied, he admitted he lied, he smeared an honorable man, and that's all just hunky-dory, because it worked.
These people are beyond despicable!'
Of course they are, they're DEMOCRATS! That's what they do, regularly and consistantly...Reid, Obama, Clinton(s), heshit....
They HAVE to, because lying is the only way they can advance their agenda. If they told the truth they'd never stand a chance.
;^)
We would have quite the discussion.
( yeah, I know he wasn't a Marine, but have never forgotten the lies and the lives of those Marines he tried to destroy )
That he admitted it is certainly a bit of a surprise. Only proves he's been around so long and lies so much he can no longer keep track of them.....
First, I don't believe "they all do it." I expect politicians like anyone else to at least get the big stuff right. The day the citizens all believe "they all do it" we are sunk as a nation.
Second, read with comprehension next time. I did not express surprise that Reid lied. I knew it was a lie as soon as he said it. I knew what his motivations were and the nobody in the media would question him on the lie. I knew that lie would be halfway around the world before the truth had it's shoes on.
I expressed surprise that he would tell the world that he lied intentionally and with malice and that he was entirely remorseless about it. A smaller, secondary surprise was that the question was even asked of him. That partisans will rise to his defense with "they all do that" is no surprise at all.
What a senator says on the senate floor cannot result in a libel suit. Which is precisely why Reid said it there.
Yes, many politicians lie as he claimed. But those sorts of lies are in no way the same thing as what Reid did:
1. He totally made up a monstrous charge against an very honorable man that Reid surely knew was false.
2. Then, in the heat the campaign, he levied the charge, full well knowing it would damage Romney even though it wasn't true.
3. Worst of all, he specifically chose to levy the charge from the floor of the United States Senate because he knew he could lie about Romney there without any legal repercussions.
4. Then the other day, he admitted he lied, laughed about doing so and noted he was happy he did so because, "Romney lost."
And PZ says he's totally OK with that.
