BEYOND DISHONEST – AT 6:38 P.M. ET:  I guess Nancy Pelosi was inspired by President Obama's taking credit for progress in Iraq.  Now she gets artistic with the history of tax cuts.  Fox News has the lie:

Come again, Madame Speaker.

As House Democrats and Republicans jockey over whether to allow a continuation of tax cuts passed nearly a decade ago or whether to raise taxes next year on some Americans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she's all for "the extension of the Obama middle-income tax cuts."

"What I believe the American people deserve is a tax cut for the middle class," Pelosi said during her weekly press briefing. "And without getting into procedure and timing and process, what we're going to do is to say at the end of the day, the extension of the Obama middle-income tax cuts will take place, and that's what I have to say on the subject."

We have researched the issue thoroughly, using the extensive worldwide resources of Urgent Agenda, and could find no Obama middle-income tax cuts to extend.

It is apparent that the speaker, perhaps suffering the effects of an aging process not stopped by extensive plastic surgery – there is no such thing as a brainlift – has confused Mr. Bush with Mr. Obama.  We assume that her San Francisco therapist will know how to deal with such a discouraging event.

September 16, 2010