Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Flashback: Chris Matthews Helps Democrats Lie About Republicans Not Supporting Social Security Act. on Aug. 8, 1935, the conference report — the final version of the bill that melds together changes made in the House and in the Senate — passed in the House 372-33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. The next day, the bill was passed in the Senate 77-6, with 16 Republicans supporting the legislation. So Social Security did pass with Republican support.

Time and time again we get whopping lies from the liberal media about basic political facts. Flashback to September 2013 when the Chris Matthews show talked about the Republican party support of Social Security. Congressman Chaka Fattah (who got indicted today exhibits his massive lying skills with Chris Matthews refusing to correct the record on the history of Social Security's passage in 1935:
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s go -- let`s go to Congressman Fattah of Philadelphia. Congressman, I think the congressman in his own way said that the deal here is -- and I think the way the American people understand it -- the Republicans are basically saying, Unless you can kill "Obama care," as it`s called now, by October 1st, there will be no government after October 1st. That`s the deal.

REP. CHAKA FATTAH (D), PENNSYLVANIA: There are two things that we need to make clear. One is the president of the United States, Barack Obama, has never spent one dollar or added one dollar to the debt that the Congress did not direct that he spend through an appropriation bill.

So the question now is, are we going to pay our bills? This is not debt run up by the president, this is debt authorized by the Congress that we need to pay, and we need to do it before we run up to our credit limit.

Two, is you don`t pass anything in our government -- you learn this in high school and in middle school, if you go to a good one -- that you have to pass something out of the House and the Senate and the president has to sign it for it to be law.

Republicans have killed "Obama care" 40-plus times. It`s not dead, which is why they are going through this last bit of activity here because on October 1, Americans are going to learn something, which is that for -- in many cases, for less than $100 a month, you`re going to be able to get a quality health insurance program with a private company that`s going to protect you and your family.

And the Republicans, as they fought against Social Security, as they fought against Medicare, as they seem to be against things that would help the public -- the only thing they seem to really be for is tax cuts for the rich.
Is lying Congressman Chaka Fattah even remotely correct about Republicans voting against the 1935 Social Security Act? No, not even close. There were 103 Republican members in the House of Representatives , in 1935 , with a whopping 81 voting for the Social Security Act. That's Republicans voting 78.6% for the cornerstone of the New Deal in the House. In the Senate there were 25 Republican Senators , with 16 voting for the Social Security Act. That's 64% of the Republican Senators voting for the Social Security Act. Polifact busted Howard Dean telling the same sort of lie:
Nevertheless, on Aug. 8, 1935, the conference report — the final version of the bill that melds together changes made in the House and in the Senate — passed in the House 372-33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. The next day, the bill was passed in the Senate 77-6, with 16 Republicans supporting the legislation. So Social Security did pass with Republican support.

Thirty years later, a significant number of Republicans voted in favor of the Medicare bill. The House adopted the conference report on July 27, 1965, 307-116, with 70 Republicans supporting it. And on July 28, the Senate adopted the final version of the bill by a vote of 70-24, with 13 Republicans in favor of the bill. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law on July 30, 1965.

But is Dean correct that the Republicans didn't support Medicare until the end?

Donald Ritchie, the associate historian in the U.S. Senate, told us that the Republican support wasn't just a last-minute phenomenon. During the discussion of both bills, "There were always progressive Republicans and liberal Republicans, some of whom supported Roosevelt and Johnson," Ritchie said.
When people call MSNBC a propaganda network for the Obama regime, you can understand why: when basic historical facts are just out right lied about. So when Chris Matthews says "Social Security passed under Roosevelt. It was opposed by the Republican Party" , is he lying or just plain stupid?