Politico's Allen uncritically quoted McConnell claiming Dem Congress has "not been very productive"

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200707250011?f=h_top

In his July 25 "Politico Playbook," Politico chief political correspondent Mike Allen uncritically quoted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claiming that "the first six or seven months of this Congress have basically not been very productive." According to McConnell: "We've had excessive Iraq votes, excessive investigations, and not much legislating. Managed to keep the lights on and managed to do a troop-funding bill that was important, but that's really about it for the first seven months." Allen offered no challenge to McConnell's attack on Congress' "productiv{ity}"; in fact, Republicans have repeatedly blocked legislation proposed by the Democratic majority in the Senate. As Media Matters for America noted, McClatchy Newspapers reported on July 20: "This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before."


I have noticed some people who claim to be Dems say the same thing. I wonder what their political affiliation really is?

Don

[BridgeTheGap]

1. I think the Dems are fulfilling the the oversight function

On that, they've been very productive!

[emulatorloo]

2. To paraphrase Triump the insult dog -- POLITICO Swings further to the Right than Marmaduke's

PINK THING.

And yet more than a few DU'ers use it as a credible source.

Thanks for the media matters reality check.

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[NNN0LHI]

3. Newsmax, WorldNutdaily, and Drudge weren't fooling anybody any more

So we got Politico.

Don

[blondeatlast]

4. I think you've got it... nt

[AX10]

6. Exactly!

[annabanana]

5. politico.com pretends to be an online community

but some of those posters didn't take the lithium today. .

[Cha]

7. The Dems are trying to prevent

a dictatorship..we'll see how fookin' "productive" they are. With the toxic, tragic fubar the refucklicons have wrought..it's a full time job plugin' the dyke.

[tanyev]

8. Well, Mitch, when you deliberately create a helluva mess for them to clean up,

it's going to take awhile.