Axelrod: Rove is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts.

I hope all the Dems start saying this -- like on the Sunday gab fests when the repugs spew lie after lie after lie. I'd love to hear Shumer or Levin or Leahy or whomever say "you're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts." It sure makes the point....

Franken slams GOP on Senate floor: ‘You’re not entitled to your own facts’

WASHINGTON -- In a few moments of heated but controlled anger on the Senate floor Monday evening, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) slammed Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and the GOP for essentially lying about the nature of the Democratic health care bill, suggesting they haven't read it.

"We are entitled to our own opinions; we're not entitled to our own facts," Franken said. "Benefits kick in right away."

more at link:

http://rawstory.com/2009/2009/12/franken-slams-gop-senate-floor-youre-entitled-facts/

"When the Bush administration left office, it handed President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit."

That includes the stimulus. Surely Axelrod knows that the stimulus wasn't a * initiative and signed by *. But there it is. I disagree with Axelrod's fact.

It's one thing to make the claim that the state of affairs required a massive deficit increase with Obama's signature. It's another thing to deny the signature was Obama's.

Just as he knows that * signed the TARP legislation but Congress refused to hand over half the money--and * had no problem with it and said he wasn't going to request it by himself. The second half the TARP funding was requested and disbursed by Obama's request, and Pelosi said she confirmed this and it was released only because of that. Axelrod's fact is true--it was approved while * was in office. Facts are mute.

Axelrod's problem is he wants to get to a specific kind of conclusion for a specific purpose. He could achieve them by means of a harder argument that the facts arguably do support support. Instead, he makes the easy argument that neither the facts or context entirely support. And I'm being charitable here; I mean, $1.3 trillion deficit on the day * left office when $789 billion of that amount, over half, simply wasn't present, and Axelrod's boss personally requested that $350 billion be left for him.

And once again it is up to the Democrats to clean up the mess made left by republicans.

Obama IS kicking ass.

"And given the backhanded advice he offered, I'm not sure he was all that eager to help."

Don't know what prompted this but I take it rove opened his big mouth again..

And, all it did was give David Axelrod an opening to state what actually happened..Reality! Fresh Feeling~

We need to keep pounding away on this message. Send out an army fo hit all the shows, every day, pounding out these same lines. Again and again.

Crush the reich wingers at their own game.

Julie