If hypocrisy was a crime, democrats would be looking at the death penalty. Part II [Reader Post]

Several days ago Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) coughed up a furball. He asserted that Republicans who sought a Balanced Budget Amendment were now part of a “cult.”

Senate Democrats attacked the “Cut, Cap and Balance” measure on Wednesday, calling the House-passed bill “devoid of substance” and “dead on arrival” in the Senate, where it will receive a vote later this week.

Senate Democrats contended the bill is evidence that Republicans, especially those in the House, are intent on changing Medicare and preserving tax breaks for the wealthy.

“The sad thing is America no longer has a two-party system,” Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said at a press conference Wednesday. “One of our two parties has morphed into kind of a cult driven by a singular fixation and obsession: preserving tax breaks for the wealthy at all costs.”

Over at The Hill Cheri Jacobus notes that certain democrats were also part of the same cult.

In 1997, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) cast a “yea” vote in favor of a balanced-budget amendment (BBA). Notably, among Democrats, he was not alone, and in fact had plenty of company. Among the Democrat senators voting for the 1997 BBA were Tom Harkin (Iowa) — the same Tom Harkin who now calls Tea Party voters in support of cutting and capping spending and passing a balanced-budget amendment a “cult fringe” of the electorate.

With that reasoning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) would be a key part of that “cult fringe” as well, since he, too, supported a balanced-budget amendment in 1997, joining liberal stalwart Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). That Harkin himself voted for the BBA should score a spot in the annals of history as perhaps the most comical example of hypocrisy by an elected official. In fact, if every sitting Democrat senator who has, at some point, gone on the record supporting a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget were to keep his or her word, the measure would, indeed, land on the president’s desk for signature or veto. But Democrats who previously expressed support for a BBA have now flip-flopped, with few, if any, being pressed by the media on the “why.” What/where are their principles? Are they abandoning them out of blind allegiance to a failed, desperate president?

Some things never change.

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