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Sigh: DWS' Lie of the Day
Townhall.com ^ | April 24, 2012 | Guy Benson

Posted on 04/24/2012 2:49:52 PM PDT by Kaslin

We could probably make this a daily installment, although I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to keep up with the DNC Chairwoman's endless distortions.  Her latest whopper came on CNN this morning, during a spat with conservative contributor Will Cain:
 


Ignore, for a moment, the crux of their dispute, and focus on this snippet:
 

“I’m a member of Congress in the minority, unfortunately, which I plan to help change in November,” Schultz shot back. “But the people who control the agenda right now in the House of Representatives are the Republicans. Ask them why they haven’t brought a single jobs bill to the floor since they took over the majority. Ask them why they are getting ready to allow the student loan interest rates to double.”


The House Republicans "haven't brought a single jobs bill to the floor" since January 2011?  This is a wildly false claim.  Case in point: The House recently passed something called, um, the JOBS Act -- which cleared the Senate and was signed into law by President Obama.  At the time, I noted that the bill wasn't the first bipartisan jobs legislation this GOP-controlled House helped implement (numerals added):
 

Let the record show that as of today, the "do nothing," "Republican" Congress has worked with the president by (1) extending the payroll tax cut extension, (2) passing patent reform, (3) repealing a counter-productive withholding rule, and (4) approving three free trade agreementsThese were all elements of President Obama's jobs agenda.  Now he's (5) signed a job creation bill championed by House Republicans.  Remember this roster of bipartisan accomplishments as our desperate president castigates his Congressional opponents as unflinching ideological obstructionists -- as he's guaranteed to do for the next seven months.  The truth is that Republicans cooperate with this president when it's sensible to do so; they attempt to jettison his worst ideas, like cap and trade, Obamacare, higher taxes, and a second slush fund stimulus.


Keep in mind that those are just the bipartisan successes.  My list doesn't include the dozens of addtional job-related bills that House Republicans have passed, only to be thwarted by the Democratic Senate and president.  Unsurprisingly, DWS' statement on national television this morning was thoroughly and comprehensively untrue.  And as for her indignation over her opponents' supposed plan to let student loan interest rates to double, perhaps she should direct her exasperation at those responsible for engineering the legislation to do exactly that:
 

While Obama blames Republicans for voting against new ways to make college more affordable for middle-class families, it was House Democrats who cut interest rates on the school loans in 2007 and included an expiration provision that placed the looming increase in the middle of an election year.


It was a Democrat-controlled Congress that intentionally made this mess, in order to paint Republicans as anti-student and uncaring in an election year.  Go figure.  I guess we've answered DWS' two "questions."  Anything else we can help you with, Debbie?


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1 posted on 04/24/2012 2:49:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Help her find another job suitable to her talents.

Whatever those talents are, I haven’t a clue.


2 posted on 04/24/2012 2:55:47 PM PDT by wastedyears (There can be only one.)
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To: Kaslin

Did “conservative contributor Will Cain” call her on this? I’m betting not. So the lies stand since I doubt many CNN viewers frequent Townhall.com.
 


3 posted on 04/24/2012 2:59:58 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: wastedyears
Help her find another job suitable to her talents.

Whatever those talents are, I haven’t a clue.

I'm thinking she might be qualified to work as one of those folks at NBA games using their mops under the baskets - you know, the sweat-wipers.

4 posted on 04/24/2012 3:05:17 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Kaslin

Yes, ask her why the Democrat controlled Senate has not proposed a budget in over 3 years...


5 posted on 04/24/2012 3:09:06 PM PDT by JrsyJack (a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
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To: wastedyears
Help her find another job suitable to her talents. Whatever those talents are, I haven’t a clue.


6 posted on 04/24/2012 3:11:25 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: Kaslin

When I saw the title I thought, “what has Dancing with the Stars done now?”


7 posted on 04/24/2012 3:18:41 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Kaslin

When I saw the title I thought, “what has Dancing with the Stars done now?”


8 posted on 04/24/2012 3:18:51 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Bob

She does have the mop already. She could also be a Occupier.

Pray for America


9 posted on 04/24/2012 3:36:35 PM PDT by bray (Power to We the People)
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To: wastedyears

Pole dancer for the blind, perhaps...?


10 posted on 04/24/2012 3:52:08 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Kaslin

Wind her up and DWS spits out democrat talking points. Kind of like Anthony Weiner without a weiner.


11 posted on 04/24/2012 4:04:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kind of like Anthony Weiner without a weiner.

Are you sure about that???

12 posted on 04/24/2012 5:23:58 PM PDT by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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