Republicans attending a White House meeting on Wednesday didn’t take kindly to President Obama telling them tax rates were higher during the Reagan administration. GOP members engaged in a lot of “eye-rolling,” according to a member who was on hand to hear Obama, who invited House Republicans to the White House for discussions on the debt ceiling. [...]
“[The President] made a comment like the tax rate is the lightest, even more than (under former President) Reagan,” Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) told The Hill following the meeting. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) joked that during the meeting, “We learned we had the lowest tax rates in history … lower than Reagan!”
They roll their eyes, but this is not up for debate - federal revenues as a share of GDP are the lowest they have been since 1950. But far be it for me to get in the way of the GOP's enjoyment of the Reagan as Jebus fantasy land in which they live. Facts are liberally biased, and Reagan is like Texas - you don't mess with him or say anything mean about him. Ever.
Read the rest of the Think Progress link. They go on to detail what a quick Google search would have revealed for these GOP geniuses. Their childish reaction to this is the latest example of just how deep their contempt for Obama runs.
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