The Washington Post is treating seriously Senator Harry Reid’s claim that “the current Senate was ‘the most unproductive Senate in the history of the country, and there are facts and figures to show that.'”
The Post goes on to do one of those tedious, tendentious “fact checks” and to award the senator some Pinocchios – three in this case – after the Post researchers established that he was wrong in:
Which doesn’t exactly qualify as news. Reid once said we had “lost” in Iraq when we still had troops fighting there and he accused Mitt Romney of paying no taxes for ten years and when asked for proof said, essentially, “Let him prove me wrong.” He never apologized and never does.
But back to his assertion that is “most unproductive Senate in the history of the country.”
First, “most unproductive” has a nice ring to it. Far better than “least productive.” Lots of people would vote for a “most unproductive” Washington, D.C.
And as for validating this assertion, some might wish the Post had left it alone on the old media standby justification that it is simply too good to check.
