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By Soren Dayton Posted in 2008 | House Democrats | Iraq | John McCain | Smearing And Sliming John McCain — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The Congressional Democratic Party has lied again. Now that's as new as the sun rising in the east, but let's put a little meat on those bones.

When Rahm Emanuel's House Democratic Caucus sent talking points around to make sure that Democrats are on the same page when they declare defeat, one of them was:

The American people want a new direction in Iraq, not 100 more years of war, as Senator McCain has promised.

Now, the catch is, of course, that this was wrong. How do we know? Independent fact checking watchdogs (here and here) and even the mainstream media (ABC, CBS, New York Times, Politico, NBC, Time Magazine, among others) have demonstrated that John McCain didn't say that.

So what is going on? Read on.

House Republican Leader Boehner underlines the Democrats' political objective:

It is completely unacceptable for Rep. Emanuel and his colleagues in the Democratic leadership to urge other House Democrats to repeat this lie. This intentional misrepresentation has been roundly discredited by the news media, by nonpartisan watchdog groups, and by academic observers. Sen. McCain never called for 100 years of war in Iraq. Rep. Emanuel knows that, and his colleagues in the Democratic leadership know that. However, in order to distract attention away from the progress our troops are making in Iraq, they are peddling this rank falsehood. Let me be clear: there is plenty of room in this policy debate for differing opinions, but there is no room in this debate for lies and distortions.

In addition, the Democrats are just operating under Lenin's maxim that "a lie told often enough becomes truth". They are just trying to spread lies to hope that it sinks in to a couple of voters.

So call the House Democratic Caucus at 202-225-1400 and tell them to stop lying to support defeat.