On Wednesday morning, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin demonstrated liberal "civility" when he called Republicans "dead-beat debtors" during a press conference.
"The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there," he said, according to a post at Real Clear Politics.
According to Harkin, Republicans have been in charge of Congress for the last 8 years, despite the fact that Democrats have held clear majorities in both chambers until the recent 2010 elections.
"Democrats are willing to do whatever is necessary to raise the debt ceiling, not for future borrowing but to pay the debts that we racked up in the past. Which, mostly was racked up by a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican President in the last 8 years. Yet, they're not willing to pay the bills," Harkin said.
But Democrats have controlled both House and the Senate ever since the 2006 election, and just recently lost the House in 2010, an inconvenient fact that Harkin hopes voters will forget.
Worse yet, the Senator failed to recognize the record deficits run up by the Obama Administration and supported by liberal Democrats.
While it is true the last year of the Bush Administration saw a hefty deficit of just under $500 billion, Obama has racked up trillions of deficit spending with an expected $1.65 trillion deficit in 2011.
Harkin's Senate has also refused to put together a budget for over 800 days, preferring instead to vote on meaningless resolutions calling for "shared sacrifice" - the latest metaphor for Marxist economic policy.
Although the House passed a measure to "cut, cap and balance" the budget, Senators are working to pass a compromise deal that includes at least $1 trillion in tax hikes - a measure President Obama hailed as "broadly consistent" with the approach he has urged.
Harkin's statement is just the latest in a long list of distortions and lies presented by Democrats from the White House on down.
The Hill notes:
The high stakes, the theater, the seemingly endless truckloads of BS and a battle fought in the press as much as in the Cabinet room. All that’s missing are the long hours on the road and wheelbarrows full of rubber chicken.
A video of Harkin's comments can be seen at Real Clear Politics.
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