Here's Jack Kelly, candidate for the Republican nomination for the US House in NJ3 (phew):
"The message I will continue to carry forward is that we must not allow the tax-and-spend Democrats to won (sic) one more seat in Congress and continue their assault on the middle class," Kelly said, speaking before about 50 members and guests of the Moores-town Republican Club, which sponsored the forum.
The Democrats? I'm sorry, but to blame the crap going on in Washington on the Democrats is just plain ridiculous. You see, contrary to what the Republicans want you to believe and the media reports, we haven't been in charge for most of the last 30 years.
Want proof? Here's a little chart of who has had control of the federal government since 1980.
Note the Supreme Court there, which has actually been controlled by Republican nominees since 1969. The House has been in Democratic hands more than Republicans since 1980, but since 1995 the Dems have been in control only 1.5 years. The Senate, most folks forget, was Reagan's for his first six years until it turned back to the Dems through 1994.
But all in all, the next time a Republican wants you to believe that the spending, taxing and corruption down in DC is our fault you can remind them that Washington DC is mostly a Republican town.
And the next time a reporter or columnist wants to blame Democrats for the mess in DC, you can send them this chart.
Not that facts or numbers mean anything to either the GOP or the media. |
