The GOP has evidenced a stunning aptitude for shooting itself in the foot this week. (via MaddowBlog)
During and after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, a dispute over social insurance programs became the basis for an unexpected partisan argument. On one side, there’s the White House, eagerly reminding the public about many Republicans’ hostility toward Social Security and Medicare.to point to anything specific that the president said that isn’t true.yesterday morning, “President Biden is lying about me. He lied last night, and he lied again today.
To the extent that reality still has any meaning, the Democrat characterized the Republican senator as an opponent of Social Security. And it was against that backdrop that Johnson, for reasons I don’t fully understand, thought it’d be a good idea to prove Biden right. Wisconsin Public RadioA day after he was called out by President Joe Biden, Wisconsin U.S. Sen.
It takes a special kind of politician to accuse a rival of lying while simultaneously proving that the rival
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