Via Digby:
Mitchell: at the same time Bachmann did she show some real problems being able to handle the economic questions. She really doubled down on the default of being against the debt ceiling raising and default isn't that big an issue we could have handled it. Let's see for a second the way she handled it with Lester Holt on the "Today" show.
Bachmann: You cannot turn the economy around if you give Barack Obama a blank check for $2.4 trillion in exchange for $21 billion in cuts.
Holt: This raising the debt ceiling was for bills that have been agreed to, not new spending
Bachman: Actually that's not true. This money will go not just to bills that have already been spent, this will be for future money as well. That's a false statement.
Mitchell: So here she's saying to Lester Holt that raising the debt ceiling is to take care of future money not past money, which is not factual.
Cook: It's not true, but on the other hand she's not saying anything that a lot of Republican caucus attendees or primary voters would disagree with.
Mitchell: So, politically it's fine.
Cook: Yeah, politically I think it's fine ...
In other words, Bachmann is full of shit and spewing outright lies, but Republicans in general are also full of shit, and their dumb voters like that. So, I think it's okay that they're lying. Not my place to call them on it. Meh!
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