{"id":30162,"date":"2017-02-03T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30162"},"modified":"2017-02-03T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T18:18:54","slug":"if-you-repeat-a-lie-often-enough-it-becomes-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30162","title":{"rendered":"If You Repeat A Lie Often Enough, It Becomes The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The above quote is attributed to Vladimir Lenin. It has been used successfully by the political left for a very long time. The Wall Street Journal <\/a>posted a story on Wednesday illustrating how the political left is repeating a lie in order to gain advantage in the efforts to confirm a Supreme Court Judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

…But Democrats<\/a> are still itching for a fight, and their first line of offense is the myth of the \u201cstolen\u201d seat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a seat that was stolen from the former President, Obama, that\u2019s never been done in U.S. history before,\u201d declared Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley in announcing that he will attempt to filibuster Judge Gorsuch. \u201cTo let this become normal just invites a complete partisan polarization of the Court from here to eternity.\u201d The \u201cstolen\u201d line is echoing across Progressive Nation, but it\u2019s a complete political invention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u201ctheft\u201d is supposedly the GOP Senate\u2019s refusal last year to vote on President Obama\u2019s<\/a> nomination of Merrick Garland<\/a> to fill Antonin Scalia\u2019s seat. But the standard of not confirming a Supreme Court nominee in the final year of a Presidency was set by . . . Democrats. And by no less a Beltway monument than the current Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, except in extraordinary circumstances,\u201d Mr. Schumer declared in a July 2007 speech to the American Constitution Society<\/a>. Democrats then held the Senate and Mr. Schumer was putting down a marker if someone on the High Court retired. George W. Bush<\/a> didn\u2019t get another opening, but Mr. Schumer surely meant what he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah, but that was then and this is now. We had a Republican President then. Last year we had a Democratic President.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The Democratic theft standard goes back further to Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s days as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>. In June 1992 in President George H.W. Bush<\/a>\u2019s final year, Robber Joe opined that the President \u201cshould consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not name a nominee until after the November election is completed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naming a new Justice, he said, would ensure that a confirmation \u201cprocess that is already in doubt in the minds of many will become distrusted by all.\u201d If Mr. Bush made an election-year nomination, Mr. Biden said his committee should consider \u201cnot scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does anyone outside the MSNBC audience think that had the roles been reversed in 2016, and a Democratic Senate faced a Republican Court nominee, Harry Reid would have held a confirmation vote? As John McEnroe liked to shout, \u201cYou can\u2019t be serious!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It must be frustrating to the Democrats (and at times to the Republicans) than anyone can google a subject and find out what politicians have said in the past. What we need now is an honest mainstream media that will report previous statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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