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Exposed: The NYT’s Democrat talking points on John Boehner’s lobbyist ties

Courtesy of Tim Carney, we learn that this past weekend’s NYT hitpiece on House Minority Leader John Boehner and his “tight bind to lobbyists” left out what should have been the real story: House and Senate Democrats – including “leaders” like Pelosi and Reid – who outshine Boehner in the lobbyist money dept. Carney writes:.....   [Read More]

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:.....   [Read More]