Hairy Reid on raising the debt ceiling on 2006:
“If my Republican friends believe that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it. They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy.
How can the Republican majority in this Congress explain to their constituents that trillions of dollars in new debt is good for our economy? How can they explain that they think it’s fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes. That’s what it will have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkbDdPeL7I
Do you know how many times Chuck Schumer voted against raising the national debt ceiling?
If you answered “four times” to the question posed in the headline above, you are either spending way too much time in the Congressional Record, or you have superb research and recall skills! Let’s just assume it’s the latter.
Anyway, the right answer is indeed four times, at least. For the record, here’s the four occasions, as documented by congressional records...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2718415/posts
Worth repeating. BTTT.
Another day, another Reid lie