Maybe not lying, but certainly misleading
With the Democrats looking to take a shellacking in the upcoming midterms, Democrat politicians trying to save their jobs have more and more been scurrying as fast as they can away from Democratic policies that are largely unpopular: ObamaCare, the stimulus package, massive deficit spending, and the big bank bailouts of 2008-09. That last is a little unfair, since the TARP program was a bipartisan bailout, but it’s become conflated in the public’s mind with everything else the Democrats have done since Obama was inaugurated. And those bailouts have become so unpopular that some Democratic congresscritters are proudly claiming they voted against them – before they were even in office:
Reid: My “Iraq war is lost” comments are what helped turn Iraq around
Stop the spinsanity – please!
Bad news day for Democrats
A quick scan of the headlines this morning:
How sweet it is: Murkowski concedes
Alaska conservatives have a lot to be happy about this morning (via Memeorandum):