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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lizardK who wrote (76594)	8/7/2012 11:06:12 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Behind Reid's Big Lie About Romney Is A Big Motive Election '12: Democratic leaders and the Obama campaign are together keeping the media's focus on a defensive Mitt Romney instead of a failed presidency. How? By lying. Then by lying some more. In the history of the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, nine U.S. senators have been formally censured by their colleagues, after engaging in "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." Clearly, Harry Reid's fellow senators should, as soon as possible, make him the 10th member of that body to be so disciplined. What could bring more dishonor and disrepute to the institution than its leader, of all people, misusing the Senate floor to spread phony accusations, backed up by not a sliver of evidence? Reid is tag-teaming with the White House and the Obama campaign to get voters thinking about soon-to-be Republican nominee Mitt Romney's imaginary tax offenses — instead of the very real 8.3% unemployment, a national debt that will soon exceed $16 trillion and the president's stated plans for more economic destruction via additional massive spending and tax increases if re-elected. Last week, Reid switched from first claiming that "a number of sources" told him Romney hadn't paid his taxes to the rumor purportedly coming from "an extremely credible source." The number in "a number of sources" was apparently the number one. As heavyweight blogging champion of the world Ed Morrissey points out, the only people who could have revealed anything about Romney's 10 years of personal tax returns are "the Romneys, their accountant and the IRS." No wonder the normally staid Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., took to CNN on Sunday to do what is almost unheard of within the senatorial old boys' club. He called a fellow senator a liar. "I think he's lying about his statement of knowing something about Romney," Graham said. Romney himself isn't taking it sitting down. Last week he demanded the Nevada Democrat "put up or shut up" and reveal the identity of his "number of sources." Unfortunately, the former Massachusetts governor's forceful denials give the media, already so Obama-friendly, even more opportunity for coverage of "the Romney tax returns" nonstory, instead of three and a half years of failed Democratic economic policies in Washington. This aspect of what Reid is doing is key. Baseless slander is his crime, but Reid's motive — using the Big Lie to turn the presidential election his party's way — vastly increases the severity of the offense. And he has plenty of accessories. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Monday in Florida assured reporters that "if Sen. Reid said that, then somebody did tell him" and so it's "up to Gov. Romney to release his returns." Similarly, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, far from distancing herself and the party from Reid, told ABC on Sunday that Romney "could clear it up just like that, lickety-split, by releasing his tax returns." As we have pointed out before, releasing his private tax records would only pour blood into the shark-infested waters, inviting the media and the Obama campaign to bite Romney's arm off — then proceed to demand still more private financial information. Indeed, bullying Romney into doing so is undoubtedly the coordinated strategy of Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and Schultz. A year and a half ago, in the aftermath of the Gabby Giffords shooting, President Obama trekked to Tucson and called for "more civility in our public discourse." What could be more uncivil than lying on the Senate floor? Let the president prove he meant those words by himself demanding Harry Reid's censure by the U.S. Senate