ABC slants it again

this morning i looked at the headline story on the Drudge Report which linked to an ABC report about an upcoming speech by Speaker of the House John Boehner. It was truly annoying. the essence of the report was there, but the little asides and snide remarks made clear that ABC sided with the Democrats against the Republicans. My favorite in this category came when they got to the part of Boehner's speech where he is to say that congress has a morl duty to deal with entitlement reform, since to fail to do so will leave an impossible mess for our children and grandchildren. The reporter was quick to point out in an aside that the Republicans had made sure to avoid dealing with entitlement reform until now. Let's take a step back and think about that remark. The Republicans have been in control of the House for seven weeks. During that time, they focused on repeal of Obamacare, their sindgle biggest promise of the campaign. They also focused on the spending for the remainder of 2011, something that should have been completed by the last Congress but which the Democrats decided not to deal with. Now that the Republicans are about to come forward with their version of the budget for 2012, it is the time for them to take action on entitlements, and it is the first time to do that. so ABC is criticizing the Republicans for not doing something during the seven weeks that they are now turning to do. ABC is criticizing them for doing things in the order which was required due to the inaction of the previous Democrat Congress. Indeed, ABC is completely silent about the failure of the last Congress to even consider the issue of entitlement reform. Nancy Pelosi is famous for saying that there is nothing wrong with Social Security or Medicare.

Obama, for his part, tried to take 500 billion dollars away from Medicare to fund Obamacare. It was supposed to come from waste and fraud reductions. For a year after obamacare passed, I have waited to see one announcement about the waste and fraud in Medicare that has been found. So far, there has not been one cent discovered. In other words, that $500 billion is just a fantasy used to claim that Obamacare would save money. The claim is completely and knowingly dishonest.

So ABC never mentions the long term failure of the Democrats, but it is there claiming that the Republicans have done something wrong by waiting for seven weeks to start dealing with the 2012 budget. Do they really think people miss this stuff? I guess so.