From The Hill:
John Feehery, a Republican strategist and former aide to then-Speaker Dennis Hastert
said Obama was being cynical [in his budget] by trying to get Republicans to raise taxes when Democrats refused to do it during the last Congress.
Feehery observed, "You can be a cynic and maybe survive, but that’s not real leadership."
Here we see unmistakable signs of the GOP's grossest projection -- a GOP strategist leveling the charge of political "cynicism," while misrepresenting the underlying events.
I've often wondered how they do it. Not the hypocrisy, which is as much the mother's milk of all politics as money, but the utter disregard for even the semblance of truth.
I once had a friend who worked in Democratic national politics -- if I had to label him ideologically, I suppose "conservative Democrat" would be close to fair -- and who in the midst of such work was offered an extravagantly high-paying p.r. job by the tobacco industry. He didn't smoke, yet he couldn't bring himself to represent a trade that killed those who did.
He told me he was torn, terribly torn, since the money would have been, let's just say, very nice for his family. But in the end, his ethics and sense of personal honor just wouldn't allow him to do it -- they wouldn't allow him to misrepresent or fabricate the truth.
I guess Republican strategists don't have that problem.
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