The video to which he [Brad Dayspring] links shows Reid responding to a floor speech by Wyoming Sen. John Barasso in which Barasso accuses Reid of having said that Republican Senators are lying about Obamacare. Reid says that he doesn't recall accusing Republicans of lying about Obamacare horror stories; that instead he was pointing the finger at dishonest ads aired by the Koch brothers. The video then flashes back one month to a clip of Reid lumping the Koch brothers together with Republican stump speeches.
If that's what the NRSC defines as a gotcha' moment, they've got some serious thinking to do about their standards. For one, from the context it seems likely that Reid was saying he doesn't recall accusing fellow Republican Senators of lying in their floor speeches. But even if you don't give him the benefit of the doubt on that, the reality is that Kochs' dishonest campaign is inseparable from the GOP's 2014 strategy—a point that Reid went on to make in the continuation of his remarks.
If Dayspring or anyone else at the NRSC wants to distance the GOP from the Kochs and denounce the misleading ads they are running about Obamacare, then it might be unfair for Reid to criticize the GOP along with the Kochs. But we all know that isn't going to happen, because at the end of the day Republicans aren't just pleased by the willingness of the Kochs to lie, they are counting on it.
On Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:08:51 AM UTC-4, benghazi mark wrote:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that, "I have never come to the floor, to my recollection, I've never said a word about examples that Republicans have given regarding ObamaCare and how it's not very good."
"Mr. President, the junior senator from Wyoming has come to the floor several times recently talking about the fact that examples that he and others Republicans have given dealing with ObamaCare, examples that are bad, I've called lies. Mr. President, that is simply untrue," Reid said.
Harry Reid is contradicting his own statements made on February 26.
"We heard about the evils of Obamacare, about the lives it's ruining in Republicans' stump speeches and in ads paid for by oil magnates, the Koch brothers. But in those tales, turned out to be just that: tales, stories made up from whole cloth, lies distorted by the Republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements."
"There's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America."
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