{"id":29877,"date":"2016-12-22T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29877"},"modified":"2016-12-22T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T20:08:19","slug":"character-does-matter-one-senator-seem-to-be-lacking-in-that-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29877","title":{"rendered":"Character Does Matter&#8211;One Senator Seem To Be Lacking In That Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/12\/21\/reid-i-did-what-was-necessary-by-lying-about-romneys-tax-returns\/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&amp;utm_medium=TheDC+Morning&amp;utm_campaign=TheDC+Evening\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about retiring <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Harry Reid\" href=\"http:\/\/reid.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Senator Harry Reid<\/a>. Harry Reid was one of the most divisive and obnoxious Senators every to have a leadership position in the Senate. Comments he made during one of his parting interviews did not help his image as a very dishonest man.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Outgoing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Party leaders of the United States Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Senate Minority Leader<\/a> Harry Reid said Wednesday that he \u201cdid what was necessary\u201d in 2012 when he falsely accused <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Mitt Romney<\/a> of not having paid his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">taxes<\/a> for 10 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Reid was asked about those comments, which he made during a speech on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Senate chamber\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_chamber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Senate floor<\/a>, in response to call during a live interview on Las Vegas\u2019 KNPR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The caller asked Reid if he thought that \u201cthe brazen lie he told about Mitt Romney not pay his taxes has in anyway contributed to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"News satire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_satire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fake news<\/a> debate that we now find ourselves in.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Reid, who is leaving the Senate next month, denied the accusation. But he offered up a flimsy and fact-devoid defense of those 2012 claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cFirst of all, there were no brazen lies. What I said is the truth,\u201d he maintained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s no brazen lies. I did what was necessary,\u201d he said a few moments later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;In September 2012, Romney released a notarized letter from his tax preparer showing that he paid state and federal income taxes for the previous 20 years. The lowest federal tax rate he incurred during that span was 13.66 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/251019-romney-releases-20-year-average-tax-rate-but-only-2011-returns\" target=\"_blank\">according to the documents he released<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The is the integrity level of the current Democratic Party. They should be ashamed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Daily Caller posted an article about retiring Senator Harry Reid. Harry Reid was one of the most divisive and obnoxious Senators every to have a leadership position in the Senate. Comments he made during one of his parting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,733,352,1493],"class_list":["post-29877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-harry-reid","tag-mitt-romney","tag-party-leaders-of-the-united-states-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29878,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877\/revisions\/29878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}