On Monday, President Obama falsely claimed that no Republicans in the Senate voted for the payroll tax cut.
“Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week,” he told reporters.
There's only one huge problem.
The statement is completely false.
According to the Senate Roll Call, twenty Republicans voted for the measure to proceed, including Idaho's Mike Crapo and James Risch.
On the other hand, every Democrat but one voted against it, including Washington's Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. Only John Kerry (D-MA) did not vote. Not one single Democrat voted for cloture.
Nevertheless, Obama took to the podium to falsely declare just the opposite.
The Daily Kos, always eager to prop up Obama, claimed the President was talking about another bill, S.1917, which includes a surtax on millionaires. Most Republicans did vote against that measure because of the surtax.
But even on that vote, Obama was not telling the whole truth, because one Republican - Susan Collins of Maine - voted for the Democratic measure.
It's not that Republicans oppose a tax cut, it's that they want the tax cut paid for without a surtax on job creators.
Democrats, on the other hand, really do not want tax cuts, but an end to the Bush tax cuts and a campaign issue.
And the President is willing to say anything, no matter how untrue it is.
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