Harry Reid Accidentally Tells The Truth: "Today’s long-term unemployment rate is more than double what it was" (during the Bush Administration)

I Can Tell The Truth, 

Or I Can Lie My Ass Off. 

It Don't Matter For Shit, So Fuck You!

From Reid.Senate.gov:

Another day has passed, and the vast majority of Republican Senators still stand in the way of extended unemployment benefits. But I understand that some Republican Senators are having productive conversations about possible offsets for a full-year extension of unemployment insurance benefits. 

I repeat: I am personally opposed to offsetting the cost of emergency unemployment benefits. President Bush extended emergency unemployment insurance five times. Not one of those five times did Republicans ask him to offset the cost. It wasn’t right to offset the cost when Bush was President, and it’s not right to offset the cost now that President Obama is in the White House. 

We’ve cut the deficit in half since President Obama took office. And while we must keep up the good work, we must also solve the nation’s jobs crisis if we ever hope to solve its fiscal problems. Today’s long-term unemployment rate is more than double what it was at any other time Congress let emergency jobless assistance expire.