Democratic Dirty Deeds for Election Disorder – Part THREE of FOUR
Democrat
Dirty Tricks:
.The Next
-Round
By Ed Lansky
____October 18th, 2010
____Links are in GREEN
___Part THREE of FOUR
Then we have five Democratic
congressmen who claim in ads
that they voted against the bank
“bailout” when not a single one
of them was even in Congress
when the bill setting up the
Troubled Asset Relief Program
(TARP) was enacted.
The nonpartisan FactCheck.org
At least five freshmanDemocratic House members arerunning ads claiming they votedagainst the bank “bailout,”when in fact none was inCongress when the bill settingup the Troubled Asset ReliefProgram, or TARP,was enacted.
- Mary Jo Kilroy says she
- “voted against the bank bailout.”
- Kathy Dahlkemper says
- she voted “against a bailout
- that helped Wall Street.”
- Frank Kratovil claims to
- have cast his vote in
- opposition to “the big bank bailout.”
- Dina Titus’ ad maintains
- she “even voted against
- the bank bailout.”
- Glenn Nye’s ad tells viewers
- he went “against his own party”
- and “voted against the
- Wall Street bailout.”
The final House vote on thetook place on Oct. 3, 2008.
The bill passed, 263-171.
None of the five lawmakerswho are running these ads islisted in the roll call vote.
That’s because none of themhad taken office yet —in fact, none of them wouldeven be elected for another month.
What’s a little fibbing when
the ends eclipse the means —
when politics takes precedence
over principles?
Fabricating history is no
problem for none other than
Democratic Senator Russ Feingold —
father,
with John McCain,
of the federal finance regime that
was supposed to encourage honesty
and transparency.
Feingold is in the fight for his
political life in Wisconsin against
Republican businessman Ron Johnson.
Feingold has been running radio
ads claiming that Johnson is soft
on gun rights;
Feingold also said to reporters
that he had been among the
“true leaders in fighting for a
greater right to bear arms.”
That would be a surprise
to the National Rifle Association,
which has given him a big fat “F”
and “D” during the last two
reelection efforts
(this year,
the NRA endorsed Johnson).
The prospects must be very bad
indeed for Feingold, one of the
more liberal members of the Senate,
to be trolling among gun-owners
for votes.
The scorched earth practices
of the Democrats are in full gear
in the final stretch towards their
being taken to the woodshed.
The National Review took note
of the sordid nature of the attacks
that began memorably:
Domestic violence.
Promoting prostitution.
Impoverishment of the elderly.
Higher unemployment.
Drug dealing.
These are the values thatinspire and drive Republicanpoliticians —at least according to thebarrage of Democratic attackads airing this election season.
Faced with voters unenthusiasticabout (or downright hostile to)legislation passed by theDemocratic majority in thepast two years — notably,President Obama’s health-careplan and the stimulus bill —Democratic politicians areresorting to ads that paintRepublican opponents asout-of-touch lunatics.
In one example cited,
Washington Democratic Senator
Patty Murray ran an ad regarding
a tanker competition between
foreign-owned Airbus and local
employer Boeing,
featuring the question “
Should Boeing workers have
a level playing field?”
The ad cut to a clip of Republican c
hallenger Dino Rossi,
answering,
“No.
Not as far as I am concerned.”
What was the problem?
Rossi was answering a
different question,
and Murray’s machinations led
to some creative cutting and
pasting that constituted
blatant dishonesty.
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