Tommie Two Faced

In a meeting with the editorial board of the Sioux City Journal, CommieTommie Harkin did a bit of revisionist history.

Harkin complained of Republicans having filibustered legislation 90 times.

It's interesting what Dummycrats call Republican filibusters.

37 Successful Votes To Invoke Cloture. Democrats count any vote on a cloture motion as a “Republican filibuster,” including 37 votes where cloture was actually invoked.

Democrat Filibusters. Democrats count “filibusters” by Democrats of FISA, Judge Southwick, and the McConnell-Stevens troop funding amendment as “Republican filibusters.”

5 Unanimously Approved Cloture Votes. Democrats count votes where Democrats and Republicans vote unanimously in favor as “Republican filibusters.”

One Dummycrat even includes bills passed as filibusters!

Here's what CommieTommie has said about the filibuster when Republicans attempted to bypass it...

To do so would be "the end of the Senate as we know it" because it would dash the protections that the Senate has always afforded lawmakers in the minority and, by extension, their constituents.

Harkin also tried to revise his fall 2002 vote of authorization for force in Iraq...

"I feel like I was lied to by this administration."

Harkin first voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq in 1998, when the Clinton administration changed its policy from containment to regime change.

A change based on the same evidence of Saddam’s weapons programs that the Bush administration used in 2002.

Here's Harkin on energy policy...

the U.S. needs to reduce dependency on foreign oil, not through more domestic drilling in the continential outer shelf or the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge...

He said an appalling statistic is that the U.S. spends $900,000 per minute on imported oil.

CommieTommie's not smart enough to see a correlation between an increase in domestic drilling and a decrease in imported oil and the scientific community is united in that fact.