Although mainstream media is trying to frame the omnibus bill’s passing as some great bipartisan achievement, Democrats are beside themselves with the fast one they pulled on the House GOP. Democrats in the Senate even went out of their way to applaud what Roll Call referred to as Speaker Ryan’s “legislative victory.”
“On Dec. 18, Breitbart News printed Pelosi’s report on Ryan’s deal, and a list of similar negative ratings from other Democratic leaders, including the Democrats’ Senate leaders, Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Pelosi’s chief deputy, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
‘All three goals we had, we accomplished,’ said Reid. ‘Democrats had an amazingly good year,’ said Schumer. ‘This was an extraordinarily big victory,’ said Hoyer. Democrats also boasted about how they stripped 150 or more conservative policy priorities from Ryan’s spending plan.
RollCall.com posted Pelosi’s judgement under the stark headline, ‘Pelosi’s Victory Lap,’ even as it also said Ryan won a ‘legislative victory.’ That Dec. 18 story included Pelosi’s statement that she had to hide the scale of her win from Ryan. Up to Dec. 18, ‘we’ve had to sort of calibrate how we presented this [omnibus bill] to members because … we were afraid [Republicans] might pull things out if more Republicans knew about what was in the bill,’ she said, according to the article.
That condescending remark was not published by The Hill or by Politico.
Ryan’s ‘legislative victory’ — as claimed by Roll Call — meant the Democrats provided the majority of votes for the $1.1 trillion spending side of Ryan’s $1.8 trillion taxation-and-spending plan.
In the House, Ryan’s plan was backed by 166 Democrats, but only 150 Republicans. In the Senate, Ryan’s plan won the support of 38 Democrats, but only 27 Republicans. In the House, 95 Republicans and 18 Democrats voted agains his plan. In the Senate, 26 Republicans and seven Democrats voted against his $1.1 trillion plan.
The Washington Post did print Pelosi’s comment, but buried it in the 29th paragraph of a 34-paragraph Dec. 18 article, under a muted headline, ‘Congress passes budget deal and heads home for the year.’
‘Absent big oil we could not have had many of these other successes,’ Pelosi told reporters before the vote. ‘[Republicans] wanted big oil so much that they gave away the store.’
The Washington Post also cited Harry Reid’s judgement — ‘All three goals we had, we accomplished,’ in the third-to-last paragraph of its article.
The Times posted Pelosi’s statement, on Friday, Dec. 18, but only in the 11th paragraph of a 30-paragraph story. Also, the headline was neutrally dull — ‘Congress Passes $1.8 Trillion Spending Measure’ but the text did add an extra detail that underlined the scale of Ryan’s defeat:
‘They wanted big oil so much that they give away the store,’ Ms. Pelosi said in an interview, adding: ‘I feel almost jubilant about what is in this appropriations bill.’
Source: Breitbart
Call and let him know “we will never forget what a traitor you are”.