Democrats will seize any opportunistic attack they can, regardless of how their own policies contradict their rhetoric. In the latest example of liberal double-speak, several Democrats Senators are simultaneously attacking the President for increasing the deficit while decrying budget cuts.

Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), and Robert Casey (Pa.) said Wednesday that Americans are paying record interest on a national debt that will reach $10 trillion by the end of this year. But they said President Bush’s budget, to be released on Monday, must not cut funding for a host of federal programs, including health care, Section 8 housing, homelessness assistance, and community development block grants.

“For seven years, Congress and the American people have heard the president give the State of the Union address filled with lofty rhetoric and promising pledges,” Murray said at a press conference.

“And for seven years we’ve wondered if we’ve heard him right when he turned around a few weeks later and gave us a budget filled with dramatic cuts in programs that all our American families depend on,” she added. Listen to Audio

Murray blasted the president for what she said was Bush’s failure to match his budget proposal with the realities facing American families today.

“Talk is cheap,” Murray said. “We are asking the president to put real dollars behind his words in the budget he sends to us next Monday.”

These people should be laughed out of office. That they can display such a cognitive disconnect without any such fear says everything that needs to be said about the usefulness of modern news, which won’t honestly report on such disingenuous arguments.

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