Senate Rules Helps Tea Party Lie.

Watching Kevin McCarthy, Tea Party Representative from California and , I believe, the 3rd ranking Tea Party member of the House, I was reminded how much the Tea Party will take a fact and then use it to tell a lie. Or tell a lie and prove with information that they see one way while the facts are the other. Rep.McCarthy stated that the Tea Party was not obstructing President Obama and would work with him if he'd let them. To prove this point, he stated how President Obama jobs bill wasn't acceptable to either Tea Party or Democrats, since the Democratic controlled Senate couldn't get the votes to get it passed. Now, while it is true that the bills didn't pass, it isn't because the bills didn't get a majority of the votes. Both bills got enough votes to pass a straight up/down vote, but due to the arcane rules of the Senate, both bills needed 60 votes to pass. So yes, Rep. McCarthy, your minority in the Senate obstructed the majority in trying to pass a bill. So in this case, you took information and stated it in a way which was a lie. Now your original statement about not obstructing the President is also a lie, or every paper in the country got information about the $4 billion compromise to cut programs and eliminate tax loopholes was wrong. Rep. Boehner and the President had an agreement but Boehner was told by the hard-core members of the Tea Party that they wouldn't vote for it, so the compromise was shot down. Do you not call this obstruction, or do you think that every paper in the country lies? Oh, that's right, you're the Tea Party, and when someone disagrees with you, they lie and are un-American. I guess to you, the papers all lied, and polls that say how unpopular you are lies too.