Republican Stupidity of the Day

Today's winner is Michele Malkin, conservative pundit and liar.

Usually, I get these posts by visiting a series of left-wing sites (Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Media Matters for America, etc.) and picking out the most outrageous examples that they find. As I did not see anything realy juicy yet today (weekends can be slow), I Googled "conservative blogs" to look for something myself. It took about two minutes to find something really stupid.

Michele Malkin managed to catch Harry Reid on camera saying "but for me, we'd be in a worldwide depression." Wow, pretty egomaniacal, right? But if you click to her article, watch the video. Then notice two things:

1) Reid is setting up a hypothetical case. The fuller quote is, "It doesn't give them comfort or solace to say, but for me, we'd be in a worldwide depression." And he laughs a little as he says it. It's just dishonest to say that Harry Reid is claiming he saved the world.

2) The article points out that it took from 1776 to 1990 to pile up $3 trillion of debt. It of course neglects to mention that about another $5 trillion piled up during the G. W. Bush administration, even though he inherited a budget surplus, or that conservatives like Malkin DIDN'T SAY A THING about those deficits while Republicans were running them up and not lifting a finger to control them, or that the deficits under Obama WERE MOSTLY DUE TO BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICIES AND THE SITUATION HE INHERITED, not due to Obama's policies.

Like I said -- liar.