WHAT THE HELL.
I’m wondering if he wasn’t “Made an offer he couldn’t refuse” in order to change his tune...
I’m so full of distrust for my government it’s unnerving.
I would wait and see. We need at least one more source than the Wapo. There may be more to the story than reported.
Now, Kyl is diluting his comments slightly to say “LIBERALS are holding the border hostage,” instead of “Omoslem TOLD ME he’s holding the border hostage.”
Doesn’t matter, since every time the WH denies they’re holding it hostage, their next sentence is “AND WE’RE HOLDING IT HOSTAGE UNTIL WE LEGALIZE 20 MILLION ILLEGALS.”
1) Kyl lied outright - and now we (the taxpayers) have even less reason to trust ANYone in CONgress
2) Kyl was paid off the back down
3) The administration has something on Kyl and forced him to back down.
None are palatable, a couple are criminal....
I give up!
Keep it up RINO’s. We’ll really get our azzes kicked in Nov. if this keeps up.
When I heard his say the line on the radio I thought, “He’s getting caught up in trying to get the crowd’s reaction, and now he wants to really give ‘em a whopper to liven up this speech.”
Looks like it’s going to be up to the women to save us.
Sick of this crap...just sick of it. GOP is WORTHLESS. Leave the party and become a registered independent.
Kyl should take at least $100,000 of his campaign funds and produce a commercial publicly apologizing to Obama. Damn, he should strip naked, don sack cloth and ashes- and then apologize on TV. What an idiot!
I believe he was threatened in some way. The Chicago Way is to find the weak spot and bore right into it with thinly-veiled threats.
The only other logical answer is that Rahm took Kyl aside and told him the session had been taped and either Kyl recants or that part of the tape will be released.
I firmly believe that the paranoid Oval Office is wired for all meetings and that the fly on Obama's lip is actually a bug.
Leni
as was noted in the comment section, this is supposedly from an interview with the National Review.
Why is this then, being posted on a WaPo blog and absolutely nothing on NR?
And don’t the “quotes” seem a bit chopped up ?
I hesitate to believe this.
What? Pro-illegal immigration, pro-amnesty Kyl is a lying fraud?...Who could have guessed that? < /sarcasm >
this is all I could find at NR....
Kyl: Obama Did Not Consult on Border Funds
Earlier this week, the Obama administration asked Congress for $600 million in emergency funds to help secure the Southwest border. Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) tells National Review Online that he “appreciates this modest addition” by the administration, but finds it odd that the “administration did not consult with us” about the request. “I wished they met with us beforehand,” he says, “so they could explain to us what they want to spend the millions on.” The funds “are welcome,” but “probably not enough for right now. I am still not clear about what they are trying to accomplish.”
Kyl adds that President Obama is still “not doing enough” to secure the borders. Kyl, of course, had a small spat with the White House last week over comments he made at a town-hall meeting. Kyl, responding to a voter’s question, detailed a recent one-on-one conversation he had with the president. “They are holding [border security] hostage” over hopes for comprehensive immigration reform, Kyl said at the forum.
Kyl tells us that the comments were “taken a bit out of context,” and that the “they” he was referring to was the Left, “the president’s base,” and not the administration. “I did not try to start a fight. This meeting happened a month ago and we were talking in the context of his political problems. He was talking about how they think that if we secure the border, you guys [Republicans] won’t have the incentive to work on comprehensive immigration reform.”
06/25 01:32 PMShare
Ping!
Kyl may say that this meeting never took place but the Magic muslim's actions say the complete opposite. Good Lord!!! we have a federal park in AZ that we've basically ceded to mexican drug cartels. Don't try and tell me that the Dear Reader is incapable of these tactics.
He needs to clarify this post haste.
Do not trust the Washington Post.
Kyl said what he meant and meant what he said. Everything else is just Democrat “mainstream” newsroom spin. The scumbag Democrats are holding border security hostage in exchange for “comprehensive” (meaning: including a lot of crap that would never pass on its own) immigration reform.
This is what Ubama told Kyl.. Nothing has changed, and Kyl is NOT “walking back” his story - - he’s just pushing back on the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms’ inaccurate spin.